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"One of your test API keys has been filled into the examples, so you can test out any example right away." Stripe, I'm impressed.

Was nerd sniped today. Write a function in Python that flattens a list of arbitrary depth. My solution: http://t.co/TBwNrkqZjE

Today I learnt about iptables-apply. It undoes firewall rule changes if you've accidentally locked yourself out. Replaces my custom scripts!

Non-ASCII characters in domain names -- very hard to display them correctly in all browsers: http://t.co/TqbNHJSWtd

"Some developers learn APIs through “apprenticeships” with expert Stack Overflow users." -- http://t.co/Hw562Tqjlo

That moment of suspicion when code works first time.

Saw a legitimate 3D printer for £120 today. The future has arrived!

Augeas: http://t.co/89ealBpXHF is very cool. It parses config files, so you can modify them without ad-hoc scripts that might break syntax.

Monitoring emails tend to be uninspiringly worded. I'd much prefer a Scotty (of Star Trek) impression. "She's down to 50MiB cap'n!"

Uniquify will be enabled by default in Emacs 24.4! Great news -- it's a brilliant Emacs feature that not enough people know about.

Curly braces in Python: http://t.co/4jjtupRgYq

Learnt about `set -u` in bash scripts today. Ensures all your variables are defined, very handy (think `"use strict";` for shell)

New version of IntelliJ is out! It might be time for a visit to non-Emacs-land to pillage features and ideas!

Using a Solaris system today! When I was at university, they were so old that none were available to learn on. Now, found one in prod!

Argh. Creating a file whose filename with a leading space is a royal pain. Ended up using a Python script just to see what was going on.