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1. SSHFP - Secure SHell FingerPrint DNS Records 2024-10-27

   tags: cryptography/elliptic-curve, network/dns, network/dnssec, network/ssh

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   • IANA - DNS SSHFP Resource Record Parameters
   • ssh - How do I generate SSHFP records?
   • Oh SSH-it, What’s My Fingerprint? A Large-Scale Analysis of SSH Host Key Fingerprint Verification Records in the DNS
     • gehaxelt/sshfp-dns-measurement
     • APNIC - Improving SSH’s security with SSHFP DNS records

   RFCs:

   • RFC 4251 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture
   • RFC 4255 - Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints
2. 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?
3. Protoscope - A simple, human-editable language for representing and emitting the Protobuf wire format 2024-10-23

   tags: network/grpc, programming/go, protocol-buffers

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4. smallstep/certificates - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management 2024-05-27

   tags: cryptography/certificate, cryptography/certificate-authority, network/http, network/http-server/traefik, network/reverse-proxy, network/transport-layer-security, programming/go

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   • Run a private online TLS certificate authority in a Docker container
   • Configure popular ACME clients to use a private CA with the ACME protocol
   • Run your own private CA & ACME server using step-ca
   • Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
5. GTP2 - Specification of the Go Text Protocol 2024-05-02

   tags: game/board-game, game/go, network/protocol

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   • GNU Go
6. MIDIMonster - A universal control and translation tool for multi-channel absolute-value-based control and/or bus protocols 2024-04-21

   tags: instrument/midi, jack, network/mqtt, osc, programming/c, programming/lua, programming/python, usb

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   • MIDIMonster
   • MIDIMonster Knowledge Base
7. 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
8. 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
9. NucliaDB - a cloud-native database for unstructured data and vector, text, paragraphs and relations indexing 2022-11-19

   tags: database/nosql, natural-language-processing, network/grpc, programming/python, programming/rust, protocol-buffers, search-engine

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   • https://github.com/nuclia/nucliadb
   • https://nuclia.com/building-nuclia/first-release/
   • https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/nucliadb-oss-cloud-native-database-for-unstructured-data
   • https://gist.github.com/bloodbare/8381bfd0b11d94f2e8592b1101e695b5
   • https://github.com/nuclia/demos/
10. Cloudflare Research | OPAQUE: An Asymmetric PAKE Protocol Secure Against Pre-Computation Attacks 2022-07-12

    tags: cryptography/encryption, security/authentication, security/password

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    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/opaque-oblivious-passwords/
    • OPAQUE: An Asymmetric PAKE Protocol Secure Against Pre-Computation Attacks
    • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque
    • https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-talk-about-pake/
11. Fixing a MongoDB Replication Protocol Bug with TLA+ - William Schultz 2022-05-31

    tags: database/mongodb, distributed, distributed-system/cluster, formal-specification/tla+, protocol

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    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zSynTfLDE
12. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach | Wireshark Labs 2022-03-15

    tags: network, protocol, wireshark

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13. Reining in the thundering herd ⛈ Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django 2021-08-19

    tags: framework/django, gunicorn, network/http, network/http-server/haproxy, network/http-server/nginx, network/reverse-proxy, programming/python, protocol/fastcgi, uwsgi, web, wsgi

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    • https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/
    • https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/faq.html#does-gunicorn-suffer-from-the-thundering-herd-problem
    • https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/articles/SerializingAccept.html
    • https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Options.html
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20160117023812/http://cramer.io/2013/06/27/serving-python-web-applications
    • https://circus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
14. Load Balancing PHP-FPM with HAProxy and FastCGI - HAProxy Technologies 2021-08-19

    tags: network, network/http, network/http-server/haproxy, network/reverse-proxy, programming/php, protocol/fastcgi

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15. Athens | A Go Module Proxy 2019-12-03

    tags: continuous-integration, dependency, network/http, network/proxy, programming/go, storage/cache

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    • https://github.com/gomods/athens
    • https://arslan.io/2019/08/02/why-you-should-use-a-go-module-proxy/
    • https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_proxy_protocol
16. Pleroma, a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols 2019-07-30

    tags: federation, network/activitypub, personal-knowledge/blog, social, web

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    • https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/
    • https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
    • https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/readme.html
17. IPFS is the Distributed Web - InterPlanetary File System - a distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data 2019-06-11

    tags: distributed, filesystem, media, peer, programming/go, protocol, source-code-management, web

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    • https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
    • https://github.com/ipfs/papers/
    • https://medium.com/textileio/tutorial-series-setting-up-an-ipfs-peer-4056e6c69612
18. FreeRDP - a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 2019-03-07

    tags: client, desktop, remote

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    • https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina
19. What is Syslog: Daemons, Message Formats and Protocols - Sematext 2019-02-05

    tags: linux, observability/logging, sysadmin, system, text

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    • https://serverfault.com/questions/692309/what-is-the-difference-between-syslog-rsyslog-and-syslog-ng
20. HTTP/3: From root to tip 2019-01-30

    tags: cloud, network, network/http, protocol

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    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-quicening/
    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/
    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/head-start-with-quic/
    • https://cloudflare-quic.com/
    • https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche