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. A look at search engines with their own indexes 2024-11-28

   tags: alternative, network/http, search-engine, search-engine/search-engine-optimization, web

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   • Very Alternative Search Engines
   • Neat search engines you may not have heard of
   • Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore.
   • How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Kestra - Orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows 2024-06-09

   tags: data/workflow, programming/java, programming/javascript

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   • kestra-io/kestra
   • Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
   • How Leroy Merlin managed their cloud data pipelines with Kestra
7. 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)
8. A Pattern Language - An abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 2024-05-15

   tags: architecture, book, city

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   • zenodotus280/apl
   • Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
   • HN thread
   • List of related HN threads
9. 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
10. postgres_lsp - Language Server for PostgreSQL 2023-12-08

    tags: database/postgresql, programming-language, programming/sql

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    • Postgres Language Server: implementing the Parser
    • Hacker News announcement thread
11. Lisping at JPL | Ron Garrett 2023-01-29

    tags: nasa/jet-propulsion-laboratory, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/java, programming/lisp

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    • http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524552
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087419
    • https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
12. Mitogen for Ansible | A redesigned UNIX connection layer and module runtime for Ansible 2023-01-28

    tags: configuration-management/ansible, network/ssh, programming/python

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    • https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen
    • https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/howitworks.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15355144
13. Fake Dog for Home Security 2022-12-15

    tags: diy, dog, internet-of-things, security, sensor

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250487
14. Floor 796 | Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station 2022-12-14

    tags: art/animation, culture, internet, internet/browser, programming/javascript, space, video

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612401
    • https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/company/floor796/blog/673318/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
    • https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_api_web_workers.asp
15. Burning Ship Fractal 2022-12-14

    tags: image, image/fractal, mathematics

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Ship_fractal
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9yNFmb2FE
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12581569
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210140
16. RedPanda | Data Streaming Platform 2022-09-04

    tags: message-broker/kafka, message-queue, programming/c++, programming/go

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    • https://redpanda.com/blog/validating-consistency
    • https://redpanda.com/blog/kafka-redpanda-availability
    • https://redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-official-jepsen-report-and-analysis
    • https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25075739
17. Symbian Source Code 2022-05-25

    tags: ericsson, nokia, operating-system, phone

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491744
18. Enable bracketed paste with Vim and Tmux 2021-11-02

    tags: command-line, command-line/tmux, editor/vim

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    • https://vimhelp.org/term.txt.html#xterm-bracketed-paste
    • https://jdhao.github.io/2021/02/01/bracketed_paste_mode/
    • https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
    • https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/25311/how-to-activate-bracketed-paste-mode-in-gnome-terminal-for-vim-inside-tmux
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5585129/pasting-code-into-terminal-window-into-vim-on-mac-os-x/7053522#7053522
    • https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/25135/why-does-f22-appear-when-pasting-into-vim/25157#25157
    • https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/24928/command-p-paste-script-shortcut/24929#24929
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18329305
19. 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
20. Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with less than 200 lines of code - Dropbox 2020-12-15

    tags: performance, source-code-management, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/monorepo

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    • https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
    • https://github.com/cstrahan/go-watchman
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480198
    • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-featuremanyFiles
    • https://github.com/jgavris/rs-git-fsmonitor
    • https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample