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dataflow
Hydro - Build Software for Every Scale ; via HN The Hydro Project at UC Berkeley is developing cloud-native programming models that allow anyone to develop…
emulation
jart/blink: tiniest x86-64-linux emulator -- blink is a virtual machine that runs x86-64-linux programs on different operating systems and hardware…
100-page-book
There is a niche for "small"ish books of about 100 pages that can be useful for survey books "what is there to know about X" "what's new in X since Y…
sideproject
An educational side project -- article by Gergely Orosz Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley Why I prefer making useless stuff…
Jupyter
Do not misuse Jupyter, understand the limitations -- "Notebooks are McDonalds of Code." Books Teaching and Learning with Jupyter An open book about Jupyter and…
serverless
what is a common name for online services like stackblitz, vercel, railway.app, fly.io ? ( per ChatGPT4) Online services like stackblitz, vercel, Railway.app…
openpolicyagent
Home Page: Open Policy Agent Policy-based control for cloud native environments. Flexible, fine-grained control for administrators across the stack use OPA to…
groff
Writing my PhD using groff by Joshua Stutter has detailed comparison of various typesetting tools like pdflatex lualatex xelatex latexmk tectonic context…
utm
UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and…
leo
Paul Snively described it as: If you think of it as "an outliner front-end for noweb," I think that captures 80% of it. Leo editor running on @nixosorg on…
dns
Learn Learning Center — NsLookup.io -- set of articles on DNS, record types, email & dns, domain names, operations, security and command line tools (nslookup)…
mojo
Mojo Homepage: Jeremy Howard demo for Mojo launch - YouTube fast.ai - Mojo may be the biggest programming advance in decades metaobject blog: Mojo is a much…
transformers
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story | WIRED ¶ Transformers from Scratch Transformers were introduced in this 2017 paper as a tool…
Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a company that focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) research. They are best known for their…
LangChainAI
LangChainAI, is a framework (python library, and also javascript), for developing application powered by llm. Be data-aware: connect a language model to other…
macOS
macOS Internals Advanced macOS Commands - saurabhs.org. The suprising one was sips (image manipulation); pbcopy and pbpaste are the ones I use most often…
upstash
Upstash: Serverless Data for Redis® and Kafka®
kafka
Articles The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction | LinkedIn Engineering; the origins. Gently Down the…
typesense
Typesense is a modern, privacy-friendly, open source search engine built from the ground up using cutting-edge search algorithms, that take advantage of the…
elasticsearch
See typesense as C++ implemented alternative to elasticsearch and algolia (and some claims of it being a candidate for use as vector-databases) Story about…
Internal Tools
Some internal-tool options | Tool | website | Code | Deployment | Notes | | ----------- | ----------------------------- |…
icons
Heroicons -- Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS. Can copy icons in SVG or JSX format. Phosphor Icons -- is a flexible icon family…
roapi
roapi/roapi: Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code. -- ROAPI automatically spins up read-only APIs for…
graphql
Don't use GraphQL -- Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL; May 2024, via Introduction Describe your data: Ask for what you want: Get predictable results: Tools…
watchfiles
Watchfiles is a file watching and code reload in python, written in rust. Usage: Also supports async via awatch: Alternatives entr
Apache Arrow
Apache Arrow Project: Sub Projects Apache Arrow Ballista — Arrow DataFusion documentation -- "Although Ballista is largely inspired by Apache Spark, there are…
Traveling
USA Southwest Going to Grand Canyon? Take the Grand Canyon Train; via. California Southern California Beyond the Freeway (NYT) There’s history around every…
Processing
Home page: Processing.org The Nature of Code (A CC by NC licensed #book) uses processing. an online resource and print book exploring the unpredictable…
Phone Formatted Books
Phone formatted PDFs are a great option to provide reading material and courses in. The Little Book of Deep Learning is where I first encountered "Phone…
htmx
Home page -- htmx - high power tools for html Papers [@10.1145/3648188.3675127]; PDF Articles The philosophy behind htmx and hyperview and hyperscript…
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