The Stack - Week 08/2017

Alcohol

• Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze

Architecture

• How to Build a Medieval Castle (2016) (HN)

Art

• Simon Stålenhag Art Gallery

Books

• Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project? (HN)

Compilers/Rust

• brson/annotated-std-rs@e50c2b1

Design

• Hero Patterns | Free repeatable SVG background patterns for your web projects

Editors

• The Craft of Text Editing (1999) (HN)

Engineering/Youtube

• engineerguy

Game Development

• Shar: One year with Rust. : rust_gamedev
• Chronicles of the Development of a Multiplayer Game: Part 1

History

• Winamp2-js

HTTP

• A new security header: Referrer Policy
• asciimoo/wuzz: Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection

Java

• Java libraries you can't miss in 2017

Linux/Desktop

• Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X — Part 2

Lua

• yuin/gopher-lua: GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

Mac

• herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line: Use your OS X terminal shell to do awesome things.

Magic: The Gathering

• Playing Your Pet: Rough-Testing A Magic Deck

Music

• A 10-Hour Playlist of Music Inspired by Robert Moog’s Iconic Synthesizer

Notebook/Hardware

• The complete list of laptops with Nvidia GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics

Oauth

• hypebeast/micro-auth: A microservice that makes adding authentication with Google and Github to your application easy.

Python

• alexkey/cookiecutter-lux-python: Cookiecutter Python project template for the ages

Rust

• How copying an int made my code 11 times faster
• A simple Rust GUI with QML

Security

• USB Dongle Auth List

Software/Passwords

• KeePassXC Password Manager

Survival

• Making stuff from scratch in the wild

Technology/Travel

• How travel tech evolved over three decades during my three trips to Russia

Web

• Annotation is now a web standard

Wayland

• Drakulix/fireplace: Modular wayland window manager written in rust

WTF

• PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain
• Jeremy Hinegardner on Twitter: "“@airbus wants us to support SQLite for the life of the A350 Airframe“ — @DRichardHipp https://t.co/vrivyaV4I9"
• Why Does This Comic Book Hero Appear On So Many New Guinea War Shields?