VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet 2024-12-08

   tags: 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)
2. ElizabethanDrama.org - Making Elizabethan Plays Understandable and Fun to Read 2024-11-22

   tags: book, history, literature, theater/play

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   • Shakespeare Navigators
   • versemeter - An in-depth exploration of meter in Shakespeare's work
   • The Plays of Thomas Middleton
   • Richard Brome Online
3. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
4. InfluxDB Tech Tips — Optimizing Flux Performance 2024-06-01

   tags: observability/time-series/influxdb

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   • Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux
   • Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux
   • Optimize Flux queries
   • Sort and limit data with Flux
5. netrw - Browse, read and write files with (neo)vim 2024-05-24

   tags: editor/neovim, editor/vim, filesystem

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   • Using Netrw, vim's builtin file explorer
   • Vim: you don't need NERDtree or (maybe) netrw
6. Leigh Dodds - How I use my RSS reader 2024-04-01

   tags: feed/atom, feed/rss, personal-knowledge/bookmark, programming/xml, web/syndication

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   • Long live RSS! How I manage my reading
   • The Rise and Demise of RSS
   • What using RSS feeds feels like (It feels good)
   • Stumbling
7. Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware! 2023-11-30

   tags: amd, hardware/cpu, linux/kernel/ebpf, memory, observability/tracing, programming/python, programming/rust

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   • Xuanwo/when-i-find-rust-is-slow
   • Std::fs::read slow?
8. My e-reader setup | videah's blog 2023-10-14

   tags: e-reader, network/opds, network/ssh, network/vpn/wireguard

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   • Plato - a document reader for Kobo's e-readers
   • Calibre-Web - a web app that offers a clean and intuitive interface for browsing, reading, and downloading eBooks
   • eBook Reader Dictionaries
9. Read Rust - Interesting posts related to the Rust programming language 2022-04-24

   tags: programming/rust

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   • https://github.com/wezm/read-rust
10. Debugging a Go program that reads from stdin with Delve 2021-11-08

    tags: debugging, debugging/delve, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/go-delve/delve/issues/65
    • https://github.com/go-delve/delve/issues/1274
11. An introduction to Sphinx and Read the Docs for Technical Writers — Eric Holscher 2021-02-07

    tags: documentation, documentation/sphinx, programming/python

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12. MySQL High Availability at GitHub 2019-12-31

    tags: consul, database, database/mysql, distributed-system/cluster, high-availability, source-code-management/github

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    • https://github.blog/2017-10-13-mitigating-replication-lag-and-reducing-read-load-with-freno/
    • https://github.com/github/freno
    • https://github.blog/2016-12-08-orchestrator-github/
    • https://github.com/github/orchestrator
    • https://raft.github.io/
13. Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software – Sourcetrail Developer Blog 2019-11-22

    tags: compiler, development, dynamic-analysis, source-code-management, static-analysis, visualization

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    • https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/why_working_on_chrom_made_me_develop_a_tool_for_reading_source_code/
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/media/prototype_one/
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/media/prototype_two/
    • https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/02/Profiling-Long-Paint-Times-with-DevTools-Continuous-Painting-Mode
14. Display monitor info via command line - Ask Ubuntu 2019-01-08

    tags: device, display, graphics, hardware, linux, peripheral, screen

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    • http://polypux.org/projects/read-edid/
    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114359/how-to-get-edid-for-a-single-monitor
15. Markdown — Sphinx documentation 2018-10-21

    tags: documentation, documentation/sphinx, programming/markdown, read-the-docs, web

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    • https://blog.readthedocs.com/adding-markdown-support/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2471804/using-sphinx-with-markdown-instead-of-rst
    • https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2471804/using-sphinx-with-markdown-instead-of-rst
16. numfmt - reads numbers in various representations and reformats them as requested 2018-09-24

    tags: bit, byte, file, filesystem, gnu, size, unit

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    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44040/a-standard-tool-to-convert-a-byte-count-into-human-kib-mib-etc-like-du-ls1
17. Xdebug - Debugger and Profiler Tool for PHP 2018-05-10

    tags: development, memory, performance, performance/profiling, programming/php

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    • https://xdebug.org/docs/
    • https://xdebug.org/docs/profiler
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21133/simplest-way-to-profile-a-php-script
    • http://nickology.com/2014/04/16/view-xdebug-cachegrind-files-on-mac-os/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33094913/how-do-i-read-the-ui-of-qcachegrind
    • https://github.com/jokkedk/webgrind
    • https://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof
    • https://tideways.com/profiler/xhprof-for-php7
    • https://github.com/humanmade/query-monitor-flamegraph
18. Linux and ACSM ePub books 2018-04-21

    tags: book, document/pdf, format, linux, reader

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    • https://superuser.com/questions/1027608/how-to-read-an-acsm-file-on-linux
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/461409/how-can-i-remove-the-drm-from-an-epub-file
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/299747/converting-epub-files-to-pdf-format
    • https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
    • https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools
    • https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/169618/is-there-a-way-to-convert-a-pdf-file-to-epub-format-without-using-calibre
19. KCachegrind 2018-04-02

    tags: hardware/cpu, memory, memory/cache, performance, time, valgrind

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    • https://cgit.kde.org/kcachegrind.git/
    • https://github.com/KDE/kcachegrind (mirror)
    • http://nickology.com/2014/04/16/view-xdebug-cachegrind-files-on-mac-os/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33094913/how-do-i-read-the-ui-of-qcachegrind
20. API The Docs 2018-03-07

    tags: documentation, event/conference, network/http, programming/api, read-the-docs, rtfm, web

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