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High concurrency counters without sharding – Nick’s Blog – Using memcache + tasks to increment and store counters rather than sharding (on App Engine.)
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hummingbird @ GitHub – Real-time web tracking project built on node.js, canvas, websockets…
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Who You Gonna Call? « Improv Everywhere – Ghostbusters improv at The New York Public Library
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A New Type of Phishing Attack « Aza on Design – A sneaky phishing attack by manipulating favicon and page contents of a background tab. Includes a video and live demonstration.
View ArticleUsing the Serial Port from JavaScript
seriality – Project Hosting on Google Code – A browser plugin enabling Serial port access from JavaScript. Connect your web apps to microcontrollers! Amazingly simple, but this is a really exciting...
View ArticleYou can’t (afford to) innovate like Apple
You Can’t Innovate Like Apple — by Pragmatic Marketing – A great piece on Apple design and experience, and what it takes to achieve it.
View ArticleUsing progressive enhancement for mobile/web layout
"Rethinking the Mobile Web" by Yiibu – Contains some nice examples on using progressive enhancement to skin a website for a wide variety of devices (desktop, mobile, etc.)
View ArticleMr. Job: A python framework for writing Hadoop jobs
mrjob at master – GitHub – A python framework for writing/deploying jobs to a Hadoop cluster or Amazon Elastic MapReduce service.
View ArticleCleaning an Idle Air Control Value (IACV) on a Subaru
My ’02 WRX started-up with a wandering (and lean) idle this morning. Thankfully, all it took was a $6 gasket and 20-minutes of pulling, cleaning, and re-installing the IACV. So far, it seems to have...
View ArticlePython library for auto-tagging text
Here’s an interesting text-classifying library that extracts/computes “tags” for a given piece of text: apresta/tagger – GitHub – Python library that generates 'tags' for a piece of text (i.e., useful...
View ArticleWriting Hadoop jobs as shell commands
parbash – Parallel BASH – Google Project Hosting – Looks like an interesting project — it allows writing/running Hadoop jobs as shell commands (grep, awk, perl, etc.) for text processing.
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Leanpub – Neat ebook publishing service that uses a shared Dropbox, and Markdown (or HTML) files. Geeky, but amazingly self-service and easy.
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Links from January 21st through February 19th: Open Source – The Washington Times – A number of Django-based apps released as open source. Favicon Editor – Nicely done, browser-based, favicon editor /...
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Links from February 23rd through March 10th: ColorBox – customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery – Shoebot – Looks like a headless NodeBox implementation… If it works, it might be a neat solution for...
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Links from March 10th through March 19th: Analytics for Bookmarklets & Injected Scripts – Pinging Google Analytics from bookmarklets. Accessing the datastore remotely with remote_api – Google App...
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Links from March 20th through April 17th: Product Planner – View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More. – Sharing user (screen) flows for web interaction. Uploading Data – Google App Engine –...
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Links from April 17th through May 16th: Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server @ bitdroppings – Detailed example on setting up a home file server using Solaris and ZFS. sweetcron – Google...
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APC step by step – a set on Flickr – Visual instructions for making a bare-bones Atari Punk Console. For more background, see Atari Punk Console on Wikipedia.
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Bus Pirate manual « Dangerous Prototypes – Manual (and lots of helpful links) for the Bus Pirate How-to: Bus Pirate probe cable – Hack a Day – Details on making simple probe cables for a Bus Pirate....
View ArticleThe Go Programming Language – A new, ope…
The Go Programming Language – A new, open source programming language developed at Google. There’s some interesting stuff in here. Lots of nice shortcuts if you’re coming from C++. Given the choice, I...
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