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Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author

What if you wanted to locate Robert Burton's masterful 17th century opus, The Anatomy of Melancholy? But wait: You can't remember his name or the name of the book. That's where you should know to click on over to this delightful and helpful reference guide created by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress. The intent of this guide is to "help readers identify a...

https://guides.loc.gov/lost-titles-forgotten-rhymes
National Institute of Informatics

Informatics is a field that is gaining importance around the globe, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan seeks "to advance integrated research and development activities in information-related fields, including networking, software, and content." First-time visitors should note that most of the materials in the site can be located in sections such as "Research & Project" and...

https://www.nii.ac.jp/en/
rsnapshot

Rsnapshot is a utility that maintains a set of automatically rotated backups. For example, it can be configured to keep hourly backups for the past day, daily backups for the past week, weekly backups for the past month, and monthly backups for the past year. The specific number and timing of backups is completely configurable by the user. In creating these backups, rsnapshot makes extensive use...

https://rsnapshot.org/
The Silver Searcher

The Silver Searcher (or Ag) is a tool for searching through directories of text files, primarily designed for searching source code. It has been optimized for speed and uses a multi-threaded design that allows it to leverage multiple CPU cores in parallel. When run from inside a git or mercurial repository, Ag will automatically skip any files listed in ".gitignore" or ".hgignore." Additional...

https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/