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Meh, today was just one of those days, couldn’t get started so I punted on most of it. Should finish Rework tonight.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• MediaLoot – All you can eat graphic design stuffs (minus web templates/themes) it looks like for $14/mo.
• Visor – saw this used in a couple places, basically a slide down blind for terminal. Not sure I’m going to stick with this though, I like having terminal around.
• Cmd+[1-9] Tabbing in Terminal – nuff said.
• ir_black – I have the terminal theme, the vim color scheme, the textmate theme. If I could find it for limechat I’d use it there too.
• HN has a thread on the Panic Dashboard from last time with some examples of others. Looks like they were all collected here. Some really cool ideas. The collection missed the one from last.fm and 37signals.
• Unit Testing Achievements – XBox 360 Like achievements to bring some levity to django testing?
• Nimble Nodes – A way to automatically scale your Heroku dynos (and dj workers) based on dynos in use, size of the RequestQueue and some settings at nimblenodes.com. Thanks to @eladmeidar for this one.
• show_for – If the plataformatec’s team comes out with many more plugins there won’t be a whole lot left for us to do as rails developers This one helps dry up your views.
• rails and ruby chops – more screencasts for rails and ruby, another reason this is an awesome community.
• Vagrant – programatic management and creation of VirtualBox images using ruby. Looks like some really cool possibilities here, like a CI task or post-commit hook that creates an image for your QA/Marketing/etc teams.

Where do I come up with all these links?

• Mike Gunderloy’s a fresh cup
• Elad Meidar’s bag o’ links
• David Trasbo’s L33T LINKS
• Peter Cooper’s rubyflow
• I watch a bunch of tags in my delicious aggregator, URLAgg.
• Occasionally I’ll see something of note pass by on twitter, though I have to be watching one of my lists to see it, otherwise there’s just too much noise.