- Stefan Wrobel – How to make Vagrant performance not suck
Useful stuff.
Tag: performance
Bookmarks for September 26, 2013
- buger/gor · GitHub
This is a tool that will take traffic that's hitting your live server, and replay it against other environments – effectively conducting as-live testing against other systems. This could be very useful indeed.
- Lyke-Wake Dirge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I turned this up a few years back, and then forgot about it. I have uses for it, and don't want to forget again.
Bookmarks for March 9, 2011
Bookmarks for September 29, 2010
- Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!
Do you play the lottery? Here's a little tool that will simulate playing a reasonably normal lottery for you, twice a week, for 10 years, so that you can see just how much money you're flushing down the toilet for what kind of reward.
- How to build a web widget (using jQuery) – Alex Marandon
Most of you can safely skip this one, as it'll be incomprehensible tech bollocks. Unless you're interested in good coding practice when developing Javascript for other people to deploy of their websites. No, didn't think so.
- A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it? « Rev Dan Catt's Blog
Have you ever complained (or thought about complaining, or generally just grumbled to yourself and your friends) when LJ, Facebook, Twitter, or any other large website you use changed something? Have you ever wondered "why didn't they give us the option to keep doing it the old way, if we wanted to?" Well here's a good post explaining why.
- Wrestling legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life. – By Mick Foley – Slate Magazine
Yeah, I know it sounds unlikely to the point of absurdity. But seriously, read this. I don't care if you don't give a shit about one of both of them are – unless you have no idea at all who both of them are (in which case, I congratulate you on waking from your 20 year coma, and welcome you to the future) they I promise you, you'll love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Bookmarks for June 15, 2010
- USB Typewriter by usbtypewriter on Etsy
Why no, there is no practical reason to get one of these. Why yes, I do really really want one.
- Frank Chimero: What is the future of print design?
Key quotes: "we break stuff before we know what replaces it, and we invent things before we know what they are for" and "If I’m thinking as a normal consumer, I don’t really care terribly much about what the future of ink on paper is going to be. I care about what the future of content is going to be."
- mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Useful reference for the reasonably near future, I suspect.
Bookmarks for March 19, 2009
- Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Building Fast Client-side Searches
I knew that JSON wasn't ideal for large data blocks, but I'd never have guessed that something as simple as a custom data format and a split() function would be so much faster.