Simon Willison’s Weblog

Simple thread pools. Writing threaded Python apps using workers and queues

# 23rd January 2004, 8:40 pm

Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. forum. Great forum for information design

# 23rd January 2004, 8:39 pm

Python, Readline, and Mac OS X. Includes an awesome Panther one-liner to install readline support

# 23rd January 2004, 8:38 pm

pythonmac.org (via) Mac OS X Python Resources

# 23rd January 2004, 8:37 pm

What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? IA definitions++

# 23rd January 2004, 8:36 pm

Countries I have visited (via) I really want to visit South America some time

# 23rd January 2004, 7:25 pm

MySQL tips. Rob Hudson’s tips on MySQL paging and vertical result sets

# 23rd January 2004, 4:33 pm / mysql

My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched. The “adaptive polling cycle” on the crawler sounds like fun

# 23rd January 2004, 4:28 am

Primate Photo Gallery. Pictures of monkeys. I like monkeys.

# 22nd January 2004, 11:31 pm

10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time. The title says it all

# 22nd January 2004, 11:06 pm

CSS Hacks—HTML-only Filters Summary. Hiding CSS using HTML filters

# 22nd January 2004, 7:24 pm

Bring Me Your Regexs! I Will Create HTML To Break Them! “Parsing HTML is a solved problem. Use a library.”

# 22nd January 2004, 5:13 am

integrating javascript into stylesheets (via) It’s a shame this trick doesn’t appear to work in user stylesheets

# 22nd January 2004, 5:13 am

When Word-to-XML conversion gets nasty. “it is impossible to automatically convert unstructured sources into structured formats”

# 22nd January 2004, 3:06 am / xml

NAA Digital Edge Winners Announced. We won best entertainment site for Lawrence.com :)

# 22nd January 2004, 1:13 am

Netcat 1.10 Readme. Ultra useful command-line networking tool

# 21st January 2004, 11:32 pm

Beware of Strangers. Neat anti-comment spam idea: watch out for IP addresses that have never visted your site before

# 21st January 2004, 9:41 pm

non-consensual http user tracking using caches. Interesting security issue involving HTTP caching headers

# 20th January 2004, 10:37 pm / caching, http, privacy, security

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! (via) It certainly feels faster

# 20th January 2004, 10:36 pm / scaling, technorati

64 bit immediates in Python. Low level language geekery

# 20th January 2004, 10:35 pm

Graphics from the command line (via) Tutorial for ImageMagick’s command line tools

# 20th January 2004, 10:31 pm

Anil Dash: Microsoft *nix. What if Microsoft shipped “Linux for Windows”?

# 19th January 2004, 11:06 pm / anil-dash

Yahoo! Research Labs (via) I wonder where they got this idea from...

# 19th January 2004, 8:31 pm

Goatse.cx taken offline. I used to use it to scare people out of my room at Uni when I wanted to geek in solitude

# 17th January 2004, 4:30 am

Widescreen fun. Taking advantage of wide screen monitors for web browsing

# 16th January 2004, 2:09 am

Web Services? What has the industry been smoking? Great rant

# 16th January 2004, 2:07 am

Faux Columns. A useful CSS trick for faking equal length columns

# 16th January 2004, 2:07 am

BLEEP—Digital Downloads from Warp Records. Pay for downloads, no DRM. Excellent.

# 16th January 2004, 2:05 am

Keep It Simple: The Behavior Layer. PPK on best practises for JavaScript

# 16th January 2004, 2:05 am

Domain registrars sued over URL patent. More patent insanity—and it looks like my site infringes this one

# 16th January 2004, 12:45 am