The Stack - Week 05/2016

Algorithms

• How to Write a Spelling Corrector

Ansible

• Immutable Infrastructure with AWS and Ansible – Part 2

Audio

• Theremins.club

Browsers

• What’s in a web browser

BSD/Minix

• A Reimplementation of NetBSD Using a Microkernel

C/Windows

• tom-seddon/kbswitch: Quickly switch keyboard input layouts globally in Windows.
• Small, Freestanding Windows Executables

Comics

• Die Suche im Comic III: Lost in the Andes von Carl Barks

Cuba

• anarcat/blog/Internet in Cuba

Data

• caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets: An awesome list of high-quality open datasets in public domains (on-going).

DNS

• Overriding DNS for fun and profit
• Hello Internet! – BlaBlaDNS Blog

Docs

• Zest Documentation Browser

Emacs

• Why Spacemacs?

Fonts

• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

Game Development

• The game industry of South Africa
• Roguelike Tilesets

Games

• Commandos - Behind Enemy Lines - HTML5 v0.1.2.b
• ZType – Typing Game - Type to Shoot

Gopher/Www

• Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

History

• A History of the World in 100 Objects

IRC

• IRCv3 | IRCCloud Blog

JavaScript

• bevacqua/dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts

Keyboards

• Is France's unloved AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?

Languages

• "Screw it, I'll make my own!" - The story of a new programming language

Letsencrypt

• Playing with Letsencrypt

Lisp

• cl21/cl21: Common Lisp in the 21st Century.

Lua

• Amulet
• Continuous Integration with Lua

MySQL

• How To Speed Up MySQL Restart (hint: just like before, but this time for real)

Product

• What being a PM is really like

Regex

• How I fixed Atom

Rust

• What one must understand to be productive with Rust
• intellij-rust/intellij-rust: Rust IDE built using the IntelliJ Platform
• carols10cents/rustlings: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
• Rust for Web

Software/Windows

• Monosnap - Free Screenshot Tool
• ShareX - Take screenshots or screencasts, annotate, upload and share URL in clipboard

Speaking/Conference

• An open letter to conference organizers

Technology

• The Useless Agony of Going Offline

Time

• Timezone updates need to be fixed

Transpiler

• The communication of algorithms

WTF

• Zoomquilt
• HOWTO: Animated .gif as a background