"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
pydot is an interface to the GraphViz suite of programs for drawing abstract graphs and networks. Nifty. I’ve had need of such a thing quite a few times, and it only took me about two minutes to convert a part of my home directory hierarchy into the picture on the right. Fun stuff.
Not that impressed? How ’bout this slightly nicer diagram of the history of Unix variants? Pretty cool.
Something I used to good effect for a while was a "Pocketmod". You take a single page, fold it a…
Bloat is a serious problem, to be sure, but I'm not aware of many modern programming languages that avoid it.…
I'm running static pages (Notepad++) and a couple instances of Wordpress, and an instance of dokuwiki, all on ubuntu on…
I recall back in the '90s Rod Bogart (you met at Pixar?) had a small paper notebook with a detailed…
I move my pretty useless blog to Hugo about 7 years ago, since I got frustrated at too many security…