miniblog

"Even if clojail breaks [and JVM is beaten] in which case he has worked hard and earned his prize." So you're only hacked by skilled folk.

Dear lazyweb: there's a service that acts as a web API proxy, allowing you to charge users, set rate limits, etc. I've forgotten the name.

The Anti-Mac Interface: http://t.co/4kyB6Depdn (interesting discussion of the limits of metaphors in interfaces)

Refactoring some Python that used reduce and bit-fiddling. There's more than one way to do it in Python if you're determined enough.

RSS readers being deprecated seems to push blogs to have Twitter feeds of their latest content instead. Twitter-as-a-protocol is winning.

Ouch. Django (prior to 1.5) treated {% if True %} as looking up a variable called `True`, which is falsey because it's not present.

Knyle Style Sheets: An interesting approach to writing literate CSS. http://t.co/yp1y4uPnbP

I'm beginning to think that a 'sufficiently powerful language' is one where you don't need 'if' built in. Examples: Lisp, Haskell, Smalltalk

You know you're a lisper when you have multiple people emailing you to say you're missing a paren in a blog post.

I'm not convinced of the merits of paying for VPN in a privacy-friendly state. I'd only be accessing sites that keep logs their end.

Today's experiment: trying to find a single program on my Arch Linux that has the same version as our Ubuntu server box. Failing miserably!

Internal and external iterators: http://t.co/9CTCcg0coV superb blog post.

VimL apparently reduces developers to swearing angrily: http://t.co/RDGLKHYYdF sadly, elisp wasn't measured :-P

Blogged: Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming: http://t.co/7HoNoU8BHl #emacs #elisp

A rather blunt but interesting criticism of OCaml: http://t.co/wSMQd8HKIH