Around 100 program managers (PMs) with ~5 year appointments create and run programs to pursue high-level visions like “actualize the idea of man-computer symbiosis.” In these programs they fund researchers at universities and both big and small companies to do research projects of different sizes. Collectively, groups working on projects are called performers.

Gall's Law is a rule of thumb for systems design from Gall's book Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail. It states: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.[9] This law is essentially an argument in favour of underspecification

Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications. Materialize lets you ask questions of your live data, which it answers and then maintains for you as your data continue to change. The moment you need a refreshed answer, you can get it in milliseconds. Materialize is designed to help you interactively explore your streaming data, perform data warehousing analytics against live relational data, or just increase the freshness and reduce the load of your dashboard and monitoring tasks.

Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'. After a short learning phase, z will take you to the most 'frecent' directory that matches ALL of the regexes given on the command line, in order.

A command-line client for SQLite databases that has auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

Instructions Find the text to convert to Markdown (e.g., in another browser tab) Copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C, or ⌘+C on Mac) Paste it into this window (Ctrl+V, or ⌘+V on Mac) The converted Markdown will appear! The conversion is carried out by to-markdown, a Markdown converter written in JavaScript and running locally in the browser.

Private networks made easy Connect all your devices using WireGuard,® without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.

Source is built for use in small, low-traffic applications. For production uses, we recommend the official Unsplash API which has more robust features and supports high-traffic use cases.

A list command for AWS resources. It supports listing of over 200 types of resources across 76 different AWS services. The goal is to support every AWS resource that is also covered by Terraform (currently over 500) without adding much code but rather generating it. If you are interested, the code of the list function generator is here.

Whatfiles is a Linux utility that logs what files other programs read/write/create/delete on your system. It traces any new processes and threads that are created as well.

Streamhut allows you to stream (pipe) realtime data from your terminal stdout/stderr to a web xterm UI or even to another terminal. As long as you have netcat which comes pre-installed in most *nix systems than you can use streamhut! If you can't install netcat, you may also use the streamhut CLI client.

Secretive is an app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave. It is inspired by the sekey project, but rewritten in Swift with no external dependencies and with a handy native management app.

WireViz is a tool for easily documenting cables, wiring harnesses and connector pinouts. It takes plain text, YAML-formatted files as input and produces beautiful graphical output (SVG, PNG, ...) thanks to GraphViz. It handles automatic BOM (Bill of Materials) creation and has a lot of extra features.

For our Bluetooth score, we first determine whether the headphones support Bluetooth and, if so, which version. We then look at whether they support multi-device pairing and if they can pair via NFC.

Scrapoxy hides your webscraper behind a cloud. It starts a pool of proxies to relay your requests. Now, you can crawl without thinking about blacklisting! It is written in ES6 (Node.js and AngularJS) and it is open source!

In order to assist web and application developers in making their work GDPR-compliant, the CNIL has drawn up a new guide to best practices under an open source license, which is intended to be enriched by professionals.