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Full disk encryption saves a lot of hassle. You no longer need to worry about further encrypting precious data, such as SSH key passwords.

TIL: If you're using encryption with LUKS, you don't need to securely wipe the disk to dispose of data. Just wipe the LUKS header.

I'm favouring bower over CDNs these days. No risk of XSS.

Extrapolating from Moore's law to other areas of life is a risky business.

The classic problem where the act of writing your problem to seek help, causes you to realise what's wrong. Rubber-ducking with the Internet

Installing Arch Linux status: Kernel panic. Argh, sounds educational, but not immediately productive.

Saw an HTTPS error on Google! https://google .co.uk. (note trailing dot). Turns out it's a 12-year old Firefox bug:

OH: "I want easy HTTP handling. "I want a good web framework." "I want a pony." You want Django.

Ebook apps that provided authors with analytics of how much is read: http://t.co/fiHbm3MCbz Fascinating.

Finding a better, simpler approach with less code required is a wonderful feeling.

An entertaining, if trivial, way of writing 'hello world' to the console with C: http://t.co/HQNVI2wrud

"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.