Ches Martin's Unimaginatively-Titled Blog

Old but good general article on King Bhumibol Adulyadej's political and social status in Thailand.

A rather insane zsh prompt. I like the Unicode characters for version control prompts.

An inspiring glimpse into Shaun's retro game dev world. I'll never know how he pulls off all aspects of his projects with such class.

Basically a Flash version of Reason. Pretty insane.

The Fuze apps folks done gone and made an awesome remote video review and collaboration tool.

A simple OpenVPN client/server configuration with masquerading, aimed specifically at Hulu outside the U.S. but good for all kinds of things :-)

Nice middle ground for facilities and cost.

The creme de la creme -- you pay for the Blue Elephant name. You do get an apron and a box of spices and stuff though :-)

The best bang for the buck. Market trip, 6 dishes in one day (which may be overly ambitous for 4 hours, we'll see), 1000 baht.

A terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It 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, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Basic syslog-ng configuration oriented towards Rails apps with multiple app servers.

A well thought-out workflow for master, development, release, hotfix, and feature/topic branches.

Typically excellent post from Ilya Grigorik.

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple's Cocoa frameworks. Objective-J, modeled after Objective-C, built entirely on JavaScript.

Comprehensive Amazon Web Services API wrapper for Python.

RAILS_ENV=staging ruby -r/tmp/require_tracking.rb -e "require 'config/environment'" > /tmp/require_stats.txt And get a dump of the garbage collector's allocated size for each thing required. Nifty

Oldie but goody from Giles Bowkett on realities of VC-backed startups.