miniblog.

The perils of accepting freedom-denying software (pun!):

The biggest problem in modern cryptography is usability and uptake.

"Regardless of the value of the DEBUG setting in your configuration file, all Django tests run with DEBUG=False." Wise, but surprising.

It's a _major_ undertaking to build a modern web browser. At this point, it seems unlikely that we will have new proprietary engine. Good?

I don't understand long legal disclaimers at the end of emails. If they're of legal worth, why d[o|id]n't they occur on letters?

If you're using Django with nose, `python manage.py test -v 3 --collect-only` is great for seeing where nose looks for tests.

"Unknown error, please try again". Argh, the perennial problem of black box cloud services.

A fun part of writing a lisp is snaffling great ideas from other dialects. http://t.co/cFBaa7vLke

Woah, new Twitter web UI. Most of the time I end up using third party clients though.

I suppose it was inevitable, but I'm still taken aback to learn about password cracking as a service: https://www.cloudcracker.com/

@melpa_emacs happy to report that MELPA is on http://t.co/b4PoC3L1P8 :)

TinEye lets you find other versions of the same image. How long before someone builds a facial recognition search engine?

No software is ever finished, though some reaches maturity.

IPython's ability to run shell commands rather reminds me of eshell and the lisp listener on lisp machines.

Ed, sam, vi and Emacs on minimalism in design: