While I generally feel that log parsing is the least sophisticated mechanism for monitoring an application, often no other option exists. Logstash is an open source tool for parsing and displaying information in logs. It could be a free replacement for some functionality provided by commercial tools such as Splunk.

Tileabl.es is a growing collection of tiling textures for backgrounds.

Mincemeat.py is a Python implementation of the MapReduce distributed computing framework. Define map and reduce functions, add as attributes to a server object, execute results. All in 13k of Python code. Clients can be added/removed as needed. I tested this with one node on a different machine. It worked as advertised, although seemed slow. The … Read more

Git-flow is a Git plugin which makes it easier to follow a branching model involving feature, release and next release branches while preserving master as production-ready.

I hope I’m never in a situation where I have to inspect code in a .pyc file, but at least there’s a way.