VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Xen Orchestra Installer / Updater 2025-04-07

   tags: linux/debian, programming/node.js, virtualization/xen

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   • ronivay/xen-orchestra-docker
   • Install Xen Orchestra from Source
   • XOA Installation - From the sources
     • xo-server
     • xo-web
2. Real-Time Rendering - Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques 2025-03-05

   tags: game, graphics/3d, graphics/ray-tracing, hardware/gpu

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   • Graphics Books
   • Resources
   • erich666/RealTimeRendering
3. git-maintenance - Run tasks to optimize Git repository data 2025-02-25

   tags: schedule/cron, source-code-management/git

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   • Git Internals - Maintenance and Data Recovery
4. AFL++ - American Fuzzy Lop Fuzzing Framework 2025-02-15

   tags: compiler/llvm, genetic-algorithm, programming/c++, programming/fuzzing, programming/rust, research, security, virtualization/qemu

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   • AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
   • AFLplusplus/LibAFL - A collection of reusable pieces of fuzzers
   • rc0r/afl-utils - Utilities for automated crash sample processing/analysis, job management and corpus optimization
   • 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner - Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy
   • AFL++ Papers
   • Sister Projects
   • The LibAFL Book
   • Fuzzing projects with american fuzzy lop (AFL)
   • afl - american fuzzy lop
5. ElizabethanDrama.org - Making Elizabethan Plays Understandable and Fun to Read 2024-11-22

   tags: book, history, literature, theater/play

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   • Shakespeare Navigators
   • versemeter - An in-depth exploration of meter in Shakespeare's work
   • The Plays of Thomas Middleton
   • Richard Brome Online
6. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, book, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, programming/c++, society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
7. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
8. Earth: A Primer - A science book for playful people 2024-11-22

   tags: book, game/sandbox, geology, interactive, planet/earth, visualization/animation

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9. How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust 2024-11-19

   tags: programming/rust, text/font

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   • Design School: Type - A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
   • itchio/butler
   • ChevyRay on itch.io
10. Poor Richard's Almanack - A yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin 2024-11-18

    tags: book, calendar, history, press, usa

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    • The Universe of Disco - Poor Richard's Almanack
    • The Rare Book Room - Franklin Archive
11. A Pattern Language - An abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 2024-05-15

    tags: architecture, book, city

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    • zenodotus280/apl
    • Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
    • HN thread
    • List of related HN threads
12. Servo - The embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine 2024-05-02

    tags: graphics/webgl, graphics/webgpu, internet/browser, programming/javascript, programming/rust, user-interface/qt, web

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    • The Servo Book
    • servo/servo
13. The Copenhagen Book - General guidelines on implementing authentication and authorization in web applications 2024-04-05

    tags: cryptography/hash, memory/cache, network/http, network/http/cookie, programming/go, security/authentication, security/authorization, security/oauth, security/password

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    • pilcrowOnPaper/copenhagen
14. Effective Rust - 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code 2024-03-31

    tags: book, course, programming/rust

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15. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs 2024-01-13

    tags: book, linux, performance/profiling, programming/c++, programming/rust

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    • PerformanceNinja video courses playlist
    • dendibakh/perf-ninja - An online course where you can learn and master the skill of low-level performance analysis and tuning
    • grahamking/perf-ninja-rs - Rust labs for Performance Ninja Class
16. BASIC Computer Games 2023-12-17

    tags: game, programming/basic

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    An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages

    • coding-horror/basic-computer-games
17. Why do libraries give away books? 2023-10-29

    tags: book, library

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    • Why Do Libraries Throw Away Books?
    • Do libraries discard books?
18. 50 Years of Text Games - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction 2023-07-22

    tags: artificial-intelligence, book, command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/roguelike, graphics/2d, procedural-generation, text

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    • 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre
19. Site Reliability Engineering - Book 2023-07-22

    tags: infrastructure/on-call, infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering, observability

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    • SRE in the Real World
20. OpenSSL Cookbook 2023-05-31

    tags: cryptography/certificate, network/http, network/transport-layer-security, openssl

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    The definitive guide to using the OpenSSL command line for configuration and testing.

    Topics covered in this book include:

    • key and certificate management,
    • server configuration,
    • a step by step guide to creating a private CA,
    • testing of online services.