VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Perforator - A cluster-wide continuous profiling tool designed for large data centers

   2025-06-09
   performance/profiling programming/c programming/c++ programming/python

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   • Perforator Documentation
   • Optimizing Native Applications with Perforator
   • Yandex’s High-Performance Profiler Is Now Open Source
   • Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
2. cli.club - Command-line Interface Tools and Alternatives

   2025-06-04
   command-line terminal

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3. xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit (Archived)

   2025-05-10
   command-line programming/csv programming/rust

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   Maintained forks:

   • dathere/qsv - Command-line data-wrangling toolkit with Lua scripting
   • medialab/xan - CSV processing tool with a built-in expression language
4. Admixfrog - A HMM to infer ancestry frogments (fragments) from low-coverage, contaminated data.

   2025-05-10
   ethnology genetics probability programming/c programming/c++ programming/python programming/r science statistics

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   • DReichLab/AdmixTools - Tools test whether admixture occurred and more
   • admixr (CRAN)
   • fgvieira/ngsDist - Estimation of pairwise distances under a probabilistic framework
   • ANGSD/NgsRelate - Infer relatedness and other summary statistics for pairs of individuals from low coverage Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
   • Science Direct - Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history
5. 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
6. Time Series Benchmark Suite - A tool for comparing and evaluating databases for time series data

   2025-03-30
   database database/postgresql observability/time-series observability/time-series/influxdb performance/benchmark programming/go programming/sql

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   • TSBS Documentation
7. The Heirloom Documentation Tools

   2025-02-26
   command-line documentation/man-page linux programming/c programming/html programming/postscript unix

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   • n-t-roff/heirloom-doctools
   • TYPSET and RUNOFF
     • roff
       • troff
       • nroff
       • groff
         • mandoc
8. xml2rfc - Generate RFCs and IETF drafts from document source in XML according to the IETF xml2rfc v2 and v3 vocabularies

   2025-02-16
   ietf/rfc internet programming/html programming/python programming/xml

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   • ietf-tools/xml2rfc
   • Xml2rfc Vocabulary Version 3 Schema
9. Mailpit - An email and SMTP testing tool with API for developers

   2025-01-22
   email framework/vue.js network/pop3 network/smtp programming/go

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   • axllent/mailpit
10. Packer & QEMU - Set SSH password dynamically during auto-install

    2025-01-21
    configuration-management/ansible linux/container/kubernetes network/ssh packer virtualization virtualization/qemu

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    • Packer - QEMU Integration
      • QEMU Builder - Optional SSH Fields
      • QEMU Builder - SSH Key Pair Automation
    • SSH password needs to be generated dynamically during auto-install
    • kubernetes-sigs/image-builder - Tools for building Kubernetes disk images
      • images/capi/packer/qemu
      • mages/capi/hack
      • image-ssh.sh
      • set-ssh-password.sh
11. cpufetch - Command-line tool to display CPU information

    2025-01-11
    command-line hardware/cpu programming/c

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12. dyff - Diff tool for YAML and JSON

    2025-01-09
    programming/go programming/json programming/yaml text/diff

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

    2024-11-30
    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
14. tio - A serial device I/O tool

    2024-11-24
    embedded programming/c serial-communication

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15. splatviz - Full python interactive 3D Gaussian Splatting viewer for real-time editing and analyzing

    2024-11-22
    image/2d programming/python user-interface/imgui

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    • splatviz - 3DGS visualization tool for live code editing
    • splatviz - Live Tracking and Editing during 3DGS Training
16. WebCola - Javascript constraint-based graph layout

    2024-11-22
    graph programming/c++ programming/javascript programming/typescript visualization

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    • cola.js - Constraint-Based Layout in the Browser
    • Adaptagrams - A library of tools and reusable code for adaptive diagramming applications
    • mjwybrow/adaptagrams
17. My Favorite Tools + Techniques for Procedural Gamedev

    2024-11-22
    game graphics/2d graphics/3d image/texture indie procedural-generation

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    • Implementing Depth Pre-Pass Optimization for Three.JS
18. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette

    2024-11-18
    color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff

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    • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
    • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
    • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
    • Differentiable Dithering
    • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
    • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
      • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
      • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
    • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
      • Dither Me This!
    • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

    Command-line dithering tools:

    • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
      • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

    Online dithering tools:

    • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
      • alexharris/ditherit-v2
    • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
    • Blue Noise in Futhark
      • Munksgaard/bluenoise
19. Recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

    2024-11-18
    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. Is pg_dump a Backup Tool?

    2024-11-03
    backup database/postgresql programming/sql

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    • Why pg_dump Is Amazing
    • EnterpriseDB/barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
    • pgbackrest/pgbackrest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore