"IMAP Upload is a tool for uploading a local mbox file to IMAP4 server."

BEARDS.ORG! Amazing. "Designing a great neck line for your new full beard is something of an art. There is no single correct method for defining the neck line, but these guidelines should help you achieve a good result. They should also help you avoid bad results. Your objective should be to create a neck line that defines the beard in a smooth shape that is pleasing to the eye"

"Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference."

"Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux GUI Desktop. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk. The core runs entirely in ram and boots very quickly. Also offered are Micro Core, a 6 MB image that is the console based engine of Tiny Core, and Multi Core, which includes Tiny Core, Micro Core, networking tools and an installer. Micro Core contains CLI versions of Tiny Core's programs allowing the same functionality of Tiny Core's extensions, only starting with a console based system."

"Oh god, this reminded me of when my husband and I had a Shelby years ago, which is a shellfish version of a Furby. The video shows you just how cute it is; it has a cute little laugh and it's always making cute little sounds and saying it loves you and stuff. Except Shelby doesn't stop talking unless it doesn't get any response for five minutes or something... and ignoring it is agonizing, because it's being cute, and you just feel so awful when it says it loves you, or it tries to tell you a knock knock joke, and you know you can't respond. He'll outright say things like, "I want to PLAY!" and you feel like the worst person in the world. [cont]"

"Lion's fullscreen animations are way to SLOW. This tweak reduces the fullscreen animation duration from 1s to 0.3 seconds."

"Scripts for building a custom Debian kernel for the ‘Bifferboard’."

"What is fpm? It helps you build packages quickly (Packages like RPM and DEB formats). The goal of FPM is to be able to easily build platform-native packages; Creating packages easily (deb, rpm, etc), Tweaking existing packages (removing files, changing metadata/dependencies), Stripping pre/post/maintainer scripts from packages."

"Yes, I’m talking about turning your average, ordinary grocery store pineapple into a tropical showpiece within your home. A plant that is not only impressive but will grow a new succulent pineapple in 24 months."

"Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby. A side-by-side reference sheet."

"Requests allow you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by urllib2, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you."

"Resque is a great implementation of a job queue by the people at github. It's written in ruby, which is great, but I primarily work in python. So I took on the task of porting over the code to python and PyRes was the result"

"A short col­lec­tion of python must reads"

They made me this amazing video as a leaving gift, then played it in front of everyone. I wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry. A bit of both, I think.

"This is a Ruby translation of Zed Shaw's popular book Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition. The prose in this translation is nearly 100% identical to the Python version with the exception of a few paragraphs that have been modified to be relevant to Ruby. All of the code exercises and required libraries have been completely adapted for Ruby."

"This post is not about devops, it's not about lean startups, it's not about web scale, it's not about the cloud, and it's not about continuous deployment. This post is about you, the developer who's main purpose in life has always been to build great web applications. In a pretty traditional world you write code, you write tests for it, you deploy, and you go home. Until now."

"The 256 color capabilities of color terminals must be one of the least documented features I have ever had the misfortune of digging through. Sure, there are many programs: vim, mutt, etc. which can take advantage of the extended palette, but how do I use it? ANSI color codes are hard enough to understand for an 8 coior system, for 256 colors, it’s a nightmare!"

"This document is aimed at people who - like me - learn new programming languages most quickly by "axiom and example", and who dislike the official Perl documentation at http://perl.org/ for being intensely technical and giving far too much space to very unusual edge cases. This document is intended to be as short as possible, but no shorter"

"tcpcp is a mechanism that allows cooperating applications to pass ownership of TCP connection endpoints from one Linux host to another one. Such functionality should be useful in load-balancing and failover applications. tcpcp can be used between hosts using different architectures and does not need the other endpoint of the connection to cooperate (or even to know what's going on)."

"JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format - CIL bytecode - into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. You can take this JavaScript and run it in a web browser or any other modern JavaScript runtime. Unlike other cross-compiler tools targeting JavaScript, JSIL produces readable, easy-to-debug JavaScript that resembles the code a developer might write by hand, while still maintaining the behavior and structure of the original .NET code."

Shame it's missing pgsql.

Hetzner have an awesome API that I'd somehow missed.

Hetzner have an awesome API that I'd somehow missed.

To be etched on my laptop. Of course the Apple logo will be the sun.

"An application programming interface, or API, is the set of symbols that are exported and available to the users of a library to write their applications. The design of the APIs is arguably the most critical part of designing the library, because it affects the design of the applications built on top of them."

A talk by Joshua Bloch, Google Principal Software Engineer.

"Websocket implementation powered by Flash"

"The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text. Currently available in Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Objective C, Lua and Python. Regardless of language, each library features the same API and the same functionality."

"LOCFIT is a software system for fitting curves and surfaces to data, using the local regression and likelihood methods. The code is mostly written in C; an interface is provided that enables LOCFIT to be used as an S-Plus or R library."

"Vamp is an audio processing plugin system for plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data — typically referred to as audio analysis plugins or audio feature extraction plugins."

"The PROXY protocol provides a convenient way to safely transport connection information such as a client's address across multiple layers of NAT or TCP proxies. It is designed to require little changes to existing components and to limit the performance impact caused by the processing of the transported information."

"Coincidence? The Bitcoin price - http://tinyurl.com/6zpwq4f - is following the rulebook - http://tinyurl.com/5tmtlz2"

"Slowly but surely, we are converting many of our older titles into free versions. Most recently, we have added a fine abstract game called Timeline, as well as the Cheapass Games Poker Suite. We also have new free versions of Unexploded Cow and FALLING. Highlights of this list include major revamps of Agora and Deadwood."

"So you want to organise a conference. Great; do it. It’s a lot of work, but it’s also very rewarding, and it will put your city on the map for your topic. I assume you have visited a few conferences, maybe spoken at some, but have organised none. Thus you’ll have a pretty good idea of what you want to achieve, but haven’t yet found out about all the little details that make a good conference a great one. That’s what this handbook is going to teach you."

"RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions). All errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions. Any module installed for the R system can be used from within Python."

"97 writers sent letters in 1971 to celebrate the opening of the new library in Troy, MI., including Isaac Asimov, who had this to say: "Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you---and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.""

"The problem you're trying to solve by centralising SSL operations is that SSL includes a mechanism whereby a client making a new TCP connection can say "here's the crypto details from last time I connected to you" and the server can just pull out all of the per-connection data that would otherwise take a long time (several TCP round trips and a smallish chunk of CPU time) to setup."

"InspIRCd is a modular C++ IRCd (IRC daemon) for Linux, BSD, Windows and Apple OS X systems created to provide a stable, modern, and lightweight IRCd written from scratch. As InspIRCd is one of the few IRCd projects written from scratch, it avoids a number of design flaws and speed issues that plague other more established IRCd projects with the same or less features, such as UnrealIRCd 3."

"This package determines important terms within a given piece of content. It uses linguistic tools such as Parts-Of-Speech (POS) and some simple statistical analysis to determine the terms and their strength."

"This package determines important terms within a given piece of content. It uses linguistic tools such as Parts-Of-Speech (POS) and some simple statistical analysis to determine the terms and their strength."

"DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transparently checkpoint the state of multiple simultaneous applications, including multi-threaded and distributed applications. It operates directly on the user binary executable, without any Linux kernel modules or other kernel modifications."

"URDB is a universal reversible debugger that can add reversibility to almost any debugger through a python-based wrapper. URDB is still experimental. It currently has four personality modules, which support: gdb; MATLAB; python (pdb); and perl (perl -d)."

Basically, how to make EL panels.

"Legit is a new tool that allows you to interface with a Git respository much like you would with GitHub for Mac—from the command line. Switching branches becomes seamless. Any pending changes are automatically stashed and restored. Same goes with syncing your repository. And merging (grafting). And branching (sprouting). Managing remote branches becomes as simple as publish branch and unpublish branch. Simple."

"w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend."

"Resque (pronounced like "rescue") is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later."

"Django Varnish works with Varnish server(s) to manage caching of object pages. It allows you to monitor certain models and when they are updated, Django Varnish will purge the model's absolute_url on your frontend(s). This ensures that object detail pages are served blazingly fast and are always up to date. You may also go in and manually tweak things (such as your VCL configuration) using a management command."

"Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface."

"Radio Broadcasting Systems; Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) to mobile, portable and fixed receivers"

"This project provides a C++ interface to some of the standard Python modules. This was initially started to make Python's 'logging' module more accessible from C++ programs which embed Python. It could (and should) be expanded to include any modules which might be useful from a C++ program."

"Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well."

"Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue"

The first article on Scala that seriously made me consider glancing over the documentation.

"Stud is a network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the unencrypted traffic to some backend. It's designed to handle 10s of thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines."

"Whizzer is a python library to help write fast non-blocking socket servers. Whizzer uses class templates to write callback driven programs. Callbacks are initiated from the C event loop library libev and its python wrapper pyev."

"MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small." - Also includes an RPC protocol and implementations.

An ultrasonic directional speaker kit. With substantial amounts of Engrish.

Cube mugs inside Lego-ish storage bricks.

Choosing a replacement Wavefinder regulated power supply.

Choosing a replacement Wavefinder regulated power supply.

Wavefinder power supply details.

"Encourage hedgehogs to take up residence in your garden with our specially designed house that is just perfect for over winter hibernation."

"Who says a compost bucket can't be stylish? And why can't the place you store your vegetables also be a beautiful feature for your home? At Garden Trading our focus is to design and produce functional products for the home & garden, without having to compromise on style."

"This program emulates an AirPort Express for the purpose of streaming music from iTunes and compatible iPods. It implements a server for the Apple RAOP protocol."

"As We May Think is an essay by Vannevar Bush. Bush expresses his concern for the direction of scientific efforts towards destruction, rather than understanding, and explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help fix these problems. Through this machine, Bush hoped to transform an information explosion into a knowledge explosion."

"Tagbar is a vim plugin for browsing the tags of source code files. It provides a sidebar that displays the ctags-generated tags of the current file, ordered by their scope. This means that for example methods in C++ are displayed under the class they are defined in."

"Color tracking is quite easy with a few useful tools found in the latest oF release. All you will really need is the openCV addon."

"PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth’s surface, it can compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide. Additional functions are provided to compute the angular separation between two objects in the sky, to determine the constellation in which an object lies, and to find the times at which an object rises, transits, and sets on a particular day."

"Binwalk is a tool for searching a given binary image for embedded files. Specifically, it is designed for identifying files embedded inside of firmware images. Binwalk uses the libmagic library, so it is compatible with magic signatures created for the Unix file utility."

"At the NakedWatch®  Company, our passion is skeleton watches.  Skeleton watches are unique watches in which the case and various parts of the movement are transparent, revealing the inner workings of the watch."

Fantastic mapping tool allowing you to overlay old maps on present day London.

Saves you calling the hotline after too many incorrect attempts.

"A neutral place where people from many different backgrounds - universities, large corporates, SMEs, freelancers - can work together on new things in the belief that real innovation happens at the edge and in the gaps between disciplines."

"This is Learn You a Haskell, the funkiest way to learn Haskell, which is the best functional programming language around. You may have heard of it. This guide is meant for people who have programmed already, but have yet to try functional programming."

Well, this needs to go up on the hackspace fuse box.

Fantastic world time conversion utility.

"That’s what I want to write about today: an intuitive way to picture the Fourier transform."

Nginx conf for PHP-FPM

"Learn all about ISO speed, aperture, and shutter speed using this online SLR camera simulator."