Sunday January 30, 2011
"an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage". An interesting, opensourced, Google 20% project from Brad Fitz and co
Wednesday September 29, 2010
"There is still a deep gap between those of us who have been involved in the computer revolution and those that are still starting to understand deep changes like this culture of the differences that they would call historiography, as Bridle does."
"[svn, git, diff] store and help us manage the whole history of a project, every single change that happened to it since it started. The repeated exposure to the list of changes, especially in projects that have sizable teams, helps us to understand the intention of the programmers that developed the code, the parallel processes going on, the programmers' fashion of different seasons... In other words, the culture of the community."
Thursday September 23, 2010
"Crypto is not soy sauce for security." Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch
Monday April 26, 2010
These slides and notes were originally written to accompany a three hour Redis tutorial I gave at the NoSQL Europe conference on the 22nd of April 2010.
Saturday February 6, 2010
1Bit is a simple way to let you preview MP3s linked in a web page. It’s a combination of...
Sunday January 17, 2010
Looking at ways to damage open source communities. Has some interesting parallels with regular social communities.
Friday April 3, 2009
"Like a lot of web services it doesn’t give much away about how it works internally. This is fair enough and it’s their right to do that as a company of course but it goes against the principals of Free Culture and Free Software. Now there are plans afoot to create a completely free (as in freedom) alternative called Libre.fm."
Thursday March 26, 2009
"This story is part bug hunt, part open-source love-story. The bug was a particularly gnarly, beautiful little bug and I'm going to try to convey some of that to you. But the other half of the story is really the thing here..." - The Guardian, large scale caching, open source and bug hunting.