This month
[WIP] Magic Effects (fire)
viscosity, aerodynamics, impressiveness ... PixelPiledriver mixed them all in an enlightening post ...
Jérôme Radix Blog: Comment exécuter du code par projet dans Emacs
j'ai besoin de gérer une configuration particulière par projet, le terme projet correspondant ici à un ensemble cohérent de fichiers permettant de produire un certain nombre de livrables clairement identifiés (un peu comme le fichier build.xml pour Apache Ant).
Dans Emacs, il existe quelques fonctions bien pratiques pour faire cela
Pixel Shaders (for pixel art)
how to use your pixel art with dynamic lightning.
The Mod Archive v4.0a - A distinctive collection of modules - Pools of Poison - jt_pools.xm (XM)
(via)pulsating vibe of fresh music.
Dr Mario Fever Theme Song - A CAPPELLA Beatbox cover - Trudbol & Acousticinstruman - YouTube
trudbol is just fantastic ;)
April 2012
Top of Rack vs End of Row Data Center Designs
(via)Just in case you encounter "TOR" on a cloud computing performance diagram ... read "Top-Of-Rack" (and follow the link to know the details)
Dinosword Game (WIP)
nes-ish, tile-able leaves.
RKO: The Def Guide to C64 MP3 remakes. I bet you can't do this on a SID.
(via)soft piano and electronic vibes.
Coding Horror: Speed Hashing
(via)If you are a developer:
Use bcrypt or PBKDF2 exclusively to hash anything you need to be secure. These new hashes were specifically designed to be difficult to implement on GPUs. Do not use any other form of hash. Almost every other popular hashing scheme is vulnerable to brute forcing by arrays of commodity GPUs, which only get faster and more parallel and easier to program for every year.
[wip] stony monster not stony enough.
from triangles to rocking texture.
Making handouts from your beamer presentation - University Wiki
(via)usepackage{pdfpages}
includepdf[...]{handout.pdf}
you may use angle=90 as an additional parameter to fix improperly-oriented slides on the page.
March 2012
[Kahvi Collective Audio Sculptors - fa8 V3]
(via)"distant happiness" ... that mood suits the week well ...
effluvia of a scattered mind: Ubuntu 11.10/Gnome 3.0: Surviving the transition!
(via)talking to a canonical developer about gnome3 oddities.
RFC 2047 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
(via)ever wondered how ASCII-only mail relays could stand l'écriture française in mail subjects ? that's how
RKO: The Def Guide to C64 MP3 remakes. I bet you can't do this on a SID.
(via)soft, moody, nice vocals.
Lorem Ipsum ‹ Big Lion Music
(via)epic synthetic vocals on a century-old famous lyrics, in a opera-rock style.
Brilliant!
less (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(via)less is more ... likely one of the Unix tools I use the most
The Slappy Picture Show: Earthworm Jim Game Art
and now the true pixels.
The Slappy Picture Show: The Making of Earthworm Jim
(via)goldmine. Well, it's a bit a pity that we aren't told what technically made it possible to use cartoon-made animation on a system planned to run tile-based games, unfortunately. Large amount of trickery and wizardry is expected here.
February 2012
SVN: Merging a Branch into Trunk - Sepcot.com
(via)I'll have to redo that tomorrow, applying the merge for newcollide first, and *then* companim...
multicol - How to balance last page of two-column layout in LaTeX? - TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange
usepackage{flushend}
Yes, it's that simple.
I <3 ROFLcopter: Embedding fonts in PDF with GhostScript
(via)pdftops paper.pdf
Followed by:
ps2pdf -dSAFER -dNOPLATFONTS -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress paper.ps paper.pdf
Two things you thought you weren’t going to get: a manufacturing date and an SoC datasheet | Raspberry Pi
(via)Ever wanted to know what's inside a teledroid ?
