Grack is the blog of a software engineer writing on CSS tricks, terminal tooling, Rust internals, and security incidents.
HN links it for practical references like SSH escape sequences and life-before-main in Rust, and for browser hacks such as the History API abuse.
MediaBeacon showed off a really cool GWT-based product at Campfire. They've built the equivalent of a desktop application inside the browser (full drag-and-drop, file management, etc). The video is up on their website: http://mediabeacon.com/
I'll also plug our GWT-based product, DotSpots. I'm dogfooding it on my blog at http://grack.com - just select one of the paragraphs or click one of the blue dots to see the UI. It's an example of a non-traditional GWT application: we're running our own GWT code inside of a foreign website. Our website is more of classic GWT application, but we compile both of those targets (as well as Chrome and Firefox extensions) from subsets of the same codebase.
Apparently iTerm2 can be used to setup lrzsz coupling [1]. I haven't tried it yet myself, but I'm going to! I really hope this works. It's such a pain to setup scp back to my workstation that if I need to do any real back and forth, I've been known to setup a reverse SSH tunnel just for getting scp to work. But even then, it's a pain. Zmodem would be so much easier (and make me a little nostalgic inside every time I used it).
[1] https://grack.com/blog/2011/10/26/automatic-file-transfer-in-iterm2-via-zmodem/
Then you'll absolutely love the URLbar marquee[0]. Combine this with a page title marquee and you can grab attention even if the browser is minimized. (Can now only get results for maps to bars named Marquee...). Now just add fartscroll.js[1] and you're set with the most annoying website.
[0] https://grack.com/blog/2011/03/07/abusing-the-html5-history-api-for-fun-and-chaos/
[1] https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js/
You can re-live your childhood online:
https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
It's the 1984 variant version[1] but close enough. It's also retro styled as well!
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Later_versions
Actually worked with would be http://benrady.com/, http://grack.com/blog/, and a few other people who don't have online presences.
Seen in person but not worked with would be http://twitter.com/venkat_s and http://www.nealford.com/.
Some terminal emulators support in-band file transfers using zmodem. SecureCRT does this.
iTerm: http://grack.com/blog/2011/10/26/automatic-file-transfer-in-iterm2-via-zmodem/