miniblog.

I'm amazed that the Directgov website used to cover bee-keeping: http://t.co/fB2LzosX -- not a big or important group of voters I'd think!

VideoLAN's stance on patents http://t.co/EjTMvKhy (blunt!)

Taking a Linode instance for a spin.

Interesting discussion on the motivations behind Go: http://t.co/JMCcWdro

Using a Stack Overflow style Q&A site for @webfaction (web host) works really well. It saves so many duplicate queries.

Generally, you can trust GC to do the right thing. PHP has had some nasty garbage-collection bugs though (e.g. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50027 )

Hiccup, the Clojure HTML rendering library, doesn't escape by default. Yikes.

Delighted to see a new version of #Jekyll released this December. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jekyll-rb/EavLPfiLX7k/discussion shows how quiet the project became.

I'm surprised proprietary password storage apps gain traction -- you really want to see what the app is doing with your sensitive data.

$ python2 compiler.py lython_compiler.ly > compiler.py # toy self-hosting compiler!

Emacsattaci -- finally, a home for abandoned packages http://t.co/8vwDqU83 . I often end up grabbing useful things from http://t.co/Oln5lPop

"The greater the probability a random string is a valid program, the harder it is to report errors well." -- Paul Graham

Excited to see Rust maturing. 0.5 has a REPL!

Wow, even Windows doesn't distribute DVD decoders by default any more. Open formats are so important.

Awesome git command of the day: `git tag --list | sort --version-sort`. Sort is clever.