Web site

• Hosting by Webfaction

  Hosting by developers. Works faultlessly and has great documentation.

• Email by Runbox

  Secure off-shore and sustainable email services.

• Domain hosting and DNS by EasyDNS

  Great registrar which is easy and powerful. They also have important privacy tools.

• Site creation with Pelican

  Static site generation that is powerful and flexible.

• CSS design by Mark Reid

  Mark's site is simple and readable for long and short-form content. I've diverged a bit from his CSS, probably not in a good way!

• I'm using the Ubuntu font, provided by Google Fonts

  The Ubuntu font was desiged to be easy to read on screen all under a Free Software license.

• Disqus : Disqus is an off-site community discussion service. There are real advantages to this system for commenter and those adminstering comments - not least that you can see all your discussions across many sites. In two minds about this, Isso looks like a good alternative.

• Stats by xxx

  Some information here.

Tools I use

I've been using Linux since 1996 with various versions of *Nix along the way. At this point the philosophy behind those tools pretty much forms my computing mental model. Some of the most important are:

A philosophy for life, by Randall Munroe

• Ubuntu

  Linux for Human beings - all the capability and flexibility of Linux, but well put together with sane defaults and a beautiful user experience. Of course!

• Python, Virtualenv and Fabric

  Tools of the modern Python hacker I guess.

• OpenSSH and tmux

  Tools of the old-fashioned CLI hacker, I guess. For tmux this book is great.

• reStructuredText and Vim

  Unix is all about text, RST gives you some of the power of structured input. Mac users love TextMate, but there's only one true text editor and it's called Vim!

• Bzr

  Version control is the tech equivalent of business people saying if you can't measure it you can't manage it. Bazaar is distributed version control for humans. See what I did there!