Four short links: 21 October 2010
Using MysQL as NoSQL — 750,000+ qps on a commodity MySQL/InnoDB 5.1 server from remote web clients. Making an SLR Camera from Scratch — amazing piece of hardware devotion. (via hackaday.com) Mac App...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 November 2010
A Room to Let in Old Aldgate — a lovely collection of photographs of lost buildings from The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London. Think of them as the Wayback Machine of their day. (via...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 January 2011
NiftyUrls — open source elegant wee RSS dashboard. I haven’t looked into the source yet, but I’m already thinking of applications. The PirateBox — small piece of hardware that creates a wifi network...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 August 2012
International Broadband Pricing Study Dataset for Reuse — 3,655 fixed and mobile broadband retail price observations, with fixed broadband pricing data for 93 countries and mobile broadband pricing...
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The Bicycle Barometer (@richardjpope) — Richard Pope, a project manager at Gov.uk, built what he calls a barometer for his bike commute: it uses weather and transit data to compute a single value that...
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Masking the complexity of the machine
The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of...
View ArticleFour Short Links: 7 May 2013
Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit...
View ArticleFour short links: 3 March 2014
The Programming Error That Cost Mt Gox 2609 Bitcoins — in the unforgiving world of crypto-currency, it’s easy to miscode and vanish your money. Ford Invites Open-Source Community to Tinker Away — One...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 March 2014
brick — uncompressed versions of popular web fonts. The difference between compressed and uncompressed is noticeable. Speaking Javascript — free online version of the new O’Reilly book by Axel...
View ArticleFour short links: 8 January 2016
How to C in 2016 — straightforward recommendations for writing C if you have to. Using Deep Learning to Colorize Old Photos — comes with a trained TensorFlow model to play with. Open Source Firmware...
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