VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. 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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2. Editos Keys - Shortcut keyboards and keyboard covers 2024-04-16

   tags: apple/macos, digital-audio-workstation/ableton-live, editor/vim, keyboard, keyboard/layout, microsoft/windows

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3. 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
4. Odyssey Audio - Community project to research and reconstruct the music of Halo 2024-04-04

   tags: game/halo, instrument/synthesizer, microsoft/xbox, music, music/soundtrack

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   • Alex Ball - The Sounds Of HALO: Combat Evolved
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. LWN - The race to replace Redis 2024-03-30

   tags: database/nosql, database/redis, fork, programming/c, programming/c#

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   • Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
   • valkey-io/valkey
   • redict/redict
   • microsoft/garnet
7. Cosmopolitan libc - Your build-once run-anywhere C library 2023-11-05

   tags: apple/macos, bsd, linux, microsoft/windows, programming/c, unix

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   • ape - αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
   • Cosmopolitan Third Edition
   • jart/cosmopolitan
   • redbean - single-file distributable web server
8. PSReadLine - A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell 2023-06-30

   tags: command-line, microsoft/windows, programming/powershell

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   • Use CTRL + D to exit and CTRL + L to cls in Powershell console
9. oh-my-posh - cross platform/shell prompt renderer 2023-06-30

   tags: command-line, microsoft/windows, programming/powershell

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   • Windows Setup
   • Fonts
   • Prompt
   • Themes
10. 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
11. WebAuthn - An API for accessing Public Key Credentials 2023-06-11

    tags: cryptography/public-key-infrastructure, internet/browser, security/authentication

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    The Web Authentication API (also known as WebAuthn) is a specification written by the W3C and FIDO, with the participation of Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yubico, and others. The API allows servers to register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of a password.

    • Guide to Web Authentication
    • Asynchronous Remote Key Generation: An Analysis of Yubico’s Proposal for W3C WebAuthn [PDF]
    • Issue 664630: Web Authentication API for Chrome
    • Bugzilla - [meta] Update WebAuthn JS API to the L1-REC spec
    • keepassxc#1870 - Feature Request: Integration with the Web Authentication API
12. Visual Studio Code User and Workspace Settings 2022-12-17

    tags: editor/vscode, programming/json

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35773299/how-can-you-export-the-visual-studio-code-extension-list
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55310734/how-to-add-more-indentation-in-the-visual-studio-code-explorer-file-tree-structu/55315106#55315106
    • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1027 - Suppress display of end-of-file newline as blank line
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30140112/how-do-i-hide-certain-files-from-the-sidebar-in-visual-studio-code
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29973619/how-to-make-vs-code-treat-a-file-extensions-as-a-certain-language
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44774709/removing-the-file-preview-on-the-right-side-of-the-editor-in-vs-code
13. Schema.org - Schemas for structured data on the Internet, Web pages, email messages 2022-07-04

    tags: email, google, google/mail, programming/html, programming/json, programming/xml, web

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    • https://schema.org/docs/schemas.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57371445/schema-org-markup-in-emails
    • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/328567/how-does-microdata-rdfa-compare-to-json-ld/328711#328711
    • https://json-ld.org/
    • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Microdata
    • https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/overview
    • https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/formats/json-ld
    • https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/formats/microdata
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/actionable-messages/adaptive-card
14. watchexec: Executes commands in response to file modifications 2022-03-07

    tags: command-line, event, linux, linux/kernel, microsoft/windows, programming/rust

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    • https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec/tree/main/cli#usage-examples
15. Cloud Hypervisor - Run Cloud Virtual Machines Securely and Efficiently 2022-01-24

    tags: intel, linux, microsoft, programming/rust, virtualization/kvm

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    • https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
    • https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-to-host-the-cloud-hypervisor-project-creating-a-performant-lightweight-virtual-machine-monitor-for-modern-cloud-workloads/
16. Is there a way to force Discord to open on a specific monitor? /r/discordapp 2020-12-29

    tags: discord, instant-messaging, microsoft/windows

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17. Windows Workstation - Survival Kit™ (2020) 2020-12-04

    tags: command-line, desktop, linux, linux/container/docker, microsoft/windows, package, window-manager/tiling

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    Previous Editions:

    • 2017

    Windows Package Manager:

    • winget-cli
    • winget-pkgs

    Windows Terminal:

    • Panes
    • microsoft/terminal

    PowerShell

    PowerToys:

    • FancyZones tiling manager
    • Run quick command launcher
    • Shortcut Guide Overview

    Xbox Game Bar

    Visual Studio Code

    Windows Subsystem for Linux:

    • WSL Installation
18. Technical Writing Style Guides 2020-08-16

    tags: documentation, manual, software, user

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    • https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
    • https://developers.google.com/style
    • https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
    • https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/University%20of%20Oxford%20Style%20Guide.pdf
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/
19. QWERTY altgr-weur international keyboard layout 2020-08-11

    tags: apple/macos, internationalization, keyboard, linux, microsoft/windows, user-interface

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    • https://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/xorg-using-the-us-international-altgr-intl-variant-keyboard-layout/
    • https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11753
    • https://github.com/cjuniet/altgr-weur
    • https://github.com/tjsousa/altgr-weur-mac
20. /r/golang | Learning Distributed systems 2019-09-16

    tags: data, distributed, distributed-system/cluster, network, programming, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Courses
    • https://dataintensive.net/
    • https://columbia.github.io/ds2-class/
    • https://github.com/brendandburns/designing-distributed-systems-labs
    • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/designing-distributed-systems/en-us/
    • https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/distributed-systems-3rd-edition-2017/