Interesting Snippets from 2020-06-30

• Why does DARPA work?

  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.

• John Gall (author) - Wikipedia

  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

• GitHub - MaterializeInc/materialize: The Streaming SQL Database powered by Timely Dataflow

  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.

• GitHub - rupa/z: z - jump around

  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.

• GitHub - dbcli/litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

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

• Paste to Markdown

  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.

• Tailscale

  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.

• Unsplash Source | A Simple API for Embedding Free Photos from Unsplash

  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.

• GitHub - jckuester/awsls: A list command for AWS resources

  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.

• GitHub - spieglt/whatfiles: Log what files are accessed by any Linux process

  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.

• GitHub - miguelmota/streamhut: Stream your terminal to web without installing anything

  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.

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