Since the middle of last year I’ve been working full time for Hubbub, a company which is supporting local independent food shops by providing home delivery services, allowing customers to buy great food even if they’re not able to get to the shops during the day. I’ve been having a fabulous time, they’ve got a great team, and I’ve learnt more about food in the last 6 months then I ever knew before starting!

We’re expanding now, and to do so we need another developer. That’s where you come in. If you want to work for a startup which is actually changing things that matter, instead of letting you share pictures of kittens in a slightly different way, we want to talk to you…

I use S3 to share files temporarily for people, largely because it’s quick and simple when using a tool like s3cmd, close enough to free for the cost not to matter.

I also use Alfred to provide a GUI command line for Mac OS.

Whilst reading about Heroku’s logging on Adam’s blog I came across logger, a tool available on most unix systems which takes any input on STDIN, and redirects it to syslog with the provided options. I’d never heard of it,

I’ve been doing some more Open Sourcery for the last few days, and I think it’s just about at a point where I’m happy writing about it now.

Noumenon is a content management system which tries to focus on the content, rather then it’s presentation. Currently it’s roughly equivalent to Jekyll or Toto, but without the blogging focus (although you could probably build a blog with it)…

TLDR; I wrote an Open Source version of Copycopter’s server called Text Tractor. You can find it on GitHub at http://github.com/jellybob/text_tractor.

Update: I was asked by Thoughtbot to change the application’s name from it’s original one, so it’s called Text Tractor now.

The last couple of days I’ve been writing a Sinatra applications which I plan to use for managing copy on my client’s web applications. It’s not a full blown content management system, it’s just enough to allow clients to change the titles of pages and the like by themselves…