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1. 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
2. The AirGradient Builds Overview

   2024-10-23
   air diy electronics electronics/pcb embedded/arduino sensor smart-home

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   • airgradienthq/arduino
   • DIY Air Quality Sensor (2021-08-08, using revision 4)
   • Jeff Geerling - Your home's air could be making you sick. Fight back! (2021-09-08)
   • Monitoring my home's air quality (CO2, PM2.5, Temp/Humidity) with AirGradient's DIY sensor
   • Discussion on HackerNews
3. Poorconn: Simulating Poor Network Conditions

   2024-03-10
   network/proxy programming/python programming/python/pytest programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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   • xuhdev/poorconn
   • poorconn - Pytest plugin
4. Comcast Proxy - Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

   2024-03-10
   network/proxy programming/go programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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   • Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough
5. toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

   2024-03-10
   network/proxy network/tcp programming/go programming/ruby programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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   • Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications
6. Legacy Rails: Silently Judging You

   2023-06-03
   framework/ruby-on-rails legacy programming/ruby security/audit

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   How can you judge the quality of a legacy Rails application?

   • bundler-audit
   • rails-erd
7. tortoise-tts: A multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on quality

   2022-05-31
   machine-learning programming/python text-to-speech voice

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   • https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html
   • https://nonint.com/2022/04/25/tortoise-architectural-design-doc/
   • https://nonint.com/2022/03/10/tortoise-tts-update/
8. Terraform code quality - CloudSkiff

   2021-08-21
   cloud-computing configuration-management/terraform infrastructure/automation security

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   • https://github.com/tfutils
   • https://github.com/terraform-linters
   • https://terraform-compliance.com/
   • https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec
9. Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD - Charity Majors | Stack Overflow Blog

   2021-04-24
   continuous-integration continuous-integration/continuous-delivery development programming/testing quality

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   • https://charity.wtf/2021/02/19/how-much-is-your-fear-costing-you/
10. Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me

    2019-10-17
    architecture human performance programming quality software speed

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11. Estimating Relative User Expertise for Content Quality Prediction on Reddit

    2019-03-22
    community reddit research statistics vote

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12. PHP Code Quality Tools to Check and Improve your Code · Web technologies

    2018-12-05
    programming/php static-analysis static-analysis/lint web

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13. TDD & The Lump Of Coding Fallacy | GeePawHill.Org

    2018-04-27
    development programming/test-driven-development quality

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14. Netflix/chaosmonkey: Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.

    2018-03-26
    chaos infrastructure netflix quality random scaling server

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    • https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/netflix-attacks-own-network-with-chaos-monkey-and-now-you-can-too/
    • https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded-1d679429be5d
    • https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chaos-engineering-upgraded-878d341f15fa
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey
15. Code quality tools in PHP to check and improve your Code · Web technologies

    2018-03-26
    analysis code continuous-integration programming/php programming/testing quality static static-analysis/lint

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16. Pair programming

    2018-02-23
    agile code keyboard monitor mouse programming/kata programming/pair-programming quality team

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    Guides:

    • https://tuple.app/pair-programming-guide/
    • https://www.codefellows.org/blog/peer-programming-5-reasons-learning-in-a-group-beats-studying-on-your-own/
    • https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-pair-programming-advantages-challenges-tut
    • https://blog.jayway.com/2017/02/10/efficiency-of-pair-programming/
    • https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/305j/pair-hcs-2006.pdf
    • http://www.jucs.org/jucs_15_16/understanding_tools_and_practices/jucs_15_16_3101_3125_schuemmer.pdf
    • https://www.slideshare.net/uhpnou/pair-programming-a-pratical-guide
    • https://www.slideshare.net/istepaniuk/effective-pair-programming/9-Strengthening_the_case_forPair_ProgrammingL
    • http://kata-log.rocks/pair-programming

    Approaches:

    • http://blog.xebia.com/practical-styles-of-pair-programming/
    • https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-Pair-Programming
    • https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-good-development-environment-for-remote-pair-programming
    • https://www.quora.com/Why-do-programmers-use-paired-programming-What-do-remote-teams-use-for-paired-programming
    • https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-techniques-for-effective-pair-programming
    • https://www.quora.com/When-pair-programming-what-makes-it-a-bad-experience-and-what-makes-it-a-good-experience

    Tools:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528205/pair-programming-tools-that-are-not-remote
    • https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/re-appropriating-tools-for-pair-programming-the-keyboard-and-mouse/
    • https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/effective-navigation-in-pair-programming
17. Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

    2016-10-04
    code development practice quality

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18. UK Government - Digital Service Standard

    2016-08-16
    continuous-integration dependency development digital open qa quality software source

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    1. Understand user needs
    2. Do ongoing user research
    3. Have a multidisciplinary team
    4. Use agile methods
    5. Iterate and improve frequently
    6. Evaluate tools and systems
    7. Understand security and privacy issues
    8. Make all new source code open
    9. Use open standards and common platforms
    10. Test the end-to-end service
    11. Make a plan for being offline
    12. Make sure users succeed first time
    13. Make the user experience consistent with GOV.UK
    14. Encourage everyone to use the digital service
    15. Collect performance data
    16. Identify performance indicators
    17. Report performance data on the Performance Platform
    18. Test with the minister
19. Technical debt 101 — Medium

    2016-06-27
    code conception development project quality software-engineering/technical-debt

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20. Language Tools for Reducing Mistakes

    2015-08-05
    continuous-integration development error quality syntax tool

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    • http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/11/language-tools-for-reducing-mistakes.html (original URL)
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20160324065850/http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/11/language-tools-for-reducing-mistakes.html (archive)