I’ve published a small collection of Claude Code skills as a plugin. There are two so far: one that runs a technical interview against you and then tells you the truth about how it went, and one that walks you through configuring a GitHub repository properly. Read more
imgsrv is a small open source Go service that resizes and transcodes images on demand, sitting behind nginx. There’s nothing revolutionary about the idea: nginx serves everything it can straight from disk, and only a cache miss ever reaches the Go service. When that happens it generates the requested version of the image, writes it to disk, and returns it. Every request after that is a plain static file serve that never touches the Go code at all. Read more
Wakuwi is an open source, lightweight, read-only web interface for exploring Kubernetes clusters. It runs locally, uses the contexts already present in your kubeconfig, and requires no additional configuration. Install it, run it, and point your browser at localhost. It can also be run in your Kubernetes cluster. Read more
I own nearly 100 domain names, which is a pretty modest number against some people and organisations I know. Most of them are currently registered with Gandi.net and I’ve always found their service to be good value for money and that’s still true today. Read more
Twitter sends notifications of new followers and direct messages by email. While you can use the API to keep track of those things it wastes hits and it’s incredibly inefficient especially for accounts with minimal activity. Read more
A couple of days ago, Ryan Sarver of Twitter sent an email to the API developers mailing list notifying us of changes to their terms of service. As per usual the community have exaggerated the implications of these changes to the point where it’s now pure comedy. As has happened every time Twitter make any changes that may affect developers, developers are panicking, and for no good reason that I can find. Read more
The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without any rate or minimum retweet restrictions. As you can see it moved pretty quickly. Read more
One of the pillars of a scalable website is ensuring that only activity which is required to build a page should be performed during the processing of a page request. Activities that fall under this category commonly include sending emails, recording statistics and general housekeeping such as removing temporary files. Read more
A couple of days ago I released a new TwitApps tool called Follows. I know I haven’t talked about TwitApps on this blog yet – that post is coming – but if you follow me on Twitter you should be aware of it. Read more
My latest project went live on Monday this week. It’s another Twitter-based toy along the same lines as hotornot but it uses your Twitter account and profile picture. Since launch it’s proved very successful and has spread quickly due to its viral nature. Read more
One thought keeps spinning round my head and has been for a while now. There are too many social networks for global participation to be practical. The core problem is that each site has their own list of your friends. This list is usually referred to as the social map and for the idea of social networking to really become a permanent part of the Web this aspect needs to be extracted and standardised. Read more
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