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It would be wonderful to crowdsource SSL cert verification. I'd like Firefox to say if other visitors are seeing the same cert.

Blogged: No Naked Excepts: http://t.co/eJsARIT7DL

Good code is like a good joke - it needs no explanation. -- Russ @ollyolsen

Argh. Stack Overflow's limitation on 'no <6 character edits' is a real annoyance when you're fixing parens in a lisp answer.

If Clojure supported custom reader macros, I'd add support for #[1 %] as being equivalent to #(vector 1 %). Ah, the power/danger tradeoff.

"CallTrack adds an entry to your Google Calendar for each call you receive, make, or miss." Ingenious.

Today I learnt about `with closing(opened_thing) as foo` in Python. Ensures cleanup in the face of errors. http://t.co/hCUW6b8og7

As Docker matures, it would be clever to publish software benchmarks as Dockerfiles. It would give excellent reproducibility.

Updated from ag (the silver searcher) 0.14 to 0.18. It's a *lot* faster and it was already very quick. Impressive!

$32 gets you Wikipedia in your pocker, anywhere: http://t.co/0QdoxCgjA9 neato. Perfect for kids.

Current status: writing Chef scripts. Works well with Vagrant, I'd much rather see an /etc/sudoers syntax error in a VM than on production.

@taoeffect Are you the author of this fine blog post? https://web.archive.org/web/20130524231226/http://www.gregslepak.com/on-lisps-readability I'd really like to see a copy with the images working.

Reading The Little Schemer has definitely affected how I code in any lisp, not just Scheme. Mind-expanding book.

"the average lifespan of a web page is 100 days, bookmarking a page [..] is not a great plan for saving information" https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/

Firefox's awesome bar works superbly, but I really miss being able to do a textual search on the text content of the page in my history.