VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. My colleague Julius 2024-12-23

   tags: company, team

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   • Discussion on HN
   • Discussion on Lobste.rs

   I've met my fair share of Juliuses, both in college and in work. It often really made me question why I even care about what I do.

   — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497179

2. 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
3. The AirGradient Builds Overview 2024-10-23

   tags: air, diy, electronics, electronics/pcb, embedded/arduino, sensor, smart-home

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   • airgradienthq/arduino
   • DIY Air Quality Sensor (2021-08-08, using revision 4)
   • Jeff Geerling - Your home's air could be making you sick. Fight back! (2021-09-08)
   • Monitoring my home's air quality (CO2, PM2.5, Temp/Humidity) with AirGradient's DIY sensor
   • Discussion on HackerNews
4. raffomania/linkblocks - A federated network to bookmark, share and discuss good web pages with your friends 2024-07-21

   tags: personal-knowledge/bookmark, programming/rust, web/syndication

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5. Crowdsec - Curated Threat Intelligence Powered by the Crowd 2024-05-29

   tags: bsd, linux/iptables, network/firewall, observability/logging, programming/go

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   • crowdsecurity/crowdsec
   • Documentation
     • Docker / Podman Deployment
     • Data Sources
     • Parsers
     • Configuration
     • Observability / Prometheus
     • OpenAPI Specification
   • Blog
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 1: Hardware
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 2: Running Configurations
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 3: Attack Scenarios
   • Discussion on HN (2020)
6. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" 2024-04-19

   tags: database, distributed-system, observability, observability/logging, observability/metrics, observability/tracing

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   • Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (PDF, Talk)
   • HN discussion
   • Axiom - Stop sampling, observe every event
     • Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story
   • Eventrelay - An event streaming/storage system for the rest of us
   • Honeycomb - Identify Outliers
   • Rill - Fast operational dashboards that your team will actually use
   • Strangeloop 17 - Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store by Sam Stokes
7. The XY Problem 2023-08-25

   tags: discussion, forum, information, question

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   The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.

   • https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem
   • https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=XY+Problem
   • http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
8. Forgejo | Beyond coding. We forge. 2023-06-24

   tags: agile/kanban, programming/go, self-hosting, source-code-management/git

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   • forgejo.org
   • Codeberg launches Forgejo
   • Forgejo User Guide
   • Forgejo Admin Guide
   • Open issues labeled 's/Gitea/Forgejo'
   • Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
   • forgejo/meta#86 - [Discussion] Relicensing Forgejo as copyleft
   • forgejo/sustainability
9. Postfix, iPhone, Apple Mail and the reject_unknown_helo_hostname parameter 2023-01-28

   tags: email/postfix, mobile/ios, network/dns

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   I'd get a better behaved mail client. — Hu on Gentoo Forums

   • http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#reject_invalid_helo_hostname
   • https://serverfault.com/questions/575539/postfix-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found
   • https://serverfault.com/questions/527541/postfix-whitelist-host-for-specific-sender
   • https://serverfault.com/questions/922935/why-does-postfix-say-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found-when-dig-finds-the
   • https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3120175
   • https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8604630.html?sid=a666f84af3d663d43b4c72a5b82115c4
10. Go: A Documentary 2022-03-05

    tags: programming-language, programming/go

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    This document collects many interesting (publicly observable) issues, discussions, proposals, CLs, and talks from the Go development process, which intents to offer a comprehensive reference of the Go history.

11. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method 2021-10-17

    tags: graph, knowledge, programming/markdown, text

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    • https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536
    • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/5918/
    • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/understanding-hierarchy-translating-folgezettel/
    • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmanns-second-zettelkasten/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
    • https://www.foleymusicandarts.com/blog/2019/3/5/how-i-use-the-archive-and-my-music-staff-to-create-engaging-lesson-notes
12. What's the Point of Multiple Redis Databases? 2020-11-23

    tags: database, database/redis, distributed-system/cluster

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12802726/how-to-list-all-redis-databases
    • https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/vS5wX8X4Cjg/discussion
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13386053/how-do-i-change-between-redis-database
13. How to Make Good Code Reviews Better - Stack Overflow Blog 2019-10-07

    tags: code-review, communication, continuous-integration, discussion, source-code-management, source-code-management/git, static-analysis/lint, team

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14. grit: a tool for managing many git repositories in a single project; it is an alternative to repo. 2019-09-25

    tags: repository, source-code-management, source-code-management/git

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    • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/o4QqDN5kl0w
15. How to Make a CNC Turner's Cube: [ Creative CNC Project ] 2019-06-23

    tags: cube, machining/cnc, metal

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    • https://www.instructables.com/id/Turners-Cube-Manual-Machine/
    • https://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-metalwork-discussion/52757-making-large-quot-turners-cubes-quot-engine.html
    • http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mrt102/other/workshop/turnerscube.html
16. Freeplane - free mind mapping and knowledge management software 2018-06-07

    tags: graph, knowledge, mindmap

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    • https://github.com/freeplane/freeplane
    • https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
    • https://sourceforge.net/p/freeplane/discussion/758437/
    • https://www.freeplane.org/forum2012/viewforum.php?f=1
17. KeePass / KeePassX / KeePassXC 2018-05-27

    tags: apple/macos, linux, microsoft/windows, mobile/android, security, security/password, web

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    • https://keepass.info/
    • https://www.keepassx.org/
    • https://keepassxc.org/
    • https://superuser.com/questions/878902/whats-the-difference-between-keepass-and-keepassx
    • https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/f9f016d5/
    • https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx
18. Searching for Emoji Characters / Unicode - Elasticsearch - Discuss the Elastic Stack 2018-03-15

    tags: observability/elastic, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, text/unicode

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    • Unicode text segmentation - https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
    • Unicode emoji - https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Searching
    • https://jolicode.com/blog/search-for-emoji-with-elasticsearch
19. Shawn Pearce has died - Johannes Schindelin 2018-02-23

    tags: code, community, contribution, review, source-code-management, source-code-management/gerrit, source-code-management/git

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    • https://git.github.io/rev_news/2018/02/21/edition-36/
    • https://twitter.com/cdibona/status/957822400518696960
    • https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/jan/30/shawn-pearce/
    • https://gitenterprise.me/2018/01/30/shawn-pearce-a-true-leader/
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/B4P7G1YirdM/discussion
    • https://linuxfr.org/news/la-communaute-git-en-deuil-de-shawn-pearce
20. magnusbaeck/logstash-filter-verifier 2018-02-12

    tags: linux, observability/elastic/logstash, parser, programming/go, programming/testing

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    • https://github.com/magnusbaeck/logstash-filter-verifier/releases
    • https://discuss.elastic.co/t/testing-your-logstash-configuration/53061
    • https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-file-unit-testing/88450
    • https://discuss.elastic.co/t/testing-and-benchmarking-log-collection-pipeline/42942
    • https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56039
    • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java