Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

February 15, 2021

Beej's Guide to Network Programming
FileRun
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FileRun is a self-hosted file manager.

Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs
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This article shows the consequences of proprietary, closed software finding its way more and more into farming.

Miniflux

Minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

ncdu

Home of the ncurses-based disk usage analyzer; also contains a list with similar projects.

Consensus is Harder Than It Looks

This article highlights three challenges in consensus for highly available systems.

NOTAM for SREs

The author suggests defining a single place where SRE should document temporary information on systems and their operation.

Staying Safe With .NET Containers
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This post gives some general security advice in working with .NET containers.

(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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In this post, the author gives a short introduction to ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography.)

plocate

plocate is a faster mlocate replacement with a smaller index footprint.

Rust 1.50.0
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»For this release, we have improved array indexing, expanded safe access to union fields, and added to the standard library.«

Babelfish: the Elephant in the Room?

In this post, the author reflects on how Amazon AWS’s Babelfish will influence PostgreSQL.

ENIAC Turns 75
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This article gives an insight into the history of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.