“Groovy Motherfucker”

Through the medium of OAuth and APIs, safely links your FourSquare checkins to your FireEagle account.

Now if only there was anything that actually *used* FireEagle’s data. (Beyond the little box on the right hand side of my blog frontpage)

Fantastic slide deck from Ignite Sydney. Good food for thought on the need for diversity in computer circles, and what effect the “Computer Engineer Barbie” might/should have.

Every programmer should read this list now. If you don’t have a high-level understanding of all of these (and a deep understanding of the ones that affect the platform you build on), you’re dangerous.

Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. “Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.”

“Not to say older engineers aren’t emotionally invested in their work, in my experience they typically are, it’s just a matter of being better at picking battles.”

Great paper covering the make-up of the users of ChatRoulette.