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It's good to see commentators promote watermarking for future DRM needs, but there's no reason why we couldn't use watermarking today.

"Because of [..] Ruby syntax, parentheses are required around a [rake] rule when the first argument is a regular expression." DSLs are hard.

"messages may signal danger, the presence of food or the other necessities of life" -- profound words from RFC 3164: http://t.co/vNIg1femfw

Interesting discussion of `if x in [y, z]` vs `if x in {y, z}` in Python: http://t.co/Z4oRp94kB2

Interesting to see authors responding to reviews on Amazon, and updating their books accordingly: http://t.co/ortWnSK3vc

That awkward feeling when you receive status emails from a server provider, but you thought you had stopped using them.

Updating a large set of packages on Emacs is great. New features, fewer bugs and it feels like you're running a new major Emacs version!

I am disappointed that motion sensitive light switches are not more common in residential buildings. Surely it's the future.

Sadly, I think it's possible to claim something false on Twitter, when the claim itself requires >140 chars to show that it's untrue.

Writing regular expressions is an excellent way to discover if you can touch-type the various symbols on the number kyes.

The logstash project principles are something I'd like to see in more projects:

"we assume the patches of the set to be partially guilty until proven innocent" http://t.co/CjsHTpTlit

That awkward moment where you find a web page that says "you can answer that question by using Google"--and you found the page with Google.

Spending time optimising the Trifle lisp test suite to run in <1 second was well worth it. It makes coding more satisfying!

A delete all *.pyc files is a useful script to have handy, but it does occasionally reduce Python developers to superstition.