Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python Cookbook: Parsing the command line (via) Using optparse, but with the command line setup options stored in the program’s docstring. # 1:51 pm

Five Favourite Protocol Design Papers. Includes the classic “A Note on Distributed Computing” # 2:09 am

Spike (via) Network clipboard for Windows and OS X. Shame there’s no Linux version # 2:07 am

Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems. Outstanding O’Reilly article on building easily recovered systems. # 12:58 am