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ha/doozerd - GitHub
A simple (?) replacement for Zookeeper and friends, written in Go.
go  configuration  database  server  software 
january 2012 by emilsit
Irresponsible tolerance — Secure Mac Programming
Like GTD's 2 minute rule, fix bugs that you can fix quickly. Don't tolerate crap for a long time.
software  methodology 
january 2012 by emilsit
git-annex
Manage (large) files "with" git but don't store the blobs in git.

An extension to git, sort of like Mercurial's largefiles except you can't convert existing repos (well, without using filter-branch or something).
git  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
Word Wizard - Talking Educational App for iPhone and iPad
Put together letters and it'll read it to you.
ipad  ios  software  reading 
december 2011 by emilsit
Welcome to Learning Touch
A variety of apps that teach words, plus one that is a phonics-based interactive game to tell a story that looks promising. /via @jcarriero
ipad  ios  software  reading 
december 2011 by emilsit
Montessori Crosswords
Looks broken down by different phonemes and levels; video demo.
montessori  ipad  ios  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
Papers for iPad
PDF management and annotation tool for iPad, with integration into various scientific libraries/databases. Syncs with a Mac version as well.
ipad  ios  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
iAnnotate for iPad
PDF annotation and management tool. UI looks a little clunky.
ipad  ios  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
PDFExpert for iPad
PDF annotation and management tool. Looks like best straight-up annotation tool.
ipad  ios  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
App Store - iWriteWords (Handwriting Game)
Learn to write words, tracing letters. Is this useful given we may want to write on paper? Similar to sandpaper letters without the tactile support. Fun to play.
ipad  ios  software  writing 
december 2011 by emilsit
App Store - Word Magic
Learn to spell by putting in missing letters.
ios  software  reading 
december 2011 by emilsit
Motion Math Zoom | Motion Math
Gain a sense of scale and how numbers relate. Free and with in-app upgrades? Not yet a hit.
ipad  ios  software  math 
december 2011 by emilsit
MadPad - Remix Your Life for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Take sound clips, create a 4x4 drum pad from those sounds.
ipad  ios  software  music 
december 2011 by emilsit
App Store - Learn Sight Words
ipad  ios  software  reading 
december 2011 by emilsit
Approach to Montessori - Numbers HD for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Good concepts but can be frustrating to play for children: need to be relatively precise about picking up to drag on-screen items, and placement... also sensitive to little hands accidentally causing multi-touch.
ipad  ios  software  math 
december 2011 by emilsit
collectl
linux  performance  monitoring  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
twitter/snowflake
Snowflake is a system for generating 64-bit unique identifiers that are roughly correlated with time. Multiple machines can run this service and they don't have to coordinate at runtime with each other to keep generating unique IDs.
systems  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
sebastien/watchdog - GitHub
A DSL for defining how to monitor services and what actions to take on success/failure of monitoring rules.
devops  monitoring  software  tools 
december 2011 by emilsit
Takaitra.com » Backup to AWS EBS via Rsync and Boto
Perfect. Create an EBS volume, toss up an ephemeral instance, rsync, and then drop the instance. Replace rsync with duplicity or anything else to get encrypted backups.
ec2  backup  software 
december 2011 by emilsit
Why Software Projects are Terrible and How Not To Fix Them | Sealed Abstract
RT @maggadora: On how to make good sw projects and not to try saving the one that are lost
software  programming  project  management 
november 2011 by emilsit
winhamwr/ci-infrastructure - GitHub
LittleChef stuff to take a blank image (say on EC2) and make it a Jenkins server.
jenkins  software  devops 
november 2011 by emilsit
Index of /cdh/3
Source archives for Cloudera's CDH3 release.
hadoop  cloudera  software 
november 2011 by emilsit
Texpad - Valletta Ventures
TeX editor for OS X.
latex  software  osx 
november 2011 by emilsit
Software Foundations
A textbook by Ben Pierce (unison): “It develop basic concepts of functional programming, logic, operational semantics, lambda-calculus, and static type systems, using the Coq proof assistant.”
software  reference 
october 2011 by emilsit
QuickTun - Qontrol.nl Wiki
Uses NaCl from djb to put together a tun/tap Linux point-to-point VPN.
security  vpn  software  linux 
october 2011 by emilsit
NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library
Crypto library by djb. Much more likely to be trustworthy than OpenSSL, which, 14 years ago when I looked at it, was a mess.
security  library  software  cryptography 
october 2011 by emilsit
Deft
Like Notational Velocity, but for Emacs.
emacs  software 
september 2011 by emilsit
Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software
software  tools  visualization 
august 2011 by emilsit
s6 - skarnet's small supervision suite
Suitable for replacing init and other stuff. An evolution of djb's daemontools.
unix  software 
july 2011 by emilsit
Welcome to Glance’s documentation! — Glance v2011.2-dev documentation
Glance is OpenStack's catalog service for single machine images. Not clear if it supports full OVF vApps, though it can store OVFs and a variety of disk formats.
cloud  software 
march 2011 by emilsit
Anna's Alfred Hat Tips
Alfred is a launcher like QuickSilver
osx  software  tips 
february 2011 by emilsit
Vivek Haldar : The Cognitive Style of Unix
It may actually be good to be powerful, internally consistent, composable but not "easy to use".
design  learning  software 
february 2011 by emilsit
Mu
Xapian-based maildir indexer. Better than mairix? Easier to integrate with mutt than notmuch?
mail  software  linux 
february 2011 by emilsit
Sysconfigtools
Survey of various system configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet, CfEngine and many more. Good analysis of properties on multiple fronts.
software  configuration  management 
january 2011 by emilsit
perfarce: log
A tool to integrate Mercurial with Perforce (much like git-p4). Contains a test suite (in a single file); something like this would be useful for git-p4.
mercurial  perforce  software 
january 2011 by emilsit
mypersonalindex - Project Hosting on Google Code
Open-source tool (CSharp) to track performance of and analyze different investment strategies
money  software 
january 2011 by emilsit
mbox upload to gmail ruby class (imap)
Uses mailread and imap in ruby to dump mbox to GMail via IMAP. Has some potential problems with line-endings. Seems to work okay. Requires hard-coding password in script.
ruby  software  mail 
december 2010 by emilsit
hmason/gitmarks - GitHub
RT : I made a github-based social bookmarking tool (w/ delicious import). my bookmarks:
software  from twitter
december 2010 by emilsit
Hyde - A Python Static Website Generator
Tempting looking static website generator to potentially compete with nanoc3. Seems less mature, or at least, has a smaller userbase.
cms  static  html  tools  python  software 
september 2010 by emilsit
mincemeat.py: MapReduce on Python
As it says, MapReduce in 13kB of Python, single file.
python  software 
september 2010 by emilsit
The Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Project
A web tool for allowing a team to evaluate the credibility of hypotheses along different axes, identify specific points of disagreement among the team, as a way to focus discussions. "Made for intelligence analysts."
analysis  software  tools 
september 2010 by emilsit
Lemonodor: The Regressive Imagery Dictionary
Python code to analyze text using the Regressive Image Dictionary. This is the basis for the code that is used by 750words.com to analyze writing for the personal stats page. So, a basis for doing the same.
language  analysis  python  software 
september 2010 by emilsit
Optimal Layout — Keyboard control for moving, resizing and tiling application windows on Mac OS X
Manually apply tiling layouts on top of OS X. Seems to be most like Xmonad, as compared to SIzeUp, Divvy.
osx  software  windowmanager 
august 2010 by emilsit
Master of Fine Arts in Software
How might we educate people in the art of software development? A really really concrete approach. Nice.
software  education  essays 
april 2010 by emilsit
rhomobile - the open mobile framework
An open-source framework, hosted at github, based on Ruby, for developing cross-mobile platform apps.
android  iphone  phone  programming  ruby  software  library 
march 2010 by emilsit
Sweet Mac Setups – Shawn Blanc
Like usesthis.com but for Macs. Nice.
software  configuration  macosx 
march 2010 by emilsit
Newsbeuter - a console based news/rss reader
Apparently, this is what you want to use to read news if you like mutt.
software  tools  linux  rss 
february 2010 by emilsit
A Fresh Start « Software Carpentry
Teaching non-programmers the best practices of programming.
A proposal for revamping an existing course into a specific problem-driven one.
software  programming  education 
february 2010 by emilsit
reBlog by Eyebeam R&D
Self-hosted web-based RSS reader (reFeed) with ability to post selected items to a blog (reBlog).
blog  software  rss  aggregator 
november 2009 by emilsit
Fossil: Fossil Home Page
Roughly speaking, like Mercurial or Monotone. Not sure how it compares to git w.r.t branching, speed, index. Big selling points would be integrated bug tracking and wiki and a single binary, with builds for Windows, OS X and Linux. Uses SQLite for the repo. No worse than hg/git rolling their own, probably better than svn using BerkeleyDB.
software  wiki  scm  versioncontrol  tools 
november 2009 by emilsit
Cappuccino Web Framework - Learn About Cappuccino and Objective-J
"Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with." Runs on JavaScript, and you write code in something called Objective-J which looks like Objective-C. Sometimes it is scary what you can do in JS.
software  programming  webapp  tools 
november 2009 by emilsit
Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Self-Destructing Data
Store your keys in a P2P network where the peers disappear over time, taking your key parts with them. Then no one can read the data.
security  cryptography  data  software  tools 
july 2009 by emilsit
Plurk Open Source - LightCloud - Distributed and persistent key value database
Python DHT bits, based on Tokyo Tyrant for storage, scriptable in Lua.
python  dht  software 
march 2009 by emilsit
Actors, Mina, and Naggati
Instead of continuation passing, nested lambdas?
software  programming  scalability  design  java 
march 2009 by emilsit
README - redis - Google Code
An in-memory, but persisted, database. Loosely key-value, but "values in Redis can be lists and sets, and complex operations like intersections, set/get n-th element of lists, pop/push of elements, can be performed against sets and lists. It is possible to use lists as message queues." Not yet replicated. GPL'd, C, POSIXly portable.
keyvalue  database  software 
february 2009 by emilsit
The Setup on waferbaby
waferbaby interviews cool people from various industries (from al3x to jonathancoulton) about their current and ideal computer set ups.
interviewseries  configuration  software  hardware 
february 2009 by emilsit
mfp's extprot at master - GitHub
"extprot, a tool that allows you to create compact, efficient and extensible binary protocols that can be used for cross-language communication and long-term data serialization. extprot supports protocols with rich, composable types, whose definition can evolve while keeping both forward and backward compatibility." "extprot differentiates itself in that it allows for more extensions and supports richer types (mainly tuples and disjoint union types aka. sum types) than Protocol Buffers or Thrift without approaching the complexity of ASN.1 DER."
server  software  serialization  rpc 
january 2009 by emilsit
ikiwiki
Wiki software that allows you to write your wiki pages in Markdown/reST/Textile/etc and revision control them in git/hg/etc. Intelligently generates static HTML per change. Wonder how it scales!
wiki  software  linux 
january 2009 by emilsit
pgpool-II README
Automatic pooling/partitioning (aka sharding)/load-balancing middleware for PostgreSQL.
database  scalability  software 
january 2009 by emilsit
FAI - Fully Automatic Installation - Home Page
Another automatic system installer.
linux  software  tools  installation  automation  sysadmin 
december 2008 by emilsit
Macintosh Performance Guide
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.
reference  hardware  software  performance  configuration  tips  macosx 
december 2008 by emilsit
SyncEvolution and SyncML: The Missing Link (SyncEvolution v0.8)
Synchronizes between OS X, Gnome and any SyncML compatible service, such as Funambol.
contacts  synchronization  software 
december 2008 by emilsit
Sphinx: Python Documentation Generator
A wrapper around reST that can output to HTML and PDF (via LaTeX). Yum. As mentioned in comments on the fastware blog.
documentation  writing  latex  tools  python  software 
december 2008 by emilsit
Mondo Rescue
Tool for backing up and restoring complete system images.
linux  backup  software 
october 2008 by emilsit
func - Fedora Unified Network Control
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.
network  management  configuration  software  python 
september 2008 by emilsit
PDQ
Open-source software (C, with perhaps a Perl front-end) for solving queueing models and doing performance analysis.
performance  analysis  software 
september 2008 by emilsit
rietveld - Google Code
Code review tool from Google! Compare to ReviewBoard. Appears to provide also a public service (codereview.appspot.com).
tools  software  workflow  programming 
august 2008 by emilsit
Embeddable HTTP server
A tiny embeddable HTTP server, written in async stle over libev, designed for extension with callbacks. No formal release as of Aug 2008.
http  server  software 
august 2008 by emilsit
zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever.
High performance message transport.
Does it work with Thrift? Google protocol buffers?
software  network  library 
july 2008 by emilsit
.screenrc examples
Many many examples of how to configure GNU screen!
software  reference  screen 
july 2008 by emilsit
The next stage for Lightroom by Raoul Pop
photography  softwaredesign  software 
july 2008 by emilsit
fincore - Perl/C script to tell you what percentage of file is buffer cache
linux  performance  tools  software  filesystem 
june 2008 by emilsit
slides -- a presentation program for linux using inkscape
Various Unix tools to hook an Inkscape SVG file with layers into a PDF suitable for presentation.
presentation  software  svg 
april 2008 by emilsit
Review Board
VMware's tool for managing code reviews: supposedly supports Mercurial, Git, p4, CVS, SVN... what more could you need?
workflow  software  tools 
april 2008 by emilsit
Darik's Boot and Nuke (Hard Drive Disk Wipe)
Completely clean off a hard disk.
software  tools 
march 2008 by emilsit
whaw - window manager independent window layout tool
Almost a window manager; click to select windows, then lay 'em out the way you want. Runs with your current window manager, so long as they don't fight.
x  windowmanager  keyboard  layout  software  unix 
march 2008 by emilsit
about - awesome window manager
Derivative of dwm; perhaps it doesn't completely rewrite itself as often as dwm does.
windowmanager  software  unix 
march 2008 by emilsit
Ur-Scheme: A GPL self-hosting compiler from a subset of R5RS Scheme to fast Linux x86 asm
Notes on how to learn how to build a compiler!
programming  software  compiler 
march 2008 by emilsit
Introducing the XMPP application server: The Twitter example
Description of modifications to ejabberd to provide a Twitter like interface.
scalability  server  software  twitter 
march 2008 by emilsit
eigenclass - A better backup system based on Git
backup  software  linux 
march 2008 by emilsit
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