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1. 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?
2. gittuf - A security layer for Git, with key management and permissions for branches and tags 2024-05-13

   tags: automotive, embedded, security, source-code-management/git, trust

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   • gittuf/gittuf
   • ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity
   • OpenSSF - Introducing gittuf: A Security Layer for Git Repositories
   • LWN - Securing Git repositories with gittuf
   • TUF - The Update Framework
   • Uptane - A Secure Software Update Framework for Automobiles
3. BASIC Computer Games 2023-12-17

   tags: game, programming/basic

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   An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages

   • coding-horror/basic-computer-games
4. Live preview of LaTeX documents with Zathura and Neovim 2023-10-22

   tags: editor/neovim, pdf, programming/latex

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   • ahrm/sioyek - a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
   • frabjous/knap - Neovim plugin for creating live-updating-as-you-type previews of LaTeX, markdown, and other files
5. jackc/pgx - PostgreSQL Driver and Toolkit 2023-07-04

   tags: concurrency, database/postgresql, programming/go

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   • Getting started with pgx
   • https://donchev.is/post/working-with-postgresql-in-go-using-pgx/
   • jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype - Map between all common base types directly between Go and PostgreSQL
   • jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool - Concurrency-safe connection pool for pgx
   • scany/v2/pgxscan - Scan data into Go structs and other composite types
   • Bulk INSERT in Postgres in GO using pgx
   • Postgres table batch updates using golang pgxpool not reflected in database
   • pgx.Conn can see uncommitted changes made from a pgx.Tx - TL;DR use pgxpool for concurrency-safe transactions
   • Not clear if caller is required to close in case of QueryRow or if QueryRow properly closes in case of error
6. WebAuthn - An API for accessing Public Key Credentials 2023-06-11

   tags: cryptography/public-key-infrastructure, internet/browser, security/authentication

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   The Web Authentication API (also known as WebAuthn) is a specification written by the W3C and FIDO, with the participation of Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yubico, and others. The API allows servers to register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of a password.

   • Guide to Web Authentication
   • Asynchronous Remote Key Generation: An Analysis of Yubico’s Proposal for W3C WebAuthn [PDF]
   • Issue 664630: Web Authentication API for Chrome
   • Bugzilla - [meta] Update WebAuthn JS API to the L1-REC spec
   • keepassxc#1870 - Feature Request: Integration with the Web Authentication API
7. Mutagen Extension for Docker Desktop 2023-01-07

   tags: apple/macos, linux/container/docker, virtualization

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   Create synchronized caches of macOS and Windows filesystem contents in ext4 volumes inside the Docker Desktop VM

   • https://ddev.com/ddev-local/ddev-docker-desktop-and-colima-benchmarking-updated-dec-2022/
8. tortoise-tts: A multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on quality 2022-05-31

   tags: machine-learning, programming/python, text-to-speech, voice

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   • https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html
   • https://nonint.com/2022/04/25/tortoise-architectural-design-doc/
   • https://nonint.com/2022/03/10/tortoise-tts-update/
9. Live Looping with Bitwig Studio on Linux 2020-02-29

   tags: audio, bitwig, digital-audio-workstation, linux, loop

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   • https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=530584
   • https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=530584&start=15
   • https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=515018
   • https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=268&t=534459
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHVoygoMuIs
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DomZafMSfE0
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8iaFdS4B8
   • https://github.com/solinas3000/Looper4BitwigScript
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/bnjcp5/looper_preset_for_bitwig_3/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/bup7f0/updated_looper_fx_preset_now_support_dynamic/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/bahmdh/advice_turn_bitwig_into_a_jamming_daw/
10. Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software – Sourcetrail Developer Blog 2019-11-22

    tags: compiler, development, dynamic-analysis, source-code-management, static-analysis, visualization

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    • https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/why_working_on_chrom_made_me_develop_a_tool_for_reading_source_code/
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/media/prototype_one/
    • https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/media/prototype_two/
    • https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/02/Profiling-Long-Paint-Times-with-DevTools-Continuous-Painting-Mode
11. James Gurney 2019-09-02

    tags: art, dinosaur, fantasy, paint, painting

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    • https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-08-24T09:11:00-04:00&max-results=10
    • https://www.instagram.com/jamesgurneyart/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia
12. casync — A tool for distributing file system images 2019-07-10

    tags: archive, binary, diff, embedded, operating-system, over-the-air, update

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    • https://github.com/systemd/casync
    • https://moinakg.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/high-performance-content-defined-chunking/
13. plugin you complete me - What's the correct way to install YouComplete using vim-plug in vim/nvim? - Vi and Vim Stack Exchange 2019-01-03

    tags: completion, editor, editor/vim

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    • https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/1751
    • https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug#post-update-hooks
14. How to setup a Docker Monitoring Prometheus stack 2018-09-20

    tags: linux/container/docker, observability, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/prometheus

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    • https://github.com/vegasbrianc/prometheus
    • https://www.brianchristner.io/updated-docker-monitoring-prometheus-grafana/
    • https://grafana.com/dashboards/179
15. https - How to run Gitlab in docker container with nginx-proxy over ssl with letsencrypt securely - Stack Overflow 2018-06-11

    tags: linux/container/docker, network/http, network/http-server/nginx, network/proxy, network/transport-layer-security, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/gitlab

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    Container setup:

    • https://gist.github.com/netdesk/c1db2985b542f9916995139318e5a7ce
    • https://hub.docker.com/r/jwilder/nginx-proxy/
    • https://hub.docker.com/r/jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion/

    Gitlab settings:

    • https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/
    • https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/environment_variables.html
    • https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/ssl.html
    • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/files/gitlab-config-template/gitlab.rb.template

    Performance considerations:

    • https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/memory_constrained_envs.html (skip the cgroups section for Gitaly as we are already running in a container)
    • https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/#gitaly-omnibus-gitlab-configuration-structure-change for Gitlab 16 changes to Gitaly configuration
16. networking - Network interface name changes after update to 15.10 - udev changes - Ask Ubuntu 2018-05-16

    tags: ethernet, linux, network

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17. Can't run on Desktop: cannot find class com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationListener · Issue #4855 · libgdx/libgdx · GitHub 2018-03-04

    tags: libgdx, mobile/android, programming/java, programming/java/gradle

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    • http://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27116
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46947873/libgdx-doesnt-working-after-updating-gradle-android-studio-3-0
18. fwupd: Updating Firmware in Linux 2017-08-21

    tags: firmware, hardware, linux

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19. CentOS 7.0 - man page for update-ca-trust (centos section 8) - Unix & Linux Commands 2017-06-30

    tags: cryptography/certificate, linux, linux/centos, linux/red-hat, network/transport-layer-security

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20. Autotools - A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool (article series) 2017-04-27

    tags: autotools, build, linux, microsoft/windows, programming/c, programming/c++, system

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    Updated published book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272067.do