VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Poor Richard's Almanack - A yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin 2024-11-18

   tags: book, calendar, history, press, usa

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   • The Universe of Disco - Poor Richard's Almanack
   • The Rare Book Room - Franklin Archive
2. The Ultimate Guide to Django Performance: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimization - LoadForge Guides 2024-11-18

   tags: database, framework/django, network/http, performance, programming/python, storage/cache

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   • Django - Performance and optimization
   • Django - Database access optimization
   • Better living through optimized Django
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. GPIOViewer - Arduino Library to see live GPIO Pins on ESP32 boards 2024-11-18

   tags: electronics/esp32, electronics/esp8266, embedded, embedded/arduino, http, wifi

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   • Live GPIO Pin Monitoring!
   • Watch ESP32’s GPIO status in real-time in a web browser
   • Charles Giguere's GPIOViewer Library Gives You "X-Ray Vision" Into Espressif ESP32-Based Projects
   • me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer
5. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music 2024-11-11

   tags: game-engine/flash, history, instrument/drum-machine, instrument/synthesizer, music/electro

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   This guide favors authenticity over accuracy, and it aims to entertain before it informs. It is only as accurate as it feels it needs to be. It is constantly changing and it is infinitely mutable, so the map, the music, and my self-righteous opinions are all subject to change as I discover, investigate, and incorporate new knowledge and more music. Nothing is definitive.

   Go exploring. Listen and learn about music you don't know anything about.

   • v1 Archive - Internet Artifacts
   • v2.5 Archive
   • r/EDM - Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music version 1 and 2.0
   • Histories of Internet Art - Interview with Kenneth John Taylor, a.k.a. Ishkur, by Joe Farbrook
6. BBS - The Documentary 2024-11-10

   tags: bulletin-board-system, community, diy, documentary, electronics, forum, history, internet, text/ascii

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   The BBS Documentary Video Collection is a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of TEXTFILES.COM. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that).

   • The Full BBS Documentary Interviews are Going Online
   • BBS: The Documentary Archive
   • FidoNet
   • FidoNews Volume 6, Number 19 - 8 May 1989
7. h2c Smuggling: Request Smuggling Via HTTP/2 Cleartext (h2c) 2024-11-04

   tags: network/http, network/reverse-proxy, programming/go, security, websocket

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   • BishopFox/h2csmuggler
8. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay 2024-10-26

   tags: feed, network/http, network/http/header, personal-knowledge/blog, storage/cache, web/syndication

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   Test feed:

   • feed reader score project
   • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
   • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
   • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
   • The feed reader score service is now online

   RFCs:

   • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
   • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
   • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

   Related:

   • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
   • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
   • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
   • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
   • ETag and HTTP caching
   • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
   • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
9. Stirling-PDF - Self-hosted PDF manipulation tool 2024-06-22

   tags: image/optical-character-recognition, linux/container/docker, network/http, pdf, programming/java

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10. Swift on Server 2024-06-12

    tags: cloud/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
11. Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird 2024-06-04

    tags: email, microsoft/exchange, network/http, programming/rust, programming/xml, thunderbird

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12. smallstep/certificates - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management 2024-05-27

    tags: cryptography/certificate, cryptography/certificate-authority, network/http, network/http-server/traefik, network/reverse-proxy, network/transport-layer-security, programming/go

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    • Run a private online TLS certificate authority in a Docker container
    • Configure popular ACME clients to use a private CA with the ACME protocol
    • Run your own private CA & ACME server using step-ca
    • Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
13. The Copenhagen Book - General guidelines on implementing authentication and authorization in web applications 2024-04-05

    tags: cryptography/hash, memory/cache, network/http, network/http/cookie, programming/go, security/authentication, security/authorization, security/oauth, security/password

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    • pilcrowOnPaper/copenhagen
14. TypeSpec - A language for defining cloud service APIs and shapes 2024-04-05

    tags: documentation, network/grpc, network/http, programming/api/rest, programming/json, programming/typescript, protocol-buffers

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    • microsoft/typespec
15. Fly.io - JIT Wireguard 2024-03-31

    tags: database/sqlite, network/http, network/udp, network/vpn/wireguard, programming/go

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    What if, instead of pushing [user] configs to gateways, we had the gateways pull them from our API on demand?

    • Linux Kernel - Introduction to Netlink
    • tqbf/wg_init.go - Wireguard initiator-responder identity example
16. /r/webdev - Self-hosted web analytics: plausible, umami, matomo & more 2024-03-31

    tags: internet/analytics, network/http, open-source, self-hosting

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    • /r/selfhosted - Most reliable Google Analytics alternative?
    • Ackee
    • GoatCounter
    • Matomo
    • Offen Fair Web Analytics
    • Plausible Analytics
    • Umami
17. dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening - Hardening for Linux, SSH, Apache HTTPD, Nginx, MySQL 2024-03-31

    tags: configuration-management/ansible, database/mysql, linux, network/http-server/apache-httpd, network/http-server/nginx, network/ssh

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18. Standard Webhooks - Open source tools and guidelines to send webhooks easily, securely and reliably 2024-02-28

    tags: network/http, programming/json

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    • standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks
    • Specification
19. How to Redirect a Domain to Another Domain with Traefik 2024-01-21

    tags: network/http, network/http-server/traefik, network/reverse-proxy

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    • Traefik Middleware - RedirectRegex
20. Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" 2023-12-20

    tags: embedded, game, graphics/3d, nintendo/nes

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    • Elite [disc] on the BBC Micro Games Archive
    • Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro and NES
    • Ian Bell's Elite Home Page