Post archive for year 2009

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Comet with node.js and V8
29. Dec 2009 under AJAX and comet · Code · JavaScript · node.js · Plurk · Presentations · Stuff · Tips
Microsoft China rips off Plurk
14. Dec 2009 under Code · Design · Life · Plurk
Picasso's bull and Google's fade in page
7. Dec 2009 under Design
We are humans
29. Nov 2009 under Life · Political · Psychology
Why we are happy?
2. Nov 2009 under Life
The structure of code is also important
1. Nov 2009 under Code · Code improvement · Code rewrite · Todoist
Thoughts on freedom
31. Oct 2009 under Life
Social programming should be a feature of a language
28. Oct 2009 under Code · Design · Python · Stuff
The feel good start
15. Oct 2009 under Life · Tips
Todoist Anywhere
28. Sep 2009 under Announcements · Tips · Todoist
Tornado - The fastest WSGI server?
13. Sep 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · Python
memcached: Benchmark of 4 Python libraries
3. Sep 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · Python
The goodness of monitoring graphs
2. Sep 2009 under Code · Stuff · Tips
The Unladen Swallow strikes back
29. Aug 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · Plurk · Python
Python unladen-swallow at least 33% slower than Python 2.5.1
27. Aug 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · Plurk · Python
Fixed sized map in Java and LRU map
25. Aug 2009 under Code · Tips
How Twitter (and Facebook) solve problems partially
22. Aug 2009 under Code · Design · Plurk · Tips
_why's way of living
21. Aug 2009 under Code · Life
Character count in Lua
20. Aug 2009 under Code · Tips
The indoors windmill
26. Jun 2009 under Interesting · Stuff · Tips
Academics vs. Engineers: PyPy vs. V8
14. Jun 2009 under Code · JavaScript · Life · Python
The art of scaling
13. Jun 2009 under Code · Design · Plurk
LightCloud adds support for Redis
10. Jun 2009 under Announcements · Code · Python
Why we can't find a theory of everything
9. Jun 2009 under Code · Life
Plurk Comet: Handling of 100.000+ open connections
7. Jun 2009 under AJAX and comet · Code
Love After Love
3. Jun 2009 under Life · Psychology
Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
31. May 2009 under Life · Psychology
The right tool for the job
31. May 2009 under Code · Design · Stuff · Tips
Burnout
26. May 2009 under Life · Stuff
How to disable iFrame encapsulation
26. May 2009 under Code · Plurk · Security
Plurk Trends launches
19. May 2009 under Announcements · Plurk
Important fact about trends
15. May 2009 under Code · Design · Plurk
Microsoft is only dead in Silicon Valley
10. May 2009 under Stuff
People turn to software
9. May 2009 under Design · Life · Psychology
Don't dwell upon contrasts
8. May 2009 under Life · Stuff
Pycon 2009: Drop ACID and think about data
7. May 2009 under Code · Database · Python · Tips
Meditation: Why Bother?
5. May 2009 under Life · Psychology · Stuff
Plurk Realtime Search
3. May 2009 under Announcements · Plurk
A Better JavaScript Profiler
29. Apr 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · JavaScript · Tips
Learning from MySQL experts
27. Apr 2009 under Code · Database · Stuff · Tips
The Art of War
25. Apr 2009 under Life · Psychology · Stuff · Tips
Learning to Fly
23. Apr 2009 under Life · Stuff
Plurk banned in China
23. Apr 2009 under Plurk · Political
The Slot Machine
22. Apr 2009 under Design · Psychology
Power corrupts
18. Apr 2009 under Life · Stuff
Map Reduce vs. Parallel DBMS
16. Apr 2009 under Code · Design · Stuff
How to prevent XSS attacks
14. Apr 2009 under Code · Design · Security · Tips
The slaves of the modern era
13. Apr 2009 under Life
Amsterdam
8. Apr 2009 under Life
Upgrading MySQLdb on Ubuntu/Debian
7. Apr 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
A visit to id software, 1993
7. Apr 2009 under Stuff
37 Signals Clown University
6. Apr 2009 under Stuff
Wall Street
5. Apr 2009 under Life · Stuff
Preventing login hacks: Rate limiting using memcached
5. Apr 2009 under Code · Python · Security · Tips
Why make money?
4. Apr 2009 under Life · Stuff
The depressing state of dynamic languages
4. Apr 2009 under Code · Python
Paranoia
1. Apr 2009 under Life
Finding and fixing memory leaks in Python
31. Mar 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
How Plurk does systems monitoring
28. Mar 2009 under Plurk · Tips
Hotmail, MSN and live.com contacts grabber
27. Mar 2009 under Code · Python · Stuff · Tips
How to become an expert
27. Mar 2009 under Life · Tips
The fall of great empires
26. Mar 2009 under Life · Stuff
The battle between Facebook and Twitter
26. Mar 2009 under Life · Plurk · Stuff
Fast polling using C, memcached, nginx and libevent
24. Mar 2009 under AJAX and comet · Benchmarks · Code · Python · Tips
The Graduate
23. Mar 2009 under Life · Stuff
The pain of Capistrano
22. Mar 2009 under Code · Plurk · Python · Tips
Cooperation, best visualized
18. Mar 2009 under Stuff
Timeout process call in Python
18. Mar 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
Doing optimizations and doing it in Python
17. Mar 2009 under Benchmarks · Code · Design · Python · Tips
Sailing off
13. Mar 2009 under Life · Stuff
Jack of all trades, master of none
12. Mar 2009 under Code · Life · Stuff
Hacking without distractions
7. Mar 2009 under Code · Tips · VIM Editor
Extend your analytics suite with LightCloud counters
6. Mar 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
Test if two strings are probably equal
5. Mar 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
Insomnia
1. Mar 2009 under Life · Stuff
LightCloud is now open source
28. Feb 2009 under Announcements · Code · Python
How to convert links to TinyURLs
10. Feb 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
Python's set datatype
6. Feb 2009 under Code · Python · Tips
Nebula
27. Jan 2009 under Life · Stuff
Take a break hack
26. Jan 2009 under Announcements · Code · Life · Python · Tips
Evolve
26. Jan 2009 under Code · Design · Tips
Road ahead
25. Jan 2009 under Life · Stuff
Splitting architecture apart via signals
25. Jan 2009 under Code · Code improvement · Code rewrite · Design · Python · Tips
Art or insanity
19. Jan 2009 under Life · Stuff
IE error: Expected identifier, string or number
15. Jan 2009 under Code · JavaScript
Hacking the viral loop
14. Jan 2009 under Design · Plurk · Tips