VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Decoding Google: Converting a Black Box to a White Box

   2025-06-21
   google/youtube internet/browser network/http network/protocol-buffers programming/go programming/rust reverse-engineering

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   • ddd/req2proto - Reverse Google internal protobuf definitions
   • YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
2. Traceroute isn't real, or: Whoops! Everyone Was Wrong Forever

   2025-06-03
   command-line network/icmp

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   • A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute
3. Air - Live reload for Go apps

   2025-05-25
   command-line network/http programming/go

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4. EdgeRouter 4 under OpenBSD with Failover WAN

   2025-05-17
   bsd/openbsd network/dhcp network/dns network/ethernet network/router

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   • Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4
5. Hoppscotch - Open source API development ecosystem

   2025-05-10
   network/http/openapi network/mqtt network/websocket programming/api/graphql programming/rust programming/typescript

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6. The new reading stack

   2025-05-10
   book indie library network/activitypub personal-knowledge programming/html self-hosting web/syndication

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   • Owning my reading log
   • Indie Bookshelves
   • BookWyrm - Social Reading and Reviewing
   • Indieweb - Personal Library
     • 2022/Pop-ups/Personal Libraries
   • Microformats
     • h-cite - format for publishing citations and references to online and other publications
     • h-entry - format for content intended to be syndicated on the web
     • h-review - format for publishing reviews on the web

   Book metadata sources:

   • Bookbrainz
   • Open Library by the Internet Archive
7. Re-Implementing the Google Reader API in 2025

   2025-05-09
   feed/rss google/reader network/http programming/elixir

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   • greader_api_controller.ex@42ec26f
   • FreshRSS - Google Reader compatible API implementation
   • mihaip/google-reader-api - Unofficial documentation for the unofficial Google Reader API
8. SDF Public Access UNIX System - Est. 1987

   2025-05-09
   bsd/netbsd bulletin-board-system linux network/gopher network/ssh self-hosting unix

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   • SDF Public Access Unix System (Wikipedia)
9. The modern OpenBSD home router

   2025-05-05
   bsd/openbsd network/dhcp network/ethernet network/ipv4 network/ipv6 network/ppp network/router

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10. Permacomputing - Resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture

    2025-04-29
    diy efficiency hardware recycle

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    • Principles
    • Projects
11. robots.txt - AI / LLM User-Agents: Blocking Guide

    2025-04-29
    network/http robots.txt web/crawling web/scraping

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    • A summary of my bot defence systems
      • Butlerian Jihad - Blog posts on the topic of fighting off spam bots, search engine spiders and other non-humans wasting the precious resources we have on Earth
    • EmacsWiki's robots.txt
12. A different approach to blocking bad webbots by IP address

    2025-04-28
    feed network/autonomous-system network/http network/ip web/crawling web/scraping

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    • Now a bit about feed readers
    • A deeper dive into mapping web requests via ASN, not by IP address
    • Notes on blocking spam by filtering on ASN
13. This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii

    2025-04-28
    bsd/netbsd network/http nintendo/wii

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14. Archiving URLs | Gwern

    2025-04-09
    network/http personal-knowledge/bookmark personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/go programming/html programming/java programming/python web web/scraping

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    • Archiving Web Sites (LWN)
    • Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

    Web page archive formats:

    • ARC (1996)
    • WARC (BnF, 2009)
      • WARC Specifications
      • The WARC Ecosystem

    Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

    • internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
    • internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
      • internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
    • webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)

    Self-hosted solutions:

    • ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
    • Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
15. Patroni - A Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, etcd or Consul

    2025-03-30
    database/postgresql distributed-system/cluster distributed-system/high-availability network/reverse-proxy/haproxy programming/python

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16. ICANN Update: Launching RDAP; Sunsetting WHOIS

    2025-02-27
    command-line ietf/rfc network/dns network/rdap programming/rust

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    • icann/icann-rdap
    • The rdap Command
    • The Registration Data Access Protocol
      • Client Implementations
    • RFC 9082 - Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query Format
    • RFC 9536 - Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Reverse Search
17. ESPARGOS - ESP32-based WiFi sensing array

    2025-02-17
    embedded microcontroller/espressif/esp32 network/wireless/wifi physics programming/python visualization

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    • Dataset: Four phase- and time-synchronous ESPARGOS antenna arrays in a lab room
    • ESPARGOS/pyespargos - Python library for working with the ESPARGOS WiFi channel sounder
    • This ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi
    • Source Code for Paper "Augmenting Channel Charting with Classical Wireless Source Localization Techniques"
    • Phased Arrays - Steering and the Antenna Pattern | An Animated Intro to Phased Arrays
18. HAProxy as Egress Controller

    2025-02-13
    network/http network/reverse-proxy network/reverse-proxy/haproxy

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19. Cloudflare is blocking NewsBlur RSS feed fetchers

    2025-02-08
    cloud-computing/cloudflare curl feed/rss network/http

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    • 403 using curl
    • Cloudflare Radar - Verified Bots
20. Stratoshark - Explore and analyze applications at the system call level

    2025-01-27
    linux network/packet-capture/pcap network/packet-capture/wireshark

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    • Those Aren't Packets: How Stratoshark Brings the Power of Wireshark to the Cloud
    • Stratoshark: Extending Wireshark’s legacy into the cloud
    • Getting Started With Stratoshark