Chryp is a GPL3′d, Tumblr-like blogging engine written in Php. It’s used by such sites as Cameron I/O, hinting that it’s at least marginally capable.

BUS is a simple interactive fiction engine written in Python. It includes a basic world model and NL parser.

The Mozilla2 platform aims for mobile market. It’s about bloody time. It looks like webkit has already schooled Gecko in the embedded space, so the Mozilla team has some catchup to do.

An interesting description of coupling and complexity, with nifty diagrams and clear explanations.

In the theme of groking your gut: The Hacker’s Diet, a free, classic text online … engineering for your self.

The official set of online Rails manuals, including a Rails cookbook and a good guide on Rail’s URL routing/rewriting. The docs for a user login plugin and an overview of plugins in general.

Richard Hipp gives a Google Talk about his SQLite engine. SQLite is a small, slick SQL engine that offers most of SQL92, a small footprint (single file), and great performance on desktops and handheld systems.

[stars: 5] Primer. Absolute brilliance on a shoestring budget. A solid reminder to geeks that you can make anything, given 6 months of hard work.  They paint the life of engineers in a believable way, wrapped around a twisted sci-fi plot.  This movie will leave you inspired and confused–and trying to figure out wtf actually happened.

A comparison of the Perl 5 regex and the Thomson NFA string matching engines. Note that the NFA matching is measured in microseconds (and the regex in milliseconds).

A Multics engineer writes about the hiring process, and a random follow-up set of phone screening questions.