Simon Willison’s Weblog

Sidewinder: Resolution. My cousin’s new album. Buy it and support fresh talent ;)

# 2nd December 2003, 3:26 am

The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar (via) I wish Python had one of these

# 2nd December 2003, 2:38 am

What the heck is: A type (via) More computer science fundamentals

# 1st December 2003, 8:58 pm

Metakit (via) Relational, object oriented, tree structured all in one database

# 30th November 2003, 7:14 pm

Well-Designed Weblogs. Each of these designs makes me seethe with jealousy

# 30th November 2003, 1:01 am

<LocationMatch> Directive. Is it wrong of me to get excited by this?

# 30th November 2003, 12:54 am

Disinfopedia (via) The encyclopedia of propaganda—not quite sure what to make of this one

# 30th November 2003, 12:50 am

Unusable Web. Keith’s superb web design guidelines

# 30th November 2003, 12:46 am

New IE Holes Discovered. 7 new vulnerabilities, all currently unpatched

# 30th November 2003, 12:45 am

Debuggers are a wasteful Timesink (via) It’s more a case of “don’t use them until you really have to”

# 30th November 2003, 12:44 am

Create your own South Park Character (via) Fun fun fun

# 28th November 2003, 10:37 pm

Page and Brin’s Blog (via) Moderately amusing

# 28th November 2003, 10:04 pm

Windows-to-Linux roadmap (via) Useful looking series from IBM

# 28th November 2003, 4:43 pm

Why BitTorrent is a game-changer (via) Digital video is the killer app

# 28th November 2003, 4:23 pm

The rootkit recently found on debian.org. I won’t pretend to understand the C code, but it’s cute that it’s released under the GPL

# 28th November 2003, 5:54 am

Can Google Grow Up? (via) It’s tough at the top, and it’s going to get tougher

# 27th November 2003, 5:34 pm

Javascript Compression (via) Nearly halves the size of getElementBySelector.js

# 27th November 2003, 4:49 pm

Minor spam victory. I’ve deleted the spam comments now but they were pretty amusing

# 27th November 2003, 4:46 pm

Google vs. Evil (via) “Don’t be evil”

# 27th November 2003, 4:24 pm

Dotcom Memories (via) It’s all about the M&Ms

# 27th November 2003, 3:42 pm

Font Size: No Happy Medium. Sometimes I just wish for ignorance

# 27th November 2003, 1:35 am

vi Complete Key Binding List (via) Very useful

# 27th November 2003, 1:24 am

The rsync algorithm. The glorious technical details

# 27th November 2003, 1:03 am

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync. Great Rsync tutorial

# 26th November 2003, 8:18 pm

Tears for Istanbul. I wish I could write like this

# 26th November 2003, 8:10 pm

Quake done Quick. Quake in 12 minutes 23 seconds

# 26th November 2003, 8:08 pm

Super Mario Brothers 3... in 11 minutes. Wow. Reminds me of Quake Done Quick.

# 26th November 2003, 8:07 pm

The End of RSS (via) Even with caching, RSS simply doesn’t scale

# 26th November 2003, 4:58 pm

How to freeze Python classes (via) Fun with __setattr__

# 26th November 2003, 4:45 pm

MS-Word is NOT a document exchange format (via) Don’t lock in others

# 26th November 2003, 4:14 pm