Bookmarks 20160216

Various public datasets

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets


I <3 postgresql
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/228-PostgreSQL-Array-The-ANY-and-Contains-trick.html


Shocked I missed this - arbitrary linkage to IFTTT with the Maker Channel:

http://blog.ifttt.com/post/121786069098/introducing-the-maker-channel

Bookmarks for 20140313

Thursday is an exciting day. I'll tell you all why soon. Work is busy, things are progressing and I saw a cracking gig last night - Hollie McNish supported by Sabrina Mahfouz - awesome awesome awesome spoken-word poetry at Bush Hall. After the gig I popped in for a quick beer at my neighbouring bar and ended up on a call to technical support for half an hour to try and fix their card machine, which didn't get fixed but at least I got a free beer out of it. I then woke up with a headache this morning and I'm blaming the card machine.

Good article on thinking about appropriate data structures in Redis.

https://matt.sh/thinking-in-redis-part-one

StreamTools by the New York Times R&D Lab.
https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-streamtools/

Steve Jackson's Sorcery! A Fighting Fantasy RPG brought to Android and iOS. However, I'm biased so here's just the Android link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkle.sorcery1

I've been on a massive reading binge recently, here's a couple of highlights:

Red Phone Box: A Darkly Magical Story Cycle, by Salomé Jones, Warren Ellis, et al. This was quite a ride through London... Every London.

Gun Machine, by Warren Ellis. This is the detective novel I've been waiting for. Also some of my favourite writing I've come across for a while. An unsettling case that spreads across 20 years and all of Manhattan.

Bookmarks for 20140226

The careful arrangement of strings, bells, lenses and mirrors I employ to wake me at the appointed time definitely did not work this morning. However, it's a sunny day so here's some bookmarks.

Data modelling with MongoDB (general topic as I've been busy with re-writing bits of Xizi just recently):

http://mongolab.org/topic/?data

Warren Ellis has a new, epic looking graphic novel out (shortly), TREES:

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=15103

Some Kickstarters of note that I've backed recently:

TimeWatch - Gumshoe and Time Travel RPG thingummy that did ridiculously well:

"You've got a time machine, high-powered weapons and a whole lot of history to save. Welcome to TimeWatch!"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinkulp/timewatch-gumshoe-investigative-time-travel-rpg

Project: Dark - A stealth-based tabletop RPG that sounds amazing and that also smashed its funding goal:

"Play fantastic thieves in a fantastical city in this new stealth-adventure tabletop roleplaying game."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordstudio/project-dark

Hello Ruby - A delightful, almost perfect children's book that teaches kids the basics of programming. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

"Hello Ruby is a children’s book that teaches programming fundamentals through stories and kid-friendly activities."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby

Coffee, Cake and Kisses - Fundraising for the new iteration of the Coffee, Cake and Kink space. Not totally sure about the new name but I understand why they've had to do it; their heart is in the right place and I hope they make it:

"A relationships-focused social design space. Tease your taste buds & stimulate your senses in the place that makes you go mmm."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coffeecakeandkisses/coffee-cake-and-kisses

Also: I've been listening to The Black Keys entire discography for about 5 days now. It helps.

END OF LINE.

Bookmarks for 20130922

Ello. Not done one of these in a while. Here's the shit.

Incredible illustrations, in a very old style. http://danielmartindiaz.com

The one that caught my eye was this one, "Binary Predator" -

which can be found in an animated form in Warren Ellis's introduction to his short story "Lich House" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYScwq3EOD0



You should check out TRSST - a secure micro blogging system that recently hit its funding target on Kickstarter.

http://www.trsst.com

This is both terrifying and gorgeous. Poet CJ Allen - "Explaining the Plot of Blade Runner to my Mother who has Alzheimer's".

http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poetry/explaining-the-plot-of-blade-runner-to-my-mother-who-has-alzheimers/

Bookmarks for 20130729

Well this just pulled me out of a terrible hole ... the dreaded "case folding error" in Mercurial. The following advice worked:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FixingCaseCollisions

And this seemed useful...

Failing over from CDN to local storage:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CDNsFailButYourScriptsDontHaveToFallbackFromCDNToLocalJQuery.aspx

Twitter Bootstrap has a release candidate for version 3. Not sure how I feel about this yet. On the one hand the new stuff looks amazing, on the other, I'm not sure I like the new grid classes. But, worth a look and it is admirable that they are going for "mobile-first", so rolling the responsive stuff into the main build as default:
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap

Bookmarks for 20130614

"No more miracles, loaves and fishes.
Been so busy with the washing of the dishes."

I'm back. Here's some stuff.

Some useful stuff on the blueimp jQuery.UI FileUpload control:

https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki/How-to-submit-additional-Form-Data

Twitter Bootstrap is just the best bloody thing ever. It feels like cheating when using it to produce what turn out to be really gorgeous, minimalistic, clean web designs.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap

Whole bunch of stuff I should have read BEFORE I started writing Xizi:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/data-modeling/

IPython Notebook looks like a lot of fun, bit like a live, interactive version of One Note maybe?

http://ipython.org/notebook.html

Bookmarks for 20130524

Not dead, merely dreaming.

Some useful stuff from today, which allowed me to make a monitor page showing me all the job processors across 12 different platforms. CSS to scale an iframe:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4660659/javascript-css-set-firefox-zoom-level-of-iframe

(bearing in mind that the width and height on the iframe will be scaled as well so it must be multiplied accordingly)


A really bloody simple and non-fussy lightbox for Javascript/JQuery - EasyBox:

https://code.google.com/p/easybox/


A great article from Fleet Street Fox on the Woolwich murder and the EDL. Yes, I know it's on The Mirror's site, but it's truly a good article:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/edl-dont-defend-england-says-1908599

Bookmarks for 20130412

Interesting metrics UI stuff
http://ducksboard.com/tour/

At least partly atmosphere-based sci-fi space-fighter game. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
http://www.strikevector.net/

Bookmarks for 20130401 ish

This gives the phrase "thousand yard stare" a whole new spin. Ridiculous, Linux-assisted-aim rifles.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-yards-shooting-the-17000-linux-powered-rifle

If This Then That, a web "channel" automation service. This looks awesome and I'll be totally annoying you all with it soon.

http://ifttt.com

Bookmarks for 20130328

Hogeweyk, a "hyperrealistic" care-village in the Netherlands, offering an environment for dementia patients that closely resembles normal life, but is a carefully maintained illusion - front-stage / back-stage. This is a page about the architecture of the place.

http://www.detail-online.com/architecture/news/dementia-village-de-hogeweyk-in-weesp-019624.html

Short film version of Tim Maughan's excellent "Paintwork" story (augmented reality, graffiti)

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/27/short-sf-film-about-future-aug.html

Bookmarks for 20130323

3D printed robotic GlaDOS lamp. Beyond cool.

http://www.instructables.com/id/A-fully-3D-printable-GlaDOS-Robotic-ceiling-arm-la/

The Activity - Comic shedding light on a secret US Army unit.

http://gma.yahoo.com/comic-sheds-light-secret-army-spy-unit-184206062--abc-news-topstories.html

Absolutely, definitely a Chinese-owned golf course in Iceland and absolutely, definitely nothing suspicious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/europe/iceland-baffled-by-chinese-plan-for-golf-resort.html?hp&_r=0

Bookmarks for 20130321

Instant Healing Gel.  This is so awesome I can't even.

http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11409/the-gel-that-stops-bleeding-instantly/

Behold, the travesty that is the F-35; feast your eyes on this AlterNet article:

http://www.alternet.org/fail-400-billion-military-jet-cant-fly-cloudy-weather

Also, I had no idea AlterNet were still going. Yay!

Epic snow crystals under electron microscope:

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/03/microscopic-images-of-snow-crystals/

Bookmarks for 20130320 (ish)

After a lot of messing about tonight, finally got some sense out of XmlReader after reading the following codeproject article:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/318876/Using-the-XmlReader-class-with-Csharp

Bookmarks for 20130319

Fantastic article about Sean Smith, aka Vile Rat, Eve Online's greatest diplomat, killed in action in the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi on September 11th 2012. It explains a little bit about the game and, in some part, about the community that I love. Reading it brought back the initial shock at hearing about the attack and then the ripples it sent through the game's players. Memento mori; Vita brevis.

http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/vile-rat-virtual-world-of-eve-online



And a first look at new Mozilla Firefox dev tools:

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/19/mozilla-foundation-unveils-dev.html

Bookmarks for 20130318

Molly Crabapple & Warren Ellis - "Ariadne & the Science"  (a short, illustrated story)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14777

Bookmarks for 20130315

"Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating events along a directed event flow graph. Think of it as Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do."

 https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project is seeking funds to continue saving the original imagery. Last few days for this!

http://www.rockethub.com/projects/14882-lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project

Bookmarks for 20130314

"@sup3rmark: Two weeks of no pope: baby cured of HIV, breath test for cancer, salt water found on moon of Jupiter. Day one with pope: Google Reader dies."

That.

De facto list of Google Reader alternatives:

http://gizmodo.com/5990540/8-google-reader-alternatives-that-will-ease-your-rss-pain

Google, you f***ing suck sometimes; and just so you know, this is one of those times.

Bookmarks for 20130313

Retinal implant allowing blind people to navigate doors, read words. Amazing stuff. (via @realityisbuggy)

http://news.sky.com/story/1063789/bionic-eye-enables-blind-people-to-see

HTML5 seems to be replete with people making the same old mistakes about website UI.

http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5

Bookmarks for 20130312

If you haven't read/heard this, then you really should. Bradley Manning's court statement leaked. Sounds to me like they didn't actually break him. \o/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/bradley-manning-tapes-own-words

Another Guardian link, this is Cory Doctorow's piece on why Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about practically endorsing DRM in HTML5 and that the W3C should send packing all those who require bringing DRM to the browser.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/mar/12/tim-berners-lee-drm-cory-doctorow?CMP=twt_fd

Bookmarks for 20130311

Looks like a bit of a special bar in W1A, I really like the website as well:

http://www.purl-london.com/