The Daily Index — Tuesday, February 18, 2025 · TLDR Index

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · Tool

JAILBREAKING YOUR KINDLE

Jailbreaking your Kindle will give you access to custom screensavers, custom fonts, and more apps, but there are risks, such as potentially voiding the Kindle's warranty and permanently breaking the device.

kindlemodding.org

TLDR · GitHub repository

FIXI.JS

fixi.js is an experimental minimalist implementation of generalized hypermedia controls.

github.com

TLDR AI · GitHub repository

MEASURING LLMS MEMORY

This study explores the limitations of existing methods for evaluating the memory capacity of language models. It introduces the "forgetting curve," a new approach for assessing how well models retain information over long contexts.

github.com

TLDR AI · GitHub repository

INDOOR NAVIGATION

AdaSimulator provides a physics-enabled environment for studying Visual Language Navigation (VLN) in realistic settings.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

VIMLM

VimLM is a Vim plugin with a LLM-powered coding assistant similar to GitHub Copilot. It uses local MLX-compatible models, therefore working completely offline. It provides contextual code understanding and AI-assisted features through Vim keybindings, where users can interact with the LLM via prompts (with context included).

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

SCIRA

Scira is an AI-powered search engine that uses various APIs (including Anthropic, Tavily, and several others) for web search, code execution, map integration, and more. It's built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and the Vercel AI SDK, and instructions for setting it as a default search engine are provided.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

FRAMES OF MIND

Frames of Mind allows you to visualize the "thought process" of a language model (DeepSeek R1) by converting its chains of thought into embeddings, plotting them using t-SNE, and analyzing the distances between consecutive thoughts to identify phases like "search," "thinking," and "concluding."

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · Tool

USE THE INDEX, LUKE

This is a free online guide to SQL performance optimization, focusing on indexing for developers by explaining index structure, efficient query writing, and common pitfalls.

use-the-index-luke.com

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

BOOFUZZ

Boofuzz is a fork of and the successor to the venerable Sulley fuzzing framework. Besides numerous bug fixes, boofuzz aims for extensibility. The goal: fuzz everything.

github.com

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

SECTEMPLATES

Sectemplates offers Open source templates you can use to bootstrap your security programs. The templates cover preparation checklists, runbooks, security metrics, and document templates. Users can freely use the content for personal and commercial purposes, excluding products for sale or developed based on it.

github.com

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

HTTPTAP

httptap is a CLI program that allows users to view HTTP(S) requests made by any Linux program.

github.com

TLDR Design · Tool

CREATE SCREENSHOTS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

Quickly create stunning screenshots for social media with customizable backgrounds, browser frames, aspect ratios, borders, and more.

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TLDR Design · Tool

AI EMOJIS GENERATOR

Turn your ideas into emojis with the AI Emoji Generator. You can generate your favorite Slack or Discord emojis with just one click.

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