Responding to excessive volume

A neat little discussion at StackOverflow (superuser) about how to take an action when the microphone volume goes too high, with some really fascinating responses, including one cobbling it together with Pure Data, an open source visual programming language I'd never heard of.  (It's a dataflow thing.)

TermKit

A reinvention of the Unix command line, TermKit wraps commands in a JSON HMI layer, parses commands while you're typing so that the tokens work right without all the quotes and escapes, and does a lot of other neat stuff that we should really be thinking about this century.

I don't particularly love his aesthetic choices, but the overall idea is fantastic.  Unfortunately, he seems to have run aground on development.

Command line tools for developers

More Unix command-line tools - some I never heard of.  I need to do a database for these.

Calling the shell

I forget why I was researching calling shell programs from scripting languages, but:

• sh does it from Python [hnn]
• Something like it was ported to Perl as Shell.pm

Unix tools

Man, this is a domain rife for semantic clarification if ever there were one. It'd be good for me just to write it, actually, whether it ever got used or not.