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1. 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?
2. NullDeref | Writing A Plugin System in Rust 2024-10-23

   tags: plugin, programming/rust

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   1. The Technologies - A more in-depth look at Rust plugin systems
   2. Getting Started - First steps trying to implement the plugin system
   3. Diving into Dynamic Loading - A closer look at dynamic loading in Rust
   4. Reducing the Pain with Dependencies - Taking a look at the state of dynamic loading in the Rust ecosystem
   5. Getting our Hands Dirty - Finally implementing the plugin system!
   6. Wrapping Up - The last finishing touches and ideas
3. automation - Cron job to run on the last day of the month - Stack Overflow 2019-09-23

   tags: calendar, cron, linux, time

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   • https://backreference.org/2010/04/05/last-day-of-month-cron-job/
   • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149474/how-can-i-start-a-cronjob-1-hour-later-each-day
4. knuth-elevator: A Go implementation of the elevator simulator described by Donald E. Knuth. 2019-09-16

   tags: algorithm, elevator, knuth, programming, programming/go

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   > One of the references on Wikipedia’s Elevator Paradox page is a paper written by Donald E. Knuth dated many years prior to his simulator. A side-effect of that research experience may have been a lasting interest in the intricate details of elevator systems.

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation
5. Learn vim For the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer | Daniel Miessler 2019-05-23

   tags: editor, editor/vim, keyboard, text

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6. Monorepo - Wikipedia 2018-12-07

   tags: monolith, repository, software, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/monorepo

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   Literature

   • https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2854146
   • https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext
   • https://www.tomasvotruba.cz/clusters/#monorepo-from-zero-to-hero
   • https://medium.com/@maoberlehner/monorepos-in-the-wild-33c6eb246cb9
   • https://danluu.com/monorepo/
   • https://hackernoon.com/a-monorepo-github-flow-and-automation-ftw-c41a2d9c48bb
   • https://hackernoon.com/one-vs-many-why-we-moved-from-multiple-git-repos-to-a-monorepo-and-how-we-set-it-up-f4abb0cfe469
   • https://hackernoon.com/continuous-integration-in-projects-using-monorepo-9b828d7a8dfa
   • https://blog.digitalocean.com/cthulhu-organizing-go-code-in-a-scalable-repo/

   Git repository tools

   • https://github.com/shopsys/monorepo-tools
   • https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/

   CI/CD

   • https://github.com/korfuri/awesome-monorepo
   • https://github.com/slimm609/monorepo-gitwatcher
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/7uaqx5/advice_about_cicd_with_docker_and_a_monorepo/
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6260383/how-to-get-list-of-changed-files-since-last-build-in-jenkins-hudson/9473207#9473207
   • https://jenkins-x.io/commands/jx_step_split/
7. Puszcza Białowieska w Minecraft 2018-04-02

   tags: environment, forest, game/minecraft, nature, poland, tree

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   • http://tothelasttree.com/
   • https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-helped-save-forest
   • https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/minecraft-to-the-last-tree-polish-primeval-forest
   • http://www.adweek.com/creativity/how-greenpeace-used-minecraft-to-stop-illegal-logging-in-europes-last-lowland-primeval-forest/
8. Crucial MX300 & Linux 2018-01-05

   tags: linux, sata, ssd, storage

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   • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173619
   • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218390
   • https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=247820
   • https://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/06/16/201217/trim-and-linux-tread-cautiously-and-keep-backups-handy?SetFreedomCookie
   • http://www.linuxlookup.com/review/crucial_mx300_750gb_ssd_review
   • http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132614

   "Problem solved - it was a compatibility issue! I returned the Crucial SSD drive last week and in its place purchased a Samsung EVO 850."

9. Watching a directory for file changes 2017-11-03

   tags: file, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/python, tail

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   Python:

   • http://brunorocha.org/python/watching-a-directory-for-file-changes-with-python.html
   • https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/182197/how-do-i-watch-a-file-for-changes
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/136168/get-last-n-lines-of-a-file-with-python-similar-to-tail

   C/C++:

   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62832/reading-data-from-a-log-file-as-a-separate-application-is-writing-to-it
   • https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfilesystemwatcher.html
10. https://www.osvehicle.com/ 2017-01-13

    tags: arm, car, electric, open, renault, source

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    via https://hackaday.com/2017/01/12/at-last-an-open-source-electric-vehicle-from-a-major-manufacturer/ see http://press.renault.co.uk/press-release/fb984a0e-7b5e-4f09-9c17-02fb185bd49d

11. Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 2016-08-29

    tags: cryptography/encryption, cryptography/pgp, data, gpg, privacy

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12. Heroic Programming 2015-08-03

    tags: bad, deadline, despair, fun, last, minute, practice, programming

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13. Commit Logs From Last Night 2014-10-23

    tags: code, commit, development, drunk, observability/logging, source-code-management/git, wtf

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    Tu t'es débuggé quand t'as bu ‽

14. Mastodon- The Last Baron - YouTube 2014-06-14

    tags: mastodon, metal, progressive, rock

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15. Meshuggah - The Last Vigil (with The Lonely Tree Drawing) - YouTube 2014-03-10

    tags: ambient, clean, mathcore, meshuggah, metal

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16. Marbin - Last Chapter Of Dreaming | MoonJune Records 2013-08-19

    tags: fusion, jazz, metal, music/bandcamp, progressive, rock

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