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"Inside every large, complex program is a small, elegant program that does the same thing, correctly" http://t.co/66eJCTr9

Presumably, the opposite of a graceful shutdown is a disgraceful shutdown.

Building sites where email addresses are usernames is often handy, but it makes it so easy to type your email password into the wrong site.

I'm waiting for a t-shirt that says "I survived the leap second of June '12!"

Cripes, #Clojure has both Ruby style string formatting and monads. Something for everyone!

I'm still torn between wiki docs and docs in a repo. My experience has been that devs are more diligent (myself included) with repo docs.

Inline::C in #Perl is extremely neat. Makes calling C code trivial. http://t.co/FsImwWtc

Twitter and IRC bots are a lot of fun. There is something satisfying about building a tool in a shared environment.

@bendodson Your tube API is brilliant, thanks. Could you fix the JSON MIME type? It should be application/json but it's application/x-json.

The more languages you code in, the more you see the flaws in the one you're using right now. #inevitablelanguagesnob

Several languages have docstrings, but I love #Python's convention of an example usage in the docstring. Literate programming that works.

It's nice to see ISPs who are forced to block sites show a 'site blocked' error. Faking an error feels dishonest.

It's amazing how many computer problems disappear when you replace faulty RAM.

The destructuring assignment in #Clojure is the best I've seen in a long time. Very general and readable.

I've concluded that most internal wikis should show the age of the page at the top. It's important to show freshness.