Ches Martin's Unimaginatively-Titled Blog

Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website. It provides a simple DSL for performing actions on every page of a site, skipping certain URLs, and calculating the shortest path to a given page on a site.

Companion web site to perhaps the most popular textbook for learning Thai, with exercises and study aids.

Not the greatest information design here, but the site is rich with useful study materials.

Practical and entertaining Thai lessons from a cute, goofy Thai lady. What more do you want?

Probably the best free web resource for Thai language students. Lessons, dictionary, linguistic and grammar references, extensive audio throughout the site.

Open source VFX goodness from ILM and Sony Pictures Imageworks

Alembic is an open computer graphics interchange framework. Alembic distills complex, animated scenes into a non-procedural, application-independent set of baked geometric results. This ‘distillation’ of scenes into baked geometry is exactly analogous to the distillation of lighting and rendering scenes into rendered image data.

A crash course in system/app instrumentation.

High-speed file transfers over WAN.

Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the user community.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

Nice summary of fixing MySQL master-master data integrity with mk-table-checksum and mk-table-sync

Like Hoptoad, but open, self-hosted and not Ruby-specific.

Kinda like Campfire with some Twitter flair -- hashtags, brand monitoring-like features.

Kumofs is a simple and fast distributed key-value store. You can use a memcached client library to set, get, CAS or delete values from/into kumofs. Backend storage is Tokyo Cabinet.

A collection of papers on distributed storage and filesystems, theory, algorithms and implementation concerns of distributed systems.

Modern init systems can keep processes running for you. daemontools, etc.

The DBacesslayer aka DBSlayer aka Släyer (as we like to call it when we're feeling ironically heavy metal) is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose.

The DBSlayer originated as an internal tool at the New York Times.

Plus this, hmm... http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus

A web frontend for Puppet that extends management and provisioning capabilities.

Ben Mabey has Chef cookbooks most of this linked in the comments.

Playing with WebSockets in current-generation browsers through the web-socket-js Flash-based bridge.