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node.js for HTTP-related activities. (I needed a rate-limiting proxy that returned a special HTTP code when the rate limit was exceeded. 20 lines of node.js later...)
0MQ: the way network messaging should be. (Did you know that the same socket can be bound and connected multiple times? Amazingly flexible.)
beanstalkd I've worked with MongoDB, Cassandra, and a host of other tools, libraries, databases, and frameworks, but beanstalk is the only one to never fail me. It's not a full swiss army knife like Redis or the sexy app of the year like MongoDB: beanstalk does 1 job and does it, as far as I can tell, perfectly.
Solid State Discs in everything. Ok, perhaps not what you were asking, but they made a big difference for me. I have two, raid0 in my desktop, and a sandforce in my MBP. What a difference. Compiling, linking, copying, everything not just faster, but almost instantaneous. Yum.
I returned it. And before some is implying I am dumb: Yes, I had a fast and quick SSD and my system was setup to use it well.
Other than that, the stuff I did this year that was merely "new to me" was mostly about Groovy and Grails. I spent a ton of time working with Grails, and I'm really liking it.
Jekyll ( https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll ) First touched it two months ago just to tinker with but didn't really do anything with it. Then after numerous frustrations with my current blogging setup, I spent the last 5 days hacking on it over the holidays and I think it's almost ready to launch. Had to do some custom stuff that I'll write about in a post. It's extremely hackable and I love it. The only thing that do…
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What's some stuff you've printed?
mostly just silly calibration cubes. a few space invaders and companion cubes to give to friends. today i (continued) work on a spindle to hold the big spool of plastic. cnc is so much fun. I think i'm going to have to get a cnc mill. this is just to tempting. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/guerrilla_cnc1.shtml In the near term i'll probably just print some brackets and containers for stuff.
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Sure. You can disrupt someone on the toilet, at the dinner table, in bed, etc, etc. Very disruptive indeed.
There was a time in my life, where every single time my girlfriend and I were about to enjoy some adult time, my employees would call. Without fail. There has to be some sort of twillo app idea in there somewhere.
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There was a time in my life, where every single time my girlfriend and I were about to enjoy some adult time, my employees would call. Without fail. There has to be some sort of twillo app idea in there somewhere.
We just need to tap into the accelerometer, do an FFT and low-pass on the microphone, and check for a correlation between the frequency of a rhythmic acceleration and the frequency of grunting.