Copyright without years
A blog post about why curl switched away from showing years in copyright statements within the project.
The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained
Everything you ever wanted to know about Python's dataclasses. And probably more. And probably stuff you didn't care to know. And probably stuff you didn't know you'd ever want to know, or not.
What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
Some folk use Emacs out of the box, and never realise just how much more it can do if you sprinkle some of the newer stuff over your configuration. This article does a good job of explaining some of those additions.
VTOL VR Info Dump
Comprehensive fan-written manual for VTOL VR.
Obsidian Spaced Repetition
A plugin for Obsidian that is all about learning; could be very handy for vaults that are about learning a subject.
Public Page ― Raindrop.io Help
Help on configuring your public page on Raindrop.
Emacs Docs
The main GNU Emacs documentation, but in a very attractive online form.
VelocityOne Flight - Features And Controls
Details about the features and controls of the VelocityOne Flight Control yoke.
VelocityOne Flight - List Of Programmable Controls
List of all of the programmable controls on the Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight control.
Obsidian URI
Obsidian has a URI that can do a bunch of differen things. Very handy, especially if you want to kick off stuff from other code and apps.
Boto3 1.34.129 documentation
"You use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to create, configure, and manage AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The SDK provides an object-oriented API as well as low-level access to AWS services."
Common Lisp Nova Spec
A very clean presentation of the Common Lisp HyperSpec
Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
Google's style guide for Python code. Obviously not the law, not even always a good suggestion, but worthy of consideration.
Example Google Style Python Docstrings — napoleon 0.7 documentation
Useful samples for writing Google style docstrings in Python.
Build Your Python Project Documentation With MkDocs – Real Python
HOWTO on getting going with MkDocs and Python ode.
How to pronounce imgur.
There’s only one correct way!
VTOL VR voice commands
VTOL VR does voice recognition! This little sim keeps on impressing me.
SLIME reference card
Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.
Writing a parser
Guide to writing a parser.
A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology
As the title says: a guide to parsing. A fairly comprehensive into to issues relating to writing your own parser.
How to remove condescending language from documentation
Interesting post talking about how we can improve language in documentation so that it's more inclusive. The tool that it links to is new to me. I've tried it and there's a lot of false positives, but as long as you don't take a "this should be totally lint-free" approach to using it it could help with tweaking things.
Confused by DNS Records? A, CNAME, ALIAS...
Little Twitter thread that briefly documents the key components of DNS, aimed at web developer types.
A Byte of Vim
Book that provides an introduction to vim. Comes in free electronic version and commercial hard copy version.
Rate Limiting
The API rate limits for Benchling.
Various intersphinx mappings for Python libraries.
Handy list of intersphinx mappings for various popular Python libraries.