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Word to the wise: when picking shared hosting, make sure it has forkbomb protection :-/

Python thought of the day: my_decorator = lambda decorator: lambda *args, **kwargs: lambda func: decorator(func, *args, **kwargs)

Recently received an email: "hi Wilfred / found bug in your site / here's a patch / cheers". This is why I love open source.

#Python tip of the day: run the interpreter with -Wall to get deprecation warnings sooner.

"Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast."

A CAPTCHA for the mathematician http://random.irb.hr/signup.php and a CAPTCHA for the artist

"It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a previous foot and merge it with your current leg."

I've come to the conclusion that a degree in Computer Science is merely a breadth-first search of the field.

http://github.com/inky/see -- a pretty-print alternative to #Python's dir()

Picked up a copy of Programming #Clojure this weekend to have a proper play with Lisp.

Delighted to be joining the fine folks at @potatolondon

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."

Python learners beware: One minute you're learning #Python with list comprehensions, the next you are grokking map, reduce and filter.

My third geekiest university experience: being the victim of a meatspace a capella rickroll.

Experimenting with Emacs with StickyKeys. It feels comfortable but rather like modal editing...