Simon Willison’s Weblog

modswgi: Debugging Techniques. mod_wsgi is excellent software, and the documentation is equally superb. I used these instructions recently to run the Python debugger inside a running instance of Apache, which helped my track down some import errors that weren’t occurring with Django’s development server.

# 1:34 pm / debugging, django, modwsgi, pdb, python

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine. Too much great stuff in here to attempt to summarise.

# 2:01 pm / richardfeynman, theconnectionmachine

Walk, Don’t Run (via) A retrospective look at Grim Fandango (possibly my favourite game of all time) and the fan community that are keeping it alive, nearly a decade after it was first released.

# 2:04 pm / games, grim-fandango, theescapist

LastGraph 3. Andrew Godwin’s last.fm profile visualisation tool, now in its third incarnation.

# 2:05 pm / andrew-godwin, lastfm, lastgraph, lastgraph3

Easy way to reset your sleep cycle: Stop eating (via) New research shows that you can quickly reset your sleep cycle by not eating for 12-16 hours and then using breakfast to flip in to another time zone. I get clobbered by jet lag when I fly from the US to Europe; this could be really useful.

# 2:11 pm / jetlag, travel

Debugging Django, a slidecast. I used SlideShare’s slidecast tool for the first time to synchronize audio of my Django London User Group talk with the slides. The talk included several live demos which aren’t represented in the slides so it’s a bit piecemeal in places.

# 2:47 pm / debugging, django, djugl, slidecast, slideshare, speaking

Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.

# 7:41 pm / mars, marsphoenix, nasa, twitter