An entertaining, if trivial, way of writing 'hello world' to the console with C: http://t.co/HQNVI2wrud
miniblog.
"Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security."
If your program is better expressed in HQ9+: http://t.co/qqphzDxEzl, you should find more interesting programs to write!
It's unfortunate how sites will require you to type in your password incorrectly before you can request a password reminder. It's awkward.
LLVM IR rejects 1.3 as a floating-point constant, since it can't be represented exactly in binary. Smart way to avoid confusion.
I find a low ceremony programming language more readable than a concise language, in general.
New Year's resolution: Every machine I own should have full disk encryption and automated remote encrypted backups.
Django gotcha: initial_data.json is loaded on every syncdb, so you shouldn't use it for data that you'd edit later. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/initial-data/#automatically-loading-initial-data-fixtures
Slightly sad to see that neither Strigi nor Beagle are maintained these days.
Submitted my first patch to LLVM!
GitHub's status page is excellent. Rather than reporting issues (many hosts are tempted to downplay issues), it simply graphs performance.
I can write half-way decent CSS these days, but the learning curve has been challenging. Programming experience simply doesn't transfer.
Ubuntu has a version specifically for China: http://t.co/WY4ZW55grc -- in this post-snowden age, I'd want my population to use F/OSS too.
"We found that using C++ instead of C results in improved software quality and reduced maintenance effort" http://t.co/SzA6i92tjK
Favour working scripts over docs for deployment. SSHing in and hacking config files comes back to bite you.
`sudo !!` is perilously close to `sudo !1`. Unix has some very sharp edges.
A plugin system can be a great idea incubator and can help obscure use cases. However, it can prevent improvements being pushed upstream.
"All batteries die. This one truly lived!"
Impressed that digitalocean updated their blogpost to be more blunt. I wish more tech companies were like them.
commando.io looks like an excellent alternative to Rundeck if you want something clean and hosted. Still beta though.
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