VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Zotero - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research 2024-08-29

   tags: pdf, programming/javascript, research, text

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   • Zotero Documentation
   • zotero/zotero
2. Home Assistant Config - War Safety 2024-05-29

   tags: country/russia, country/ukraine, map, programming/python, smart-home/home-assistant, war

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   This is what war in the 21st century looks like: you can practically monitor a missile or a drone that is trying to kill you right from your phone. This is like a Black Mirror episode in real life.

   • Home Assistant helps me survive during missile and drone attacks. Here is how.
   • denysdovhan/home-assistant-config
   • Home Assistant Integrations - Ukraine Alarm
   • Air Raid Alert Map of Ukraine
3. 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
4. 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
5. Social Media Analytics & Tracking Query Parameters 2023-06-11

   tags: internet/analytics, internet/browser, network/url, privacy, search-engine/search-engine-optimization

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   • UTM Parameters
   • Google Ads - Conversion Tracking
   • Websites use URLs to track you. Here’s how to stop them.
   • Firefox’s privacy crusade now targets a key form of tracking
   • ClearURLs - An addon to remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy
   • iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
6. Create rules to filter your emails - Gmail Help 2023-02-13

   tags: configuration-management/terraform, email, google, google/mail, programming/go

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   • https://github.com/jessfraz/gmailfilters (unmaintained?)
   • https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl
   • Advanced Gmail filters for work or school
   • https://hiverhq.com/blog/gmail-filters
   • https://github.com/yamamoto-febc/terraform-provider-gmailfilter
   • https://github.com/ndrpnt/terraform-provider-gmail (unmaintained)
   • https://github.com/remilapeyre/terraform-provider-gmail (unmaintained)
7. Balthazar Rouberol - Preparing the SRE interview 2020-09-28

   tags: algorithm, infrastructure, infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering, programming/job-interview

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   • https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492689425&sr=8-1
   • http://www.columbia.edu/~jxz2101/#
   • https://github.com/adicu/interview_help/
   • https://github.com/nryoung/algorithms
   • https://github.com/keon/algorithms
8. X11 / XKB custom keyboard layout definition 2020-08-15

   tags: keyboard, layout, linux, user-interface, x11

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   • https://web.archive.org/web/20170825051821/http://madduck.net:80/docs/extending-xkb/
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20170720005456/http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20170709093947/https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide
   • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions
   • http://linux.lsdev.sil.org/wiki/index.php/Building_an_XKB_Keyboard
   • https://rlog.rgtti.com/2014/05/01/how-to-modify-a-keyboard-layout-in-linux/
   • https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/
   • https://askubuntu.com/questions/482678/how-to-add-a-new-keyboard-layout-custom-keyboard-layout-definition
   • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_keyboard_extension
9. Heterotopias | games + architecture 2020-05-10

   tags: architecture, design, freedom, game, magazine, play, utopia, virtual

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   • https://twitter.com/HeterotopiasZn
   • https://heterotopias.itch.io/
   • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evpjvp/this-calming-zine-is-helping-my-social-media-overstimulation
10. Maxima, a Computer Algebra System 2020-01-31

    tags: algebra, calculus, linear-algebra, mathematics, physics

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    • https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
    • https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/help.html
    • https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima
    • https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/code/ci/master/tree/
11. NetBox - an open source web application designed to help manage and document computer networks 2019-12-30

    tags: documentation, infrastructure, network, observability, server

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    • https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
    • http://karneliuk.com/2019/04/documenting-your-network-infrastructure-in-netbox-integrating-with-ansible-over-rest-api-and-automating-provisioning-of-cumulus-linux-arista-eos-nokia-sr-os-and-cisco-ios-xr/
12. portray - a Python3 command line tool and library that helps you create great documentation websites for your Python projects with as little effort as possible 2019-09-24

    tags: documentation, programming/html, programming/markdown, programming/python

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    • https://github.com/timothycrosley/portray/
13. howdoi: instant coding answers via the command line 2019-09-24

    tags: command-line, help, linux, programming, programming/python, search-engine, web

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    1$ pip install howdoi
    2$ howdoi format date bash
    3> DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
    

14. Looper pedal with MIDI clock synchronization 2019-09-02

    tags: audio, boss, digital-audio-workstation/ableton-live, effect, instrument/midi, loop, stompbox

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    Threads:

    • https://www.talkbass.com/threads/compact-looper-with-midi-sync-advice.1322813/
    • https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/screen-shot-2018-01-15-at-10-50-39-am-png.2876469/
    • https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/guitar-amps-gizmos/59519-loopers-midi-sync.html
    • https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1100762-looper-midi-sync.html

    Pigtronix Infinity Looper (seems to be the favorite):

    • https://pigtronix.com/product/infinity-looper/
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/6ggsgq/pigtronix_infinity_looper_roland_tr8_midi_clock/
    • https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/infinity-looper-format-larger-sd-card.104993/

    BOSS RC-30 (no MIDI sync, only there 'cause I have one):

    • http://forum.mybeatbuddy.com/index.php?threads/need-help-w-my-beat-buddy-and-the-boss-rc-30-looper.1325/
    • https://www.talkbass.com/threads/is-it-possible-to-sync-two-boss-rc-30-loopers.1291450/
    • https://rolandcorp.com.au/blog/taking-control-of-your-loop-station (also, W.T.F. ???)

    BOSS RC-300 & RC-505:

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/LoopArtists/comments/cqmqhc/boss_rc505_slaved_to_ableton_live/
    • https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1033197-rc-505-sync-issues-slave-mode.html
15. helm-secrets: a helm plugin that helps managing secrets with Git workflow 2019-06-18

    tags: cryptography/pgp, linux/container/kubernetes, linux/container/kubernetes/helm, programming/yaml, secret, security, security/password

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    • https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/2196
    • https://github.com/mozilla/sops
    • https://medium.com/faun/helm-charts-for-more-complex-projects-and-how-to-secure-them-a1dfde804226
    • https://developer.epages.com/blog/tech-stories/kubernetes-deployments-with-helm-secrets/
    • https://lab.getbase.com/helm-secrets-a-missing-piece-in-kubernetes/
16. Gorgonia - a library that helps facilitate machine learning in Go 2019-01-14

    tags: machine-learning, neural-network, programming/go

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17. wttr.in: The right way to check the weather 2019-01-08

    tags: command-line, programming/api, programming/python, text/ascii, weather

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    • https://wttr.in/:help
    • https://github.com/schachmat/wego
    • https://github.com/Wildog/airline-weather.vim
18. WaveFunctionCollapse: Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics. 2018-09-03

    tags: algorithm, game, graphics/2d, graphics/3d, image, map, procedural-generation, tile

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19. coturn TURN server project 2018-08-03

    tags: linux, media, network/address-translation, network/stun, network/turn, nextcloud, programming/c, video

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    • https://github.com/coturn/coturn/wiki/turnserver
    • https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-server/install-coturn-turn-server-spreed-webrtc
    • https://webrtc.ventures/2017/08/quick-guide-stunturn-webrtc/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40583954/coturn-stun-works-but-turn-does-not-work
    • https://hub.docker.com/r/instrumentisto/coturn
    • https://help.nextcloud.com/t/howto-setup-nextcloud-talk-with-turn-server/30794
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_NAT
20. MonoCorpus - a note taking app for software and machine learning engineers meant to encourage learning, sharing, and easier development 2018-06-18

    tags: knowledge, notebook, personal-knowledge/bookmark

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    • https://github.com/mtbarta/monocorpus
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8rvl24/p_i_made_an_engineering_notebook_to_help_stay/