Miscellaneous¶
COVID-19¶
COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, Worldometer
COVID-19 data dashboard, King County COVID-19 outbreak summary
Infection Trajectory: See Which Countries are Flattening Their COVID-19 Curve
Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”, by Harry Stevens, The Washington Post, March 14, 2020
The 7 Best COVID-19 Resources We’ve Discovered So Far, visualcapitalist.com
11 charts that explain the coronavirus pandemic: What symptoms are most common, which groups are most at risk, and more., by Dylan Matthews, vox.com, March 17, 2020
Privacy¶
Privacy Rights Clearing House [Pay attention to the Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident.]
Privacy compromised (everything about you that others can know…)
Podcasts¶
- These Fascinating History Podcasts Will Make You Fall In Love With The Past,
by Zach Johnston, Life Writer, May 02, 2018
More Solutions for Taking Podcast Notes: An App Overview by Mental Pivot, June 2nd, 2020
Business¶
Not-for-Profit Orgs¶
Start a Nonprofit, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Business and Commercialization planning¶
Lean Startup Essentials - STARTup Live Hagenberg, slideshare by Lukas Fittl, May 4, 2011
Lean Canvas Process and Examples, slideshare, June 10, 2011
Example Canvas – Toms Shoes, by rowanyeoman, Social Lean Canvas, March 19, 2014
How To: Create A Lean Canvas, by Xtensio
Capture Your Business Model in 20 Minutes - Lean Canvas, YouTube video by Ash Maurya, January 23, 2013
Business Startup¶
How Startups Create Their Own Markets, by Joe Procopio, Medium Startups, July 15, 2019
How Basecamp Built a $100 Billion Business by Doing Less on Purpose, by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska, Mission.org (Medium), March 28, 2019
Think Beyond Kickstarter: The Best Kickstarter Alternatives for Crowdfunding Anything, by floship
/r/Crowdfunding, Alternative to Patreon
10 Things To Know About Kickstarting a Book, by Rebecca Joines Schinsky and Jeff O’Neal, April 1, 2013
The Complete Guide to Crowdfunding Your Book, by Tom Morkes
Job Search¶
How Do I List 20 Years of Experience on My Resume?, by Amanda Augustine
10 Powerful Changes for Your Senior-Level Resume, by Amanda Augustine
Where to Look for Security Jobs, By Deborah Radcliff, Computerworld, June 3, 2002
High demand for tech detectives, by Bob Weinstein, Suntimes, February 4, 2001
I’ve read thousands of resumes. Most of them suck. Yours doesn’t have to., by Eric Meyerson, Medium, February 25, 2019
Remote work¶
11 Popular Websites where you can find Online Remote Jobs, WebEmployed, April 16, 2018
How Remote Work Is Changing And What It Means For Your Future, by William Arruda, February 16, 2017
Ultimate Guide: 6 Steps To Land A Remote Job (This Weekend), by Ryan Robinson, May 21, 2018
Blockchain and Smart Contracts¶
A brief history of blockchain, smart contracts and their implementation, by The Modex Team, March 7, 2018
How Blockchain Technology is Revolutionizing Data Provenance, by Devan, October 26, 2018
Merkle Trees, by Shaan Ray, Hackernoon, December 15, 2017
Oko Contract Explorer (“Oko is an Ethereum explorer focused on smart contracts.”)
GitHub trailofbits/manticore (“Manticore is a symbolic execution tool for analysis of smart contracts and binaries.”)
- Ethereum (“Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency, ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.”)
Infura (“Ethereum & IPFS APIs. Develop now on Web 3.0”)
Etherscan (“The Ethereum Blockchain Explorer”)
A Definitive List of Ethereum Developer Tools, Consensus (Medium), February 11, 2019
remix.ethereum.org
ethPM (“The immutable package manager to easily and safely consume, distribute, and manage any smart contract system.”)
GitHub trufflesuite/ganache (“Personal blockchain for Ethereum development”)
GitHub eth-brownie/brownie (“A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine.”)
Ethereum Smart Contracts in Python: a comprehensive(ish) guide, by Nick Williams, Hackernoon, April 5th 2018
Creating a Python Ethereum Interface: Part 1, by Pryce Turner, Hackernoon, December 11th 2018
- Smart contracts and NFTs
Making Effective Use of Smart Contracts, by Angela Beklemysheva, Steelwiki
Smart Contracts: The Blockchain Technology That Will Replace Lawyers, Blockgeeks.com
Smart Contracts: The Ultimate Guide for the Beginners, by Hasib Anwar, 101 Blockchains, July 19, 2018
How To Create NFTs With Solidity, by Patrick Collins, Medium, March 2, 2021
Which Ethereum user bought Beeple’s “Crossroad” NFT video for $6.6 million?, StackExchange question asked March 6, 2021
GitHub eveem-org/panoramix (“Decompiler at the heart of Eveem.org”)
- Videos
Python Unittesting for Ethereum Smart Contracts or how not to create your own Crypto - Robert Meyer, YouTube, August 1, 2018
Solidity Tutorial - A Full Course on Ethereum, Blockchain Development, Smart Contracts, and the EVM, freeCodeCamp.org, YouTube, July 19, 2019
Academics and Research¶
Should You Get a Ph.D.? (Only if you’re crazy or crazy about your subject), by Daniel Drezner, April 15, 2013
Peter Neumann’s treatise on the misplaced only
Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers: Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated., by Richard Van Noorden, Nature, February 24, 2014
- Research Statement or Plan
What is a Research Statement?, Cornell University Graduate School
Writing a Research Plan, by Jim Austin, July 26, 2002
- Research Resources
DBLP and FacetedDBLP
The ‘Black Box’ of Peer Review, Inside Higher Ed, March 4, 2009 [Cites How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, by Michèle Lamon, Harvard University Press]
- Twitter data collection and processing (thanks to the AoIR list)
A Quick Recap of Twitter Research Approaches, Mapping Online Publics, September 29, 2012
Mining Twitter: Microblogging as a source for psychological wisdom of the crowds, by Reips, U.-D., and Garaizar, P., in Behavior Research Methods, 43, 635-642 (2011). [doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0116-6]
See also Responsible Conduct of Research section of Ethics.
- “Mobbing”, and Bullying in the Workplace
Mobbing, Wikipedia
WorkplaceBullying, Wikipedia
Stalking the Soul, by By Marie-France Hirigoyen, Helen Marx, and Thomas Moore (Translated by Helen Marx), Helen Marx Books, 2005, ISBN:188558699X
Mob Rule: In departmental disputes, professors can act just like animals, By John Gravois, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 52, Issue 32, April 14, 2006
When Mentoring Goes Bad, by Dawn E. Chandler, Lillian Eby and Stacy E. McManus, The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2010
Workplace Mobbing in Academe, Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Waterloo Strategy for Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education, by Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo
Checklist of Mobbing Indicators, by Kenneth Westhues, 2006
Mind Mapping¶
Mind Map, Wikipedia
List of concept- and mind-mapping software, Wikipedia
Five Best Mind Mapping Tools by LifeHacker
How To Use Xmind to Manage Projects and Help Control Your Focus, by Spenser McMurtry (comes with template)
Rock climbing¶
Animated Knots (Good for climbers)
Climbing Workouts - Drills and Exercises - Core and Contact, by David Echeverri, July 13, 2013
Guitar stuff¶
- Guitars made with 3D printers
How 3D printing is revolutionising guitar-making, by Anthony Doesburg, Guardian.co.uk, June 15, 2012
Guitar Printer Makes Functioning Instrument (VIDEO), by Aaron Sankin, October 18, 2012
Cure For Common Chord Playing With Scott Grove Acoustic Guitar, by Scott Grove, YouTube
So, You STILL Suck At Rhythm Guitar? Put Some Stank On It, by Scott Grove, YouTube
JustinGuitar.com, Justin Sandercoe [great guitar teacher!]
GuitarJamz.com and his You Can Learn Guitar YouTube channel
Heartwood Guitar Instruction (in Seattle no less!)
Lyrics, Tabs, Chords, metal-head.org
David Jones LLCM (LTD), online guitar lessons
Chordie guitar tabs, guitar chords and lyrics
Chordpro is a format for expressing chord sheets
WebChord online converter of Chordpro format files (here are some Chordpro chord sheets I worked out)
The Tab World (TTW) [“ultimate music resource for guitar players”]
Metal Detecting¶
Software programs and apps for Metal Detecting…, by mtldtktr, August 15, 2015
Best Phone Apps for Detecting, Metal Detecting Forum post, March 26, 2019
- Researching public locations to detect
HOW TO RESEARCH PUBLIC AREAS FOR METAL DETECTING, YouTube video by Coin Digger, June 8, 2016
Metal Detecting - My Favorite Research Websites Revealed!, YouTube video by Tarheel Digging, February 28, 2015
FIND A PLACE TO METAL DETECT RESEARCH, YouTube video by Square Nail Squirrel, February 8, 2019
Metal Detecting in WASHINGTON (A very Good State to EXPLORE), Detecting School
How to Clean Metal Detecting COINS ? [ULTIMATE GUIDE!], Detecting School
9 Best Places to Metal Detect Without Permission!, Detecting School
Cache Hunting Secrets_Where Did Grandpa Hide His Money?, YouTube video by GarrettDetectors, May 26, 2011
Minelab Equinox 800 Searcher Power Program setup and settings. UK Metal detecting, YouTube video by thesearchermag, March 8, 2018
Minelab Equinox 800 Secrets. Everyone should know this!, MD-Hunter Blog, February 25, 2018
4x4 Equinox Program, finding Roman coins, YouTube video by IronheartedGog, March 9, 2018
Internal Storage¶
Hard Drives¶
What Hard Drive Should I Buy?, by Brian Beach (Backblaze), January 21, 2014
Solid State Drives (SSD)¶
- Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days, by Zack Whittaker, May 9, 2015
Debunked: Your SSD won’t lose data if left unplugged after all, by Gordon Mah Ung, May 21, 2015
The mysteriously disappearing drive: Are power outages killing your SSDs?, by Joel Hruska, October 22, 2013
How SSD power faults scramble your data, by Robin Harris, March 1, 2013
- Test your SSDs or risk massive data loss, researchers warn, by Ted Samson, March 1, 2013
Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault, by Mai Zheng, Joseph Tucek, Feng Qin, Mark Lillibridge, 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ‘13), February 12-15, 2013
Analysis of SSD Reliability during power-outages, January 1, 2014
Voice over IP and SIP¶
Build your own VoIP System – Part 1: The Basics, by Andreas Granig
Build your own VoIP System – Part 2: An open Skype Replacement, by Andreas Granig
Registrarless SIP Account, by Jitsi.org
Travel tips¶
How to Pack Like a Pro, YouTube video from Heathrow Airport
Folks that travel a lot, do you bring a power strip?, tweet by Patricia Aas, December 8, 2019
LED lights/Smart lights¶
Smart Bulb Reviews (Phillips Hue, LIFX, Insteon, and Robosmart smart light systems)
Health¶
Recreation¶
American Ridge Lodge in the Naches area of Washington
Tools and Maker Spaces¶
Bikes¶
Twitter¶
Tastes¶
How To Make the Best Iced Coffee, by Chris Perez, May 24, 2015
Sounds¶
Definitely Not the Opera (DNTO), CBC Podcast
Missy Higgins: Melbourne Singer Songwriter Charms with 3 Great Songs, TEDxSydney 2010
Pogo’s remixes of some cool movies (electronic music/mashups)
Movies¶
ALGORITHM: The Hacker Movie, YouTube video by Jon Schiefer, Dec 7, 2014 (“A freelance computer hacker breaks into secret government contractor and downloads a program. He must choose between his own curiosity and the lives of his friends.”)
Seattle CenturyLink climber identified, KIRO News, June 3, 2013 (here are photos of the Space Needle and CenturyLink Field climbers).
Open Broadcaster Software (Free, open source software for live streaming and recording)
Still Photos¶
theprevia photostream on Flickr
Photos of porcelain figurines at the moment they shatter by photographer Martin Klimas
How I made a 1,474 Megapixel photo during President Obama’s Inaugural Address. [Extremely cool!]
Digital Cameras and Equipment¶
Imaging Resource Comparometer digital Camera Image Comparison Page
Sony A7 Review, by Mike Tomkins, April 18, 2014
Sony lens adapters, by Brian Smith photography gear guide
Guide to Sony A7 A7R A7S A7II A7RII A7SII Lens Adapters (also Brian Smith)
Using AVCHD Video from the Sony A7, A7R, Nex, by Alik Griffin, December 14, 2013
[Requested] Converting AVCHD To MP4 [Mac], YouTube video by Nick Wilt, August 20, 2013
Best webcams 2020: top picks for working from home, by Carrie Marshall, September 23, 2020
The best webcams in 2020, by Michael Andronico, September 8, 2020
Visualize Whirled Peas (or just visualize)¶
- Applications of visualization techniques
The Baby Name Wizard [Great visualization tool!]
Stormpulse (cool animated, interactive, storm tracker)
TorFlow (cool visualization of flows in the Tor network)
- General resources
TensorBoard: Graph Visualization, TensorFlow tutorial
Quick Round-Up – Visualising Flows Using Network and Sankey Diagrams in Python and R, R-bloggers
Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. (Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining. Packed with features for data analytics.)
Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualisation, by Lisa Charlotte Rost, April 22, 2016
Complex Networks and Complexity Resources, Tim Evans, Imperial College
dataviz Australia data visualizations
NetGrok, University of Maryland
Hviz: HTTP(S) Traffic Aggregation and Visualization for Network Forensics
The Visualization Toolkit (Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python)
The Davix Live-CD (“a live CD for data analysis and visualization, brings the most important free tools for data processing and visualization to your desk”)
Screen Presentation Tools: Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations, by Michael Wiedmann
Video of wrangler (Wrangler is an interactive tool designed to make it easier to manipulate data. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data. Wrangler is the result of a collaborative project between researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley.)
Open Heat Map (Turn your spreadsheet into a map.)
Dataviz in a tumblr. (Some cool graphics.)
22 Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis, By Sharon Machlis, Computerworld, April 20, 2011 (Got data? These useful tools can turn it into informative, engaging graphics.)
8 more free tools for data visualization and analysis, related blog by Sharon Machlis, Computerworld, April 28, 2011
DataPatterns.org (Welcome to DataPatterns.org, a collection of tips and tricks for data work. This collection is not an finished document but a collection of opinions and evolving best practices. The purpose is not to present all available options and technologies but to pick one and follow it through. DataPatterns is also a collaborative effort: if you have some good hacks and would like to share them, please contribute a patch to the DataPatterns repository. some of this is dubious at big scales based on my experiences - csv, sqlite, etc - but much of it is useful for big data people.)
blockdiag (and related diagram generators)
See also the Machine Learning section.
See also the “Big Data” section.
See also the Python Visualization tools section of Programming in Python.
Hardware¶
The PlugBot
Unicomp makes the original IBM Model M keyboard (the best in the world, if only they’d swap the Ctrl & Caps Lock keys back to where God intended them to be…)
PS/2 to USB adapter converter for keyboards + short USB cable
Unicode¶
Remote server management¶
Comparison of VNC, RDP, and other Remote Access software with KVM over IP technologies, by 42U
Setting up Chrome Remote Desktop for Linux on Compute Engine, Google Cloud documentation
How To Install VNC Server On Ubuntu 14.04, HowtoForge
The very best VNC client for Mac OS X is right under your nose!, by David the Expert, April 16, 2012
How to setup x11vnc to access with graphical login screen?, AskUbuntu
REVIEW: IP KVM devices, by Ian Yates, Mar 16, 2008
How to use KVM over IP, by Stephen J. Bigelow, Jul 2, 2010
How to select a KVM over IP system to assist with HIPAA compliance, Avocent
iPhone stuff¶
On Demand VPN using OpenVPN for iOS, simonguest.com blog, March 22, 2013
11 Tips to Keep iOS 7 From Destroying Your Battery Life, Gizmodo
Red Foundry lets you build iPhone apps in minutes, by John Cook, TechFlash.com, December 8, 2009
How to set a silent ringtone (nice for repeat telemarket/scammer phone calls)
The 25 Best Outdoor iPhone Apps [Some handy tools for use outdoors]
iPhone under the hood: Carrier settings and configuration profiles, by Ted Landau, Macworld, October 1, 2009
10 Brilliant iPhone Tricks You Didn’t Know, by Facts Verse, November 13, 2016
Databases and database tools¶
- sqlite3
Getting the most out of SQLite3 with Python, by remusao, October 21, 2017
Introduction to Python SQL Libraries, by Usman Malik, February 24, 2020
- Hadoop
Grab bag¶
How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You, by Amy Gallo, Hardvard Business Review, March 17, 2016
The Hashicorp Adoption Curve, by Fintan Ryan, September 11, 2015
The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc (a 32,000 year-old cave in southern France!) Subject of Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams.)
Is that server down for everyone, or just for me?
Sleepwarrior.com (hack your sleep)
A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen, quadpoint.org
GanttProject (free Windows/Mac OSX/Linux project management software)
Wotsit’s format, the programmer’s resource.
Griffin Technology Net Monitor Database
Maximum Dedicated Bandwidths (“OC-48, OC-49… whatever it takes.”)
LDAP World (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
How to Tie a Shemagh, WikiHow