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.
ybrikman.com
An explanation of how Bitcoin works, building up from everyday analogies before going into the technical detail of the protocol.
guilhembertholet.com
Un tour d'horizon des business models existants — abonnement, location, modèle imprimante, désintermédiation, enchères, distribution, freemium, low-cost.
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia's biography of Seth Godin, American author, marketing expert, entrepreneur and former dot-com business executive.
anovi.github.io
Selectonic, a jQuery plugin that adds mouse and keyboard selection — single, multiple and range — to any list of items.
vimeo.com
Erlang Factory SF 2012 talk on how WhatsApp tuned its Erlang server applications, the BEAM emulator and the FreeBSD kernel to hold millions of connections per machine.
ycombinator.com
Y Combinator's instructions for the one-minute founder video required with an application, with four example videos from funded startups.
resin.io
Write-up of getting Docker to build and run on the Raspberry Pi, with the Arch Linux and aufs kernel steps; now marked deprecated in favour of balena.io.
resin.io
Container platform for deploying and updating fleets of Linux IoT devices over the air; the site now redirects to balena.io after the rebrand.
raml.org
Directory of tools built around RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, filterable by design, build, test, document, parser and utility.
github.com
Build tool that compiles a Go service into a static binary inside Docker and packages it in a scratch-based image.
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.
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.
ceph.com
Open-source distributed storage system offering object, block and file interfaces from a single cluster built on commodity hardware.
gluster.org
Free and open-source scalable network filesystem that pools commodity storage into large distributed volumes for media streaming and data analysis.
launchrock.com
Builder for pre-launch landing pages that capture early sign-ups, with drag-and-drop templates and email collection.
