miniblog.

Updating to Linux 3.12.6. Looks like several important btrfs fixes. It pays to be *really* conservative with filesystems.

"we see cameras transitioning into what they were bound to become: networked lenses" -- http://t.co/l1xY1EvDAg Thought provoking.

Not enough apps are built with a responsiveness budget. If all apps' UIs responded in less than 200ms, the world would be better.

Python, Emacs lisp, JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, C. Cripes, a busy year! #code2013

Considering how high C is on the TIOBE index, I have met very few professional C programmers. Odd.

"In my own tests, compiled Elisp with lexical scope enabled is about 10% to 15% faster than with the default dynamic scope." Worth knowing!

Fifty pages of legalese, and one lousy control panel later, and I have set up HTTPS! It's well worth it, but not easy.

So, apparently the NSA favours BIOS-based malware. Makes me want a Stallman-style 'even the BIOS is F/OSS' machine.

I like C. It's a small language, which is an underrated language feature.

Writing Haskell with flycheck was a revelation. As-you-type linting and typechecking gives a nice tight feedback loop.

Emacs 24.4 also makes ht.el less compelling as there will be built-in functions hash-table-keys and hash-table-values. Competition is good!

Exciting changes in #emacs 24.4! Multi-monitor support, edebug can display local vars, and tons more!

I'm surprised at how little entropy (see /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail) is available on my Linux box. haveged really helps.

What's the opposite of 'technology agnostic'? 'Technology fundamentalist'?

You can't prove the absence of bugs, but 91% test coverage on an important system does help me sleep at night.