Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28sep2008
GNU turns 25, “Happy birthday, software libre”. And really thank you for Emacs, GCC and all the utilities we love to use every day!
Judge a book by its cover, and see if you can guess the Amazon rating.
Taxman, rentman, they all chase me,
I ain’t home when they come round.
Got no money, live my life free,
That’s the best way, I have found.
— The Yardbirds, I Can’t Make Your Way
I wish I were the Moon, so much emotion in so few pixels. A Flash game. (Don’t miss his other games.)
Higher-order shell, by Chung-chieh Shan. “Many Unix utilities execute their arguments as a command line in turn. Some well-known examples are nice, sudo, xargs, and find. These programs are sometimes called meta-commands, but I think of them as higher-order programs by analogy to higher-order functions.”
Please discipline codegirl and make her code very difficult AJAX, “I will code the HTML you don’t want to. It’s ok. I don’t mind. I like it. I will code it handcuffed if you want.” I always knew web development was for masochists only.
Query Replace, Patrick Logan points out C-r in Emacs’ query-replace and some other nifty features of it.
On writing Python one-liners, hash lookup instead of if is really neat.
Look Ma! No OS!, by Cees de Groot. “SqueakNOS was an attempt to remove the OS underneath Squeak.”
And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the sizxe
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
— Amy MacDonald, This Is The Life
Falschbericht in der Kronen Zeitung, das schockierende hierbei ist nicht, dass Zeitungen auf einen Hoax reinfallen, sondern dass die Fehlinformation durch so offensichtliches XSS eingeschleust wurde.
SciRate.com, an Arxiv review site.
WikiSym: Collaboration and its Discontents, Mark Bernstein: “Is collaboration inherently good? Is openness always a virtue? These were the questions at WikiWalk.”
New Regexp based URL dispatching, Helma NG goes web.py?