Moving Past BlueCloth

Friday, May 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM

Fast Markdown libraries for Ruby: two for the price of one.

The Thing About Git

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 at 12:16 PM

It’s as though every other version control system I've ever used was created by people who were really into version control and Git was created by people who were really into hacking.

GitHub: My Kind of Social Software

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 08:17 PM

Fork me!

PrinceXML Is Extremely Impressive

Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 09:06 AM

I didn’t know it was possible to build such nice closed-source programs.

Google Docs Basically Sucks

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 03:04 AM

The quality of the generated HTML is poor and we need to be able embed custom stylesheets … and do something about those nasty URLs!

Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)

Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 05:57 AM

403 Go Away!

Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 05:13 AM

A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.

Top.app

Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 04:44 AM

MacOS X: How to turn textmode tools into first class applications. Mutt.app, Vim.app, Irssi.app, Top.app, etc.

analogies.google.com

Thursday, September 07, 2006 at 05:49 PM

Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?

Web Based Site Monitoring Tools

Thursday, September 07, 2006 at 03:42 PM

Some praise for Site24x7.

OS X Network Location Support From The Command Line

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 05:50 PM

How to get command line apps to respect the OS X network location. A neat little hack exploiting symlinks and $0.

Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 01:44 PM

Bringing gems from the del.icio.us mailing list to the masses.

Del.icio.us Address-barlets

Monday, August 09, 2004 at 03:11 AM

Using the address bar as a quick del.icio.us lookup tool

"Screen"

Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 06:09 AM

Minimal System Backups with rdiff-backup and Yum

Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 01:46 AM

Some thoughts about a simple backup system that takes advantage of a package management system.

refactormycode.com

Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 08:46 PM / refactormycode.com

Awesome idea. Nice syntax highlighting. (Via Simon Willison)

rsync.net - Terms of Service

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 04:40 PM / rsync.net

Nice TOS: “We are engineers, and we, like you, know very well how you want to be served by us, just as you know very well what not to do here.”

Plainview - A full-screen web browser for Mac

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 04:52 PM / barbariangroup.com

Free (as in beer). Built on WebKit. Simple. Beautiful.

RDiscount API Documentation

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 12:16 AM / wink.rubyforge.org

An initial version of RDiscount’s API docs just published on rubyforge…

Babelmark — Markdown Testbed

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 12:01 AM / babelmark.bobtfish.net

Compare (as in, diffs) the output of 15 different Markdown implementations. Includes every Markdown implementation I've ever come across and then some…

Git Commits That Need to be Pushed

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 11:25 PM / justinfrench.com

Justin French: alias push?='git cherry -v origin' — beautiful.

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

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 08:21 PM / ajaxian.com

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…

Hanna - A Better RDoc

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 09:25 AM / github.com

This is the template used to generate the HAML RDoc. It’s a massive improvement over the default template shipped with rdoc. I can almost stomach rdoc with this — almost.

Git Management KernelTrap Thread

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 07:14 PM / kerneltrap.org

Interesting thread wherein Linus describes the need for various types of Git workflows for leaf developers vs. maintainers. Lot’s of talk about the pros and cons of rebasing in different situations.

peg-markdown

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 04:10 AM / github.com

An implementation of Markdown in portable ANSI C that’s roughly 28.5x faster than the canonical Perl implementation on a 179K test file. Looks like a complete implementation; includes smarty and footnote extensions.

Mozilla Firefox 3 RC1

Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:42 PM / mozilla.com

And I was just starting to get used to the Minefield icon… I've been running the nightlies for about three months now and FF2 is really feeling a bit like legacy software.

LimeChat: IRC Client for OSX

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 03:18 PM / limechat.sourceforge.net

I think I may finally be able to get rid of Colloquy.

Git Magic

Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 06:50 AM / www-cs-students.stanford.edu

All manners of good stuff here.

Say hello to the (GitHub) Network Graph Visualizer

Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 02:40 PM / github.com

Now this is the kind of direction I hope to see GitHub and Gitorious go in the future.

Interactive Google App Engine Python Shell

Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 02:10 AM / shell.appspot.com

The Python REPL running on Google’s infrastructure.

App Engine and Open Source

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 03:39 PM / blog.ianbicking.org

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.”

commit-patch

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 at 03:05 PM / porkrind.org

A nice solution to “The Tangled Working Copy Problem” for VCS’s that don’t allow you to pluck out portions of a working copy to commit. Allows editing the diff that’s about to be committed.

Ruby’s not ready

Monday, April 07, 2008 at 11:08 PM / glyphobet.net

Matt Chisholm evaluates Ruby against Python for an upcoming project and determines that it’s a big pile of doodoo. I can’t agree with the conclusion but he details a lot of Ruby’s warts really quite well.

Jason Blevin's on Moving from Bazaar to Git

Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 03:10 PM / jblevins.org

I'm a bzr refugee in Git-land, myself.

What a DVCS gets you (maybe)

Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 02:57 PM / dehora.net

Bill de hÓra gives some reasons for using a distributed VCS even when the downstream repo is non-distributed.

highlight.js

Friday, April 04, 2008 at 11:11 AM / softwaremaniacs.org

JavaScript based source highlighter with support for many languages in separate modules. Similar to the JavaScript Prettifier in that <pre><code> blocks are automatically detected and highlighted without an explicit language class.

The immediacy of PHP

Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 02:57 PM / loudthinking.com

David Heinemeier Hansson: “PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope.”

Agreed!

Git for Computer Scientists

Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 02:53 PM / eagain.net

Okay, I've read about five of these articles purporting to explain Git’s internal conceptual framework. This was the first that really made things click in any significant way.

Why aren’t you using ionice yet???

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 08:33 AM / friedcpu.wordpress.com

I'm more than a little embarased that I've never heard of this utility. I think most modern kernels prioritize IO with normal nice, though…

BashPitfalls

Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 03:29 PM / wooledge.org:8000

Most of these are relevant to POSIX sh(1). This one gets me every time: echo <<EOF :)

I Can Haz Hardcore Forking Action

Friday, March 14, 2008 at 07:28 PM / rob.cogit8.org

More praise for GitHub from a small team of Django hackers that built a site in three hours on one night with a little help from git…

css_color.vim - CSS color preview : vim online

Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 07:49 AM / vim.org

Makes the background of hexadecimal color codes the respective color. So, background-color:#f00 will have a red background in the vim editing window. Nifty.

Vimperator

Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 04:49 AM / vimperator.mozdev.org

Make Firefox like Vim. No, like, insanely like Vim. Not just h,j,k,l mappings but everything. Looks like it’s been around for awhile. I'm not sure how I missed it.

bzr2git

Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 01:25 AM / pastie.caboo.se

A quick script I threw together to convert simple bzr branches to git repos. Requires git, bzr, and rsync.

GitHub: mongrel_proctitle GemPlugin

Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 12:08 AM / github.com

I repackaged mongrel_proctitle as a GemPlugin so that all mongrels on use it automatically. This is the first chance I've had to play with GitHub, too. Lovin' it.

Process title support for Mongrel

Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:16 PM / purefiction.net

Constantly updates the the process title ($0) with something like: “mongrel_rails [10010/2/358]: handling 127.0.0.1: HEAD /feed/calendar/global/91/6de4”. Let’s you monitor backends with ps and top.

Chroot in OpenSSH

Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 02:11 AM / undeadly.org

“… adds a chroot(2) facility to sshd, controlled by a new sshd_config(5) option ‘ChrootDirectory’. This can be used to ‘jail’ users into a limited view of the filesystem, such as their home directory …”

GitHub: rtomayko's Profile

Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:44 PM / github.com

Huge thanks to al3x for the invite. I'll be writing up my experience over the next week or so.

GitHub

Monday, February 18, 2008 at 03:20 PM / github.com

Seriously interesting web based git browser and collaboration tool from the folks at Engine Yard. If anyone has a spare invite laying around, hook me up: rtomayko@gmail.com. I have a bunch of stuff sitting in bzr repos that I'd like to flip over to git.

9 Practical Ways to Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension

Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 04:31 PM / sixrevisions.com

From the comments: “the only things i find [useful] in Web Developer Extension is the shortcut to clear cache… for other things i use Firebug…” — Me too!

assert{ 2.0 }

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 02:19 PM / oreillynet.com

Nice Ruby assertion library that’s block based. Shows block contents when the assertion fails. Much cleaner than Test::Unit assertions and without the retarded RSpec non-sense. This really ought to be rolled into the stdlib Test::Unit, IMO.

Tab Control

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 12:39 AM / addons.mozilla.org

Lightweight Firefox extension that causes new tabs to open to the right of the current tab. Works with Firefox 3.0 betas and nightlies with extension compatibility checking disabled.

Git User's Manual

Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:06 AM / kernel.org

Finally: “this manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of git.”

valgrind and ruby

Friday, February 08, 2008 at 11:36 PM / blog.evanweaver.com

Evan Weaver: “These leaks tend to grow slowly. Your Rails app definitely has this kind of leak, especially if it uses the ActiveRecord session store.”

Wanted: Git Cheat Sheet for Collaboration

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 04:22 AM / rockstarprogrammer.org

There’s some good questions here. I've been running into a few of the same issues while experimenting with moving some of my bzr projects to git. Can one of the git pros out there have a look?

htop - top(1) replacement with hierarchical process listing, nicer keyboard interface, and more...

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 at 10:53 PM / htop.sourceforge.net

Runs on Linux and FreeBSD (with linproc mounted on /compat/linux/proc). I've always wondered why top(1) just kind of stopped being developed 10 years ago.

Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain!

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 at 04:48 PM / blog.gobansaor.com

You've got to be kidding me…

PostgreSQL 8.3 Release Notes

Monday, February 04, 2008 at 12:27 PM / postgresql.org

I've been watching the weekly changelogs and there were a ton of performance tweaks. The FreeBSD port landed today as well.

Modern Firefox Theme That Looks Like Netscape 3.0 Running On Windows 3.1

Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 01:15 AM / addons.mozilla.org

This is pretty funny. Even the options dialogs are themed.

pv(1) - Pipe Viewer

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 02:44 PM / ivarch.com

pv can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 07:21 AM / kb.iu.edu

Dennis Ritchie: “There was a facility that would execute a bunch of commands stored in a file; it was called runcom for ‘run commands’, and the file began to be called ‘a runcom’. rc in Unix is a fossil from that usage.”

DTerm - A command line anywhere and everywhere

Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 05:16 AM / decimus.net

Payware GUI shell thingy for MacOS. This is not a QuickSilver/Launchbar clone. It’s more like a magical bash interpreter that knows things about what’s happening in various Mac GUI applications (like Finder, Safari, etc).

NetNewsWire is now free!

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 02:21 PM / newsgator.com

I wonder why newsgator would make this free. Seems like there was a pretty decent slate of paying users. Losing ground to Google Reader? Eventual ad placement? Just wanted to be nice? Weird.

Working Productively in Bash’s vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 02:45 AM / catonmat.net

“I am going to introduce you to bash’s vi editing mode and give out a detailed cheat sheet with the default keyboard mappings for this mode.”

Nmap for Beginners

Monday, January 07, 2008 at 08:42 AM / blog.fourthirty.org

I can never remember nmap args for some reason…

A pool for the W3C validators

Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 09:39 AM / xhtml-css.com

This is a good idea. The w3c hosted validators tend to perform on the bad side of horrible. I've run the validator locally but never thought to look for mirrors.

Bazaar goes 1.0!

Friday, December 14, 2007 at 11:27 AM / lists.ubuntu.com

New, faster repo format and a bunch of other tweaks make in during the RC process.

Google Chart API Developer's Guide

Friday, December 07, 2007 at 02:17 AM / code.google.com

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.

Run Internet Explorer 5/6/7 Natively in OS X

Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 06:42 AM / macapper.com

This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.

Bourne Shell Server Pages

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 08:28 PM / hyperrealm.com

“Installation is left as an exercise for the reader.”

macvim - Google Code

Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 02:10 AM / code.google.com

Absolutely beautiful new Vim port for OS X – sane GUI tabs, multiple windows, client/server mode, fonts look great. Stop building Carbon Vim from source!

Bwana

Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 12:02 AM / bruji.com

Manual page URL handler for Safari (e.g., “man:bash”, “man:sort” in URL box). References to other man pages are hyperlinked very nicely and the pages themselves are formatted quite nicely.

Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux

Monday, November 05, 2007 at 10:52 PM / labs.mozilla.com

That was quick. IMO, the Mac needs this application more than other platform’s (including Windows) because of its document oriented application switching.

pgAdmin III v1.8.0 Final Released

Monday, October 22, 2007 at 04:48 PM / pgadmin.org

“v1.8.0 represents nearly a year of development and testing to bring you a host of new features and improvements”

ManPageView

Monday, October 15, 2007 at 08:08 PM / vim.org

Vim add-in for viewing manpages, perldoc (both system and embedded), help, info, and php files. Maybe I'll finally be able to read all that GNU info doc I keep hearing about in the GNU coreutils man pages.

NoSquint: Firefox Extension

Friday, October 05, 2007 at 11:36 AM / urandom.ca

NoSquint remembers your text zoom level per site, so you will only need to adjust text size once for each site that uses text that is too small for your eyes.

The rsync(1) Algorithm

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 at 02:33 PM / en.wikipedia.org

Some detail on rsync’s “rolling checksum” algorithm invented by Andrew Tridgell.

Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem

Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:39 AM / habilis.net

“… cron’s pathological behavior has be petrified into the Unix standards. So if it isn’t broken, it isn’t cron.”

Jottit

Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 07:51 PM / jottit.com

Aaron is at it again. This looks like the perfect web based notepad.

A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds [wincent.com]

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 08:50 PM / wincent.com

“…. But after closely studying Git I'm a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it” and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with “the solution” for version control."

Bill de hÓra: Design for the web

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 08:44 PM / dehora.net

“… on Java, too many web frameworks – think JSF, or Struts 1.x – consider the Web something you work around using software patterns. The goal is get off the web, and back into middleware…”

SSH for iPhone

Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 09:46 PM / www-personal.umich.edu

You had me at “SSH”.

Ruby Unroller: A Ruby script execution tracer [rubyinside.com]

Saturday, June 09, 2007 at 10:44 AM / rubyinside.com

Nice. This is going to save me some serious time.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 08:05 PM / leftlogic.com

Oh wow. I've been trying to find a single page that has every unicode character on it with its hex counterpart but this is pretty fantastic.

Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Etch

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 08:10 AM / howtoforge.com

Nifty combo.

Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about [osxdaily.com]

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 05:18 PM / osxdaily.com

About half of these will be well-known to the UNIX hacker but there’s a couple I've not seen elsewhere: lsbom, softwareupdate, screencapture, and lipo.

Growl Notifications Firefox Add-on [addons.mozilla.org]

Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 10:49 AM / addons.mozilla.org

Perfectly done.

Sam Ruby: Genshi Filters for Venus

Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 06:32 PM / intertwingly.net

“In the remaining four templates, the translation from XSLT to Genshi markup is straightforward. And generally, the Genshi markup is both more compact and more powerful.”

What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts

Friday, April 13, 2007 at 06:34 PM / programming.newsforge.com

Nice look at techniques for writing portable sh.

GNU Coreutils ChangeLog

Monday, April 09, 2007 at 04:29 AM / cvs.savannah.gnu.org

GNU Readline ChangeLog

Monday, April 09, 2007 at 04:28 AM / tiswww.case.edu

CHANGES

Using mutt on OS X [linsec.ca]

Monday, March 12, 2007 at 03:26 AM / linsec.ca

This is pretty darn close to my configuration but I used the mutt-devel port… Oh, and my ~/.procmailrc is pretty insane also :)

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 [video.google.com]

Friday, March 09, 2007 at 02:05 PM / video.google.com

Recent presentation by Mr. Bram Moolenaar on how to be a bad-ass with Vim.

Google gtags version 1.0

Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 06:24 PM / google-code-updates.blogspot.com

Best idea ever. EVER!

UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 02:15 PM / teamquest.com

Love it! This is less of an article and more of a minute by minute account of hacker seeing something he doesn’t understand and following the trail (man, code, calculus) to understanding.

Vi Input Manager Plugin

Sunday, February 04, 2007 at 05:27 PM / corsofamily.net

“Essentially, this add Vi command functionality (albeit a small subset) to any (and all) text editors that use the Cocoa text system; e.g., Safari, TeXShop, XCode, etc.”

Gyre - The open source, web-based IDE and debugger for Rails

Saturday, February 03, 2007 at 09:26 PM / gyre.bitscribe.net

Interesting concept. I'll have to check this out once it comes out of “pre-pre-pre alpha” (which doesn’t really make sense, btw. There’s nothing more alpha than alpha).

Updated vim binaries for OS X 10.3, 10.4

Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 01:48 PM / macvim.org

Vim 7.0.188 Universal and PPC binaries are up.

3 pillars [dehora.net]

Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 06:42 PM / dehora.net

“the version control system is a first order effect on software, along with two others – the build system and the bugtracker. Those choices impact absolutely everything else. Things like IDEs, by comparison, don’t matter at all.”

subtlety : a remote subversion excursion

Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:12 PM / subtlety.errtheblog.com

Put in a subversion URL and get back an RSS feed for tracking changes.

Are we gonna bash Restlet next? [brandonwerner.com]

Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:20 AM / brandonwerner.com

I've been meaning to spend some time in Restlet for some time now. Looks like it’s gaining traction with the EE crowd. Err, well, uhh, some of the EE crowd, anyway.

Access localhost via name from Parallels Desktop [macosxhonts.com]

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:12 PM / macosxhints.com

This is another thing that’s been driving me crazy for a while now. I'm going to try the bonjour technique mentioned in the comments.

An OpenID is not an account!

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 11:38 AM / simonwillison.net

OpenID solves the identity problem, not the trust problem. When a user authenticates with OpenID, what they are doing is stating “I have the ability to prove my ownership of this URL”.

demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible Microsoft HTML

Friday, January 05, 2007 at 02:47 AM / fourmilab.ch

“The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform.”

Text email clients revisited [linux.com]

Friday, January 05, 2007 at 01:59 AM / linux.com

I've been using a fetchmail, procmail, and mutt setup on my Mac for a few months now in an attempt to get control over five different mailboxes and it’s working pretty well. If you've got some free time and lots of mail, consider playing around with one o

ngrep - network grep

Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 02:18 AM / ngrep.sourceforge.net

“strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions”

Graffletopia - Stencils for OmniGraffle

Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 01:32 AM / graffletopia.com

Rock on.

Vienna

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 04:46 PM / opencommunity.co.uk

Nice looking Newsreader for Mac OS X (F/OSS with an Apache 2.0 license and public subversion repository).

IEs4Linux

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 04:09 PM / tatanka.com.br

Whose going to get this running on OS X? I guess it doesn’t really matter. I can always X over to a Linux box…

SeamlessRDP

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 01:27 PM / cendio.com

Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel’s Coherence Mode for RDP.

Cocoa Remote Desktop

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 01:24 PM / cord.sourceforge.net

A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.

kuler

Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 12:09 PM / kuler.adobe.com

Handsome Flash based color mixing tool and color theme sharing site.

Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast

Friday, December 08, 2006 at 08:37 PM / soylentfoo.jnewland.com

Holy… This is big. Huge big.

Face-mounted Lucid Dreaming Mask

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 04:15 PM / cre.ations.net

If someone puts one of these together I'll buy it for $50 USD.

gotAPI.com

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 03:31 PM / gotapi.com

The best attempt I've seen at splicing multiple API references together. This uses the external documentation but provides indexing and browsing features.

UNIX productivity tips

Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 12:39 PM / www-128.ibm.com

Best UNIX productivity article I've read in a long while.

FireBug

Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 04:52 PM / addons.mozilla.org

Firefox extension with some promising script debugging/spying features.

Trac Hacks - Plugins, Macros, etc.

Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 03:59 PM / trac-hacks.org

Nice.

web economy bullshit generator

Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 10:01 AM / dack.com

haha!

webkit2png

Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 01:49 PM / paulhammond.org

Dumps graphic (PNG) representations of a webpage to disk using Apple Webkit. Similar to a screenshot but better because it can capture the entire height and width of a page even when they extend pass your screen size.

Shell Tips and Tricks

Saturday, December 24, 2005 at 10:51 PM / linux-mag.com

… and not just the usual suspects either.

HTTP PUT and GET from emacs

Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 07:04 AM / redfoot.net

Yep :)

Bookmarklet Builder

Monday, October 10, 2005 at 10:39 PM / subsimple.com

Useful…

JHymn

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 01:43 PM / hymn-project.org

Oh wow, I just ripped all my iTunes DRM'd songs down to unprotected AAC in about 10 minutes. These guys did a great job.

Color Scheme Generator 2

Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 03:35 AM / wellstyled.com

This is probably the nicest color picker for choosing compliments off of a base color.

The BuildBot

Friday, July 08, 2005 at 09:21 AM / buildbot.sourceforge.net

Let’s build an open / distributed build network.

Google command line

Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 02:40 PM / projects.felipc.com

could be useful…

DarwinPorts Guide

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 01:15 PM / darwinports.org

Alright, it looks like I'm going to have to break down and learn how to package ports since none of this crap is working on Tiger.

The Apple Blog - Quicksilver Changes Everything

Monday, June 13, 2005 at 03:43 PM / theappleblog.com

Seriously.

YubNub

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 at 01:40 PM / yubnub.org

This does look cool.

Typo - Weblog package atop Rails

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 06:50 AM / typo.leetsoft.com

I'm going to see about moving my weblog to this..

Cell Phone Finder - A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 03:24 PM / myrateplan.com

Right on.

Design by Wiki

Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 01:09 PM / onlamp.com

This is too cool.

Using Bash's History Effectively

Thursday, April 07, 2005 at 11:14 AM / talug.org

Need to move away from history | grep -i

How to enable Emacs Keybindings w/ Firefox (Linux, Mac, Windows)

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 at 03:04 PM / kb.mozillazine.org

One down, two to go…

Starbucks Delocator

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 at 08:03 AM / delocator.net

Find locally owned alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood.

Emacs as Cargo

Monday, April 04, 2005 at 11:15 AM / pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Came across this odd section in a “leaving Emacs for vi” document and it has a really interesting description of the history of FSF/GNU, Linux, and the evolution of Free Software. Seems out of place in this document but is worth reading.

Conkeror - Emacs mode for Firefox

Sunday, March 27, 2005 at 01:42 PM / conkeror.mozdev.org

Make firefox act like Emacs. How cool is that?

First Video Game Written In Ant

Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 12:40 AM / jonaquino.blogspot.com

For christ sakes, man! I hope Hani doesn’t ever see this…

Emacs WebDev Environment

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 01:26 PM / dzr-web.com

Information on setting up emacs for (X)HTML web development including nxml-mode, rng-validate-mode, etc.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line, part 1.

Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 10:10 PM / redhat.com

Introduction to being a complete bad-ass.

Markdown in Python

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 04:33 PM / freewisdom.org

An implementation of John Gruber’s markdown text to XHTML processor in Python.

del.icio.us/popular/sparkline

Monday, February 14, 2005 at 12:04 AM / del.icio.us

del.icio.us/popular with nifty sparkline graphs for tracking popularity over time (via Simon Willison)

Vonage Third Party Call Control

Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 12:23 AM / secure.click2callu.com

Vonage hacking..

The Unassociated Press

Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 11:50 PM / nytimes.com

New York Times covers the Wikinews project.

TheyWorkForYou.com

Sunday, February 06, 2005 at 10:35 PM / theyworkforyou.com

Track whether your MP is working for you in the UK Parliament.. Really cool looking piece of civic software.

Subversion quick start

Saturday, February 05, 2005 at 09:44 PM / nedbatchelder.com

Quick guide to loading a new project into subversion.

New York Times Link Generator

Tuesday, February 01, 2005 at 09:10 AM / nytimes.blogspace.com

Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.

Subversion for CVS Users

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:54 PM / osdir.com

Title says it all..

My Experiences With Subversion

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:50 PM / chiark.greenend.org.uk

Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.

Version Control with Subversion

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:52 AM / svnbook.red-bean.com

Entire subversion book on one page.

Eclipse Java-GNOME Demo

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 03:29 PM / overholt.ca

Demo of 100% free Java/Eclipse natively compiled with gcj. This is slated for Fedora Core 4.

Picasa

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 08:11 AM / picasa.com

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

GovTrack.us: Track Federal Legislation

Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 01:38 AM / govtrack.us

Find out and track what’s going on in congress. We need more tools like this.

Get Album Art for your iTunes Songs.

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 at 02:06 PM / art4itunes.com

Export list of songs from iTunes, upload here, drag images to iTunes. Nice.

gyum - Graphical User Interface for Yum

Thursday, December 09, 2004 at 01:16 AM / fedoranews.org

Cool. This is one of the most frequent requests on yum-devel. Not sure who’s behind this though because I don’t remember seeing it discussed on the mailing list.

4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1

Tuesday, December 07, 2004 at 05:44 PM / ficml.org

Is it just me or are color pickers the only apps that are innovating on the web? You can never have too many of these.

GNU make Manual

Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 05:46 PM / gnu.org

All on one page :)

The py.test tool and library

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 02:33 PM / codespeak.net

This seems to be a bit cleaner and more functional than the standard python unittest module.

ColorMatch Remix

Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 12:34 AM / colormixers.com

Another great all-html color-picking app.

Build your own search engine with ht://Dig

Friday, November 12, 2004 at 08:56 AM / newsforge.com

when you can’t afford a google appliance…

httperf - A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance

Saturday, November 06, 2004 at 10:35 AM / hpl.hp.com

I can finally shelve my bash/curl framework :)

HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 at 01:58 PM / engadget.com

only takes 15 pages to explain.

Kula: 1001

Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 03:25 PM / 1001.kung-foo.tv

A flickr desktop client.

Google Help Central

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 12:40 AM / google.com

perfect..

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

Saturday, October 23, 2004 at 11:04 AM / incompetech.com

adobe reader is a tool of pirates. this will undoubtedly strangle the nascent graph paper market!

Sam's Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 03:40 PM / freebooks.by.ru

yeah whatever… I've been trying to learn emacs for years.

anacron for Mac OS X 10.3

Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 11:01 PM / alastairs-place.net

Hard to believe this isn’t part of the standard distribution.

A Tao of Regular Expressions

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 11:57 AM / sitescooper.org

GadflyB5: SQL Relational Database in Python

Sunday, October 10, 2004 at 09:35 PM / gadfly.sourceforge.net

Can be run in-process or client/server. Whole database stays in memory. Could be super useful in some situations.

TRAMP User Manual

Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 02:29 PM / fifi.org

A remote file editing package for Emacs. Uses ssh/scp.

delicious extension for mozilla firefox

Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 01:34 PM / delicious.mozdev.org

Finally..

Synergy

Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 07:37 AM / synergy2.sourceforge.net

“share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems” via PhotoMatt.

EmacsNewbie

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 09:55 AM / emacswiki.org

Super useful tips on diving into Emacs.

Binary- it's digitalicious!

Sunday, September 19, 2004 at 02:17 PM / nickciske.com

ASCII to Binary converter. Does Hex and Octal too.

Emacs Notepad

Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 01:22 AM / ftrain.com

A bunch of extremely useful notes on hacking emacs. (Ftrain.com)

Password generator bookmarklet

Monday, September 06, 2004 at 08:20 PM / angel.net

Generates per-site passwords based on a master password and the site’s domain name.

Coral: The New York University Distribution Network

Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 10:14 PM / scs.cs.nyu.edu

A distributed P2P web cache thingy that looks cool. Need a bookmarklet to generate the URLs.

The Joel on Software Forum - Explain why emacs is popular? (Not a troll)

Friday, August 20, 2004 at 02:16 PM / discuss.fogcreek.com

After using Emacs for three years, I think I finally need to learn how to use it. This has some good pointers.

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

Thursday, August 19, 2004 at 12:43 AM / rajivraj.europe.webmatrixhosting.net

This could be really really really big.

Nopaste

Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 08:34 PM / rafb.net

A solution to paste flooding IRC channels. Paste code to this website. The paste stays for 24 hours. Neat. It’s kind of fun just browsing the Recent Pastes.

TerminalColors

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 10:40 PM / culater.net

Modify the RGB values used for ANSI colors in Terminal.app.

QuickTopic - Instant Discussion Space

Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 03:48 AM / quicktopic.com

Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.

The seder's grab bag

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 02:18 PM / sed.sourceforge.net

This much sed will eat your brains!

It's so del.icio.us

Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 10:24 PM / randomthoughts.vandorp.ca

Pythonic interface to the del.icio.us REST APIs.

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers

Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 06:10 AM / lights.com

Bunch of News Readers

Just Fucking Google It

Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 06:09 AM / fuckinggoogleit.com

I need to send this link to my mom..

Python Sidebar

Friday, July 23, 2004 at 03:42 AM / projects.edgewall.com

ColorWhore

Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 09:36 AM / colorwhore.com

Rockin color picker.

Color scheme

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 01:40 PM / wellstyled.com

JavaScript Toolbox - Calendar Popup To Select Date

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 04:07 AM / mattkruse.com