Category Archives: Possibly Useful

a new occasional series
programs too small to be projects
but hard enough to write
that I wish to spare others the trouble
whimsically described
freely licensed
unlikely to be revised.

test your file locking

Posted on 14 October 2011 by Zack Weinberg

This PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT is brought to you by the I JUST WASTED AN HOUR ON THAT Foundation: Do you suffer from mysteriously hanging autotools processes? Or perhaps other mysteriously hanging processes? If so, you may have a problem with … Continue reading →

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URL Canonicalizer

Posted on 14 September 2010 by Zack Weinberg

supposing for the sake of argument that you had a giant list of partial URLs (you know, like “www.example.com/blurf”) and you needed to canonicalize them and chase redirects and remove duplicates and dead sites and further you were aware that … Continue reading →

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