February 2016

blog.scottlowe.org

Walkthrough of LXD on Ubuntu 15.04: how its daemon and CLI client sit on top of LXC, and how to add image repositories, launch OS containers and run commands inside them.

tools.ietf.org

IETF standard defining JSON Web Token, a compact URL-safe format for representing signed or encrypted claims exchanged between two parties.

python-jose.readthedocs.org

Documentation for python-jose, a Python implementation of the JOSE suite: JSON Web Signature, Encryption, Key and Algorithms.

pyjwt.readthedocs.org

Documentation for PyJWT, the Python library that encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens, covering signing algorithms, claim validation and JWKS endpoints.

jwt.io

Debugger and reference site for JSON Web Tokens: decode, verify and generate tokens in the browser, with a directory of JWT libraries per language.

expressjs.com

Minimal, unopinionated web application framework for Node.js, providing routing, middleware and HTTP helpers for building web apps and APIs.

awesome-awesomeness.zeef.com

ZEEF directory of the "awesome" curated lists, grouped by language and domain, kept as a mirror of the awesome-awesomeness repository it now points to.

pixelbuddha.net

Design resource library of mockups, fonts, photo and text effects, brushes, icons and templates, part free and part subscription.

jrsinclair.com

Second part of the functional JavaScript series, explaining forEach, map and reduce as expressive replacements for traditional for-loops.

jrsinclair.com

Opening part of a four-part series on functional programming in JavaScript, covering first-class functions, passing functions as parameters, and staying DRY.

thenewstack.io

Technology news site covering cloud native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps and software engineering practice, with podcasts and e-books alongside articles.

shopify.github.io

Showcase of the open source projects Shopify has released, filterable by language and linking to the company's public repositories.

blog.europython.eu

Official blog of EuroPython, the European Python conference, carrying announcements, schedules, speaker news and volunteer interviews.

wikidata.org

Free, collaboratively edited knowledge base of structured data, readable and writable by humans and machines, feeding Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects.

godan.info

GODAN, a global network working to make agricultural and nutritional data open, accessible and usable, with datasets, platforms and youth-led programmes.

docs.openstack.org

Documentation for stevedore, a Python library that discovers and loads plugins through setuptools entry points, with several extension manager classes for different loading patterns.

youtube.com

David Beazley builds Python concurrency up from primitives, live on stage at PyCon 2015, ending at asyncio.

juxtapose.knightlab.com

Knight Lab tool that turns two images into a before/after comparison slider or animated GIF, built from image URLs without writing code.