Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font

http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ that is crazy yet brilliant at the same time... I love it

Google talent search: error 502?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=50641&tsp=1 hahahaha.. recruiting fail

The Best Way to Cook a Thick Steak

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?/topic/119838-the-best-way-to-cook-a-thick-steak/ I should try this next time I'm up for a heart attack

TOENAIL FUNGUS - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/toenail-fungus/ Vicks Vapor Rub or Thyme or Thyme Oil apparently can treat toenail fungus

Cook the Book: Simple, Perfect Chili

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/simple-perfect-chili-recipe.html this one is about as simple as the one I make... may be worth trying

Delicious Dishings: Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

http://megan-deliciousdishings.blogspot.com/2009/10/mini-pumpkin-whoopie-pies.html I'm going to try making these for Thanksgiving this year.

Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap - Feature

http://lifehacker.com/5391308/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-center-on-the-cheap if I didn't already have a media center PC, I'd hack on this

XtraDB Amazon EC2 Image

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/25/xtradb-amazon-image/ nice!

Ergonomic keybindings for the xmonad window manager on the Colemak keyboard layout

http://web.ist.utl.pt/rtra/comp/usability/colemak/keybindings/xmonad/ interesting hacks on the xmonad layout

mysql-cacti-templates

http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates/ I should look at the cacti templates for monitoring mysql at work

AccidentSketch.com: Create a perfect sketch of your accident

http://draw.accidentsketch.com/ sadly, I can use this

The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts

http://lifehacker.com/5390086/the-master-list-of-new-windows-7-shortcuts this is a useful list of what's new in Windows 7 for keyboard freaks (like me)

CouchDB Implements a Fundamental Algorithm

http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_show/post/CouchDB-Implements-a-Fundamental-Algorithm a good explanation of CouchDB's usage of append-only B-Trees and lockless operations

Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array - Overview

http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/sss/f5100/index.xml a shitload of flash with SATA interfaces

coding subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/coding a new subreddit focused on coding, unlike the "programming" subreddit that seems to have a much wider set of topics

Data By The Numbers

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7589/1.html When dealing with large distributed systems, knowing some basic performance and failure numbers helps you understand what you can reasonably expect both in terms of performance and reliability.

emacs-fu: editing files owned by root with tramp

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/10/editing-files-owned-by-root.html I had no idea that tramp could grok sudo. That's really cool!

ERC: the emacs IRC client

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/06/erc-emacs-irc-client.html of course... Emacs does *everything* right?

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ This is remarkably detailed and complete

ditaa: ascii diagrams to bitmapped graphics

http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ crazy but cool

Official Samsung NC10 Windows 7 Drivers Available from Samsung

http://sammynetbook.com/news.php?item.226.2 excellent... if I ever upgrade

Jeremy Zawodny from Craigslist - The SF MySQL Meetup Group (San Francisco, CA) - Meetup.com

http://www.sfmysql.org/calendar/11687105/?eventId=11687105&action=detail what should I talk about?

How We Made GitHub Fast - GitHub

http://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast good to see stuff like this

Why hasn't Vista sold well?

http://www.marco.org/217159338 I agree 100%

Backup iPod music to PC copy songs from iPod to computer,iPod to iTunes

http://www.copytrans.net/download.php manage ipod without itunes

Credit Scores and Email Domains

http://www.creditkarma.com/trends/domain well isn't that interesting?

Search User Interfaces

http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/ I hope to read this book at some point soon

Design Lessons and Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLessonsAndAdviceFromBuildingLargeScaleDistributedSystems.aspx I love it when folks break down the numbers and present them in an easy to compare format.

Grouping Related Trends with Hadoop and Hive

http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/09/28/grouping-related-trends-with-hadoop-and-hive/ this would be fun to play with someday

Cook the Book: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/pumpkin-whoopie-pies-recipe-cream-cheese-filling-baked-red-hook-brooklyn.html those sound good!

BitSnoop.com - bittorrent search engine

http://bitsnoop.com/ seems to have a good chunk of data

Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot

http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911/five_ways_the_linux_desktop_shoots_itself_in_the_foot#comment Oh, there are more than 5

PsKill

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896683.aspx looks like a good kill tool for windows

pigz - Parallel gzip

http://www.zlib.net/pigz/ runs great w/16 cores!

Intel squeezes one million IOPS from desktop

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/insane_ssd_performance/ WANT!

Tabs vs. Spaces

http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/TabsSpacesBoth.png heh

Dinner Tonight: Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Apricots

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/curried-sweet-potato-soups-fall-recipe.html there's some possible yum here!

California agribusiness pressures school to nix Michael Pollan lecture

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/california-agribusiness-pressures-school-to-nix-michael-pollan-speech.html LAME!

SQLite Foreign Key Support

http://www.sqlite.org/draft/foreignkeys.html wow, I didn't expect to see FKs in SQLite

Disable Windows XP Automatic Update Nagging

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html 'net stop "automatic updates"' is all I needed

Things you didn’t know VLC media player can do

http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/09/things-you-didnt-know-vlc-media-player.html I learned a few things in that

Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems

http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/220600332 finally, an article that tells me some benefits of Erland and OTP without all the hype

Michael Pollan's Favorite Food Rules

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/11/magazine/20091011-foodrules.html some good advice in there

French Toast Recipe

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/french_toast/ Another classic

I Don't Code in my Free Time

http://teddziuba.com/2009/10/i-dont-code-in-my-free-time.html 'I don't enjoy programming so much as I enjoy the satisfaction I get from cracking hard problems. In that case, computer code is a means to an end, but so is my Craftsman socket set. I like to spend free time wrenching on a car or a bike, but I don't set out on Saturday morning and say "I'm going to learn how to use a torque wrench today, because those things are the future of tools".'

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of hahahaha... this is awesome work by The Onion

Looking just at the data

http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/looking-just-at-the-data-2009-10-07/ some really good things to look at in a MySQL deployment

CouchDB emerging as a top choice for offline Web apps

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/couchdb-emerging-top-choice-offline-web-apps-777 decent high-level article on CouchDB

How to Avoid the Top 5 Scale-Out Pitfalls

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/7/how-to-avoid-the-top-5-scale-out-pitfalls.html Simple but really, really good advice

Garlic Prime Rib

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Garlic-Prime-Rib/Detail.aspx made this the other night and it was excellent

Rethinking B-Tree Block Sizes on SSDs

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/10/rethinking-b-tree-block-sizes-on-ssds/ what is the right block size for B-Tree data structures on an SSD?

Olive Oil Pumpkin Bread

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/the-crisper-whisperer-olive-oil-pumpkin-bread.html Mmmm. I'm a sucker for Pumpkin

Limited write (erase) cycles on Intel SSDs

http://communities.intel.com/message/68106 how to use SMART to tell when you Intel SSD will fail

Pumpkin Turkey Chili

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/healthy-delicious-pumpkin-turkey-chili-recipe.html I absolutely must try to make this.

Benford's law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law that's surprising and interesting!

Seriously Italian: Lavender Honey Spice Cake

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/09/seriously-italian-lavender-honey-spice-cake-recipe.html Mmm... this sounds good.

Real Hummus

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Real-Hummus/Detail.aspx I've made this a few tines. It's quite good!

Urban Dictionary: milk chicken bomb

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=milk%20chicken%20bomb that is cruel but awesome