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The classic problem where the act of writing your problem to seek help, causes you to realise what's wrong. Rubber-ducking with the Internet

Installing Arch Linux status: Kernel panic. Argh, sounds educational, but not immediately productive.

Saw an HTTPS error on Google! https://google .co.uk. (note trailing dot). Turns out it's a 12-year old Firefox bug:

OH: "I want easy HTTP handling. "I want a good web framework." "I want a pony." You want Django.

Ebook apps that provided authors with analytics of how much is read: http://t.co/fiHbm3MCbz Fascinating.

Finding a better, simpler approach with less code required is a wonderful feeling.

An entertaining, if trivial, way of writing 'hello world' to the console with C: http://t.co/HQNVI2wrud

"Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security."

If your program is better expressed in HQ9+: http://t.co/qqphzDxEzl, you should find more interesting programs to write!

It's unfortunate how sites will require you to type in your password incorrectly before you can request a password reminder. It's awkward.

LLVM IR rejects 1.3 as a floating-point constant, since it can't be represented exactly in binary. Smart way to avoid confusion.

I find a low ceremony programming language more readable than a concise language, in general.

New Year's resolution: Every machine I own should have full disk encryption and automated remote encrypted backups.

Django gotcha: initial_data.json is loaded on every syncdb, so you shouldn't use it for data that you'd edit later.

Slightly sad to see that neither Strigi nor Beagle are maintained these days.