On timing various methods of starting a secondary shell script

Results of timing shell sourcing vs. shell execing
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The Lounge: Highlighting channels with unsent messages

The Lounge is an IRC web client we use at work. To help you keep track of unsent messages, when you move to a different channel without sending the current message to the current channel, The Lounge adorns the channel with a pencil icon (). [We use The Lounge at work, and having taken screenshots from there, I’ve blurred some of the text in the images that follow. The green arrows locate the point I’m making with each image.
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Markdown standup date updating in Vim with vim-speeddating

Updating dates in Markdown standup indexes using vim-speeddating in Vim
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Echo cancellation, noise suppression, and all round sound improvement for Pulseaudio

Fancy audio setup: sound sculpting, noise suppression, and echo cancellation
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Profiling Python

Tools for profiling Python programmes
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