Simon Willison’s Weblog

notes.natbat.net. Nat’s been blogging up a storm recently.

# 12:52 am / natalie-downe

Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management. Why the Free Software world’s source control works and Vista’s apparently doesn’t.

# 9:28 am / microsoft, open-source, sourcecontrol

Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (via) Best letters-to-the-editor I’ve seen in ages.

# 11:50 am / funny, pigeons

The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM.

# 3:11 pm / mailinator, scaling

python-cluster. Fantastic interface design—pass a list and a function and you’re done.

# 5:19 pm / algorithm, python