Azeem Arshad

Linklog

• 14 Sep 2013 00:09

  Feynman Lectures on Physics : Vol 1

  http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html ★

  Nicely compiled HTML pages of lectures by Richard Feynman. Volume 1 is "mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat"

• 14 Sep 2013 00:09

  Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design and Skewmorphism

  http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/ ★

  Good Article on recent shift towards flatter UI and logos

• 09 Sep 2013 23:09

  Reversible Computing

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing ★

  Reversible computing is study of computing models where computation is reversible in a physical and logical sense. Reversible computing could improve energy efficiency of computers beyond the theoretical limits of present day reversible models of computation.

• 09 Sep 2013 23:09

  Clojure Documentation

  http://clojure-doc.org/ ★

  Community driven documentation for Clojure. Contains Guides, Tutorials, cookbooks etc.

• 08 Sep 2013 18:09

  Crystal: Programming Language

  http://crystal-lang.org/ ★

  Interesting compile-to-native programming language with ruby like syntax, C bindings support. Interesting type inference system with a union type.

• 08 Sep 2013 15:09

  Chirptune: Javascript music composer

  http://chirp.rezoner.net/composer/ ★

  Javascript composer for chirp tunes, with programmable sounds.

• 06 Sep 2013 15:09

  ShareLaTeX: Online LaTeX Editor

  https://www.sharelatex.com/ ★

  Full fledged LaTex editor in browser with preview. Includes templates for different kinds of documents. No live update for preview :(

• 05 Sep 2013 20:09

  Tessel: Javascript microcontroller

  http://technical.io/ ★

  Tessel is an Internet-connected microcontroller for software developers. Tessel runs JavaScript right on the device—no server necessary. Use your own IDE and libraries to program it, just like web development. Uploading new firmware is as easy as tessel push!

• 02 Sep 2013 10:09

  K2pdfopt: PDF to Kindle tool

  http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ ★

  Excellent commandline tool to optimize PDFs for viewing in kindle. Nicely optimizes 2 column layout in academic publications. Also comes with OCR support, which enables text selection and annotation in the optimized PDF (though the conversion becomes significantly slower). Available for Linux, Windows and Mac.

• 01 Sep 2013 23:09

  Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

  http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_da… ★

  TED Talk by Clay Shirky, where he discusses how the open source code development model could transform law making, democratic process.