A simple (?) replacement for Zookeeper and friends, written in Go.

Service Level Authorization Guide

Use the URL Change Trigger to trigger changes instead of using SCM polling because that works around an issue when using Jenkins with no master.

Simple block of lighttpd config that will pass some URLs over to git-http-backend (git 1.6.6 and newer).

Survey of various system configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet, CfEngine and many more. Good analysis of properties on multiple fronts.

Script to sync Hudson configuration into subversion.

Three things someone doesn't like about puppet that chef supports: dependency graphs, an overly limited language for specifying recipes, and hard-to-access-client-info-from-server templates. (Not really sure I understood that last one.)

Two tools to manage configurations and automate setting up machines, both successors to cfengine. A very balanced and well-written comparison, interesting comment thread too.

Like usesthis.com but for Macs. Nice.

"The Puppet framework provides a means to describe IT infrastructure as policy, execute that policy to build services then audit and enforce ongoing changes to the policy."

A nice set of vim (not plugin) configuration tips, well documented.

waferbaby interviews cool people from various industries (from al3x to jonathancoulton) about their current and ideal computer set ups.

From digilloyd, a comprehensive guide on how to select Apple hardware and then configure it for maximum (Photoshop) performance. It has some benchmarks though I didn't look at those. Seems regularly updated (as it refers to CS4 and new unibody macbook pros). Recommends buying refurb.

Fabulous set of tips for configuring vim to be more python-ide-ish. Tags, tabs, code-eval and debugging, etc.

A more advanced system that does things that Brent Chun's various tools like gexec, pssh, pcp, etc do but in a unified python-y API-enabled way. Where does the output from commands go? Someone should update their wiki. Sounds like it'd be useful on PlanetLab.

An extra (?) driver to help make Synaptics USB keyboard work better? Need to try this perhaps.

Automate installing multiple Linux systems by duplicating from a master image. I think I may need this soon, sadly.