A list of free resource for developers

it's about how to write high performance for modern cpu architecture.

Create swimlane diagram declaratively.

A tool for generating RFC-like protocol header diagrams.

websocket explained in detail

They said the app was cracked several times and published here.

The music you hear is generated in your browser by a randomised algorithm, below you can see the notes and parameters that are currently in use. You can also interact with various parameters and buttons manually.

Intuitive explanation on CORS with a lot of examples. The article is not short but the reading was fun.

There are these three types of CORS requests, embedding, reading and writing. Each are treated differently. CORS embedding controls cross-site resources to be embedded. CORS writing controls form. CORS reading controls the ability for a script to read the response from a cross-site request.

The article also explained how preflight request works, and CORS in local context, etc. Overall very nice to read.

Convert functions to point free form.

Search HackerNews and contents on linked webpages.

Similar to Shortlyread or AI Dungeon. Complete text with it.

An interesting language in which morphemes are composable 2d strokes, which can be put together into sentences that look like a picture.

This article explained what may break with Firefox first-party isolation option on (privacy.firstparty.isolate) and potential solutions.

It explained why some of my extensions fail to log in.

A convenient calculator for total bytes written. In short, it is calculated by multiplying Total_LBAs_Written with the sector size (512B or 4KB). Both info can be retrieved using smartctl.

~# smartctl /dev/ada0 --all |grep "Sector Size"
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
~# smartctl /dev/ada0 --all | grep Total_LBAs_Written
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 25351376107

A lot of fun linguistic plays. Including anagram, palindrome, mnemonics and many more.

The article proposed a mechanism called "Predicative Coding" that doesn't require backward flow of information to perform weight adjustment as backward propagation. Futher the author showed that the performance of Predicative Coding is similar to backward propagation.

The author, as such, concluded that predicative coding is a plausible way for biological neuron system to operate.

A nice demo of usage of Ghidra, a reverse engineering tool. The author find and modified game logic to make it possible to marry two people of the same gender.

Image compression tool and playground.