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1. Text normalization in Go 2024-11-28

   tags: ietf/rfc, programming/go, text/ascii, text/unicode

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   Standard library:

   • unicode - Data and functions to test some properties of Unicode code points

   Extra libraries:

   • golang.org/x/text - Supplementary Go packages for text processing, many involving Unicode
   • golang.org/x/text/runes - Tansforms for UTF-8 encoded text
   • golang.org/x/text/transform - Reader and writer wrappers that transform the bytes passing through
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm - Types and functions for normalizing Unicode strings
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode - Building blocks for other packages in golang.org/x/text

   Third-party libraries:

   • anyascii/go - Converts Unicode characters to their best ASCII representation

   RFCs:

   • RFC 8264 - PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
   • RFC 8265 - PRECIS for Usernames and Passwords
   • RFC 8266 - PRECIS for Nicknames

   Resources:

   • Unicode - General Category Property
   • Diacritic
   • Unicode Equivalence
   • Unicode Equivalence - Normal Forms
   • When to use Unicode Normalization Forms NFC and NFD?
   • Remove diacritics using Go
2. A comparison of all the ZSH plugin mangers I used 2022-03-23

   tags: command-line, programming/shell, programming/shell/zsh

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3. Comparison of NAT Instances and NAT Gateways - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 2019-06-27

   tags: cloud-computing, cloud-computing/aws, network, network/router, security

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   • https://www.theguild.nl/cost-saving-with-nat-instances/
   • https://dzone.com/articles/nat-instance-vs-nat-gateway
   • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_NAT_Instance.html
   • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat-gateway.html
   • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-nat-network-address-translation-gateway-for-aws/
   • https://dzone.com/articles/aws-vpc-nat-instance-failover
   • https://aws.amazon.com/articles/high-availability-for-amazon-vpc-nat-instances-an-example/
4. orsinium/textdistance: Compute distance between sequences. 30+ algorithms, pure python implementation, common interface. 2018-03-27

   tags: comparison, observability/metrics, programming/python, text, word

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5. Django vs Flask — git-pull.com 2017-06-23

   tags: comparison, database, framework, framework/django, framework/flask, programming/python, programming/sql, web

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6. A Dramatic Tour through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (including ggplot and Altair) – Regress to Impress 2016-11-02

   tags: chart, comparison, graph, plot, programming/library, programming/python, statistics

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7. Django Package Thunderdome by Audrey Roy & Daniel Greenfeld 2016-03-22

   tags: comparison, framework/django, package, programming/python, usage

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   What makes a package useful? What is it about certain packages that makes them must-haves for any project?