VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. baskervaldx – Extension and modification of BaskervaldADF with LaTeX support 2025-01-27

   tags: programming/latex, text/font

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   • BaskervilleF and Baskervaldx
   • Font Catalogue - Baskervald X
   • baskervaldadf – Baskervald ADF fonts collection with TeX/LaTeX support
2. Antora - The documentation site generator for tech writers who love writing in AsciiDoc 2025-01-22

   tags: documentation, programming/asciidoc, programming/node.js, programming/ruby, text

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   • antora/antora
   • asciidoctor/asciidoctor
   • Static Site Generators with AsciiDoc Support
3. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, documentary, game/interactive-fiction, history

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4. dyff - Diff tool for YAML and JSON 2025-01-09

   tags: programming/go, programming/json, programming/yaml, text/diff

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5. Go - Truncate strings with special characters without corrupting data 2025-01-05

   tags: programming/go, text/unicode

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   • Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
   • x/exp/utf8string - Index strings by rune rather than by byte
   • How can I elliptically truncate text in golang?
   • Why can the Go string type contain invalid UTF-8 data?
6. Hex Display: A modern xxd alternative 2024-12-30

   tags: command-line, hexadecimal, programming/rust, text/unicode

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7. Lychee - Finds broken hyperlinks and mail addresses inside Markdown, HTML, reStructuredText, or any other text file or website! 2024-12-21

   tags: command-line, network/url, programming/markdown, programming/rust, web

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   • lycheeverse/lychee-action - Github action to check for broken links in Markdown, HTML, and text files
8. 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)
9. pytextrank - Python implementation of TextRank algorithms ("textgraphs") for phrase extraction 2024-12-04

   tags: natural-language-processing, programming/python, text

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10. Model Context Protocol (MCP) - An open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools 2024-11-30

    tags: editor, network/http, network/json-rpc, neural-network/large-language-model, programming/json, text

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    • Anthropic - Introducing the Model Context Protocol
    • modelcontextprotocol repositories
11. Text normalization in Go 2024-11-28

    tags: ietf/rfc, programming/go, text/ascii, text/unicode

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    Standard library:

    • unicode - Data and functions to test some properties of Unicode code points

    Extra libraries:

    • golang.org/x/text - Supplementary Go packages for text processing, many involving Unicode
    • golang.org/x/text/runes - Tansforms for UTF-8 encoded text
    • golang.org/x/text/transform - Reader and writer wrappers that transform the bytes passing through
    • golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm - Types and functions for normalizing Unicode strings
    • golang.org/x/text/unicode - Building blocks for other packages in golang.org/x/text

    Third-party libraries:

    • anyascii/go - Converts Unicode characters to their best ASCII representation

    RFCs:

    • RFC 8264 - PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
    • RFC 8265 - PRECIS for Usernames and Passwords
    • RFC 8266 - PRECIS for Nicknames

    Resources:

    • Unicode - General Category Property
    • Diacritic
    • Unicode Equivalence
    • Unicode Equivalence - Normal Forms
    • When to use Unicode Normalization Forms NFC and NFD?
    • Remove diacritics using Go
12. Automatic Summarization 2024-11-27

    tags: natural-language-processing, programming/python, programming/r, text

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    • TextRank: Bringing Order into Texts (PDF)
    • TextRank example for summarizing text with R
    • TextRank example for text summarization with Python, Numpy, Pandas, NLTK and Networkx
13. CSS Tricks - Truncate String with Ellipsis 2024-11-23

    tags: programming/css, text

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14. paperless-ngx - Open-Source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive 2024-11-22

    tags: django, document/pdf, email, image/optical-character-recognition, microsoft/office, programming/python, programming/typescript, self-hosting, text

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    • paperless-ngx Documentation
15. How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust 2024-11-19

    tags: programming/rust, text/font

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    • Design School: Type - A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
    • itchio/butler
    • ChevyRay on itch.io
16. The Annotated Hacker Test | For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer. 2024-11-19

    tags: computer, hardware/cpu, hardware/ram, history, nerd, programming/assembly, programming/c, programming/pascal, unix

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    • Original plain text version from 1989
    • Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (see: THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT)
17. Glyphs - Font Editor 2024-11-18

    tags: text/font, text/glyph

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    • Learn | Glyphs
18. Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting | GlyphDrawing.Club 2024-11-18

    tags: programming, text/font, text/glyph

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    • CSS Tricks - Creating an Editable Textarea That Supports Syntax-Highlighted Code
    • Creating a Micro­soft color font (CPAL/‌COLR)
    • Advanced contextual alternates
    • hlotvonen/FontWithASyntaxHighlighter
    • googlefonts/fontmake
19. Recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots 2024-11-18

    tags: image/optical-character-recognition, programming/python, programming/typescript, security/obfuscation, security/password

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    • On the (In)effectiveness of Mosaicing and Blurring as Tools for Document Redaction
    • Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text
    • spipm/Depix
    • JonasSchatz/DepixHMM
    • BishopFox/unredacter
20. BBS - The Documentary 2024-11-10

    tags: bulletin-board-system, community, diy, documentary, electronics, forum, history, internet, text/ascii

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    The BBS Documentary Video Collection is a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of TEXTFILES.COM. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that).

    • The Full BBS Documentary Interviews are Going Online
    • BBS: The Documentary Archive
    • FidoNet
    • FidoNews Volume 6, Number 19 - 8 May 1989