VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music 2024-11-11

   tags: 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
2. Gymnasium - An API standard for reinforcement learning with a diverse collection of reference environments 2024-10-13

   tags: artificial-intelligence, programming/python, research

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   • Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium
   • 2407.17032 - Gymnasium: A Standard Interface for Reinforcement Learning Environments (PDF, 2024-07-24)
3. InfluxDB Tech Tips — Optimizing Flux Performance 2024-06-01

   tags: observability/time-series/influxdb

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   • Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux
   • Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux
   • Optimize Flux queries
   • Sort and limit data with Flux
4. Cloud Study Network - Free Certifications 2024-04-03

   tags: cloud, course, database, knowledge, learn, network

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5. Refactoring Legacy Software: Strangler Fig Pattern 2024-04-01

   tags: microservice, monolith, programming/design-pattern, software-engineering/legacy, software-engineering/refactoring

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   • Red Hat - The pros and cons of the Strangler architecture pattern
   • Azure Architecture - Strangler Fig pattern
   • Microservices Pattern: Strangler application
6. How to use PostgreSQL for (military) geoanalytics tasks 2024-03-31

   tags: country/russia, country/ukraine, database/postgresql, geography/gis, map, nasa/earthdata, war

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   • From Map to Reality: Using PostGIS in Warfare (PDF)
   • NASA Earthdata - Full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data for understanding and protecting our home planet
   • Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Active Fire detection
   • PostgreSQL - GiST - Generalized Search Tree
   • PostgreSQL - SP-GiST - Space-partitioned GiST
   • H3 - Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
   • zachasme/h3-pg - PostgreSQL bindings for H3
7. Uncurled – everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades 2024-02-12

   tags: curl, linux, open-source, programming/c, programming/library

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8. How to Learn Nix 2024-01-31

   tags: linux/nixos, programming/functional-programming, programming/shell

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   • Part 4: Quick starts, full hearts
   • Part 12: The Nix expression language
   • Part 22: Setting up a declarative user environment
   • Part 26: An infinite list of functions
   • Part 37: Saving your shell
9. Temporal - a durable execution platform 2024-01-25

   tags: distributed-system, programming/go, protocol-buffers, task, workflow

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   • temporalio/temporal
   • temporalio/temporalite - Single-process Temporal distribution
   • Learn Temporal
   • Temporal Documentation
10. NASM, the Netwide Assembler 2024-01-13

    tags: compiler, linux, programming/assembly, programming/c

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    • netwide-assembler/nasm
    • asmtutor - Learn Assembly Language
    • NASM Tutorial
11. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs 2024-01-13

    tags: book, linux, performance/profiling, programming/c++, programming/rust

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    • PerformanceNinja video courses playlist
    • dendibakh/perf-ninja - An online course where you can learn and master the skill of low-level performance analysis and tuning
    • grahamking/perf-ninja-rs - Rust labs for Performance Ninja Class
12. Learn Colemak in steps with the Tarmak layouts! 2023-09-20

    tags: keyboard/layout, keyboard/mechanical-keyboard

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    • Tarmak Intro
    • Tarmak Transitional Layouts (for learning qwerty -> colemak)
13. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? 2023-07-22

    tags: database, database/sharding, game/mmo

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    • Startup Lessons Learned: Sharding for Startups
14. Write Inclusive Documentation | Google Developers 2023-06-12

    tags: diversity, documentation, people, programming/go, society, text

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    • Apple Style Guide - Editorial guidelines for Apple
    • Atlassian Design System - Inclusive Language
    • Microsoft Learn - Bias-free communication
    • Red Hat - Making open source more inclusive by eradicating problematic language
    • get-woke/woke - Detect non-inclusive language in your source code
15. Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser 2023-05-23

    tags: deep-learning, game/age-of-empires, image, neural-network

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16. (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way 2023-02-18

    tags: cloud, network/dns, programming/shell, sysadmin

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    28. Blocking TCP port 53 traffic leads to very strange failures. Don't.
    29. The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.
    30. "Prod" is just another name for "staging".

17. Learning By Lurking 2023-02-18

    tags: community, documentation, knowledge

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
    • https://xkcd.com/979/
    • https://hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com/148664.html
18. Email is good. A blog ostensibly about email productivity. 2023-02-18

    tags: email, email/spam, web

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    • https://email-is-good.com/2023/02/13/outlook/
    • https://email-is-good.com/2022/11/08/a-template-on-how-to-write-an-email-to-someone-for-the-first-time/
    • https://email-is-good.com/2021/08/16/if-you-want-to-make-it-clear-that-email-isnt-your-thing-do-it-up-right/
    • https://email-is-good.com/2021/08/09/hi-im-the-founder-of-_____/
    • https://email-is-good.com/2020/03/11/learn-to-work-with-email/
    • https://email-is-good.com/2019/05/07/searchable-email-archives/
19. facebookresearch/nle: The NetHack Learning Environment 2022-12-14

    tags: artificial-intelligence, facebook, game/roguelike, nethack, neural-network, research

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    • https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
20. Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion 2022-08-28

    tags: database/postgresql, distributed-system, performance, programming/sql, shard

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