Ryan Tomayko

Re-Reader: A stripped-down re-style of Google Reader by John Holdun —

Minimalist Google Reader theme with a focus on typography and removal of administrative debris. I just now installed it and passed quickly through my feeds but that’s all it took. This thing is gorgeous:

All sidebar and other navigation is completely gone, so be sure to hit ? (or i? with Vimium installed) for a list of keyboard shortcuts.

Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta —

Google’s shipping official beta builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux. I’ve been using Chromium for a few months now and it’s definitely become my favorite browser. It needs a flash blocking extension and an ad blocker. I’m using userscripts for both but they’re a little janky.

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell —

This is pretty rad. You can do web searches and whatnot without leaving a command line style interface but you can also do stuff like read news feeds. Check it:

I’d love to settle into this kind of workflow but these shell interfaces always have one thing or another wrong with them. Maybe this is The One. We’ll see.

Let's make the web faster —

Big giant list of articles, essays, tutorials, and tech talks on making the web faster. This is part of a larger Google Code project that asks, “what would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine?”

GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward —

A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and evolution of the google file system (GFS). Really good interview. They’re fairly critical of the original design and how GFS is being used today. There’s also some discussion of an entirely new and incompatible version of GFS, designed from the ground up for the types of workloads GFS is being used for today.

The Google Search Redesign —

It was terrifying to think that they may have actually considered making the page more edgy in some retarded acknowledgement of bling.com. Best redesign ever.

What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way —

The Google Wave demo blew me away but I think Anil gets a lot right here. If the past is a good predictor of the future, Wave is a little too orphaned, a little too complex, and doing a little too much to be adopted quickly on any kind of large scale.

Slacker databases break all the old rules —

Good writeup on the rise of document and columnar databases, including Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere.

Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure —

Interesting. I’ve been using the jquery-1.2.3.js hosted on google code for a few months now. Maybe I should have read the TOS…

Google Doctype —

What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.

Clouds Rolling In: The Google App Engine Q&A —

Stephen O'Grady with the obligatory Q&A, which is excellent as always.

Interactive Google App Engine Python Shell —

The Python REPL running on Google’s infrastructure.

App Engine and Open Source —

Ian Bicking: “Many people are excited about how far up you might be able to scale something based on App Engine, but I’m excited about how far it could be scaled down.”

Google App Engine —

Christmas in Python land! Run Python/WSGI code on Google’s infrastructure. This is an incredibly H U G E win for the Python web community and further validates WSGI’s architectural awesomeness.

20 Year Archive on Google Groups —

I’m apparently the last person on the internet to see this. The rise of internet culture as recorded on Usenet. It’s beautiful, really.

Google Super Tuesday Twitter Map View Thingy —

Watch tweets pop up around the country on a google map as people comment on the goings-on of Super Tuesday.

Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain! —

You’ve got to be kidding me…

Google Chart API Developer's Guide —

I would use this ASAP if not for the privacy requirements around the data I’m charting. There’s really no good general purpose graphing libraries that use nice and simple vector shapes and styles.

Advanced Python (or Understanding Python) —

Thomas Wouters covers a ton of ground (quickly) on lots of Python’s interesting features. This may be the quickest way for newbies (or refugees) to come up to speed with the language.

Adam Bosworth Leaves Google [searchengineland.com] —

I’m convinced that anything health related will be a tough space. It’s a bit surprising at how little the Google Health team put out, though, given that Bosworth has one of the best track records in technology. Weird.

Google gtags version 1.0 —

Best idea ever. EVER!

All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW —

Boo – links are made to be followed.

Can't save in Google Docs? Disable Firebug! —

Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.

JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side —

Ouch! That’s not only evil, it’s dumb. gasp

Google Campus Video Tour —

ABC’s Bob Woodruff got a camera in there somehow..

The Beauty of Simplicity —

On Google and other things..

Google command line —

could be useful…

Lever and fulcrum —

“Jim Gray reminded me that TerraServer does offer SOAP interfaces. And yet those interfaces demonstrably have not inspired a flurry of innovation. Why not?”

Google Search: programming language —

How cool is this?

Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction —

Google for president!

Gizoogle - Fo all you beotches who wanna find shiznit —

All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..

Picasa —

Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.

The Gillmor Gang - January 14, 2005 (Adam Bosworth) —

Adam Bosworth on the Gillmor Gang.

Bashing Google —

Howard Stern and journalists throw some jabs at Google.

The New York Times : Letter to the Editor : Are Google's New Libraries a Good Thing? —

hahah ahahahah ahahah ahahaa! BBbwwwwhhahahahaaa! ha. hhhaaa. huuh…. ohhhhhh..

What's Next for Google —

Is google the next netscape?

Google Help Central —

perfect..

Google Search: "Miserable Failure" —

Bwwwaaahahahaaa.

The Google Browser, Reloaded —

Some more speculation about a Google Browser.

Google Labs Aptitude Test —

21 Reason’s Google will never hire me.

Help the Googlebot —

Tips and techniques for helping Googlebot. If you are a symantic markup perfectionist, you probably already have most of these right.

Google.rss - Serves you Google's search results as RSS feed. —

This could be really really really big.

Just Fucking Google It —

I need to send this link to my mom..