Simon Willison blogs at http://simon.incutio.com/ 
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Simon Willison : The Seven Secrets of Successful Data Scientists - The Seven Secrets of Successful Data Scientists. Some sensible advice, including pick the right sized tool, compress everything, split up your data, use open source and run the analysis where the data is.
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Simon Willison : Setting up Munin on Ubuntu - Setting up Munin on Ubuntu. Useful guide to setting up my favourite graphing/monitoring tool for personal projects.
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Simon Willison : RasterWeb: Lanyrd - RasterWeb: Lanyrd. Pete Prodoehl calls me out on Lanyrd’s integration with the Twitter auth API at the expense of OpenID. I’ve posted a comment with my justification—essentially, tying to Twitter’s ecosystem means I can actually implement the fe
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Andy Baio : Lanyrd, social conference directory - brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd"
Simon Willison : Lanyrd - the social conference directory - Lanyrd—the social conference directory. Nat and my new project, launched today and doing pretty well despite some early server hiccups. Sign in with Twitter to see conferences that your friends are speaking at, attending or tracking, then add your own
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Simon Willison : LWPx::ParanoidAgent - LWPx::ParanoidAgent. Every programming language needs an equivalent of this library—a robust, secure way to make HTTP requests against URLs from untrusted sources without risk of tarpits, internal network access, socket starvation, weird server errors
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Simon Willison : What is the history of Django? - What is the history of Django?. I’ve been playing with Quora—it’s a really neat twist on the question-and-answer format, which makes great use of friends, followers and topics and has some very neat live update stuff going on (using Comet on top o
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Simon Willison : Readme Driven Development - Readme Driven Development. Tom Preston-Werner advocates for writing the readme before any other code. “Until you’ve written about your software, you have no idea what you’ll be coding.” [via]
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Simon Willison : Using Freebase Gridworks to Create Linked Data - Using Freebase Gridworks to Create Linked Data. A very handy tutorial from data.gov.uk’s Jeni Tennison.
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Simon Willison : PNGStore - Embedding compressed CSS & JavaScript in PNGs - PNGStore—Embedding compressed CSS & JavaScript in PNGs. Cal did some further analysis on the CSS/JS to PNG compression trick (including producing some interesting images of jQuery compressed using different image packing techniques) and found it t
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Simon Willison : 10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images - 10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images. Fascinating hack: transform your JS and CSS in to coloured pixels, save the result as a PNG to benefit from PNG’s built in compression algorithms, then read the data bac
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Simon Willison : Undelete! - Undelete!. How to undelete a file accidentally removed using rm on Linux, by grepping through the raw bytes on the hard drive searching for a unique string that was contained in the file. “grep -a -B 25 -A 100 ’some string in the file’ /dev/sda1 &
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joshua : Polymaps
Simon Willison : Polymaps - Polymaps. Absurdly hot: “a JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG”. It can pull in image tiles from sources such as OpenStreetMap, then overlay SVG paths specified using GeoJSON. The demos make use of GeoJSON tiles for US stat
nelson : Polymaps - Overlay vector data on tile based maps on web pages.
Andy Baio : Polymaps - Stamen and SimpleGeo's JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles [via]
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Simon Willison : A More Royal Royal Opera House - A More Royal Royal Opera House. Beautiful piece of work updating the branding for the Royal Opera House, including a strikingly modern take on the original crest.
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