Re-reading Situated Software https://web.archive.org/web/20040411202042/http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html I keep wondering what tools are best suited.
If you want to create a small tool for a community you know, how do you build it?
(My current thoughts are: something you know well, probably with a GC)
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I'm exploring how I show lists in my documentation. I like boxes for tidiness, but it's much less space efficient. Which do you prefer?
I should also survey how other sites handle this.
One month after configuring my VPS to reboot weekly, and I'm *still* finding services that aren't properly configured to start on boot.
I'm developing a newfound appreciation for tools like Chaos Monkey.
I've been impressed with code written by Fable in my testing:
Difftastic: found small optimisations in a hot loop I'd already profiled extensively. Helped me prototype Dijkstra to A* too (hard to find a good heuristic).
Garden: Found some real bugs in my simplistic typechecker.