miniblog.

I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps. So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter. Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.

One month after configuring my VPS to reboot weekly, and I'm *still* finding services that aren't properly configured to start on boot. I'm developing a newfound appreciation for tools like Chaos Monkey.

What's the nicest way of doing clientside form validation without annoying the user? I keep finding forms that show red errors when I write 'wilfred@' for an email or '0' for a telephone number because I haven't finished inputting the value.