The Stack - Week 21/2015

Android

• Android's 10 Millisecond Problem: The Android Audio Path Latency Explainer

AWS

• The future is now, and it's using AWS Lambda

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash

Books

• My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One

C-lang

• Nim binary size from 160 KB to 150 Bytes
• silentbicycle/greatest "A C unit testing library in 1 file"

Chat

• TidalLabs/Slacker - "Simple Slack client for the CLI"

Clojure

• Onyx: Distributed Computing in Clojure
• whamtet/Excel-REPL

CMS

• ChrisZieba/dodgercms

Elixir

• ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video] (HN)

Emacs

• Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil (HN)

Fonts

• nathco/Office-Code-Pro
• Crimson — aldusleaf.org

Game Development

• Reverse engineering Might and Magic III compression

Games

• My Abandonware - Download old PC games
• Cardboard Children – Forbidden Stars

Graphics

• A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

Hugo

• ryansb/hugo-lambda - "Use AWS Lambda to run the Hugo static site generator"

Java

• Java VM Options You Should Always Use in Production
• FunctionalExplained - guava-libraries - Functional idioms in Guava, explained

Lua

• ZeroBrane Lua IDE v1.00 released
• grafi-tt/lunajson - "A strict and fast JSON parser/decoder/encoder written in pure Lua."

Money

• How Hong Kong's subway turns a $2 billion annual profit
• paukiatwee/budgetapp

Movies

• Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies

Nixos

• My experience of using NixOps as an Ansible user

Python

• How to pip install NumPy in two seconds flat

Rust

• Rust traits for developer friendly libraries
• cybergeek94/kiss-ui
• 60sec Review: Rust Language

SSL

• The fastest, simplest way to get an EV SSL certificate

Varnish

• unixy/varnishtuner.py

WTF

• A Giant, Fake City in the Middle of the Desert