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Cytoplasm, a simple static blogging-and-other-things generator. Cytoplasm takes some posts and templates and outputs a bunch of HTML files, which you can host basically anywhere. Since everything is plain text, using version control and making back-ups are both super easy.

Herd is a single-command Bittorrent-based file distribution system, based on Twitter's Murder. It was designed for pushing code out to a number of production systems. You can probably use it for other things. Herd requires no extra Python modules on the destination system as it ships around its own (lightly modified) copy of BitTornado.

Yep, comments seem a bit of an anachronism nowadays. I think I’ll probably turn them off on my blog too, when I get round to deploying the new version I’ve half-finished. I miss the long-form responses though. Tweet responses can be hard to follow with the character limit forcing over-simplicity. That’s one of the nice things about Google+, although it’d be nicer still to make more of a return to personal blogs.

We pay some people to be Big Thinkers for us, but mostly they just say things that please people with money. It pleases the money folk to think that the wild and crazy and unregulated world of the web is no longer threatening them. That users are happy to live in a highly regulated, Disneyfied app space, without all that messy freedom.   I'll stay with the web. 

While the documentation does a fair job of describing many of the things you can do with an extension, it doesn't provide as much detail on what you can't do. That's what you'll find below.

So, we developed a don't-ask/don't-tell policy of making private copies of documents and carrying them around with us. Engineers, to generalize, hate waiting around for stupid reasons, and having documents meant that we could get to work. It also made us look better, since we got things done on time, instead of having to send out lame excuses that we're late because we're waiting on a fax.

There are obvious expenses involved whenever an organization begins adopting accessibility which are diminished as accessibility as a topic is adopted and integrated into how things get done, but nobody truly knows what those costs are or how rapidly they’re diminished.

So instead let us give more time for doing physical things in the real world and less time for staring at (and touching) the glowing flat rectangle.

Semantics are like wonderful prose. You use them to deliver an enjoyable product. People are not celebrated for writing books. They are celebrated for what they filled them with. If we keep putting things on the web that have structure and get better on more sophisticated display products we are building for the future. If we point fingers at others doing it wrong we waste our time.

Though Git’s commands are incredibly useful, it’s hard for newcomers to make a good combination of Git’s commands to finish their own tasks, like shell commands. Recent Git’s command-line interface is well polished, but there is no command such as git undo-what-i-did, because things to be undone are varied for each situation. So that we have to execute a bunch of commands to do what we want.