VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation 2025-01-22

   tags: internet/browser, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/javascript, programming/zig

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   • fubark/zig-v8 - Simple V8 builds with C and Zig bindings
   • lightpanda-io/zig-v8-fork
   • lightpanda-io/zig-js-runtime
   • Volcamp 2024 - Créer un browser from scratch, c'est possible ?
2. Red Hat - Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream 2024-11-22

   tags: community, license, linux/centos, linux/red-hat, open-source/fork

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   • Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
   • Hackaday - CentOS Is Dead, Long Live CentOS
   • Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux
   • Brave New World: The Path Forward for Rocky Linux
   • Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement
   • Jeff Geerling - Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
   • Jeff Geerling - Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
   • JMJ - Re-evaluating RHEL
3. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

   tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
4. LWN - The race to replace Redis 2024-03-30

   tags: database/nosql, database/redis, open-source/fork, programming/c, programming/c#

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   • Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
   • valkey-io/valkey
   • redict/redict
   • microsoft/garnet
5. Elasticsearch - Grok processor 2023-11-19

   tags: observability/elastic/elasticsearch, observability/elastic/logstash, observability/logging, programming/go, programming/java, programming/regular-expressions, programming/rust

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   • Elastic - Grokking Grok
   • Kibana - Debug grok expressions
   • Grok Constructor
   • Elasticsearch Grok Patterns
   • Logstash Grok Patterns

   Alternative implementations:

   • vjeantet/grok - Simple library to use/parse grok patterns with Go
     • GuanceCloud/grok - Fork of the above
     • logrusorgru/grokky - Pure golang grok-like library
     • Telegraf's Grok Parser Plugin
   • Vector Remap Language - Datadog Grok Parser
6. PaperMC – The High Performance Spigot Fork 2020-03-14

   tags: game, game/minecraft, programming/java, sandbox, sever

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   • https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper
   • https://paper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
   • https://aikar.co/2018/07/02/tuning-the-jvm-g1gc-garbage-collector-flags-for-minecraft/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/93ble5/what_is_paper_spigot_and_why_you_should_use_it/
   • https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-vs-paperspigot-whats-the-difference.92288/
7. Redis - FAQ - Background saving fails with a fork() error under Linux even if I have a lot of free RAM! 2018-10-29

   tags: database/redis, hardware/ram, linux/container/docker, memory

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   • https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/159
   • https://gist.github.com/kapkaev/4619127
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19581059/misconf-redis-is-configured-to-save-rdb-snapshots
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42502636/unable-to-save-in-background-redis-server
   • https://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel4_vm.pdf
8. Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks 2018-09-07

   tags: fork, parallel, process, programming/python, unix

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9. Miller columns 2018-05-30

   tags: apple/macos, desktop, file, folder, linux, manager, tree, user-experience, user-interface

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   DFileManager:

   • http://tuxdiary.com/2015/10/12/dfilemanager/
   • http://dfilemanager.sourceforge.net/

   ElementaryOS' Pantheon Files (Marlin fork):

   • https://launchpad.net/pantheon-files
   • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
     • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pantheon-files/
     • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/tumbler/
     • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/contractor/
   • https://www.noobslab.com/2013/11/marlin-file-manager-for-ubuntu.html
   • https://www.noobslab.com/2014/09/marlin-file-manager-is-now-available.html
   • https://www.noobslab.com/2014/03/elementary-os-file-manager-pantheon.html

   Misc:

   • https://i.stack.imgur.com/NBkm1.jpg
   • https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt/issues/465
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7w4lsl/miller_columns_on_linux/
   • https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/add-a-column-view-to-caja/11648
10. PyPDF2 2018-04-04

    tags: data, document/pdf, programming/python, text

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    PyPDF2:

    • https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/
    • https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/PdfFileReader.html
    • https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2

    Guides:

    • http://www.binpress.com/tutorial/manipulating-pdfs-with-python/167
    • https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter13/
    • http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/15/manipulating-pdfs-with-python-and-pypdf/
    • http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2012/07/11/pypdf2-the-new-fork-of-pypdf/
    • https://medium.com/@menglishu09/get-bookmarks-from-pdf-using-pypdf2-4166ae8eb6f6
    • http://blog.isnotworking.com/2006/08/extract-pdf-title-from-all-files-on.html

    Threads:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1918420/split-a-pdf-based-on-outline
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329748/how-to-get-bookmarks-page-number
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431426/extract-toc-of-pdf
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/911672/extracting-titles-from-pdf-files
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10014572/python-open-pdf-file-to-specific-page-section
11. Hiveway.io forks Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on top, for some reason 2018-03-05

    tags: fork, hoax, mastodon, troll, wtf

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    • https://github.com/hiveway/hiveway/issues/7
    • https://github.com/hiveway/hiveway/issues/6
    • https://twitter.com/aeris22/status/970399030902747138
12. Using forked package import in Go - Stack Overflow 2018-02-19

    tags: community, open-source/fork, programming/go, source-code-management/git

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    • http://blog.campoy.cat/2014/03/github-and-go-forking-pull-requests-and.html
    • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    • http://code.openark.org/blog/development/forking-golang-repositories-on-github-and-managing-the-import-path
13. purr-data 2017-05-08

    tags: audio, fx, linux, multimedia/pure-data, plugin, synthesis, user-interface

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    • https://github.com/agraef/purr-data
    • https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data
    • https://bitbucket.org/l2orkaur/l2orkaur.bitbucket.org
    • active fork of http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/make-your-own-l2ork/software/
14. ruamel.yaml — yaml dev documentation 2017-02-17

    tags: markup, programming/python, programming/yaml

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    Maintained fork of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/

15. Gitea Docs 2016-12-23

    tags: fork, gogs, source-code-management, source-code-management/git

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16. OPNsense® - Open Source Firewall - High-end Security Made Easy™ 2016-10-28

    tags: bsd/freebsd, linux, network, network/firewall, programming/c, programming/php

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    • opnsense
    • opnsense/core
    • opnsense/plugins
    • Architecture
    • About the Fork
17. Dark Audacity 2016-08-31

    tags: audio, digital-audio-workstation, digital-audio-workstation/audacity, linux, open-source/fork

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    Audacity spin-off dedicated to design experimentation

    Discussion archive @ https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/audacity-devel/thread/73f5b514-0777-51fa-b96b-2859b4de61f6%40indigo.ie/ AUR package @ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/darkaudacity-git

18. The Process | CommitStrip 2016-01-08

    tags: clone, development, hook, open-source/fork, programming/testing, repository, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/github

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19. Python 3 Patterns, Recipes and Idioms: An Open-Source Book 2016-01-05

    tags: metaprogramming, programming, programming/design-pattern, programming/object-oriented-programming, programming/python

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    • Original sources: https://bitbucket.org/BruceEckel/python-3-patterns-idioms
    • Forked sources: https://bitbucket.org/MatToufoutu/python-3-patterns-idioms/src
    • ReadTheDocs Fork: http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
20. Welcome to Mastering Django - Mastering Django 2015-11-23

    tags: book, framework, framework/django, programming/python, tutorial, web

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    Up-to-date fork of the DJango Book, with additional content \o/

    • http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html
    • https://github.com/jacobian-archive/djangobook.com
    • https://github.com/big-nige/djangobook-Updated-to-1.8