TIL: Modern Rust CLI Tools - System Monitoring, HTTP Requests, and DNS
Today I discovered five excellent Rust-based CLI tools: bottom, dust, procs for system monitoring, xh for HTTP requests, and nip.io for wildcard DNS resolution.
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TIL: tz - A Time Zone Helper Tool
Today I discovered tz, a simple and useful command-line tool for managing and converting between different time zones.
TIL: Distributed Systems Education, Fallacies, and Self-Hosted Internet Archiving
Today I learned about CSE138 distributed systems lectures, the classic fallacies of distributed computing, and an interesting project for self-hosting internet archives.
TIL: Real-Time Voice Cloning Technology
Today I discovered an impressive project that can clone voices in just 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time using deep learning.
TIL: ChartMuseum for Helm, AMD's Corporate Journey, and Kubernetes Pod Scaling
Today I learned about ChartMuseum for Helm chart repositories, AMD's fascinating rise, fall, and revival story, and why Kubernetes removes the newest pods when scaling down.
TIL: Docker and Kubernetes Tools - Whaler, Descheduler, and Dive
Today I discovered three powerful tools for container management: Whaler for reverse-engineering Dockerfiles, Kubernetes Descheduler for pod optimization, and Dive for Docker image analysis.
TIL: Post-Mortem Collection, Terminal Plotting, and Technical Twitter
Today I discovered a comprehensive collection of engineering post-mortems, a Python library for terminal-based plotting, and an interesting technical Twitter account.
TIL: Dark Mode Toggle Web Component by Google Chrome Labs
Today I learned about a custom web component from Google Chrome Labs that makes it easy to add dark mode functionality to websites.
TIL: Python eval(), exec(), and compile() Functions
Today I learned about the differences between Python's eval(), exec(), and compile() functions and their appropriate use cases for dynamic code execution.
TIL: Camelot PDF Tables, PostgreSQL Row Level Security, Zerodha Varsity, and Write Yourself a Git
Today I learned about Camelot for PDF table extraction, PostgreSQL Row Level Security for multi-tenant isolation, Zerodha's free trading education platform, and building Git from scratch.