joshuago’s Bookmarks

31 OCT 2025
Free software scares normal people

80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes.

25 OCT 2025
Yahoo Finance Earnings Calendar

Calendar for public companies' upcoming quarterly earnings calls.

25 OCT 2025
Circle Testnet Faucet

Send testnet USDC and EURC to your wallet to experiment with fund flows in your app or smart contract for free.

21 OCT 2025
Render

A potential successor to Heroku.

20 OCT 2025
Fastmail

Small, independent email services provider for business email services. Open source contributions in the form of JMAP and such.

01 DEC 2020
[Herman Martinus] My product is my garden

A well-articulated viewpoint that resonates: "I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so. I want to make things that don’t scale. To see people tuck into them and enjoy them as people, not as stats."

11 FEB 2012
STXXL

The core of STXXL is an implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory (out-of-core) computations, i. e., STXXL implements containers and algorithms that can process huge volumes of data that only fit on disks.

10 FEB 2012
How the Boehm Garbage Collector Works

The Boehm GC is able to function without any cooperation from the compiler or the runtime environment. In C, the only adjustment one needs to make is to redirect calls to stdlib’s malloc()/free() to equivalent ones supplied by the Boehm GC.