Simon Willison’s Weblog

A Day in the Life of #Apache. The AllowOverride directive explained in newbie friendly terms

# 11th December 2003, 12:44 am

LUFS Intro. “LUFS is a hybrid userspace file system framework”

# 11th December 2003, 12:41 am

Who will be eaten first? (via) Cthulhu Chick Tract—beautiful

# 10th December 2003, 10:52 pm

SSLCrypto (via) Same simple API as ezPyCrypto, but with added performance of OpenSSL

# 10th December 2003, 7:02 pm

Tidy service for the Desperate Blog Hacker (via) The easiest kind of web service: post HTML to it, get back tidied XHTML

# 10th December 2003, 7:01 pm

Inherent insecurity (via) Desktops are secure, thin clients aren’t, but Microsoft can’t push thin clients

# 10th December 2003, 7 pm

Congratulations to Eric and Kat (via) kat+eric:first-child {name:carolyn;} (pinched from Web Graphics)

# 9th December 2003, 10:16 pm

Soya 3D (via) An Open GL 3D engine in Python and C

# 9th December 2003, 10:09 pm

NABA Compiler (via) A Java compiler in Python?

# 9th December 2003, 10:08 pm

Ben’s 2004 Crystal Ball. The year of CSS is nigh

# 9th December 2003, 8:44 pm

Jeremy Zawodny’s 2004 Crystal Ball. PageRank Still Dead

# 9th December 2003, 8:43 pm

Five Geek Social Fallacies (via) How many of these do you exhibit?

# 9th December 2003, 3:17 am

Debian’s Response. Praise for Debian’s handling of their recent security incident

# 9th December 2003, 3:16 am / debian, security

Python shlex module. Parsing of simple UNIX shell-like syntax, contributed by ESR

# 9th December 2003, 3:15 am

The GNU Privacy Handbook. How to use GPG. Encryption is anything but simple.

# 9th December 2003, 3:13 am

User Interface Hierarchies Rant. Russell on interface

# 8th December 2003, 8:26 pm

On Search: Robots. Everything you need to know about writing a tool to crawl the web

# 8th December 2003, 7:28 pm

Public, private, secret. On the loss of privacy on the web

# 7th December 2003, 4:19 am

Patents in an internet video shop (via) Patent insanity illustrated

# 7th December 2003, 4:16 am

Ulli’s Roy Orbison in Cling-film site. Marvellous, particularly the bits about the terrapin

# 5th December 2003, 11:55 pm

Silly JavaScript Security. “Sorry, you do not have permission to press this key,”

# 5th December 2003, 10:42 pm / javascript, security

The Fabled “Five Eights” of J2EE Availability (via) J2EE complexity leads to poor stability

# 5th December 2003, 10 pm

Simon Willison done different. An attractive redesign suggestion

# 5th December 2003, 4:26 am

Antilog. Interactive querying of HTTP log files, via Python

# 5th December 2003, 4:21 am

DTML in Zwiki pages. A Wiki you can reprogram on the fly sounds like a pretty neat toy

# 4th December 2003, 10:53 pm

How to Design (Declarative) Programming Languages (via) Language design 101

# 4th December 2003, 10:05 pm

Do What I Mean (dwim) (via) One for the tool box

# 4th December 2003, 5:18 pm

The Importance of Good Copy. We should learn from direct marketers... <shudder>

# 4th December 2003, 5:16 pm

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow (via) Nice use of CSS as well

# 4th December 2003, 5:15 pm

HTMLTemplate. Another Python XHTML-to-object structure templating system

# 4th December 2003, 5:14 pm