Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “history”

Bookmarks

SR-71 Break-Up

Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us. ”

(aviation, flight, history, pilot, sr71, test)

WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, […] and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.”

(chrome, firefox, fun, history, mozilla, opera, safari, software, string, user-agent)

Wikihistory

Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?”

(funny, history, wiki, wikihistory)

AuditTrail - Django Code - Trac

Marty Alchin's amazingly cool “audit trail” for Django models. Essentially creates *Audit models that track all changes to the underlying model. Unbelievably slick; this should make the start of a *very* nice third-party app.

(django, history)

Retrosheet

Comprehensive baseball stats through 1984, free for nearly any use.

(baseball, data, history, reference, sports, stats)