Simon Willison’s Weblog

Airships: a second age. Telegraph profile of Hybrid Air Vehicles, a company that is building a new generation of ultra-lightweight airships at Cardington in Bedford, initially aimed at lengthy surveillance missions over Afghanistan.

# 12:34 pm / airships, zeppelins, recovered

Writing your own traceroute in Python. How to implement traceroute in Python, using the low-level socket module.

# 12:58 pm / networking, python, recovered, socket, traceroute

Closure Compiler Service (via) A hosted version of the Google Closure Compiler (JavaScript minifier) running on App Engine. It has both a user interface and a REST API, which means you can use it as part of an automated build process without needing to set up a local copy of the software.

# 1:17 pm / apis, closure, google, javascript, minification, rest, recovered