Mixed topics #
- Collecting Seashells. A parable on quality, selection, and curation. The third and fourth collectors get the best results, but what about the dozens of good results that are discarded?
- Am I Being Careful Enough? - Glock Talk Legendary archived thread about the infamous mall ninja cop. If you read just one thing from this list, this should be it. Btw: Support the Internet Archive at all costs!
- NASA's Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation
- Amazon and the Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance'
- This persons dad's resume and skills from 1980
- Pay to PK Riot - RuneScape One of the first big riots or demonstrations that took place in a virtual world.
- Legendary Film Critic Serge Daney on Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now'
- Tuna
- Fujimoto's Five Books are now Public Domain - Origami by Michał Kosmulski. If you ever want to learn about origami these are excellent.
- The Curious Case of Norway's Disturbing Demon Wall
- Selected reviews of the Repro-Pro Artificial Womb
- Social Engineering dos and don'ts
- Retro Soviet TV Commercials from the '80s
- Some People Are Mosquito Magnets, and They're Stuck That Way
- Tristan Behrens - great channel on generative music
- EVIL MARIO'S AWSUM WEbSITE. A random neocities I came upon.
Imagen #
- The Illustrated Stable Diffusion – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.
- Art Generation Application.
- Create tiles with SD
- oxysoft/stable-diffusion-webui. Another SD UI, I did not try out this one.
- nitrosocke/Arcane-Diffusion
- List of Online Services · AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui Wiki
- EbSynth - Transform Video by Painting Over a Single Frame
- JingyunLiang/SwinIR: SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer
- TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion: fast-stable-diffusion, +25-50% speed increase + memory efficient + DreamBooth
- Synaptic. A service for using SD online and also training Dreambooth models. Will try out the model training soon, if it goes well I will report more about it.
- An interesting photo collection of retro personal computer ads from the 1980s - Rare Historical Photos. I want a Dreambooth trained on these!
Developer articles #
- Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages - (or any static file hoster)
- Shell Script Best Practices
- HTML Tips
- Our computer security problems are our own fault
- Divs are bad!
- Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour
- How to Build a Personal Webpage from Scratch
- Cool desktops don't change
- Grids Part 1: To grid or not to grid
- Gaming CS Interviews
- Sysdig TRT uncovers massive crypto mining operation leveraging GitHub Actions
- Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper
- How to create a confetti effect in CSS - LogRocket Blog
- age and Authenticated Encryption
- There is no character limit for "alt text": Myth Debunked!
Developer tools #
Have not tried any of these, saved them for future reference. The JSON visualization and Pocketbase seem particularly useful. The photo colorization and video transcription work well.
- Visualize JSON data instantly into graphs; paste, import or fetch!
- Pocketbase - OSS SQLite-based backend
- A tool for creating a repository of transcribed videos
- Palette - Colorize Photos
- CSS Dig
- 98.css, a design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
- Step CI
- Javascript Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries
- Restfox – Open source alternative to Postman
- Supademo - Interactive Product Demos
- Outstatic - A Static Site CMS for Next.js
- PhotoSwipe
- Text generator plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3
- AI Website Builder
Developer lists #
- Free Heroku Alternatives
- Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 Results