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1. Transitous - Get to places by public transport

   2025-06-14
   openstreetmap programming/c++ programming/python programming/typescript transportation

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   • Adding public transport data to Transitous
   • public-transport/transitous
   • GNOME Maps meets Transitous meets MOTIS (FOSDEM 2025)
   • motis-project/motis - Multimodal routing, geocoding, and map tiles
   • google/transit - General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
2. NASA GISS - G.Projector 3 - Map Projection Explorer

   2025-05-23
   geography map planet/earth visualization

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   A list of the map projections that may be viewed and saved by G.Projector, along with alternative names, parameter-specific and special cases. Sample images of an Earth topographical map are linked for each unique projection

3. 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
4. macos - DNS Resolution Fails for ping and curl, but not dig

   2025-01-11
   apple/macos network/dns network/http

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   • OSX Domain-Specific DNS Servers (/etc/resolver)
   • [macOS] need to support domain specific dns server (custom DNS)
   • Using scutil to set DNS for specific domains
   • How to query macOS DNS resolver from Terminal?
5. DNS over HTTPS

   2024-11-25
   cryptography/encryption ietf/rfc internet/browser/chrome internet/browser/firefox network/dns network/http network/transport-layer-security

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   RFCs:

   • RFC 7858 - Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)
   • RFC 8484 - DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)

   Resources:

   • Carsten Strotmann - doh.defaultroutes.de DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS Server
   • DNS over HTTPS - Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Documentation

   Setting up a DNS-over-HTTPS server:

   • DNS over HTTPS - ArchWiki
   • DNS-over-TLS almost working - Træfik Forum
   • Using Google’s dns.google.com with CoreDNS

   Browser configuration:

   • Configure DoH on your browser - Cloudflare Documentation
   • Using custom DNS-over-HTTPS with CoreDNS and Google Chrome
   • Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS - Firefox Help
6. Crowdsec - Curated Threat Intelligence Powered by the Crowd

   2024-05-29
   bsd linux/iptables network/firewall observability/logging programming/go

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   • crowdsecurity/crowdsec
   • Documentation
     • Docker / Podman Deployment
     • Data Sources
     • Parsers
     • Configuration
     • Observability / Prometheus
     • OpenAPI Specification
   • Blog
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 1: Hardware
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 2: Running Configurations
     • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 3: Attack Scenarios
   • Discussion on HN (2020)
7. elastic-integration-corpus-generator-tool - Generate an event corpus given a specific integration

   2024-05-15
   observability/elastic/elasticsearch observability/logging programming/go programming/json

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   • quickwit-oss/benchmarks/tree/main/scripts/create-generated-log-dataset
8. GTP2 - Specification of the Go Text Protocol

   2024-05-02
   game/board-game game/go network/protocol

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   • GNU Go
9. Effective Rust - 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code

   2024-03-31
   book course programming/rust

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10. The Sunlight Certificate Transparency Log

    2024-03-16
    cryptography/certificate cryptography/certificate-authority data-structure/tree data-structure/tree/merkle-tree letsencrypt programming/go

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    • Introducing Sunlight, a CT implementation built for scalability, ease of operation, and reduced cost
    • Transparent Logs for Skeptical Clients
    • C2SP/C2SP - Community Cryptography Specification Project
    • FiloSottile/sunlight
    • transparency-dev/serverless-log
11. Standard Webhooks - Open source tools and guidelines to send webhooks easily, securely and reliably

    2024-02-28
    network/http programming/json

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    • standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks
    • Specification
12. Subclassing in Python Redux

    2023-06-11
    programming/design-pattern programming/go programming/object-oriented-programming programming/python programming/ruby

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    The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, specifically?

    • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers - Why inheritance never made any sense
    • The Composition Over Inheritance Principle
    • PyCon US 2013 - The End Of Object Inheritance & The Beginning Of A New Modularity
    • RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
13. WebAuthn - An API for accessing Public Key Credentials

    2023-06-11
    cryptography/public-key-infrastructure internet/browser security/authentication

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    The Web Authentication API (also known as WebAuthn) is a specification written by the W3C and FIDO, with the participation of Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yubico, and others. The API allows servers to register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of a password.

    • Guide to Web Authentication
    • Asynchronous Remote Key Generation: An Analysis of Yubico’s Proposal for W3C WebAuthn [PDF]
    • Issue 664630: Web Authentication API for Chrome
    • Bugzilla - [meta] Update WebAuthn JS API to the L1-REC spec
    • keepassxc#1870 - Feature Request: Integration with the Web Authentication API
14. Postfix, iPhone, Apple Mail and the reject_unknown_helo_hostname parameter

    2023-01-28
    email/postfix mobile/ios network/dns

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    I'd get a better behaved mail client. — Hu on Gentoo Forums

    • http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#reject_invalid_helo_hostname
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/575539/postfix-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/527541/postfix-whitelist-host-for-specific-sender
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/922935/why-does-postfix-say-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found-when-dig-finds-the
    • https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3120175
    • https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8604630.html?sid=a666f84af3d663d43b4c72a5b82115c4
15. cross: “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates

    2022-11-24
    linux programming/rust

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63724484/build-and-bind-against-older-libc-version
    • https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/platform-support.html
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/n6udyk/building_rust_binaries_in_ci_that_work_with_older/
    • https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-to-compile-rust-with-a-specific-glibc-version-for-gnueabihf-architecture/6680
    • https://kobzol.github.io/rust/ci/2021/05/07/building-rust-binaries-in-ci-that-work-with-older-glibc.html
16. Finding the “Second Bug” in glibc’s Condition Variable

    2022-09-20
    concurrency/threading formal-specification/tla+ programming/c programming/ocaml

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17. Learn TLA+ - Temporal Logic of Actions

    2022-07-04
    book formal-specification/tla+

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    • Announcing: Learn TLA+
18. Fixing a MongoDB Replication Protocol Bug with TLA+ - William Schultz

    2022-05-31
    database/mongodb distributed distributed-system/cluster formal-specification/tla+ protocol

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    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zSynTfLDE
19. Generating Go client/server code from an OpenAPI specification

    2021-05-18
    documentation programming/api programming/code-generation programming/go programming/java

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    Generate code from specification:

    • https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
    • https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
    • https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

    Generate specification from code:

    • https://github.com/swaggo/swag
20. Storing hashes: bcrypt, pbkdf2, sha256-crypt, sha512-crypt

    2021-01-03
    cryptography cryptography/hash cryptography/hash/bcrypt cryptography/hash/pbkdf2 cryptography/hash/sha security/password

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    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4781/do-any-security-experts-recommend-bcrypt-for-password-storage
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17421/how-to-store-salt
    • https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/133239/what-is-the-specific-reason-to-prefer-bcrypt-or-pbkdf2-over-sha256-crypt-in-pass
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211/how-to-securely-hash-passwords/31846