The Stack - Week 44/2018

Admin

• aelsabbahy/goss - Quick and Easy server testing/validation

Algorithms

• Consistent Hashing: Algorithmic Tradeoffs
• Flocking

Audio

• lieff/minimp3 - Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library
• How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC

Badges/Defcon

• Breaking Badge - The DEFCON Crazy 8s

Bash

• Creating a bash completion script

Books

• mostly-adequate-guide - Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming

C++

• tcbrindle/raytracer.hpp - Simple compile-time raytracer using C++17

CI

• Finding a Continous Integration solution

Communication

• An Entirely Other Day: The World is UDP

Docs

• Writing Documentation When You Aren't A Technical Writer - Part Two

ESP8266

• gbafana25/esp8266_honeypot - THE ESP8266 HONEYPOT: A PROJECT TO TRAP SCRIPT KIDDIES EVERYWHRE!!

Fonts/Windows

• AMP Font Viewer - Complete font manager: view, organize, install, delete and print fonts lists

Fun

• Oh my god, please make this into an audio mod
• Slav pronouncing U.S. states

Game Development

• Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation 'Stardew Valley'
• Gamasutra: C Bel's Blog - 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae
• The game industry of Iran
• MaddTheSane/surreal - Reviving the original Unreal Tournament on modern systems

Games/Consoles

• The Weird History Of The Super NES CD-ROM

Games/History

• This Bootleg Game Changed Street Fighter History

GDB

• Beej's Quick Guide to GDB

Graphics

• Kostas Anagnostou on Twitter: "Someone at work asked me today where do I find all those presentations about graphics techniques and made me realise that it might not be so common knowledge to people just starting gfx programming. Thread of links."

History

• Soviet Tesla: Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago That Was Mass Produced
• The First Computers in East Africa –and what became of them
• Old Concept Cars – Image encyclopedia of old concept cars

IRC/Slack

• adsr/irslackd - A self-hosted IRC gateway to Slack

JavaScript

• gothinkster/realworld - "The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more 🏅

Markov

• The Markov Property, Chain, Reward Process and Decision Process

Math

• Quaternions
• What are quaternions, and how do you visualize them? A story of four dimensions.
• Understanding Quaternions3D Game Engine Programming

Python

• molten: modern API framework — molten 0.5.2 documentation
• PyQt5 tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

REST/HTTP

• API Debugging, Monitoring and Mocking tool

Rust

• Falling in love with Rust

Security

• Undetectable C# & C++ Reverse Shells

Travel

• Some reflections on my roadtrip across the western United States

Video/Peertube

• Getting Started with PeerTube

Writing

• ocean1/awesome-thesis - A curated list of practical tips and tricks to help you achieve an awesome CS master thesis

WTF

• Gifaanisqatsi
• The Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge
• iPhones are Allergic to Helium

XMPP

• conversejs/converse.js - Web-based XMPP/Jabber chat client written in JavaScript