August 2015
27 links saved this month.
vincent.demeester.fr
Personal site of Vincent Demeester, a French engineer working on Docker/Moby, Tekton and NixOS, mixing posts, TIL notes and bookmarks.
leanpub.com
Roger D. Peng's book on R for data analysis, covering vectors, data frames with dplyr, control flow, functions, debugging, regular expressions and parallel computation.
tonyhschu.ca
Personal site of Tony Chu, a designer of interfaces for machine learning products, collecting his portfolio and design writing.
make.mad-scientist.net
How to build one GNU Make source tree for several target architectures at once, comparing source copies, explicit paths, VPATH and a self-reinvoking VPATH method.
jimcollins.com
Summary of the research behind Good to Great — the flywheel effect, disciplined people, the Hedgehog Concept and the stop-doing list.
jpetazzo.github.io
Slide deck comparing Docker's AUFS, Device Mapper, BTRFS, OverlayFS and VFS storage drivers — how each implements copy-on-write, and how they perform.
r2d3.us
Interactive scroll-driven explainer of decision trees, using San Francisco versus New York homes to show features, split points, training data and overfitting.
pouchdb.com
JavaScript database inspired by CouchDB that stores data locally in the browser or Node and syncs it back to a CouchDB server once the app is online again.
medium.com
A rundown of Node.js project tooling — Mocha and CucumberJS for tests, Istanbul and Coveralls for coverage, JSHint and Code Climate for quality, David for dependencies.
retweet.readthedocs.org
Documentation for Retweet, a Python command-line bot that reposts another account's tweets, filtered by hashtag, regular expression, age or retweet count.
kernel.org
Kernel developer notes on the Open vSwitch datapath — flow keys, wildcarded flows, UFIDs, and the rules for adding protocol support without breaking older userspace.
fr.slideshare.net
White paper from the 2015 European Pre-Accelerator Summit defining what pre-accelerators do, how their programmes are structured, what they measure and how they fund themselves.
launchrock.com
Builder for pre-launch landing pages that capture early sign-ups, with drag-and-drop templates and email collection.
gluster.org
Free and open-source scalable network filesystem that pools commodity storage into large distributed volumes for media streaming and data analysis.
ceph.com
Open-source distributed storage system offering object, block and file interfaces from a single cluster built on commodity hardware.
emptysqua.re
Resource page for A. Jesse Jiryu Davis's talk on coding a Python 3 async framework from scratch, linking the demo repository and the 500 Lines chapter.
github.com
Book chapter by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis and Guido van Rossum building a concurrent web crawler three ways — threads, then callbacks, then generator-based coroutines.
