September 2016

36 links saved this month.

Learn Lua in 15 Minutes
2016-09-12
tylerneylon.com
Tour of the whole Lua language as one annotated script — variables, functions, tables, metatables, classes and modules.
lua language tutorial programming
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
2016-09-15
research.google.com
Google's VLDB 2010 paper on Dremel, a scalable interactive ad-hoc query system for read-only nested data that scans trillion-row tables in seconds.
paper big-data data-processing database google
Leveling Up With React: React Router
2016-09-19
css-tricks.com
Tutorial on React Router — routes, nested routes, reusable layouts, Link navigation and hash versus browser history. Predates React Router 4.
react javascript tutorial routing frontend
BashFAQ - Greg's Wiki
2016-09-19
mywiki.wooledge.org
Greg's Wiki collection of 122 answers to recurring Bash scripting questions, written by the regulars of the
bash shell linux reference howto
Zuul 2 : The Netflix Journey to Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Systems
2016-09-21
techblog.netflix.com
Netflix on rebuilding its Zuul cloud gateway on Netty as an asynchronous non-blocking system, and how the measured gains differed from what they expected.
architecture gateway http asynchronous non-blocking network
Word Embeddings For Fashion
2016-09-21
developers.lyst.com
How Lyst applied word2vec and GloVe to its fashion catalogue to surface semantic relations between garments, designers and fashion vocabulary.
nlp word2vec data-processing machine-learning analysis
Using word2vec with NLTK
2016-09-21
streamhacker.com
Walkthrough of training gensim's word2vec on NLTK corpora and querying the resulting embeddings for similarly-used words.
python nltk word2vec nlp data-processing
nltk.tag package
2016-09-21
nltk.org
API documentation for NLTK's tagging package, which provides the classes and interfaces for part-of-speech tagging.
python nltk nlp documentation reference
Global Vectors for Word Representation
2016-09-21
www-nlp.stanford.edu
Stanford's GloVe project — an unsupervised algorithm deriving word vectors from co-occurrence statistics, with pre-trained vectors to download.
nlp machine-learning data-processing research vector
Getting Press for Your Startup
2016-09-21
themacro.com
Michael Seibel on treating PR like business development — generating actual news, building relationships with reporters, and timing an announcement.
start-up marketing business yc communication
Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
2016-09-25
developers.google.com
Google's reference on using OAuth 2.0 to authorise access to its APIs, with the flows for web, installed, server-side and limited-input applications.
oauth2 authentication security google api documentation
python-oauth2 - python-oauth2 1.0.0 documentation
2016-09-25
python-oauth2.readthedocs.io
Documentation for python-oauth2, a framework for providing OAuth 2.0 authentication in Python applications.
python oauth2 authentication security library documentation
multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism
2016-09-25
docs.python.org
Standard library documentation for Python's multiprocessing module, which spawns processes to sidestep the GIL and offers queues, pipes, pools and shared memory.
python documentation reference system module
Watchdog - watchdog 0.8.2 documentation
2016-09-26
pythonhosted.org
Documentation for watchdog, a cross-platform Python library and shell tool that reacts to file system events such as directory changes.
python filesystem library documentation tools
Code Guide by @mdo
2016-09-27
codeguide.co
Mark Otto's standards for writing consistent HTML and CSS — syntax conventions, declaration order, selector practice and file organisation.
html css standards code frontend
We Stopped Publishing New Blog Posts for One Month. Here’s What Happened.
2016-09-30
cdn.ampproject.org
Buffer's account of pausing new blog posts for thirty days to repurpose existing content instead, and the 4% traffic dip that followed.
blog marketing content business growth