I live very near the path of this tornado. This was the first time in several years that I've actually sought shelter underground.

This tornado, while not as severe as the one that struck Moore on May 20, took a rare "left-hand" turn and caught several media vehicles by surprise.

A few more Sublime Text plugins worth checking out:

AdvancedNewFile -- easy file/directory creation

Alignment -- shortcut for instant alignment

Emmet -- essential for HTML/CSS

GitGutter -- see diff marks in gutter

Origami -- additional shortcuts for split panes

VintageEx -- emulation of Vim's Ex-mode

The Vim emulation isn't one-to-one, but it's pretty good with Vintage mode enabled and the VintageEx plugin installed.

Spectacular landing page. Really great. App looks nicely designed as well. Best of luck!

I like the idea of games that involve getting out of the house and meeting new people.

That said, how do the makers of games like this prevent location spoofing?

The most obvious thing would be to sanity check each player's location data. Someone who moves 100 miles in less than a minute is obviously cheating.

This post raises some interesting points about the difficulty of contributing to open source for the first time. Over the last year, I've taught myself to code. I want to contribute to open source, and I think I can provide value to smaller projects. But the public nature and unique culture of open source have left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. So I observe instead.

What's the best way for a rookie to find small, welcoming open-source projects to contribute to?

Try to get into a bugmash of some kind. I started this way with Rails and I wrote about it http://www.rohitarondekar.com/articles/my-first-rails-bugmas...

Many companies and tech groups have these around the world during meetups and conferences.

But most importantly dont let this pull request fool you. Rails is nice to contribute to even if you are starting out and the rails core team especially jose valim and santiago pastorino are super helpful.

Find a "small" project is probably best. I've contributed to probably over a dozen opensource projects on Github in the past year or so. I highly encourage you to find a few that you use and like. They don't even have to be really small, but I'd probably avoid projects like Ruby, Rails or the Linux kernel for now.

Start your own project.

Open source is not strictly about contributing to existing projects. You can start as many new projects as you'd like.

My experience is that many big projects started out as personal (read small) projects that grew out of adoption.

What kind of projects should you start?

Pick something that you reason you can solve with your current knowledge, and get working.

I very recently wrote http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/03/16/your-iden... and I think it's very relevant in encouraging people just beginning to contribute to open source.

Find a small project you use for something you're building. Do you run into any issues with using it, that could be improved? Improve those and send a pull request. Make your first commit small and obvious.

Very cool. Tools like this are unbelievably useful for self-study, as they allow for quick experimentation. Which (at least in my case) helps cement new concepts.

Another, similar tool is jsFiddle (http://jsfiddle.net/).

Anyone know of any others like this?

There is also : - http://rubyfiddle.com/ - http://pythonfiddle.com/

and http://repl.it/#:languages

I bought one of these during the sale they had last year. I'm running CyanogenMod (Android) and everything works as described.

It's most useful when looking at one's phone would be considered rude, but looking at one's watch would not.

I haven't built any faces for mine (yet), but having the watch definitely makes me want to learn more Python/C.

Has anyone on HN used the H&F-J webfont service? There are probably NDAs involved with the private beta, but I'd love to hear more about it, in terms of performance, rendering, available fonts, etc.