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Monday, 12 Feb 2024

• Low-brow clipboard integration with remote X
  ≈650 words
• Closing for trouble in the land of streams
  Closing stderr/stdout/stdin outright is a bad idea
  ≈200 words
• How to eject external hard disks used for APFS TimeMachine backups (I’m not making this up)
  ≈750 words
• Comparing the contents of gzipped tarballs
  ≈470 words
• The Programmers’ Credo
  Maciej Cegłowski identifies the programmer’s attitude
  ≈40 words
• “CAPTCHA”
  ≈60 words
• “POSIX hardlink heartache”
  ≈50 words
• “Learning to Read, Again”
  David Kolb’s reflections on how reading and its meaning has evolved
  ≈280 words
• A proposed adequate definition of a data breach
  ≈70 words
• Stop The Humour
  Straight talk from Jeff Johnson
  ≈50 words
• Early Signs
  An anniversary reminder from Jamie Zawinski
  ≈30 words
• rename 1.601
  ≈80 words
• Canonical Log Lines
  A simple pattern to simplify harnessing the power of logs
  ≈150 words
• Glimmer of hope
  Fraser Speirs on the long-term effect of the tablet
  ≈100 words
• “When was this stored” vs “when did it happen”
  Metadata about storage entities does not apply to their content
  ≈370 words
• The HTTPS divide
  Eric Meyer on HTTPS under low development
  ≈190 words
• Mutually assured intel
  A soundbite on the anti-parochial complexity of high-tech
  ≈60 words
• Doubly detached IRC
  Reaping Mosh’s full benefits for long-running terminal sessions
  ≈570 words
• Don’t be a problem-solver
  Resist tools and abstractions
  ≈40 words
• Backoff
  A simple, robust algorithm for backoff
  ≈320 words
• Fixing a Google Chrome failure to save passwords
  ≈730 words
• Drunk driving on the information superhighway
  Metaphor of the year, by Ev Williams
  ≈80 words
• My dependence on Big Tech
  ≈200 words
• My scraped feeds are now my scrapped feeds
  ≈100 words
• Useful GitHub Issues overviews
  ≈470 words
• Good Mail Sorting
  Processing mail is hard(ly difficult)
  ≈1370 words
• Rates
  André Weil on ego and mastery
  ≈30 words
• On business data processing needs
  A consultant on Excel vs databases
  ≈60 words
• Privacy vs confidentiality in protocols
  Roy Fielding on “TLS everywhere”
  ≈170 words
• Endorsing Mosh
  ≈350 words
• Three Gigahertz Forever
  ≈320 words
• Endorsing Scan Tailor
  Feels like magic
  ≈310 words
• Communal software through communal funding
  Support Free Software charities: a Bradley Kuhn appeal
  ≈200 words
• Introducing Buftabline
  ≈300 words
• “Get ready to party!”
  Perl 6 in 2015
  ≈110 words
• Lingua programmatica
  On English as the language of source code
  ≈80 words
• “Not my favorite language”
  Henning Koch on Apple’s Swift
  ≈100 words
• For Mozilla
  Stuart Langridge on Mozilla supporting DRM in Firefox
  ≈170 words
• I got 5 on it
  High as a kite, now and then
  ≈120 words
• A message of hope
  The past and future web?
  ≈170 words
• Sensible Git mail for the occasional user
  A convenient manual git format-patch workflow
  ≈610 words
• By any other name
  Amit Chatwani summarises Paul Graham
  ≈160 words
• Real as can be, after all?
  The universe is not computed (apparently)
  ≈380 words
• djb has a weblog
  ≈20 words
• “Not Crying Over Old Code”
  Craig Gidney on programmer self-evaluation
  ≈220 words
• Productivity porn
  Jerry Seinfeld on the “Seinfeld method”
  ≈60 words
• “Prosumer”
  ≈10 words
• Ideal line length
  ≈90 words
• Write just enough
  ≈610 words
• Presented without further comment
  How Node.js does HTTP methods
  ≈140 words
• Cargo Cult Simplicity
  Eevee on copying the wrong lesson
  ≈60 words
• A minimax SSH key regime
  ≈600 words
• rename 1.600
  ≈220 words
• Together we can end this destructive conflict
  Editor ecumenism
  ≈70 words
• A quote for the ages
  Jamie Zawinski explains Debian
  ≈80 words
• EarPods
  A short review of Apple’s new headphones
  ≈400 words
• Glasnost Lives!, or: All Nations Under The Source, or: Linux
  Alan Cox on spanning political divides with libre software
  ≈100 words
• Code that counts
  Tom DeMarco on how a project’s need for metrics and its value relate
  ≈260 words
• Magic
  Fred Brooks on the act of programming
  ≈270 words
• An orphan olive branch to Mercurial
  A merge-less Git release process
  ≈1040 words
• D’uh
  A shell one-liner courtesy of GNU
  ≈210 words
• Bug of the week
  GCC web services, beware!
  ≈60 words
• Six Stages of Debugging
  ≈160 words
• Shoestring & bubblegum sound server
  Linux network sound on the very cheap
  ≈470 words
• Status quo awareness
  Paul Graham on spotting valuable problems
  ≈50 words
• Concise XPath
  A very brief primer to thinking in XPath
  ≈770 words
• The essentially mediocre
  MG Siegler on the inherent quality problem of comments
  ≈40 words
• Spend money on… which is it, now
  Maciej Cegłowski on sustainable business
  ≈70 words
• Elegy to my only love in the cloud
  A farewell to del.icio.us
  ≈310 words
• Denting the universe
  Google’s and Apple’s lasting impact, contrasted
  ≈360 words
• “Disruptive”
  Patrick Rhone on iPad vs the PC
  ≈90 words
• Mac Pro with VT220
  ≈30 words
• A quote on the state of patents
  ≈60 words
• A strange game
  Robert O’Callahan on software patent locusts
  ≈70 words
• Lines spent
  A quote from Edsger Dijkstra about measuring code
  ≈60 words
• Faces of a culture
  A quote from Nick Carr about the transformation of Facebook
  ≈50 words
• Wet streets cause rain
  Murray Gell-Mann’s amnesia theory
  ≈150 words
• 0.999…
  A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1
  ≈170 words
• An era has come to an end
  ≈70 words
• Permissions For Browser-Based Applications
  ≈60 words
• “Doesn’t build platforms, except by accident”, part ∞
  ≈160 words
• The power of test suites
  ≈160 words
• Apple wouldn’t play with Apple
  ≈70 words
• Architectural soundness is sound business
  Martin Fowler on the shortsightedness of shortchanging architectural quality
  ≈140 words
• Trolliquette
  An email ettiquette quote from Tejun Heo
  ≈60 words
• On Yahoo!’s legacy
  ≈100 words
• A quote on the two things about programming
  ≈40 words
• Nothing new under the sun
  Animated ads will not vanish if Flash does
  ≈270 words
• On the 12th of Never
  The future of Linux on the desktop
  ≈60 words
• Wrapping up XSLT word wrapping
  ≈840 words
• “Announcing CPAN Testers 2.0”
  ≈150 words
• “The Basic Unit of Bug Report Frustration”
  ≈140 words
• (Glorified) CVS brain rot
  Joel Spolsky on unlearning centralised VCS
  ≈150 words
• Driftwood in the sea of concepts
  ≈170 words
• iSingularity? (take 2)
  ≈980 words
• iSingularity?
  In which a pessimist meets the iPad
  ≈130 words
• In praise of Git’s index
  ≈850 words
• On narratives in introspection
  ≈190 words
• Idle design musing from last night
  ≈20 words
• What is the “controller” in a web app?
  A note in response to Rafe Colburn on ETL
  ≈210 words
• Perl is Unix
  A simple preforking echo server in Perl
  ≈380 words
• Wizards and Runes
  ≈160 words
• Three Evolutionary Stages of Version Control
  ≈1100 words
• Scope of the difficulty: an idle moment’s association
  Two well-known quotes on computing seen side by side
  ≈50 words
• One heartfelt indictment
  Dag Ågren rants about Photoshop’s native image format
  ≈430 words
• Shortening the folly: an attempt
  Solutions for publisher control of link shortening are based on a misguided premise
  ≈420 words
• Good HTTP citizenship for DiggBar protesters
  ≈570 words
• “A reasoned response to Scala/Ruby at Twitter…”
  Bill de hÓra on how to make technology bets
  ≈70 words
• In defense of mutable history
  Why Git’s commit rewriting features are good
  ≈310 words
• We interrupt your… uh, regularly? Scheduled? The what?
  In which I can’t get enough of staring at my own website
  ≈130 words
• Ugly reasoning
  Assaf Arkin speaks out against ugliness in utilitarianism
  ≈60 words
• Who wants to live forever?
  John Siracusa on the nature of progress
  ≈60 words
• Complexity is the enemy
  Felix von Leitner on the only approach to manageable systems
  ≈230 words
• The Principle of Least Perpetual Astonishment
  Larry Wall on language design
  ≈40 words
• Painless commit splitting in Git
  Cancelling changes backward while rebasing beats carrying changes forward
  ≈420 words
• “Defending SOA”
  Stefan Tilkov makes the case
  ≈60 words
• Endorsing DNS Prefetch
  A Firefox extension greatly speeds up browsing
  ≈140 words
• He’s not making this up
  Mark Pilgrim on recent W3C specs
  ≈90 words
• Sweating URI design leads to smell
  Ian Bicking on the role of URI design in REST
  ≈70 words
• Naming 10,000 Apps
  A quote on conception, in commentary to a short essay from John Gruber
  ≈160 words
• In brief praise of DVCSs
  Subversion imposes high mental overhead on repository creation
  ≈260 words
• The cost of being Linus Torvalds
  ≈50 words
• Engineering
  Roy Fielding sums up the purpose of REST
  ≈100 words
• A cautionary tale
  An anecdote from Callum McKenzie on the non-existence of trivial patches
  ≈80 words
• Quote of the Day
  An appropriate definition for “software patent”
  ≈50 words
• How to usurp PHP’s place: an outline
  Replacing PHP will take more than a programming language
  ≈570 words
• Larry Wall on Perl 6 usability
  Perl 6 compiler error detection is receiving great attention
  ≈360 words
• Why I counted characters in UTF-8
  Retrofitting strlen for UTF-8 is a benchmark, not a practical application
  ≈400 words
• John Gruber doesn’t understand freedom
  On iPhone GPL software and John Gruber’s dismissal of the FSF’s claims about the App Store
  ≈450 words
• Protecting the artists
  ≈100 words
• An epigram on programming
  A thought on abstractions and polymorphic behaviour
  ≈30 words
• A useful oneliner for the feed web
  Fixing malformed markup in one easy step
  ≈60 words
• When you don’t follow all citations
  ≈490 words
• Don’t Go Dark, Go Distributed
  ≈250 words
• Deleting Deletionism?
  A half-baked (or less) idea for solving Wikipedia’s worst problem
  ≈230 words
• The problem definition is the problem
  Why advice on choosing strong passwords is useless
  ≈400 words
• Truth in project management
  A quote from Larry Wall
  ≈50 words
• When Groundhog Day ends
  Joel Spolsky does not understand the web
  ≈510 words
• It’s a topsy-turvy world
  Encyclopædiæ are permeating the web/print membrane
  ≈50 words
• Filed under “unclear on the concept”
  Misunderstanding REST
  ≈30 words
• That looks about right
  ≈50 words
• No credit where no credit is due
  Internet Explorer 8 and the mercy of Microsoft
  ≈180 words
• You know what’s tough?
  Forget Markup Barbie
  ≈30 words
• Continuous partial debate
  On Joe Gregorio’s proposal for partial updates in Atompub
  ≈680 words
• Paul Graham’s kind of dirty
  On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer
  ≈540 words
• Album cover art meme
  ≈170 words
• Stefano Mazzocchi
  ≈180 words
• Frogs in hot water
  ≈350 words
• Why I chose Git
  ≈1330 words
• Can’t you just
  ≈120 words
• Perils of language-sensitively transliterated names, or, Better living through hack value
  ≈530 words
• Perl 5.10 released on Perl’s 20^th anniversary
  ≈400 words
• The Sapir-WIMP hypothesis
  Cognitive accessibility of user interfaces summarised in an oversimplified rule
  ≈310 words
• A brainchild only a mother could love
  Reginald Braithwaite on one man’s beauty
  ≈60 words
• When you want something done right
  The risk in outsourcing to web applications is real
  ≈110 words
• 5023
  The Atom Publishing Protocol is finally an RFC: 5023
  ≈30 words
• Plus ça change
  A note on Cédric Beust’s Erlang scepticism, concurrency, Java, and abstractions
  ≈220 words
• Compile error fix for volume.app 1.1a
  Patch for “mixer-oss.c:105: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer” compile error in volume.app 1.1a
  ≈230 words
• Everything old is old again
  On Joel Spolsky’s prophecy of where the software industry is headed
  ≈590 words
• How to know you are using classic vi
  ≈60 words
• Enterprise software
  ≈200 words
• Filed under “safe bets”
  ≈40 words
• Oil and water
  ≈100 words
• Not a number
  ≈70 words
• Caveat commentor
  The urge to comment as a sign of danger
  ≈440 words
• Business as usual
  On Jeffrey Zeldman failing to see a crisis
  ≈150 words
• Excited
  See you aboard the Haskell train
  ≈200 words
• Expand then contract
  Complexity management is easy with hindsight
  ≈410 words
• “Furthermore, the sky is pink.”
  ≈70 words
• Does REST need a service description language?
  ≈560 words
• “Four Words for Microsoft”
  Tim Bray on Microsoft’s patent nonsense
  ≈20 words
• The future is yesterday
  Jon Hanna on HTTP: apparently it works!
  ≈140 words
• How to install Windows Vista’s new fonts on a Linux system
  ≈530 words
• Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine
  ≈1260 words
• On tags (in the taxonomy sense) in Atom
  ≈1030 words
• Feed subscripitions, personal brands and the potential for people gravity at their intersection
  ≈370 words
• Decoding URI-escaped characters… with sed
  ≈360 words
• λ will save us, or, Applicative trumps imperative in the large
  ≈1080 words
• No longer necessary
  ≈20 words
• Tim Berners-Lee and the War On XML
  Lack of XHTML adoption does not prove XML an undue burden
  ≈410 words
• Curing the worst XSLT verbosity
  ≈190 words
• On employing RFC 2119 vernacular
  ≈490 words
• How to map CSS selectors to XPath queries
  ≈460 words
• Slow is The New Fast
  Why you should ignore Joel Spolsky’s opinions about Ruby and Perl
  ≈370 words
• Sturdy and massive
  On the respective breaking points of statically and dynamically typed languages
  ≈740 words
• The shackles of safety
  Paul Ingevaldson on the hidden cost of off-the-shelf software
  ≈510 words
• Greg Brooks on the FBI’s plans for a new Net-tapping push
  ≈110 words
• Modern day pond scum
  ≈210 words
• Atomic Postel
  DeWitt Clinton on syndication formats
  ≈110 words
• Ted Neward on Object/Relational Mappers
  ≈380 words
• WinFS is dead
  ≈80 words
• Good news for Perl on Win32
  Adam Kennedy announces win32.perl.org
  ≈120 words
• Google Spreadtentacles
  ≈550 words
• XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 0.8
  ≈330 words
• xpathgrep 0.3
  ≈130 words
• Discontinuous web
  Continuations for the web are not the answer; a quick note
  ≈160 words
• I say graceful degradation, you say progressive enhancement
  Jeremy Keith explains the value of adding Ajax as pure interface sugar
  ≈100 words
• The chains we made, the chains we break
  Chris Anderson on search engines and archives combining to make value
  ≈120 words
• “Beware Bags of Bools”
  Derek Denny-Brown on storing state in a proliferation of boolean flags
  ≈160 words
• Having Done Perl
  On Tim Bray’s claim that knowing Java makes one a better programmer
  ≈230 words
• Very Large Hack Value
  ≈30 words
• State of the syndication art
  ≈30 words
• The joy of small projects and simple specs
  Introducing Bencode, a Perl implementation of the BitTorrent bencode serialisation format
  ≈170 words
• “Kate, when you take a liking to somebody, do you speed up or slow down?”
  Tim Bray on the learned lack of attention span
  ≈140 words
• “No Silver Bullet”
  Andy Wardley on Model-View-Controller as a paradigm for web applications
  ≈180 words
• Repairing broken documents that mix UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1
  ≈410 words
• This blue vessel
  ≈180 words
• Movie-Plot Terrorism Threat Contest
  ≈260 words
• Even if it doesn’t look cool
  Mark Hurst says sometimes the best option is less technology
  ≈160 words
• “Floats are a hackish layout device”
  Dave Shea pleads for grid-based CSS design support
  ≈130 words
• The O’Reilly Network suck at newsfeeds
  ≈540 words
• Worse is worse
  Danny Ayers on the dirtiness of successful technologies
  ≈90 words
• Tuned in carefully
  Sheila Lennon on owning ideas
  ≈90 words
• “Industries of Middlemen”
  Derek Powazek on the DRM gatekeepers bottleneck
  ≈170 words
• Budget cut desperation
  Jonathan Wellons on minimal-expense backup strategy
  ≈60 words
• You don’t have permission to view this entry.
  ≈20 words
• Introducing xpathgrep
  ≈60 words
• Worse is better, better is better
  Joe Gregorio on SQLite taking over from MySQL; and why that’s good news
  ≈130 words
• “Choosing Sides”
  Robert O’Callahan asserts you should not work for Microsoft
  ≈70 words
• Reminiscing
  I, programmer
  ≈850 words
• The web’s grain
  On Ben Hammersley’s justification of his switch to iWeb
  ≈400 words
• Half-baked musing of the day
  A quick note on Google’s mission
  ≈60 words
• The quantum superspecification
  Dave Winer goes on record to say that RSS is unfixably broken
  ≈90 words
• In which I write about PHP for the first and the last time
  Why PHP is good but bad
  ≈860 words
• RSS overload, part 3
  ≈210 words
• How to explain that adding programmers to a software project does not linearly accelerate it
  ≈60 words
• “But there was a party put on by a player, to celebrate a book authored by other players, with words about how to become players…”
  Shelley Powers on the stuff of legends, that is, the RSS 2.0 saga
  ≈180 words
• Usable interfaces just take a little thought
  ≈220 words
• We live in interesting times
  What will Oracle’s all-out buy-in to open source mean?
  ≈190 words
• Uninteresting personal gripes
  One thing from Firefox 1.0 that I dearly miss in 1.5
  ≈290 words
• Decoding Unicode codepoints into the corresponding character in XSLT
  ≈990 words
• Welcome to last quarter-decade
  Rod Begbie on Internet Explorer 7 beta 2
  ≈70 words
• You will know them by their fruits
  James Robertson and Cory Doctorow on PVP-OPM
  ≈260 words
• Why is it so hard to get this nail in?
  Mark Nottingham on web framework design
  ≈50 words
• Styling Atom 1.0 feeds with CSS
  ≈170 words
• That feed icon
  ≈200 words
• Something fishy in the code
  ≈40 words
• A show of citizenship
  Mark Pilgrim on the absurdly abysmal level of standards compliance in iPhoto’s “photocasting”
  ≈210 words
• More on Atom aggregator XML namespace conformance tests
  ≈430 words
• Who knows an XML document from a hole in the ground?
  Namespace droppings and bozotic aggregator developers
  ≈1180 words
• “An infuriating construct”
  ≈100 words
• Brave 2.0 World
  Nat Torkington on crowd mentality in the purported new age of the web
  ≈150 words
• Hyperhypertext
  On very deep implicit linking in a massive corpus of documents
  ≈600 words
• Mark Jason Dominus is blogging
  ≈220 words
• Posting to Blogger’s Atom API from shell using curl
  ≈190 words
• Maintainable Programmers
  ≈1220 words
• Endorsing SQLite
  ≈150 words
• So very, very tired
  Perl 6 can’t get here fast enough
  ≈440 words
• Merrily chirping away
  Tim O’Reilly on free software as effect rather than cause
  ≈70 words
• The eternal scalability war: a profile
  Scalability is just like any other optimisation
  ≈460 words
• Geek’s grooming: a keyboard hygiene experiment
  ≈500 words
• On the Humane Interfaces flap
  ≈120 words
• Best art project I’ve seen in a long time
  Performance art in the web age
  ≈120 words
• Transparent opaque changeable permanent URIs
  ≈590 words
• 4287
  The Atom Syndication Format is finally an RFC: 4287
  ≈30 words
• Patently braking
  Rick Jelliffe on the stunting effect of software patents
  ≈100 words
• Endorsing Tabinta
  Tabinta lets you enter tabs in textareas in Firefox
  ≈220 words
• Sellings strings on the street corner and the War On XML
  XHTML served as text/html does not disprove the usefulness of dracionian error handling
  ≈460 words
• Turning the del.icio.us API format into proper Atom using XSLT
  ≈50 words
• Casting out the demons by the ruler of the demons
  Sony’s malware trumps Blizzard Entertainment’s spyware
  ≈290 words
• Other people’s itches
  Kellan Elliott-McCrea on why open source projects struggle with usability
  ≈40 words
• “How to build a house”
  Mark Williamson on overly detail-enamored, useless documentation
  ≈100 words
• …say what?
  Unheard-of company asserts patents as broad as a canyon, says they apply to XML
  ≈140 words
• History does not repeat itself, except as a farce
  Quotes about the replaying Google Web Accelerator fiasco
  ≈410 words
• Some computing aphorisms
  ≈150 words
• No wonder the spam keeps coming
  Interview with a 419 scammer
  ≈130 words
• Email for procrastinators
  Efficient, effective email handling for needs like mine
  ≈1050 words
• Media moguls: it’s the “mogul” that matters, not the “media”
  Meg Fowler on the Google Print lawsuit
  ≈80 words
• The Car extends Vehicle kindergarten, or, Replace Jargon With Pedagogy
  How some design pattern terminology might be obviated
  ≈420 words
• The DC component in the weblog signal
  Do infrequent webloggers lose readers?
  ≈360 words
• Buzzword compliance
  Design pattern terminology bordering on hype
  ≈310 words
• Mental image
  Charles Eicher on OPML
  ≈50 words
• “Programming is…”
  Charles Miller on programming
  ≈60 words
• When (not) to reinvent the wheel
  Reinventing the wheel requires good justification
  ≈540 words
• Deployment: millions
  Livejournal has adopted Atom 1.0
  ≈130 words
• I want to earn the title!
  Titling articles both clearly and pithily
  ≈450 words
• No XHTML support in IE 7
  ≈170 words
• From here to there and back again
  Weblog conversation requires archives
  ≈370 words
• Atom 1.0 support for FeedParser
  ≈40 words
• And how dynamically disadvantaged is Perl, really?
  Perl 6 and the alleged dynamic typing performance penalty
  ≈170 words
• Dynamically disadvantaged?
  On the alleged performance penalty of dynamic typing
  ≈250 words
• Google Talk, or, no news is big news
  Google Talk could liberate instant messaging
  ≈320 words
• Tag music played on a windy plain
  Tags suck (only) at the global scale
  ≈340 words
• Buried Firefox XML goodie
  Monospace XML source view with Firefox
  ≈50 words
• The quantum leap
  I have finally upgraded to Atom 1.0
  ≈540 words
• Tolerating Postel’s law
  Tim Berners-Lee’s lucid take on Postel’s Law
  ≈130 words
• Extremely upfront
  Joel Spolsky is confused about Extreme Programming
  ≈320 words
• Hiring hammers
  Soft skills are more important than experience with a technology
  ≈140 words
• *pant* *pant*
  David Heinemeier Hanson on XML-based configuration formats
  ≈60 words
• Don’t patent yourself into a corner
  ≈60 words
• Humble pie
  ≈280 words
• Vindicated
  My Internet Explorer predictions seem on the mark
  ≈60 words
• Surprises, and not
  Company reactions to a security vulnerability report
  ≈550 words
• Harsh and lonely
  Phil Ringnalda on reaching out
  ≈50 words
• Javascript instant iterators, at last
  ≈570 words
• Javascript instant iterators, refined
  ≈380 words
• “Everything I Know about Programming”
  Christopher Diggins on the software developer experience
  ≈230 words
• RSS overload, part 2
  ≈420 words
• Overjoyed
  Victory in a decisive battle against software patents in Europe
  ≈220 words
• Grown up and boring
  The state of computing is stagnant
  ≈420 words
• A short note on consensus
  ≈220 words
• Endorsing Clearlooks
  Clearlooks is a beautiful, unobtrusive gtk+ theme
  ≈100 words
• On high hopes, misconceptions, and Apple on x86
  ≈1300 words
• Linguistic snobs united
  ≈150 words
• Atom 1.0 has landed
  ≈60 words
• It’s getting cold down here
  ≈40 words
• Unwelcome solutions
  ≈60 words
• Tomayko’s Law of The Internet
  ≈60 words
• Rewriting software considered inadvisable
  Real-world experience confirms that repairing software is better than rewriting
  ≈230 words
• Can we tone it down please?
  ≈150 words
• More shell quoting: this time for C
  ≈250 words
• Reliable shell quoting in shell
  ≈370 words
• I don’t GET the problem
  ≈470 words
• Aggregator engineering: feed refresh
  ≈530 words
• Delightful dotfile debauchery
  ≈320 words
• Myths about functional programming
  ≈130 words
• How to amuse yourself for five minutes
  ≈140 words
• For reference: on netiquette
  ≈190 words
• On the applications of Postel’s Law
  ≈190 words
• XHTML for IE
  ≈220 words
• The heights of idiocy
  Dan Sugalsky on stupidity as exemplified by mail server configuration
  ≈100 words
• All XML, all the time
  ≈370 words
• Tagging bubbles in a sea of spam
  ≈230 words
• “Expressiveness matters”
  Brian McCallister on the goodness of concise languages
  ≈120 words
• Introducing dirsize
  ≈230 words
• Many ways to skin a char
  ≈290 words
• “Participatory narcissism”
  Maciej Cegłowski on Paul Graham’s essay “Hackers and Painters”
  ≈130 words
• Can’t not.
  ≈140 words
• UTF-8 and how mutt just made me angry
  ≈100 words
• Endorsing Fusion
  Fusion fuses the load progress bar into the Location bar of Firefox
  ≈100 words
• Frank Hecker ponders weblog architecture
  ≈100 words
• Chlorine hazard: do not mix cleaning agents
  ≈550 words
• Have I mentioned that Vim rocks?
  ≈20 words
• What shall we paint this wiki?
  ≈510 words
• The perils of STFW
  ≈60 words
• Do as I say
  ≈50 words
• 1111111111
  ≈10 words
• Copying elements between namespaces in XSLT
  ≈150 words
• XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy
  ≈400 words
• Trainwreckspotting, or: Corporations vs IT security as exemplified by the HBS
  ≈500 words
• Way ahead of the curve
  ≈160 words
• When more forgiving is less forgiving
  ≈290 words
• On corporations
  ≈280 words
• Lip service to democracy
  ≈250 words
• A trivial patent filter for the PTO inbox?
  ≈500 words
• Endorsing bmp-rootvis
  bmp-rootvis is a lovely visualisation plugin for Beep Media Player
  ≈80 words
• Just a mirage, after all?
  ≈150 words
• Patent macht frei.
  ≈170 words
• IE 7: predictions
  ≈340 words
• Did you need any further proof that Microsoft is evil?
  ≈300 words
• Surprising uses for technology
  ≈190 words
• Wikipedia’s trajectory in Google’s gravitation
  ≈190 words
• Why sIFR and co are a bad idea, #298734
  ≈50 words
• Firefox cache sanity
  ≈140 words
• September ended: too little too late
  ≈20 words
• A lightweight clustering method for distributed computing with mobile code
  ≈150 words
• “Bereft of ability and substance”
  ≈230 words
• Javascript-based web form validation done correctly
  ≈330 words
• Sick mind’s make abuse
  ≈130 words
• Serendipity
  ≈30 words
• linkextor
  ≈50 words
• A beautiful hack
  ≈40 words
• User interfaces that suck
  ≈390 words
• The filter chamber
  ≈120 words
• vi appreciation entry
  ≈40 words
• Stupid neologisms
  ≈30 words
• Security and the popularity factor
  ≈620 words
• Endorsing rxvt-unicode
  rxvt-unicode is a highly recommended terminal emulator
  ≈50 words
• The sorry state of usability
  ≈420 words
• On titles, or maybe not
  ≈580 words
• Javascript instant iterators
  ≈200 words
• Hashcash (12″ Web Remix)
  ≈190 words
• Small fonts can be readable
  ≈50 words
• Intellectual komrad!
  ≈60 words
• templates.vim
  ≈40 words
• The tagged log
  ≈330 words
• Depressing
  Be has left the building…
  ≈30 words
• Convincing L^AT_EX to produce good-looking PDFs
  ≈50 words
• Word wrapping in XSLT
  ≈320 words
• Child naming in the Google era
  ≈90 words
• Prehistoric filesystem iteration
  ≈330 words
• Vim vs poor typography
  ≈180 words
• Netscapelorer: the beachhead
  ≈260 words
• Life-long debuggers
  ≈70 words
• Discovering XMLHttpRequest
  ≈60 words
• Secure password generation
  ≈60 words
• highlight
  ≈240 words
• Writing XUL and Javascript
  ≈320 words
• Vim never ceases to amaze
  ≈110 words
• Permalinks!
  ≈70 words
• It’s the language, silly
  ≈230 words
• Software piracy; morals; free software
  ≈530 words
• Endorsing Devel::Trace
  Use Devel::Trace to watch the execution of Perl scripts
  ≈90 words
• Not the end of malware
  ≈1060 words
• Java versus Perl
  ≈60 words
• Wiki musings: one living document
  ≈440 words
• Endorsing OpenNTPD
  OpenNTPD is what NTP clients should always have been
  ≈60 words
• ISO-8859-1 vs Win-1252 in mutt
  ≈160 words
• C#: a fitting name?
  ≈160 words
• Software piracy and preachers practicers
  ≈70 words
• Shameless boasting
  Complete rewrites reveal bad programmers
  ≈90 words
• Atom-to-HTML 0.2
  ≈130 words
• Windows may not have /dev/null, but its vendor does
  ≈150 words
• “Why am I on this mailing list?”
  ≈30 words
• My data on my system
  ≈250 words
• Running Apache2 under init control
  ≈60 words
• A first foray into feed generation
  ≈90 words
• Nixie Tube Digital Wristwatch
  ≈20 words
• My first ever CPAN upload
  ≈120 words
• Fragile windows
  ≈80 words
• Paul Graham tries his hand at cultural stereotypes
  ≈570 words
• Patently plotless
  ≈190 words
• Think about it
  Bruce Schneier on the expertise hidden behind NSA’s doors
  ≈60 words
• A religious metaphor for the web
  ≈60 words
• Brain twisters and learned cognitive conflict
  ≈370 words
• Libertine software
  ≈110 words
• Bad idea
  ≈40 words
• Gmail is not for me
  ≈260 words
• Another installment of “Things not to do when writing Javascript”
  ≈40 words
• GNU Info sucks
  ≈280 words
• How to make favicons using NetPBM
  ≈60 words
• Cleaning up JPEG artifacts with GIMP
  ≈190 words
• Dealing with RSS overload
  ≈220 words
• Patently safe?
  ≈390 words
• Serge Lang says,
  ≈250 words
• Trust in collaborative creation
  ≈200 words
• Hilarity
  ≈70 words
• ASCII (he)art
  ≈120 words
• Introducing Atom-to-HTML
  ≈40 words
• The licence is as open as the project
  ≈100 words
• Opensource sucks
  ≈320 words
• OPML is spectacularly lousy
  ≈210 words
• Today in “Things not to do when writing Javascript”
  ≈80 words
• GUIs: the long road ahead
  ≈480 words
• mod_rewrite-free MIME type switcheroo
  ≈120 words
• The barrier-to-entry build system
  ≈390 words
• The future is bland
  ≈330 words
• “Plutotropic transhuman corporate overlords”
  ≈10 words
• Webdesigners suck
  ≈190 words
• rsync snapshot backups
  ≈90 words
• Trust the process
  ≈340 words
• How to create a Maildir
  ≈30 words
• Emulating shell worksheets in Vim
  ≈120 words
• Perl-enabled Vim tricks
  ≈100 words
• Gmail, or, of the window and the rationality being hurled thereout of
  ≈270 words
• Google rah-rah
  ≈240 words
• “Cargo cult”
  ≈30 words
• The ideal system monitor toy
  ≈210 words
• Phone Dial Web Browser
  ≈20 words
• Wiki musings: reader as author
  ≈50 words
• Wiki musings: subsuming the weblog metaphor
  ≈360 words
• Liquidly extending CSS boxes
  ≈130 words
• Restrictions sprout creativity
  ≈240 words
• Bookmarks in Vim
  ≈90 words
• Eric Raymond is not my voice
  ≈270 words
• Endorsing Enigma
  Enigma is an Onyx clone and will steal your sleep
  ≈50 words
• Re: The reason OSS isn’t taken seriously…
  ≈100 words
• Introducing gtk+ 2.0 Change Theme
  ≈370 words
• Keeping out the spam
  ≈550 words
• More layout container SSI hacking
  ≈90 words
• Endorsing Liferea
  Liferea is a “Just Works” desktop aggregator for Linux
  ≈70 words
• Layout container SSI hack
  ≈190 words
• Going Maildir
  ≈120 words
• Endorsing hsetroot
  ≈110 words
• Here we go.
  ≈10 words