Coding

Infojunk October 2018

This is a collection of interesting links and resources I came across in October 2018, covering a wide range of topics including browser extensions, collaborative coding, Linux, AWS, and more.

Browser Extensions

• I don’t care about cookies
• Imagus or HoverZoom+ to enlarge images on mouse over (don’t use HoverZoom since it’s a data hog).
• Amazon Infinite Scroll

Collaborative Coding

Focusing on IDEs. Web-based solutions are mostly ignored.

• Floobits - IntelliJ, SublimeText, Atom, vscode-plugin in the works
• CodeStream - the new and fancy one
• tmate - terminal sharing over tmux
• Visual Studio Live Share - Visual Studio Code
• AWS Cloud9 - coding for the cloud
• ScreenHero - h264 video streaming and now bought by Slack.io, lacking Linux support

Linux

• Use Chromium to have Hardware Acceleration in your YouTube Videos - don’t forget to install the h264ify browser extension to force h264 (Chrome chooses VP9 by default which is currently not accelerated).
• Touchpad Gestures for Gnome
• There are no GTK3 themes! Remove theming support?

NodeJS

• node-packer binary compiler

DevOps

• Next Generation Shell

AI/MachineLearning

• Google AI Blog

AWS

JmesPath is not as powerful as jq, but Amazon AWS probably chose it since it might be faster and the query-selectors are a bit more sophisticated (?).

Infojunk August 2018

This is a collection of interesting links and resources I came across in August 2018, covering topics like Linux, Apache, hardware, coding, Python, and math.

Linux

• remove-kernel-scripts @ StackOverflow
• Optimizing Linux for slow computers
• Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with a community-driven set of rules.

It’s about responsiveness - not about the best performance!

Apache

• Hue

Hardware

• Lenovo Firmware Upgrades now on LVFS

Coding

• Toy Benchmark for Java, Rust, Python, PHP, JavaScript
• Python3 Kurs (German)
• Law of Demeter
• Ada (programming language) - the first programming language
• Why Python does not have a switch-statement

Python

• Decorators
• Data Structures
• Collections
• Collections II
• PEP
• Multiprocessing Tutorial
• Non-Blocking stream reader
• Writing/Reading GZIP-files
• Async Subprocess
• Addict Python Lib
• Better Type Hinting
• dotmap
• Interactive python console
• Dynamically create stubs

Yes, a deep dive into Python. And I don’t like it. As well as PHP. Do Rust. Trust me!