February 09, 2010

  • How do we kick our synchronous addiction?
    I've been wondering about this too...
  • February 08, 2010

  • MapReduce for Idiots
    simple and less academic sounding than some of the older text on what MapReduce is
  • February 05, 2010

  • Why Vector Clocks Are Easy
    a readable introduction to vector clocks along with some discussion of their real utility and benefits in the comments
  • jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web
    looks like some interesting jquery addons
  • February 03, 2010

  • TWiki TextFormattingRules
    how to write TWiki text
  • It's All Text! :: Add-ons for Firefox
    "Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!"
  • Don’t Hash Secrets
    thoughts on when HMAC-SHA1 is better than just SHA1
  • A successful Git branching model
    good explanation of a very sane looking release and branching model
  • February 01, 2010

  • Linear Bloom Filters
    an interesting variation of "traditional" bloom filters
  • lsyncd
    Lsyncd uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify.
  • Nicholas Piël » Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python
    an interesting comparison of async server libs in python
  • My Extravagant Zsh Prompt
    well, now that's impressive
  • January 31, 2010

  • Pork better for sex than Viagra?
    I look forward to pork spam in my inbox
  • January 30, 2010

  • Break My Concentration and I Break Your Kneecaps
    Collaboration technology doesn't need to be re-invented every six years. The stuff we had in the eighties works just fine.
  • Free Publicity: Who do we help?
    my personal reckoning has just shown me that a bunch of libertarian-leaning geeks in Silicon Valley who refuse to engage with government and civic society at all are never going to make an impact on most of the things that actually make a difference in our lives
  • InstaMapper - Free Real-Time GPS Tracking
    simple web app for tracking your position if you have a GPS enabled phone that's not from a shitty carrier
  • January 29, 2010

  • Unhappy Hipsters
    this site cracks my shit up
  • January 27, 2010

  • Fast storage: 8 SSD Intel X-25M 80GB benchmarks
    fast storage kicks ass for mysql
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