Interesting Snippets from 2017-12-24

• Swaks - Swiss Army Knife for SMTP

  Swaks is a featureful, flexible, scriptable, transaction-oriented SMTP test tool

• Frequently Asked Questions | TLD List

  TLD List is a complete listing and search engine of all delegated top-level domains. This includes old gTLDs, new gTLDs, ccTLDs, sTLDs, and any other type of TLD that's been entered into root DNS.

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Interesting Snippets from 2017-12-23

• tty-table

  Display yout data in a table using a terminal, browser, or browser console.

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : Falsehoods programmers believe about programming

  the bug isn’t in my code.

• Simon Says | Automatically transcribe your media.

  Simon Says applies speech recognition to your media files, transcribing it in a fraction of the usual time and cost. The transcripts are timecoded and timecode synced and can be logged, bookmarked, annotated, shared, edited, and exported to Word, Excel and your NLE software.

• GitHub - zhoubear/open-paperless: Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents

  Mayan EDMS is a wonderful product with a lot of features. However, its sheer number of features and capabilities can be a bit intimidating for the average user. This is where Open Paperless comes in. Open Paperless is a re-think of the user interface and user experience for Mayan EDMS. The goal is to reduce the complexity and make it more suitable for home users. Think of Open Paperless as a lightweight version of Mayan EDMS.

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Interesting Snippets from 2017-12-22

• Google Maps’s Moat

  Apple’s parks are missing their green shapes. But perhaps the biggest difference is the building footprints: Google seems to have them all, while Apple doesn’t have any. But it’s not just Apple—no one else seems to have them either

• Cypress.io Documentation | Why Cypress?

  Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web. We address the key pain points developers and QA engineers face when testing modern applications.

• RevK's rants: It's official, ADSL works over wet string

  It has always been said that ADSL will work over a bit of wet string. Well one of our techies (www.aa.net.uk) took it upon himself to try it today at the office, and well done.

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Interesting Snippets from 2017-12-12

• How Etsy caches: hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing - Code as Craft

  While consistent hashing is efficient there is a drawback to having each key exist on only one server. Different keys are used for different purposes, and certain cache items will be read and written more than others. In our experience, cache key read rates follow a power law distribution: a handful of keys are used for a majority of reads, while the majority of keys are read a small number of times. With a large number of keys and a large pool, a good hash function will distribute the “hot keys”—the most active keys—among many servers, smoothing out the load.

• The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance - Motherboard

  A straightforward guide to privacy, messaging, and keeping yourself safe from passive and active surveillance.

• GitHub - qubole/rubix: Cache File System optimized for columnar formats and object stores

  RubiX provides disk or in-memory caching of data, which would otherwise be accessed over network when it resides in cloud store, thereby improving performance.

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