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"People who enjoy an activity tend to be good at it." -- thoughts from @potatolondon

What licenses say about the author: Public domain: I want ubiquity, BSD: I want to change the market, GPL: I want to build a community.

"Sometimes, we reinvent the wheel not because we need more wheels, but we need more inventors."

Why, #Python, why? >>> '1' > 2 => True (no warning, no nothing)

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