Java in The Land of Make Believe
What the GPL could have accomplished (and may well still).
XML Templating in Python Evolves
A brief history of the Kid templating language and an endorsement for the next generation of XML-based templating: Genshi.
Vox Populi
A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google's ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we've come to know as "democracy", are so capable.
Top.app
MacOS X: How to turn textmode tools into first class applications. Mutt.app, Vim.app, Irssi.app, Top.app, etc.
The Zen of Microformats
How to understand what those barbarians are doing over there and why your going to keep on hearing about it.
Motherhood and Apple Pie
The axioms of web architecture and an invitation for big vendors to understand them.
IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to "grow up"
That is to say, they don't get it. This started out as a simple rant and turned into a decent sized essay on basic shared-nothing architecture and scaling down.
OS X Network Location support from the command line
How to get command line apps to respect the OS X network location. A neat little hack exploiting symlinks and $0.
On HTTP Abuse
And why we need more three-legged stools.
Insects and Entropy
How complexity killed the best bug ever created in the whole world.
The Tool Vendor's Dilemma
A theory on why big vendors, big analyst houses, and the tech press want to sell you the worst possible solutions to your problems.
Web Dominated by J2EE?
The web as currently imagined by the tech. industry is quite different from the web that actually exists.
Tools for Democracy / Distributed Journalism
On using the web to co-ordinate massive grass-roots efforts quickly.
Cats
What the War In Iraq is really about.
No Rails for Python?
What does Ruby on Rails have that we don't and why?
Getters/Setters/Fuxors
Python's attributes are not Java's getters/setters and why that's a good thing.
Disproving Backward Time Travel (kind of)
If it is ever discovered, we would have known about it a long time ago.
The Static Method Thing
A comparison of Java's static methods and Python's class methods.
How I Explained REST to My Wife
It's not a robot thing.
Is BoingBoing a Legal Honeypot?
BoingBoing as tractor-beam for litigation. Xeni says I'm on crack.
Java and Open Source
Why Java won't even be considered for most types of F/OSS applications until they ease up on the license.
Web Antipatterns
A look at various ways people misunderstand the value of the web. If it's not useful, don't use it.
Who Owns Your Browser?
Are there restrictions on how local content can be modified (e.g. user stylesheets)? Should there be?
IP Costs Millions of Information
How protecting "intellectual property" ends up destroying it.
Minimal System Backups with rdiff-backup and Yum
Some thoughts about a simple backup system that takes advantage of a package management system.