VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. 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
2. 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
3. nanofont3x4 - World's smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase; includes all ASCII symbols 2024-03-21

   tags: text, text/font

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4. Super Metroid – FAQ/Speed Guide 2021-10-17

   tags: documentation, game, metroid, text

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     03. What program did you use to justify the text?
   
         None. I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the
         right hand side. Everything was done with an ASCII editor.
   

5. textfiles.com | a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange allowed them 2021-08-26

   tags: computer, history, internet, text/ascii

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   • http://ascii.textfiles.com/
   • http://textfiles.com/directory.html
6. Unix ASCII games | awesome-ttygames 2020-11-18

   tags: command-line, game, linux, terminal, text, text/ascii

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7. libtcod - A roguelike development library 2020-05-18

   tags: game, game/roguelike, programming/c++, programming/library, programming/python, terminal, text/ascii

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   • https://libtcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
   • https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
8. Double colon in LDIF 2019-06-19

   tags: base64, encoding, network/ldap, text, text/ascii

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9. terminal-parrot - :parrot: for your terminal 2019-04-02

   tags: command-line, fun, parrot, party, text/ascii

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   How can your life near any sense of completion without this? I wonder...

10. wttr.in: The right way to check the weather 2019-01-08

    tags: command-line, programming/api, programming/python, text/ascii, weather

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    • https://wttr.in/:help
    • https://github.com/schachmat/wego
    • https://github.com/Wildog/airline-weather.vim
11. ncurses-examples: Hidden gems | Inconsolation 2018-12-13

    tags: command-line, curses, terminal, text/ascii

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12. diagram: CLI app to convert ascii arts into hand drawn diagrams. 2018-10-22

    tags: command-line, diagram, programming/go, terminal, text/ascii

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13. I'm really bored at work : Python 2018-10-02

    tags: floppy, programming/python, tape, text/ascii

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    • https://github.com/flobbley/vintage_media
14. RFC 8140 - The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character 2017-04-06

    tags: april, ietf, ietf/rfc, text/ascii

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15. WeatherSpect 2017-02-21

    tags: command-line, text/ascii, weather

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16. thiderman/doge: wow very terminal doge 2017-02-13

    tags: command-line, doge, meme, programming/python, terminal, text/ascii, wtf

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    MUCH TERMINAL! SUCCESS! SO VERY ASCII!

17. Welcome to asciimatics’s documentation! 2017-01-23

    tags: curses, programming/python, terminal, text/ascii

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    https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

18. PlantUML 2016-11-21

    tags: class, diagram, editor/vim, graphviz, plantuml, software-engineering/uml, text

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    • https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml

    Diagrams:

    • http://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
    • http://plantuml.com/state-diagram
    • http://plantuml.com/use-case-diagram

    Options:

    • http://plantuml.com/skinparam
    • http://plantuml.com/ascii-art
19. ditaa | DIagrams Through Ascii Art 2016-11-21

    tags: art, diagram, plain, programming/html, text, text/ascii

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    via http://home.fnal.gov/~neilsen/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html

20. ASCII Breakout 2015-07-14

    tags: breakout, fun, game, text/ascii, web

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