- A highly detailed demonstration of SQLite performance, which also goes through various ways of tuning it.
 - Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers; this sort of advice is nothing new, but the writer is so good and the site design so clean that it oughta be kinda canonical.
 - Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program; interesting advice on teaching programming.
 - a gentle tutorial on Python's 
xml.etree.ElementTreemodule - It's very interesting to see a browser with relatively little use continue getting developed, while monsters like Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, and Safari have (almost) taken over the world.