Gunnar Kreitz, _Spotify – Behind The Scenes_ : the innards of Spotify’s client, server fleet, and P2P layer, from the dev team themselves. good stuff
(tags: spotify streaming servers networking music mp3 dns p2p)
Month: May 2011
Kill Screen – Profile: Bennett Foddy : The author of cult web-games QWOP and GIRP is a member of Cut Copy! crazy
(tags: games interview cut-copy music via:infovore web qwop girp)“Treasure Map” – Threadless.com : great tee
(tags: tee-shirts threadless apparel clothing)
Today in nose-leech news — it’s a species! : ‘The T. rex leech uses its teeth to saw into the tissues of mammals’ orifices, including eyes, urethras, rectums, and vaginas.’ OH JESUS
(tags: nose nose-leech leeches nature horror omgwtf via:jwz nightmare parasites)The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems : great slides, via HN. recommends a canonical Hadoop long-term store and a quick, realtime, separate datastore for “not yet processed by Hadoop” data
(tags: hadoop big-data data scalability datamining realtime slides presentations)
Javascript PC Emulator : truly incredible — quite fast (about 386 speeds) under Chrome, even! from the HN comments: ‘I just forkbombed my browser. Nothing is sacred anymore.’ more comments at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349
(tags: browser javascript linux emulation fabrice-bellard hacks amazing cool google-chrome x86)Graham Linehan and Osama Bin Laden : a master-stroke of Twitter-based media hoaxing, very funny. particularly like the assist from @Mike_FTW!
(tags: funny twitter graham-linehan osama-bin-laden news media)The Hargreaves Report : ‘The publication of Digital Opportunity follows a six-month independent review of IP and Growth, led by Professor Ian Hargreaves. He was asked to consider how the national and international IP system can best work to promote innovation and growth.’ Some fantastic recommendations here. I hope this provides clear direction to similar Irish efforts…
(tags: ip law hargreaves uk patents copyright)Netflix Beats BitTorrent’s Bandwidth : ‘For perhaps the first time in the internet’s history, the largest percentage of the net’s traffic is content that is paid for.’ A great demo of how *good*, legit, for-pay services, can beat out less usable, dodgy, but free ones (via Waxy)
(tags: via:waxy piracy bandwidth bittorrent internet netflix filesharing)The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – MongoDB live at Craigslist : ‘>MongoDB is now live at Craigslist, where it is being used to archive [10TB] of [old posts]’. iiiinteresting
(tags: mongodb nosql craigslist systems)Worldtime Buddy : easy timezone conversion — bookmarkable URLs, sensible levels of AJAX/JS, nicely done
(tags: timezones time conversion javascript world)How to make WIFI work at tech conferences : a success story from JSConf. great tips, I’m sure some will be practical at smaller scales ;)
(tags: wifi 802.11b 802.11n networking 802.11g conferences jsconf wireless)
TwitPic assert ownership over images posted to it, signs licensing deal with sleb-photos agency : scummy. don’t use TwitPic if they are planning to monetize your photos, even if it’s currently just for a “small number of celebrities”. (via my dad)
(tags: twitpic ip privacy copyright via:dad photography)Cool, but obscure unix tools : these are great – some new ones on me!
(tags: cli linux terminal unix tools command-line)
Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house … by mistake : An interview (of sorts)! ‘Cast your mind to the acid house scene and your immediate thought probably doesn’t involve an ageing Bollywood session musician. Yet the softly spoken Indian man who greets me at the door of his friend’s suburban Acton home on a sunny Sunday morning is credited with creating what some have labelled the first ever acid house record.’
(tags: acid-house music via:xxjfg guardian interviews history india bollywood ragas)
Indian Street Graphics – a set on Flickr : a great collection (via Bruce Sterling)
(tags: via:bruces art culture design flickr india)
TextAid – Google Chrome extension : “It’s All Text” for Chrome. annoyingly, Chrome blocks forking of processes by extensions, so a daemon process (provided) needs to be running separately, but otherwise it works nicely. Particularly nice is that the daemon is just written in dependency-hell-free perl rather than Node.JS ;)
(tags: text editing chrome extensions add-ons browsers web)Chrome to get HTTPS public key pinning : ‘Starting with Chrome 13, we’ll have HTTPS pins for most Google properties. This means that certificate chains for, say, https://www.google.com, must include a whitelisted public key. It’s a fatal error otherwise.’ good anti-MITM protection
(tags: https ssl http web security mitm sniffing chrome)