VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" 2023-12-20

   tags: embedded, game, graphics/3d, nintendo/nes

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   • Elite [disc] on the BBC Micro Games Archive
   • Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro and NES
   • Ian Bell's Elite Home Page
2. Practical Electronics Archive | Electronics Magazine from the UK starting in 1964 2023-06-05

   tags: diy, electronics, magazine

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   Practical Electronics began publication in the UK in December,1964 and was aimed at the experimenter and construction enthusiast.

   In November, 1992 Practical Electronics merged with Everyday Electronics to become Everyday Practical Electronics.

3. reMarkable 2 - 3rd-party accessories and homebrew software 2023-01-21

   tags: e-ink, e-reader, linux, network/ssh, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/go, user-interface/qt

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   Stylus:

   • https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/stylus
   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/remarkable-2-compatible-pens-remarkable-marker-alternatives/
   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/how-to-install-the-lamy-al-star-pen-button-eraser-hack-on-the-remarkable-2/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/nvtwt8/alternative_pen_which_is_compatible_with/

   Case:

   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/remarkable-2-folio-remarkable-case-alternative/

   Guides:

   • https://www.meganwalker.me.uk/2021/01/installing-remux-koreader-on-the-remarkable-2/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/lzuxti/experience_using_the_remarkable_2_as_a_linux/
   • https://www.simplykyra.com/category/remarkable/

   System:

   • https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/ssh
   • • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/10ymr95/til_you_can_request_that_rm_not_use_your_private/

   Usage:

   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jl3tue/is_anybody_else_having_trouble_turning_pages_on/

   Software:

   • https://eeems.website/toltec/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/aqfflg/xochitl_question/
   • https://github.com/reMarkable
   • https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
   • https://github.com/isaacwisdom/RemarkableLamyEraser
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer
   • https://github.com/ddvk/rmfakecloud
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-stylus
   • https://github.com/juruen/rmapi
   • https://rmkit.dev/apps/remux
   • https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter

   Articles:

   • https://rmkit.dev/eink-is-so-retropunk/
4. Technical Writing Style Guides 2020-08-16

   tags: documentation, manual, software, user

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   • https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
   • https://developers.google.com/style
   • https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
   • https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/University%20of%20Oxford%20Style%20Guide.pdf
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/
5. Terragen – a powerful solution for building, rendering, and animating realistic natural environments 2020-01-21

   tags: generation, graphics/2d, graphics/3d, image, render

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   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terragen
   • https://planetside.co.uk/wiki/
6. Coding Standards for pure C (not C++) - Stack Overflow 2019-11-07

   tags: guidelines, programming/c

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   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415452/object-orientation-in-c
   • https://sites.google.com/site/cinterfacesimplementations/
   • http://web.archive.org/web/20190125125043/http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-c-style.pdf
   • https://www.maultech.com/chrislott/resources/cstyle/
   • https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard
7. How to Make a CNC Turner's Cube: [ Creative CNC Project ] 2019-06-23

   tags: cnc, cube, metal

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   • https://www.instructables.com/id/Turners-Cube-Manual-Machine/
   • https://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-metalwork-discussion/52757-making-large-quot-turners-cubes-quot-engine.html
   • http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mrt102/other/workshop/turnerscube.html
8. Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres | Digital blog | Info | The Guardian 2018-12-21

   tags: cloud, cloud/aws, database, database/mongodb, database/postgresql, distributed-system/cluster, performance

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   • https://github.com/guardian/machine-images
   • https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2015/jul/01/heatwave-live-britain-hottest-day-2015
9. Making A Raspberry Pi Grafana Monitor - Muffin's Lab 2018-09-28

   tags: dashboard, observability, observability/grafana, raspberry-pi

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   • https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/92ll54/making_a_raspberry_pi_grafana_monitor_muffins_lab/
   • https://medium.com/@alexjv89/setting-up-a-dashboard-on-raspberry-pi-4e6e2e37ddbb
   • https://www.danpurdy.co.uk/web-development/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen-tutorial/
10. Golang UK Conference 2016 - Marcus Olsson - Building an enterprise service in Go 2018-09-20

    tags: development, domain-driven-design, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/marcusolsson/goddd
11. Playing Badass Acorn Archimedes Games on a Raspberry Pi | DXM Tech Support 2018-07-01

    tags: arm, computer, game, hardware/cpu, history, risc

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    • http://davetrott.co.uk/2017/03/strategy-is-sacrifice/
12. SHEDWORKS - Sable 2018-06-26

    tags: art, exploration, game, indie, moebius

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    Trailers:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFQhEY9udE

    Dev & Art Team:

    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksGreg
    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksDan
    • https://twitter.com/betterthemask
    • https://twitter.com/Jbrekkie
    • https://twitter.com/MartinKvale
    • https://twitter.com/MacchiatoLycan

    Media:

    • https://twitter.com/i/moments/971351000635314176
    • http://www.erictabuchi.net/filter/Photoworks/Architecture-d-entrainement

    Interviews:

    • http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/06/14/e3-2018-sable-is-an-unlikely-companion-to-breath-of-the-wild
    • https://www.pcgamer.com/sable-is-a-gorgeous-contemplative-exploration-game-made-by-two-friends-who-work-in-a-shed/
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxthielmeyer/2018/06/26/sable-developer-greg-kythreotis-talks-art-and-architecture-in-e3s-prettiest-game/#59af53bf358c
13. BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space 2018-06-17

    tags: audio, bbc, effect, sound

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    • https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc
    • http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/index
14. How To Choose an Effective Firewall Policy to Secure your Servers | DigitalOcean 2018-05-15

    tags: linux, network, network/firewall, policy, security, server

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    • http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Epeterb/network/drop-vs-reject
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22686/is-it-good-practice-to-manually-lock-down-ports-on-each-host
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22711/is-it-a-bad-idea-for-a-firewall-to-block-icmp/22713
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/84963/why-not-block-icmp/84981
15. High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work - BBC R&D 2018-05-04

    tags: linux, network, network/packet, performance, stream, video

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    • https://www.smpte.org/st-2110
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-10-streaming-video-on-10-gigabit-ethernet-and-beyond
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-05-ip-studio-at-the-uk-network-operators-forum
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/cloud-fit-production
16. Dnsmasq - network services for small networks. 2018-04-27

    tags: linux, network, network/dhcp, network/dns, network/ip

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    • http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
    • https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/dnsmasq
    • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq
    • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq
17. Pigpen cipher 2018-04-20

    tags: character, cipher, programming/python, text

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    • http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/pigpen-cipher.html
    • https://www.kidscodecs.com/pigpen-ciphers/
    • https://babelstone.blogspot.fr/2008/02/pigpen-and-fowl-fonts.html
    • http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Pigpen.html
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8dgvcq/turtle_pig_pen_cipher/
18. Oblique Strategies - Wikipedia 2018-02-21

    tags: art, card, challenge, creativity, deck, music

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    • http://productionadvice.co.uk/oblique-strategies/
    • http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-nireland/A635528
    • https://github.com/hermzz/fortunes-oblique-strategies
    • https://github.com/RobBlackwell/oblique-strategies-for-programmers
    • http://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/
    • http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/
    • http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acute.html
    • http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html
    • http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Stratigraphy.html
    • http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
    • https://twitter.com/gameaudiostrat
19. Who was responsible for leaking the Meltdown/Spectre story beforehand, and thus breaking the co-ordinated patched release planned for 9th-Jan between various vendors? 2018-01-08

    tags: hack, hardware, hardware/cpu, intel, linux, memory, security

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    • https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/
    • https://cyber.wtf/2018/01/05/behind-the-scene-of-a-bug-collision/
    • https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/
    • https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/
    • https://lwn.net/Articles/741882/
    • https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752
    • https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
20. High-pass Filter: Karplus-Strong guitar string synthesis with Pure Data 2017-10-03

    tags: karplus, multimedia/pure-data, string, synthesis, wavetable

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis

    • https://uk.mathworks.com/help/signal/examples/generating-guitar-chords-using-the-karplus-strong-algorithm.html?s_tid=gn_loc_drop

    • http://amid.fish/karplus-strong

    • https://github.com/mrahtz/javascript-karplus-strong

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqsTd1xZm8

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1rviedGvc

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RYy8Cvgkqk