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After sunset, the water glowed with any movement,

way more than I have ever seen it.

(The excellent water photography by Dominique Labrecque)

We were the only ones out. At the end of the session there were
gigantic double rainbows (not making that part up).

Winter before last, mid-morning on a Saturday in January.
There was a ton of people watching from the shore, many taking photos.
I was riding a borrowed board, but still managed to catch a couple.

Super glassy late morning session, using Joe's water camera. Awesome time.

Looking at some details of my Google Analytics report for my app TheWikiGame.com, I noticed a very striking visual proof that employees are still required to use Internet Explorer at work.  Notice the large peaks and troughs of the IE traffic, where the troughs are all Saturday and Sundays.

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

Internet Explorer

Additionally, of similar interest, you'll notice that large spike for late October for Firefox and Chrome, but not Safari or IE.  That's Reddit traffic.

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This wave was surprisingly powerful, and pretty crowded, but we got a couple good ones.
Old ruins and palm trees on the shoreline added to the mystique of the place.

We walked over sand dunes to this epic reef break. There was not a person in site.
What a rare beauty - this is what surf dreams are made of.

1)  You will always be irrationally amazed that people use technology Y, when clearly technology X is better.

2)  You will always be subjected to date and time juggling.  No exceptions.

3)  The time it takes you to become an expert at hot technology X will invariability be equal to the time it takes technology Y to become the next hot thing.

4)  Projects will take either 3 times as long or 10 times as long as you expect - which is exactly the time it takes you to become disinterested, and interested in your next project.

5)  You will never, ever remember the difference between useradd and adduser on linux.

6)  Your non-trivial projects will always contain an ever-growing directory called utils that contain outlandish one-off scripts that do who-knows-what.

7) Caffeine is the answer.  No exceptions.

Taken from personal experience.

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Perfect: (adj) Completely suited for a particular purpose; complete of its nature or kind.

A perfect open source framework, library, or package is one that never holds me back. My own brainpower, determination, and willingness to search for solutions out in the community are the only limiting factors.

I sometimes get irrationally excited about the possibilities of building things using these tools.  I feel like I have secret weapons. 
In no particular order, they are:

Redis: A "data structure server" providing seemingly unlimited ways to build cutting edge data storage + access applications easily.  It's just one shining star of the NoSQL movement, but it's ease of use, combined with a multitude of elegant use cases, make Redis perfect for me.

Nginx: A webserver that combines blazing speed with minuscule memory usage with simple configuration.  Such a gem.

Django: A web application framework that does it all - and all completely documented in shockingly good form on the projects own website.  Plus its ever-growing community has a large array of plugin apps to chose from.

jQuery: A JavaScript framework that has an incredibly beautiful API, and a dizzying array of plugins that will solve absolutely any problem you face.  I don't fear JavaScript anymore, instead I love it.

It's not that I'm an expert on any one of the above - not nearly - but I'm experienced enough to know that, for me, they are best-of-breed.
The reality is there are many more pieces involved in creating a full featured application, so having a selection of perfect pieces will only get you so far when building out a real world app.  In fact, there are many other projects that I really enjoy using, but they all hover just below the "perfect" mark.

Finally, and somewhat obviously, is that what is perfect today will be by no means perfect tomorrow.  Without constant evolution and improvement,
any one can be eclipsed by another - in some cases in short time spans.  What I present above are just my opinion of what is "perfect" today.

What perfect open source secret weapons do you have?

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