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. Self-hosted online collaborative drawing platform Excalidraw 2024-11-25

   tags: database/mongodb, database/sqlite, diagram, image/png, image/svg, network/websocket, programming/json, programming/node.js, programming/typescript, schema, self-hosting, software-engineering/uml

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   • Self-hosted online collaborative drawing platform Excalidraw (alternate version on Medium)
     • alswl/excalidraw-collaboration - Excalidraw with collaboration feature, self-hosting, and only one-click deploy
     • alswl/excalidraw-storage-backend - Storage for scenes, images and collaboration rooms
     • alswl/excalidraw.alswl.com - Custom static version featuring a Chinese font with handwriting style
     • Someone0nEarth/excalidraw-self-hosted - A docker-compose configuration for a fully self-hosted excalidraw stack, a collaborative whiteboard solution
   • r/selfhosted - Excalidraw
     • excalidraw/excalidraw-room - Example collaboration server
     • Comment on excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4993 - Building your own Docker images
     • excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/6506 - Tutorial for Træfik
   • PatWie/excalidraw-complete - Self-host Excalidraw with a single Go binary - Supports multiple storage options and real-time collaboration
3. The Ultimate Guide to Django Performance: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimization - LoadForge Guides 2024-11-18

   tags: database, framework/django, network/http, performance, programming/python, storage/cache

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   • Django - Performance and optimization
   • Django - Database access optimization
   • Better living through optimized Django
4. 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?
5. Crucible - A distributed network-replicated block storage service 2024-10-25

   tags: distributed-system, programming/rust, storage/block-storage, virtualization

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   • Oxide RFD 60 - Storage Architecture Considerations
   • Oxide RFD 177 - Implementation of Data Storage
6. Gridfinity - The modular, open-source grid storage system for your workshop 2024-06-28

   tags: 3d-printer, computer-aided-design, diy, workshop

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   • Gridfinity (2022)
   • 20+ Weird Printable Organizers by Makers
7. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" 2024-04-19

   tags: database, distributed-system, observability, observability/logging, observability/metrics, observability/tracing

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   • Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (PDF, Talk)
   • HN discussion
   • Axiom - Stop sampling, observe every event
     • Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story
   • Eventrelay - An event streaming/storage system for the rest of us
   • Honeycomb - Identify Outliers
   • Rill - Fast operational dashboards that your team will actually use
   • Strangeloop 17 - Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store by Sam Stokes
8. A Minimum Complete Tutorial of Linux ext4 File System 2024-01-07

   tags: filesystem/ext4, linux, storage

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9. Oxide at Home: Propolis says Hello 2022-06-16

   tags: embedded, network, operating-system, programming/rust, programming/webassembly, raspberry-pi, storage

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   • https://artemis.sh/2022/03/28/oxide-hubris-on-pinetime.html
   • https://artemis.sh/2022/03/30/hubris-and-webassembly-high-level-emulation.html
   • https://artemis.sh/2022/06/14/oxide-crucible.html
10. What is the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp? 2022-02-02

    tags: linux, storage, tmp, unix

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
    • /tmp - Directory for temporary files. Often not preserved between system reboots and may be severely size-restricted.
    • /var/tmp - Temporary files to be preserved between reboots.
11. sccache - ccache with cloud storage 2021-10-11

    tags: compiler, compiler/cache, mozilla, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/rust, storage/cache

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    • https://blog.mozilla.org/ted/2016/11/21/sccache-mozillas-distributed-compiler-cache-now-written-in-rust/
12. Storing hashes: bcrypt, pbkdf2, sha256-crypt, sha512-crypt 2021-01-03

    tags: 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
13. Grafana Tempo | a high volume, minimal dependency trace storage 2020-12-21

    tags: observability, observability/grafana, observability/logging, observability/logging/grafana-loki, observability/tracing, observability/tracing/grafana-tempo, performance, programming/go

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    • https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/getting-started/
    • https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/configuration/
    • https://github.com/grafana/tempo
    • https://grafana.com/blog/2020/10/27/announcing-grafana-tempo-a-massively-scalable-distributed-tracing-system/
    • https://grafana.com/blog/2020/11/09/trace-discovery-in-grafana-tempo-using-prometheus-exemplars-loki-2.0-queries-and-more/
    • https://grafana.com/go/observabilitycon/observability-with-logs-grafana/
    • https://grafana.com/go/observabilitycon/tracing-made-simple-with-grafana/
    • https://gouthamve.dev/tempo-a-game-of-trade-offs/
14. Five Years of Btrfs | MarkMcB 2020-01-31

    tags: backup, btrfs, filesystem, filesystem/zfs, storage

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    • https://markmcb.com/2020/01/06/syncing-data-2011-vs-2020/
    • https://markmcb.com/2015/08/07/colorfully-manage-btrfs-snapshots/
15. Archiving URLs - Gwern.net 2020-01-09

    tags: archive, internet, knowledge, storage/cache, web

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16. 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
17. Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities 2019-09-11

    tags: database, distributed-system/cluster, observability, observability/time-series, observability/time-series/prometheus

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    • https://improbable.io/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale
    • https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos
    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uwoxPdTjSjvGaN1LJewZg1NXjeHfRtfvqh6LygLcayQ/edit#slide=id.g5f09eeda59_0_9
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWTNrGyWLQ
    • https://katacoda.com/bwplotka/courses/thanos
18. IKEA Hackers - Clever ideas and hacks for your IKEA 2019-07-20

    tags: furniture, hack, house, ikea

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    • https://www.ikeahackers.net/2018/10/home-office-furniture-kallax-hack.html
    • https://www.thehomestud.com/2018/10/20/ikea-kallax-into-office-storage/
    • https://www.ikeahackers.net/2018/11/ikea-poang-3-seat-sofa.html
    • https://www.ikeahackers.net/2010/11/the-dreaded-kids-train-table-with-a-new-twist.html
    • https://www.ikeahackers.net/2008/06/train-in-your-coffee-table.html
    • https://www.ikeahackers.net/2017/06/diy-hidden-cat-litter-station.html
19. How can I get the size of an Amazon S3 bucket? - Server Fault 2019-03-25

    tags: bucket, cloud-computing/aws, command-line, s3, storage

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20. amazon web services - AWS S3 Bucket name already exists - Server Fault 2019-02-25

    tags: cloud-computing/aws, fqdn, network/url, s3, storage

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    • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingBucket.html
    • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/BucketRestrictions.html
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/8axd8e/how_come_s3_bucket_names_are_globally_unique/