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. The Biggest Shell Programs in the World

   2025-06-03
   programming/shell programming/shell/bash

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   • Some surprising code execution sources in bash
   • Bash Pitfalls - A compilation of common mistakes made by bash users. Each example is flawed in some way.
3. go-structurizr - Generate C4 component diagrams from Go code

   2025-06-02
   plantuml programming/go software-engineering/uml

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   • Auto-generated C4 Architecture Diagrams in Go
4. Mudborne - A casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs

   2025-05-16
   frog game-engine/love2d genetics indie programming/lua puzzle

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   • Mudborne Postmortem
   • ellraiser/love-build - Cross-platform builder to export LÖVE games to Windows, MacOS, and Linux
5. Neo - Eine ergonomische Tastaturbelegung, welche für die deutsche Sprache optimiert ist

   2025-05-16
   keyboard/layout language/german

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   • Neo-Layout auf einer Kinesis-Tastatur (2009)
   • Die Neo Familie - Layouts
   • Gitea - Neo-Tastaturlayout
6. The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index

   2025-05-11
   diy documentation internet-of-things sensor smart-home/home-assistant weather

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   A collection of posts on how to perform common tasks and deal with common problems.

7. Less htmx is More

   2025-05-10
   framework/django programming/html programming/javascript programming/python

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   • DjangoCon 2022 - From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!
     • Following up "Mother of all htmx demos"
   • bigskysoftware/idiomorph - A DOM-merging algorithm
8. The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding

   2025-05-10
   security security/vulnerability

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   • https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114343835430587973
   • https://bsky.app/profile/tib3rius.bsky.social/post/3lmulrbygoe2g
   • CVEProject (Github)
   • Mitre CVE program regains funding as renewal deal reached
9. 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
10. Valve Reused The Code For Flickering Lights in Alyx 22 Years Later

    2025-04-28
    game/half-life game/portal game/quake game/valve programming/c programming/c++

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nyxzme/comment/h1n8c8h/
    • The Secret Behind Valve’s Flickering Lights
    • valve flicker css
11. gRPC - Standardization of rich error reporting via google.rpc.Status

    2025-01-16
    error-handling network/grpc network/protocol-buffers programming/go programming/python

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    • gRPC Guides - Error Handling
    • gRPC Proposals - New RPC Status API for Python
    • Advanced gRPC Error Usage
    • Google API Improvement Proposal - AIP-193 - Errors
12. CPython - Sigstore Information

    2024-12-30
    cryptography/certificate cryptography/signature programming/python programming/python/pypi

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    • Python and Sigstore
    • PyPI now supports digital attestations
13. What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

    2024-12-30
    distributed-system programming/go programming/python programming/rust programming/testing

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    • Antithesis - So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
    • Resonate - Deterministic Simulation Testing
    • TigerBeetle - Deterministic Simulation Testing
    • Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust - Can we match SQLite’s world-famous reliability?
    • Polar Signals - (Mostly) Deterministic Simulation Testing in Go
14. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet

    2024-12-08
    bulletin-board-system forum/usenet history storage/tape text

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    • Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to Website with PostgreSQL backend using Python 3.8
    • 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
    • DataHoarders, UsenetArchives.com now includes UTZOO-Wiseman tapes of the earliest internet posts made between Feb 1981 and June 1991
    • The UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive (data removed following legal action)
15. A look at search engines with their own indexes

    2024-11-28
    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
16. FerrarGIS - Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data

    2024-11-19
    geography/gis map openstreetmap

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    • mclaeysb/FerrarGIS
    • Un nouveau style QGIS pour OpenStreetMap
17. Jujutsu - A distributed version control system

    2024-11-13
    programming/rust source-code-management/git source-code-management/jujutsu source-code-management/mercurial

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    • martinvonz/jj
    • Tutorial
    • Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla
    • Soft skills: jujutsu early feelings
    • Git and jujutsu: in miniature
    • Steve Klabnik's Jujutsu Tutorial
    • Jujutsu VCS Introduction and Patterns
    • Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb
    • Configuring jujutsu (Oppili)
18. Quartz - A fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites

    2024-05-15
    personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/node.js programming/typescript web/static

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    • jackyzha0/quartz
    • Obsidian Compatibility
    • Digital garden - Networked Thought
19. How to Learn Nix

    2024-01-31
    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
20. Diátaxis - A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring

    2024-01-07
    community documentation guide open-source writing

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    • evildmp/diataxis-documentation-framework
    • Continuation of Divio's Documentation System
    • BrightTALK - Introducing the Diátaxis Approach to Technical Documentation
    • PyCON AU 2017 - What nobody tells you about documentation
    • What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation?

    Examples:

    • Django Documentation - How the documentation is organized
    • Gatsby - A React-based open source framework for creating websites

    Critiques:

    • My Problem With the Four-Document Model