Simon Willison’s Weblog

Showers and UI design. UI issues aside, why is it so hard to build a shower where the settings for freezing cold and scaldingly hot are more than a couple of millimeters apart? 8:21 am

On packaging. James Bennett discusses the problems with setuptools (and ruby gems), and recommends Ian Bicking’s pip as a setuptools replacement. 4:57 pm

How Tarsnap uses Amazon Web Services (via) Useful case study, including some thoughts on SimpleDB. 7:35 pm

A Few Corrections To “On Packaging”. From Ian Bicking. 11:07 pm