Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
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.
godan.info
GODAN, a global network working to make agricultural and nutritional data open, accessible and usable, with datasets, platforms and youth-led programmes.
blog.europython.eu
Official blog of EuroPython, the European Python conference, carrying announcements, schedules, speaker news and volunteer interviews.
shopify.github.io
Showcase of the open source projects Shopify has released, filterable by language and linking to the company's public repositories.
thenewstack.io
Technology news site covering cloud native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps and software engineering practice, with podcasts and e-books alongside articles.
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.
jrsinclair.com
Second part of the functional JavaScript series, explaining forEach, map and reduce as expressive replacements for traditional for-loops.
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.
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.
pyjwt.readthedocs.org
Documentation for PyJWT, the Python library that encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens, covering signing algorithms, claim validation and JWKS endpoints.
python-jose.readthedocs.org
Documentation for python-jose, a Python implementation of the JOSE suite: JSON Web Signature, Encryption, Key and Algorithms.
tools.ietf.org
IETF standard defining JSON Web Token, a compact URL-safe format for representing signed or encrypted claims exchanged between two parties.
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.
interviewcake.com
An explanation of big O notation — dropping constants and lower-order terms, worst-case analysis, and space complexity — illustrated with Python.
bitcoinclassic.com
Site of Bitcoin Classic, a Bitcoin node implementation forked to raise the block size limit to 2 MB; the project has since announced it is closing down.
bitcoinunlimited.info
Site of Bitcoin Unlimited, an organisation building alternative Bitcoin node software and protocols, including Bitcoin Cash and Nexa.
gavinandresen.ninja
Chronological index of Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen's blog posts; the domain now redirects to his post index on riski.wiki.


















