VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Cloudflare is blocking NewsBlur RSS feed fetchers 2025-02-08

   tags: cloud-computing/cloudflare, curl, feed/rss, network/http

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   • 403 using curl
   • Cloudflare Radar - Verified Bots
2. Numbat - A statically typed programming language for scientific computations 2025-02-07

   tags: mathematics, physics, programming-language, programming/rust, science

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3. Cloudflare - Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data 2025-02-04

   tags: cloud-computing/cloudflare, observability/logging, programming/go

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4. Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know 2024-11-22

   tags: apple/apple-ii, computer, electronics, graphics, history

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   • Understanding the Apple II by Jim Sather
5. foundations - Cloudflare's Rust service foundations library 2024-11-22

   tags: cloud-computing/cloudflare, network/http, network/reverse-proxy, network/tcp, network/udp, observability, programming/rust

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   • Introducing Foundations - our open source Rust service foundation library
   • Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework
   • Trying Out Cloudflare's foundations Library for Rust
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. Two Hundred Fifty Things a Game Designer Should Know 2024-11-22

   tags: art, computer, creativity, design, game, history, poetry, programming

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8. The Annotated Hacker Test | For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer. 2024-11-19

   tags: computer, hardware/cpu, hardware/ram, history, nerd, programming/assembly, programming/c, programming/pascal, unix

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   • Original plain text version from 1989
   • Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (see: THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT)
9. Crucible - A distributed network-replicated block storage service 2024-10-25

   tags: distributed-system, programming/rust, storage/block-storage, virtualization

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   • Oxide RFD 60 - Storage Architecture Considerations
   • Oxide RFD 177 - Implementation of Data Storage
10. Blackboard bold - Writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes 2024-10-23

    tags: mathematics, programming/latex, research, science, text, text/font

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    • Mathematics Meta Stack Exchange - Why do people use blackboard bold here and elsewhere in print?
    • LaTeX Stack Exchange - Looking for a blackboard bold (\mathbb) math font that is thicker than Latin Modern or Computer Modern
    • The LaTeX Font Catalogue - Fonts with math support
    • CTAN - bbold – Sans serif blackboard bold
    • CTAN - amsfonts – TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society
11. The Deadlock Empire - Slay dragons, master concurrency! 2024-07-10

    tags: concurrency, concurrency/deadlock, concurrency/threading, memory, programming/c#

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    Each challenge is a computer program of two or more threads. You take the role of the Scheduler. Your objective is to exploit flaws in the programs to make them crash or otherwise malfunction.

12. Gridfinity - The modular, open-source grid storage system for your workshop 2024-06-28

    tags: 3d-printer, computer-aided-design, diy, workshop

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    • Gridfinity (2022)
    • 20+ Weird Printable Organizers by Makers
13. BlockLayer - Calculators for Home Improvement 2024-06-20

    tags: carpentry, computer-aided-design, masonry, woodworking

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    • Masonry Arch
    • Gothic Arch
    • Kerf Spacing
    • Mortise and Tenon
    • Dovetail
14. Swift on Server 2024-06-12

    tags: cloud-computing/aws, linux/container/docker, network/grpc, network/http, network/http/openapi, programming/swift

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    • swift-server
    • Packaging Applications for Deployment
    • swift-server/swift-openapi-lambda
    • swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-runtime
    • swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-events
    • grpc/grpc-swift
15. Cloud Study Network - Free Certifications 2024-04-03

    tags: cloud-computing, course, database, knowledge, learn, network

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16. Oxide - Engineering a culture 2024-04-01

    tags: company, company/remote, culture, embedded, operating-system, programming/rust, software-engineering

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    • Principles
    • RFDs
      • RFD 3 - Hiring Process
      • RFD 68 - Partnership as Shared Values
    • Compensation as a Reflection of Values
17. Desmos - Graphing Calculator 2024-03-31

    tags: calculator, mathematics, mathematics/equation, plot, visualization

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    • Getting Started: Desmos Graphing Calculator
    • Desmos: A Definitive Guide on Graphing and Computing
    • Des-blog
    • /r/Desmos
    • /r/Desmos - Wiki
18. AWS Access Key Format 2024-02-28

    tags: cloud-computing/aws, programming/go, programming/python, security, security/credentials, security/token

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    • AWS Security Credentials Formats
    • A short note on AWS KEY ID
    • Research Uncovers AWS Account Numbers Hidden in Access Keys
    • TruffleHog Now Detects AWS Canaries without setting them off
19. 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
20. Subclassing in Python Redux 2023-06-11

    tags: programming/design-pattern, programming/go, programming/object-oriented-programming, programming/python, programming/ruby

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    The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, specifically?

    • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers - Why inheritance never made any sense
    • The Composition Over Inheritance Principle
    • PyCon US 2013 - The End Of Object Inheritance & The Beginning Of A New Modularity
    • RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something