The Stack - Week 06/2015

A bit of cheating here. As I had this horribly long winter break I'm now retroactively posting something with a date in the past. That's how I roll.

ASCII/Diagrams

• knsv/mermaid

AWS

• AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

Books

• Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2014

Clojure

• Partition with Game of Thrones Pugs - Squid's Blog
• venantius/ultra

Emacs

• syl20bnr/spacemacs

Fonts

• BLOKK font

Game Development

• Algorithm for dynamically calculating a level based on experience points?
• Only a Game: Mathematics of XP
• The 3D Realms Vault: 1994 Design Tips from Tom Hall - Part 1
• Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator

Games

• Comparison between Los Angeles and Los Santos. - Imgur

Git

• takezoe/gitbucket

Hardware

• The world’s slowest Linux PC

History

• Airport Codes: A history and explanation of airport ABCs

HTTP

• Lunatech Blog: What every web developer must know about URL encoding

Lisp

• froggey/Mezzano
• AeroNotix/lispkit
• (lisp (flavored (erlang)))

Lua

• Lua Toolbox
• somesocks/lua-lockbox
• wizzard0/js2lua

Markov

• rickhull/loremarkov

Mirage

• Local MirageOS development with Xen and Virtualbox

Monitoring

• Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud
• Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform

Movies

• Animated Version of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Made of 12,597 Watercolor Paintings
• The rise of the hashgag

MQ

• Comparing Message Queue Architectures on AWS

Network

• clumsy, an utility for simulating broken network for Windows Vista / Windows 7 and above
• tylertreat/Comcast

Nginx

• Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices

Nixos

• NIXAID.COM - Linux/UNIX engineers blog

Papers

• How to fold the world-record-setting paper airplane "Suzanne"

Photography

• Gotham 7.5K by Vincent Laforet (Storehouse)

Postgres

• pgcli

Python

• setup.py vs requirements.txt

Python/PEX

• pex documentation

• µtemplate, a PEX tool for Docker

RaspberryPi

• WiringPi

RethinkDB

• Pastie using RethinkDB and Sinatra - RethinkDB

RPG

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Reference Document

Rust

• Rust for Clojurists

Science

• It’s impossible to melt a Cadbury Flake

Security

• Cipherli.st - Strong Ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd

Shell

• Tutorial - Write a Shell in C

SSH

• Signing in to websites with SSH
• Secure Secure Shell

Star Wars

• The Tides of Lust

Wallpapers

• Psiu Puxa Wallpapers

Window Managers

• Kintaro/wtftw