miniblog.

Kibana is great for searching and graphing logs from logstash. The learning curve is a little steep though.

Admirable honesty from ./configure: "checking for gettimeofday with POSIX signature... almost"

'Real programmers' use TECO, none of your modern vim/emacs nonsense: http://t.co/zb9ARskNzf

@bobbyrenwick Saw this and thought of the groundbreaking pyretry:

Linux tip: `cd -` will change your current directory back to the previous. If you're using zsh, set AUTO_PUSHD and you can use popd.

A good package manager covers a multitude of sins.

Coroutines, threads and readability: http://t.co/VqfBHqaav7

Working on a large codebase in SVN has made me realise how easy it is to introduce a 'gated' (i.e. review-first) workflow with git.

I'm waiting for a language that defines all of ==, === and ====. I think it's only a matter of time.

The wonderful thing about Python docstring conventions, is that there are so many to choose from!

Taking multiple namespaces to its logical extreme: http://t.co/DNGsg1LjXk

An elegant approach to unit testing HTTP requests (determinstically!):

A great introduction to make, using Less.js as a worked example: http://t.co/iI3lCk3Cyq

Testing medicine against a placebo is essentially an A/B test. I wonder if we'll ever move to bandit algorithms in medical research?

The Marble Answering Machine: http://t.co/tHc3Oq9qm1 Excellent alternative take on UI.