Nifty Things for Week of 6 February 2015

Historical Footnotes

• Medieval Scribe: “Oh My God, I’m So Hungover” | Tor.com

Gaming

• (pointlessly) Above and beyond the call of duty. — A Paranoia Adventure

Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35 | Raspberry Pi — Upgraded CPU & Memory; same price
• Flotilla for Raspberry Pi – Friendly Electronics — Flotilla is a range of smart, friendly, and affordable modules which you connect together to create amazing projects which sense and react to the world around them. Kickstarter runs through 16 February

Software Architecture

• Software Project Hierarchy of Needs

Tools

• .bashrc PS1 Generator — generate your .bashrc PS1 prompt with drag & drop.
• mkcast — tool for creating GIF screencasts of a terminal, with key presses overlaid
• epoch — A general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth, and high performance visualizations.
• Google Web Starter Kit — Multi-device responsive boilerplate
• Gulp — automate workflow
• deb.js — Minimalistic JavaScript library for debugging in the browser; this looks really cool!

Neat Stuff

• Flee from the sun at the speed of light in this humbling video
• Stormtrooper entertains his cat with the Death Star — both kawaii & sad

This week’s image was drawn by my daughter, Althea, almost a year ago — I’d asked her to draw me as an animal, and this was the result.