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 / matthew-garrett, showers, ui, usability

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 / gems, ian-bicking, james-bennett, pip, python, ruby, setuptools

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

# 7:35 pm / amazon-web-services, aws, cloud-computing, ec2, s3, simpledb, tarsnap

A Few Corrections To “On Packaging”. From Ian Bicking.

# 11:07 pm / ian-bicking, james-bennett, packaging, python