The Daily Index — Tuesday, October 3, 2023 · TLDR Index

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

DAKTILO

daktilo is a command-line program that plays typewriter sounds every time you press a key.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

STREAMINGLLM

Language models are limited by their context length. The context length is usually limited by compute hardware and clever algorithmic updates. This is an algorithmic update that streams the tokens through the attention mechanism to allow theoretically infinite context window size. Usually, these claims fall over at scale, but this one seems robust as it can work on existing pre-trained models without fine-tuning. Will it make the forgotten middle issue worse though?

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

IMPROVING OPTICAL FLOW WITH GAUSSIAN ATTENTION

Optical flow helps figure out how things move in images. This study introduces new techniques using Gaussian Attention to focus on finer details and match them better, resulting in a model named GAFlow.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

OPENSTATUS

OpenStatus is an open-source synthetic monitoring platform. It features both custom monitoring and alerting, with support for custom headers and fast incident alerts.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

INSTANT.DEV

Instant.dev offers a speedy, dependable, and battle-tested Object-Relational Mapping and migration management system for Postgres 13+ in JavaScript. For individuals familiar with Ruby on Rails, instant.dev introduces functionality similar to ActiveRecord in the Node.js, Deno, and Bun ecosystems. It’s designed to work with any JavaScript stack.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

SHOELACE

A collection of professionally designed, everyday UI components built on Web standards. Works with all frameworks as well as regular

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TLDR Design · Tool

EASING MADE EASY

Epic Easy enables you to create your custom animation curve, spring, or bounce. If you're unfamiliar with custom animations, presets are also available. The tool includes export to CSS, SCSS, Objective-C, and Swift.

epiceasing.com

TLDR Design · Tool

UNIQUE COLOR COMBINATIONS

In 2012, Tobias van Schneider felt the need to collect and combine unique colors for his future projects. From that, ColorClaim was born. This page displays 120 gorgeous color pairs, mostly made of one main and one accent color.

vanschneider.com

TLDR Design · Tool

2023 DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY INDEX

A deep dive into almost 40,000 enterprise websites uncovers how top brands lack digital accessibility and inclusive design. Discover key insights on web accessibility gaps and how to avoid them.

audioeye.com

TLDR Design · Tool

NAMING THINGS NEEDN’T BE HARD

Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties, or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.

classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com