The Stack - Week 21/2016

Back from the dead with a bigger list.

Architecture

• Subterranea Britannica

ASCII

• Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery

Audio

• The Dark Art of Mastering Music

Books

• aosabook/500lines: 500 Lines or Less

• The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages

Compilers

• Let's Build a Compiler

CSS

• timcreative/paper-dashboard: A Bootstrap Admin Panel
• marmelab/universal.css: The only CSS you will ever need

Data

• One Chart, Twelve Charting Libraries

Development

• Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

E-Mail

• RainLoop Webmail

Elixir

• The Elixir of concurrency

Emacs

• Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!

Filesystems

• ipfs/ipfs: IPFS - The Permanent Web

Fonts

• mononoki
• Programming fonts

Game Development

• Dungeon Generation · Vasuman

Games

• Generation Nintendo The Digital Antiquarian
• WoW: Classic Speedrun Level 1 to 60 (Patch 1.10, 2006)

Geography

• Null Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History

• How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru
• How Harry Brearley’s Stubborn Insistence Gave Us Knives That Don’t Rust
• Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown: Britain’s most incredible test pilot

HTTP

• My URL isn’t your URL
• Calling your web API "RESTful"? You're doing it wrong.
• What is REST?
• fanout/pushpin: Reverse proxy for realtime web services

Instant Messaging

• Ruma - Matrix.org components written in Rust.

Java

• Bootique: Minimally Opinionated Framework for Runnable Java

JavaScript

• Duktape

Keyboards

• Typing with pleasure

Languages

• Esperanto: the language that never was | Prospect Magazine
• farewell-to-frp

Lisp

• A Personal Lisp Crisis

Make

• torrez/grampa: Grampa is a blog generator using make and awk.

Microservices

• Game On!

Movies

• Sunk — The Atavist Magazine

Neural Networks

• jrusev/simple-neural-networks: Simple Neural Networks

Nix

• Nix as OS X Package Manager

OSDev

• Harvey OS

Postgres

• rach/pome: A Postgres Metrics Dashboard

Powershell

• PowerShell and external commands done right

Programming

• Map, Reduce and other Higher Order Functions

Python

• Packaging a Simple Python Script with PEX

Regex

• Eigenstate :: Implementing A Simple Regex Debugger

Scheme

• Microscheme

Science

• How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods?

Security

• The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
• HowTo: Privacy & Security Conscious Browsing

Serverless

• A reactive serverless cms for the technology blog

Shell

• michaelmacinnis/oh: A surprisingly powerful Unix shell

SSH

• SSH for Fun and Profit

SSL

• JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard: Dashboard for ssl certificates

Travel

• Antarctica Voyages, cruises and expeditions

Windows

• cmder | Console Emulator
• Untrusting the Blue Coat Intermediate CA from Windows

Window managers

• I wrote a Lua programmable display-server++ [arcan], a desktop environment [durden] and a nifty debugging/reversing tool [senseye]

WTF

• For World’s Newest Scrabble Stars, SHORT Tops SHORTER
• Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision
• What is Duckietown?
• Japanese log riding is one crazy spectacle