Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Jeff Atwood: Learning to code is overrated - NY Daily News

nydailynews.com/opinion/jeff-atwood-learning-code-overrated-article-1.2374772
Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public

Tufte-LaTeX

tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/
Tufte-LaTeX : A Tufte-inspired LaTeX class for producing handouts, papers, and books

The Power of Vulnerability | Brene Brown | TED Talks - YouTube

youtube.com/watch
Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a dee...

There There — Works

therethere.is/works
The work of Jonathan Harris and collaborators

juuso/BozoCrack

github.com/juuso/BozoCrack
BozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load. Instead of rainbow tables, dictionaries, or brute force, BozoCrack simply finds the plaintext password. Specifically, it googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results. It works way better than it ever should.