miniblog.

I suspect it's GitHub's forking model that stops projects dying so easily. Launchpad seems to have a higher proportion of unmaintained code.

So, Python has no QIF libraries, but Ruby has one: https://github.com/jemmyw/Qif as does Perl: http://t.co/ZCjH6mrh . Is Perl or Ruby more fun?

An important part of development is throwing it away when you find a better solution written by someone else.

I have really high hopes for #jsctags (ctags for JS): https://github.com/mozilla/doctorjs but it's still very immature.

I am amazed that Google Translate correctly understands '雅格獅丹' to mean 'Aquascutum'. Statistical methods win the day again.

Haha. I'm now seeing adverts for @potatolondon 's Google Art Project. How well does Google know me?

I've seen Java parodies without (I thought) much credibility, then there are things like this: http://t.co/wYJktI9L (yowza!)

'gray' in CSS is actually darker than 'darkGray': http://t.co/IpEue8Vj Bah, I've seen worse.

Really slick realtime monitoring of Twitter voters in the US of A: http://t.co/UZ6EjFtm

Ordered a foot pedal on Amazon -- the hardcore solution to the #Emacs aptitude test http://t.co/Cn0TDdd1

https://github.com/magnars/dash.el -- an elegant list library for #Emacs.

You have to wonder how much malware you can avoid my just setting your hostname to 'VMWARE': http://t.co/mDYlLbDR

Surprised to see Python 1.5.2 referencs in Python 2.7 docs: http://t.co/oJ0XnMv3

Writing minimal HTML pages to test dark corners of CSS is far and away the best way to learn the box model, alignment, and so on.

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