Gisle stumbled on Flapjax yesterday, and it’s been keeping me thinking since. It clicks in quite well with what Avi‘s been telling me for a while, as well as some of our own thinking on webdev. A nice twist is that it’s out of Providence, a place with fond associations...

I’ve been meaning to write something about the recent announcements by Microsoft, Adobe, etc. Mark Pilgrim’s post is more entertaining than anything I would have written, and I’m having too much fun with code these days to blog a lot. My personal twist would have been less vitriolic, and more...

My friend pkedrosky says he’s going to buy YHOO, but not to tell anyone.

To allow Django to send email using smptlib, use NetInfo Manager to create a new machine whose name corresponds to the output of hostname, so that socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) returns something. (useful for laptops whose local DNS server may not know about their hostname).