Tuesday assorted links: Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty - Anna’s Blog We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty. 🔗

Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty

TL;DR: We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty.

--- European word translator: an interactive map 🔗

European word translator: an interactive map

Translate any word from English to more than 30 other European languages, on a map

Monday assorted links: GitPodcast Turn any GitHub repository into an engaging podcast in seconds. 🔗

GitPodcast

GitPodcast - Repository to Podcast in Seconds

Turn any GitHub repository into an engaging podcast in seconds.

--- Jose Storopoli, PhD • Shamir's Secret Sharing In this post, we’ll talk about Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS), a cryptographic algorithm that allows us to split a secret into multiple parts, called shares, in such a way that the secret can only be reconstructed if a certain number of shares are combined. The idea is to give a visual intuition of how the algorithm works, and describe the mathematical details behind it. 🔗 https://storopoli.com/blog/shamir-secret-sharing/ --- Stoic Quotes 🔗

Stoic Quotes

Sunday assorted links: Jose Storopoli, PhD • BitVM: How to bridge using 1-of-N trust assumptions How BitVM works 🔗 https://storopoli.com/blog/bitvm/

Saturday assorted links: CoinFlip CoinFlip game in Ark and MutinyNet 🔗

CoinFlip

Bitcoin-powered coin flipping game

Friday assorted links: beala/xkcd-password A password generator inspired by the xkcd password spec:

xkcd

Password Strength

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GitHub

GitHub - beala/xkcd-password: A password generator inspired by the xkcd password spec: http://xkcd.com/936/

A password generator inspired by the xkcd password spec: http://xkcd.com/936/ - beala/xkcd-password

Thursday assorted links: Quest For Sats It's like Geocaching with Bitcoin. Use the map to find hidden containers. 🔗 https://questforsats.com/ --- The Over-Engineering Pendulum | Three Dots Labs blog 🔗

The Over-Engineering Pendulum

I used to picture my dream job as this: I work for an early-stage startup that recently raised a round. The business idea is promising, there’s m...

Wednesday assorted links: ffmpeg for Artists: A Cookbook for Audio and Video Processing on the Command Line ... with Examples! | hyaline.systems 🔗

hyaline.systems

ffmpeg for Artists: A Cookbook for Audio and Video Processing on the Command Line ... with Examples!

A guide to using ffmpeg for artists. ffmpeg is a free tool that allows you to create, convert and manipulate video, really quickly and without open...

Tuesday assorted links: Spacetime maps This is a map that can show time instead of space. Distances in the map reflect travel times: points that are close but take a long time to travel between (by car) get pushed away from each other, and vice versa. 🔗

Spacetime maps

Spacetime maps

--- Atlas of Surveillance Law enforcement surveillance isn’t always secret. These technologies can be discovered in news articles and government meeting agendas, in company press releases and social media posts. It just hasn’t been aggregated before. That’s the starting point for the Atlas of Surveillance, a collaborative effort between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism. 🔗

Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

Monday assorted links: WinterBreak | Kindle Modding Wiki All Kindles can now be jailbroken 🔗

WinterBreak

--- ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot Apple Research Paper Documents Anthropomorphic, Emotionally Expressive Robot Lamp, à la Pixar’s Luxo 🔗 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12493

Saturday assorted links: What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it? - Ars Technica Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers. 🔗

Ars Technica

What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it?

Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers.