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Thursday, Jul 29, 2010, 16:04

• Wrapping up XSLT word wrapping /log/xslwordwrap/
  ≈690 words
• “Announcing CPAN Testers 2.0” /log/cpan-testers-2/
  ≈10 words
• “The Basic Unit of Bug Report Frustration” /log/schwern-bugreports/
  ≈30 words
• (Glorified) CVS brain rot /log/unlearnsvn/
  Joel Spolsky on unlearning centralised VCS
  ≈20 words
• Driftwood in the sea of concepts /log/floatmemes/
  ≈120 words
• iSingularity? (take 2) /log/ipadworriers/
  ≈750 words
• iSingularity? /log/ipadworry/
  In which a pessimist meets the iPad
  ≈130 words
• In praise of Git’s index /log/gitidxpraise/
  ≈850 words
• On narratives in introspection /log/introclarity/
  ≈190 words
• Idle design musing from last night /log/muchless/
  ≈20 words
• What is the “controller” in a web app? /log/mvc/
  A note in response to Rafe Colburn on ETL
  ≈140 words
• Perl is Unix /log/547/
  A simple preforking echo server in Perl
  ≈90 words
• Gitalist /log/546/
  A transitional project to convert gitweb.cgi to a Catalyst app
  ≈20 words
• Onion typography /log/545/
  Phillip Smith explores branding by the The Perl Foundation’s logo
  ≈20 words
• Wizards and Runes /log/544/
  ≈10 words
• Three Evolutionary Stages of Version Control /log/543/
  ≈1140 words
• Scope of the difficulty: an idle moment’s association /log/542/
  Two well-known quotes on computing seen side by side
  ≈50 words
• One heartfelt indictment /log/541/
  Dag Ågren rants about Photoshop’s native image format
  ≈20 words
• Matt Trout has a plan /log/540/
  Getting the word out about Perl
  ≈30 words
• Shortening the folly: an attempt /log/539/
  Solutions for publisher control of link shortening are based on a misguided premise
  ≈420 words
• Good HTTP citizenship for DiggBar protesters /log/538/
  ≈510 words
• “A reasoned response to Scala/Ruby at Twitter…” /log/537/
  Bill de hÓra on how to make technology bets
  ≈30 words
• In defense of mutable history /log/536/
  Why Git’s commit rewriting features are good
  ≈310 words
• We interrupt your… uh, regularly? Scheduled? The what? /log/535/
  In which I can’t get enough of staring at my own website
  ≈130 words
• Ugly reasoning /log/534/
  Assaf Arkin speaks out against ugliness in utilitarianism
  ≈30 words
• Who wants to live forever? /log/533/
  John Siracusa on the nature of progress
  ≈20 words
• Complexity is the enemy /log/532/
  Felix von Leitner on the only approach to manageable systems
  ≈40 words
• The Principle of Least Perpetual Astonishment /log/531/
  Larry Wall on language design
  ≈20 words
• Painless commit splitting in Git /log/530/
  Cancelling changes backward while rebasing beats carrying changes forward
  ≈360 words
• “Defending SOA” /log/529/
  Stefan Tilkov makes the case
  ≈20 words
• Endorsing DNS Prefetch /log/528/
  A Firefox extension greatly speeds up browsing
  ≈40 words
• He’s not making this up /log/527/
  Mark Pilgrim on recent W3C specs
  ≈20 words
• QotD /log/526/
  Yves Orton on the simplicity of Git
  ≈20 words
• Sweating URI design leads to smell /log/525/
  Ian Bicking on the role of URI design in REST
  ≈20 words
• Naming 10,000 Apps /log/524/
  A quote on conception, in commentary to a short essay from John Gruber
  ≈120 words
• In brief praise of DVCSs /log/523/
  Subversion imposes high mental overhead on repository creation
  ≈260 words
• The cost of being Linus Torvalds /log/522/
  ≈20 words
• Engineering /log/521/
  Roy Fielding sums up the purpose of REST
  ≈20 words
• A cautionary tale /log/520/
  An anecdote from Callum McKenzie on the non-existence of trivial patches
  ≈50 words
• QotD /log/519/
  An appropriate definition for “software patent”
  ≈20 words
• Mojo /log/518/
  ≈10 words
• How to usurp PHP’s place: an outline /log/517/
  Replacing PHP will take more than a programming language
  ≈550 words
• Larry Wall on Perl 6 usability /log/516/
  Perl 6 compiler error detection is receiving great attention
  ≈360 words
• Why I counted characters in UTF-8 /log/514/
  Retrofitting strlen for UTF-8 is a benchmark, not a practical application
  ≈400 words
• Why does Google boost Knol? /log/513/
  ≈110 words
• John Gruber doesn’t understand freedom /log/512/
  On iPhone GPL software and John Gruber’s dismissal of the FSF’s claims about the App Store
  ≈200 words
• Protecting the artists /log/510/
  ≈40 words
• An epigram on programming /log/509/
  A thought on abstractions and polymorphic behaviour
  ≈30 words
• A useful oneliner for the feed web /log/508/
  Fixing malformed markup in one easy step
  ≈50 words
• Perl App Engine /log/507/
  Help get Perl onto Google App Engine
  ≈20 words
• When you don’t follow all citations /log/505/
  ≈400 words
• Don’t Go Dark, Go Distributed /log/504/
  ≈250 words
• Deleting Deletionism? /log/503/
  A half-baked (or less) idea for solving Wikipedia’s worst problem
  ≈230 words
• The problem definition is the problem /log/502/
  Why advice on choosing strong passwords is useless
  ≈400 words
• Truth in project management /log/501/
  A quote from Larry Wall
  ≈20 words
• When Groundhog Day ends /log/500/
  Joel Spolsky does not understand the web
  ≈450 words
• It’s a topsy-turvy world /log/499/
  Encyclopædiæ are permeating the web/print membrane
  ≈50 words
• Filed under “unclear on the concept” /log/498/
  Misunderstanding REST
  ≈30 words
• That looks about right /log/497/
  ≈30 words
• No credit where no credit is due /log/496/
  Internet Explorer 8 and the mercy of Microsoft
  ≈160 words
• You know what’s tough? /log/495/
  Forget Markup Barbie
  ≈30 words
• Roy T. Fielding has a posse /log/494/
  ≈20 words
• Continuous partial debate /log/493/
  On Joe Gregorio’s proposal for partial updates in Atompub
  ≈510 words
• Semantic duct tape /log/492/
  ≈10 words
• Paul Graham’s kind of dirty /log/491/
  On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer
  ≈360 words
• Album cover art meme /log/490/
  ≈120 words
• Stefano Mazzocchi /log/489/
  ≈190 words
• Frogs in hot water /log/488/
  ≈60 words
• Why I chose Git /log/487/
  ≈1320 words
• Can’t you just /log/486/
  ≈20 words
• Perils of language-sensitively transliterated names, or, Better living through hack value /log/485/
  ≈470 words
• Perl 5.10 released on Perl’s 20^th anniversary /log/484/
  ≈400 words
• The Sapir-WIMP hypothesis /log/483/
  Cognitive accessibility of user interfaces summarised in an oversimplified rule
  ≈250 words
• A brainchild only a mother could love /log/482/
  Reginald Braithwaite on one man’s beauty
  ≈20 words
• When you want something done right /log/481/
  The risk in outsourcing to web applications is real
  ≈100 words
• 5023 /log/480/
  The Atom Publishing Protocol is finally an RFC: 5023
  ≈30 words
• jQuery pattern: passing event handlers to each() /log/479/
  jQuery trick to reduce code duplication when initialising dynamic effects
  ≈350 words
• Plus ça change /log/478/
  A note on Cédric Beust’s Erlang scepticism, concurrency, Java, and abstractions
  ≈150 words
• Compile error fix for volume.app 1.1a /log/473/
  Patch for “mixer-oss.c:105: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer” compile error in volume.app 1.1a
  ≈220 words
• Everything old is old again /log/472/
  On Joel Spolsky’s prophecy of where the software industry is headed
  ≈460 words
• How to know you are using classic vi /log/471/
  ≈60 words
• Enterprise software /log/470/
  ≈50 words
• Filed under “safe bets” /log/469/
  ≈10 words
• Oil and water /log/468/
  ≈80 words
• Not a number /log/467/
  ≈10 words
• Caveat commentor /log/466/
  The urge to comment as a sign of danger
  ≈440 words
• Business as usual /log/465/
  On Jeffrey Zeldman failing to see a crisis
  ≈130 words
• Excited /log/464/
  See you aboard the Haskell train
  ≈200 words
• Nuclear force /log/463/
  Bill de hÓra on the potential impact of Atompub
  ≈20 words
• Expand then contract /log/462/
  Complexity management is easy with hindsight
  ≈410 words
• “Furthermore, the sky is pink.” /log/461/
  ≈20 words
• Does REST need a service description language? /log/460/
  ≈540 words
• “Four Words for Microsoft” /log/459/
  Tim Bray on Microsoft’s patent nonsense
  ≈20 words
• The future is yesterday /log/458/
  Jon Hanna on HTTP: apparently it works!
  ≈20 words
• How to install Windows Vista’s new fonts on a Linux system /log/457/
  ≈390 words
• Not worth the mention, really /log/454/
  ≈40 words
• Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine /log/453/
  ≈1100 words
• On tags (in the taxonomy sense) in Atom /log/452/
  ≈890 words
• Feed subscripitions, personal brands and the potential for people gravity at their intersection /log/451/
  ≈370 words
• Decoding URI-escaped characters… with sed /log/450/
  ≈340 words
• λ will save us, or, Applicative trumps imperative in the large /log/449/
  ≈450 words
• No longer necessary /log/448/
  ≈20 words
• Tim Berners-Lee and the War On XML /log/447/
  Lack of XHTML adoption does not prove XML an undue burden
  ≈310 words
• Curing the worst XSLT verbosity /log/446/
  ≈170 words
• On employing RFC 2119 vernacular /log/445/
  ≈490 words
• How to map CSS selectors to XPath queries /log/444/
  ≈450 words
• Slow is The New Fast /log/443/
  Why you should ignore Joel Spolsky’s opinions about Ruby and Perl
  ≈300 words
• Sturdy and massive /log/442/
  On the respective breaking points of statically and dynamically typed languages
  ≈520 words
• The shackles of safety /log/441/
  Paul Ingevaldson on the hidden cost of off-the-shelf software
  ≈340 words
• Finally Atom /log/440/
  At long last, Blogger has upgraded to Atom 1.0
  ≈40 words
• Affirmative, Joel /log/439/
  Joel Spolsky on closures
  ≈60 words
• Greg Brooks on the FBI’s plans for a new Net-tapping push /log/438/
  ≈20 words
• Modern day pond scum /log/437/
  ≈210 words
• Atomic Postel /log/436/
  DeWitt Clinton on syndication formats
  ≈20 words
• Ted Neward on Object/Relational Mappers /log/435/
  ≈350 words
• WinFS is dead /log/434/
  ≈30 words
• Good news for Perl on Win32 /log/433/
  Adam Kennedy announces win32.perl.org
  ≈20 words
• Google Spreadtentacles /log/432/
  ≈280 words
• XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 0.8 /log/431/
  ≈320 words
• xpathgrep 0.3 /log/430/
  ≈130 words
• Geek’s horror /log/429/
  ≈30 words
• Discontinuous web /log/428/
  Continuations for the web are not the answer; a quick note
  ≈160 words
• I say graceful degradation, you say progressive enhancement /log/427/
  Jeremy Keith explains the value of adding Ajax as pure interface sugar
  ≈100 words
• The chains we made, the chains we break /log/426/
  Chris Anderson on search engines and archives combining to make value
  ≈30 words
• “Beware Bags of Bools” /log/425/
  Derek Denny-Brown on storing state in a proliferation of boolean flags
  ≈20 words
• Having Done Perl /log/424/
  On Tim Bray’s claim that knowing Java makes one a better programmer
  ≈170 words
• Very Large Hack Value /log/422/
  ≈30 words
• State of the syndication art /log/421/
  ≈10 words
• The joy of small projects and simple specs /log/420/
  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?” /log/419/
  Tim Bray on the learned lack of attention span
  ≈90 words
• “No Silver Bullet” /log/418/
  Andy Wardley on Model-View-Controller as a paradigm for web applications
  ≈20 words
• Repairing broken documents that mix UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 /log/416/
  ≈320 words
• This blue vessel /log/415/
  ≈180 words
• Movie-Plot Terrorism Threat Contest /log/414/
  ≈20 words
• Even if it doesn’t look cool /log/413/
  Mark Hurst says sometimes the best option is less technology
  ≈30 words
• “Floats are a hackish layout device” /log/412/
  Dave Shea pleads for grid-based CSS design support
  ≈60 words
• The O’Reilly Network suck at newsfeeds /log/411/
  ≈530 words
• Worse is worse /log/410/
  Danny Ayers on the dirtiness of successful technologies
  ≈20 words
• Tuned in carefully /log/409/
  Sheila Lennon on owning ideas
  ≈20 words
• Steve Yegge has a weblog /log/408/
  ≈70 words
• “Industries of Middlemen” /log/407/
  Derek Powazek on the DRM gatekeepers bottleneck
  ≈20 words
• Atom 1.0 comes to Perl /log/406/
  ≈50 words
• Budget cut desperation /log/405/
  Jonathan Wellons on minimal-expense backup strategy
  ≈20 words
• Small ironies /log/404/
  Hey WaSP: “Web Standards” includes HTTP
  ≈120 words
• You don’t have permission to view this entry. /log/403/
  ≈20 words
• Introducing xpathgrep /log/402/
  ≈60 words
• Worse is better, better is better /log/400/
  Joe Gregorio on SQLite taking over from MySQL; and why that’s good news
  ≈90 words
• “Choosing Sides” /log/399/
  Robert O’Callahan asserts you should not work for Microsoft
  ≈20 words
• Reminiscing /log/398/
  I, programmer
  ≈840 words
• The web’s grain /log/397/
  On Ben Hammersley’s justification of his switch to iWeb
  ≈220 words
• Half-baked musing of the day /log/396/
  A quick note on Google’s mission
  ≈40 words
• The quantum superspecification /log/394/
  Dave Winer goes on record to say that RSS is unfixably broken
  ≈20 words
• In which I write about PHP for the first and the last time /log/393/
  Why PHP is good but bad
  ≈830 words
• RSS overload, part 3 /log/392/
  ≈200 words
• How to explain that adding programmers to a software project does not linearly accelerate it /log/391/
  ≈20 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…” /log/390/
  Shelley Powers on the stuff of legends, that is, the RSS 2.0 saga
  ≈70 words
• Usable interfaces just take a little thought /log/389/
  ≈220 words
• We live in interesting times /log/388/
  What will Oracle’s all-out buy-in to open source mean?
  ≈90 words
• Uninteresting personal gripes /log/387/
  One thing from Firefox 1.0 that I dearly miss in 1.5
  ≈290 words
• Decoding Unicode codepoints into the corresponding character in XSLT /log/386/
  ≈560 words
• Welcome to last quarter-decade /log/385/
  Rod Begbie on Internet Explorer 7 beta 2
  ≈30 words
• You will know them by their fruits /log/384/
  James Robertson and Cory Doctorow on PVP-OPM
  ≈40 words
• alien-silk: another iteration /log/383/
  ≈110 words
• Why is it so hard to get this nail in? /log/382/
  Mark Nottingham on web framework design
  ≈30 words
• Styling Atom 1.0 feeds with CSS /log/381/
  ≈170 words
• That feed icon /log/380/
  ≈190 words
• Something fishy in the code /log/379/
  ≈20 words
• A show of citizenship /log/378/
  Mark Pilgrim on the absurdly abysmal level of standards compliance in iPhoto’s “photocasting”
  ≈50 words
• More on Atom aggregator XML namespace conformance tests /log/377/
  ≈430 words
• Who knows an XML document from a hole in the ground? /log/376/
  Namespace droppings and bozotic aggregator developers
  ≈1080 words
• “An infuriating construct” /log/375/
  ≈10 words
• Brave 2.0 World /log/373/
  Nat Torkington on crowd mentality in the purported new age of the web
  ≈30 words
• Hyperhypertext /log/372/
  On very deep implicit linking in a massive corpus of documents
  ≈590 words
• Mark Jason Dominus is blogging /log/371/
  ≈150 words
• Posting to Blogger’s Atom API from shell using curl /log/370/
  ≈170 words
• Maintainable Programmers /log/369/
  ≈920 words
• Endorsing SQLite /log/368/
  ≈150 words
• So very, very tired /log/367/
  Perl 6 can’t get here fast enough
  ≈90 words
• A better Web /log/366/
  Better browsing through forcing my font choices on web sites
  ≈290 words
• Merrily chirping away /log/365/
  Tim O’Reilly on free software as effect rather than cause
  ≈20 words
• The eternal scalability war: a profile /log/364/
  Scalability is just like any other optimisation
  ≈460 words
• Absolutely terrifying /log/363/
  Energy hunger vs global climate: a train wreck
  ≈50 words
• Geek’s grooming: a keyboard hygiene experiment /log/362/
  ≈500 words
• On the Humane Interfaces flap /log/361/
  ≈120 words
• Defining “Web 2.0” pragmatically /log/360/
  Chris Fralic on the vagueness of “Web 2.0”
  ≈20 words
• Best art project I’ve seen in a long time /log/359/
  Performance art in the web age
  ≈30 words
• Transparent opaque changeable permanent URIs /log/358/
  ≈580 words
• 4287 /log/357/
  The Atom Syndication Format is finally an RFC: 4287
  ≈30 words
• Patently braking /log/356/
  Rick Jelliffe on the stunting effect of software patents
  ≈20 words
• Endorsing Tabinta /log/355/
  Tabinta lets you enter tabs in textareas in Firefox
  ≈220 words
• Sellings strings on the street corner and the War On XML /log/354/
  XHTML served as text/html does not disprove the usefulness of dracionian error handling
  ≈310 words
• Turning the del.icio.us API format into proper Atom using XSLT /log/353/
  ≈50 words
• Endorsing “Read Easily” /log/352/
  Read Easily lets you toggle page styles in Firefox easily
  ≈90 words
• Casting out the demons by the ruler of the demons /log/351/
  Sony’s malware trumps Blizzard Entertainment’s spyware
  ≈110 words
• Other people’s itches /log/350/
  Kellan Elliott-McCrea on why open source projects struggle with usability
  ≈20 words
• “How to build a house” /log/349/
  Mark Williamson on overly detail-enamored, useless documentation
  ≈20 words
• …say what? /log/348/
  Unheard-of company asserts patents as broad as a canyon, says they apply to XML
  ≈90 words
• History does not repeat itself, except as a farce /log/347/
  Quotes about the replaying Google Web Accelerator fiasco
  ≈40 words
• Some computing aphorisms /log/346/
  ≈150 words
• No wonder the spam keeps coming /log/345/
  Interview with a 419 scammer
  ≈100 words
• Email for procrastinators /log/344/
  Efficient, effective email handling for needs like mine
  ≈1040 words
• Media moguls: it’s the “mogul” that matters, not the “media” /log/343/
  Meg Fowler on the Google Print lawsuit
  ≈30 words
• Closeted /log/342/
  Preston Gralla on a survey that found many Windows developers dabble in Linux
  ≈20 words
• Okay – just who is responsible for this now? /log/341/
  Neologisms gone horribly bad
  ≈120 words
• The Car extends Vehicle kindergarten, or, Replace Jargon With Pedagogy /log/340/
  How some design pattern terminology might be obviated
  ≈290 words
• The DC component in the weblog signal /log/339/
  Do infrequent webloggers lose readers?
  ≈360 words
• Buzzword compliance /log/338/
  Design pattern terminology bordering on hype
  ≈300 words
• Mental image /log/337/
  Charles Eicher on OPML
  ≈30 words
• “Programming is…” /log/336/
  Charles Miller on programming
  ≈20 words
• When (not) to reinvent the wheel /log/335/
  Reinventing the wheel requires good justification
  ≈540 words
• Deployment: millions /log/334/
  Livejournal has adopted Atom 1.0
  ≈90 words
• I want to earn the title! /log/333/
  Titling articles both clearly and pithily
  ≈420 words
• No XHTML support in IE 7 /log/332/
  ≈40 words
• “Code Craft” /log/331/
  Kevin Barnes’ weblog about software development is great
  ≈330 words
• From here to there and back again /log/330/
  Weblog conversation requires archives
  ≈370 words
• Atom 1.0 support for FeedParser /log/329/
  ≈40 words
• And how dynamically disadvantaged is Perl, really? /log/328/
  Perl 6 and the alleged dynamic typing performance penalty
  ≈160 words
• Dynamically disadvantaged? /log/327/
  On the alleged performance penalty of dynamic typing
  ≈180 words
• Google Talk, or, no news is big news /log/326/
  Google Talk could liberate instant messaging
  ≈320 words
• Tag music played on a windy plain /log/325/
  Tags suck (only) at the global scale
  ≈220 words
• Buried Firefox XML goodie /log/324/
  Monospace XML source view with Firefox
  ≈50 words
• The quantum leap /log/323/
  I have finally upgraded to Atom 1.0
  ≈530 words
• Tolerating Postel’s law /log/322/
  Tim Berners-Lee’s lucid take on Postel’s Law
  ≈60 words
• Extremely upfront /log/321/
  Joel Spolsky is confused about Extreme Programming
  ≈190 words
• Hiring hammers /log/320/
  Soft skills are more important than experience with a technology
  ≈100 words
• OPML metal /log/319/
  OPML is spectacularly lousy
  ≈60 words
• *pant* *pant* /log/318/
  David Heinemeier Hanson on XML-based configuration formats
  ≈20 words
• Don’t patent yourself into a corner /log/317/
  ≈60 words
• Humble pie /log/316/
  ≈250 words
• Vindicated /log/315/
  My Internet Explorer predictions seem on the mark
  ≈60 words
• Surprises, and not /log/314/
  Company reactions to a security vulnerability report
  ≈580 words
• Harsh and lonely /log/313/
  Phil Ringnalda on reaching out
  ≈20 words
• Javascript instant iterators, at last /log/312/
  ≈490 words
• Javascript instant iterators, refined /log/311/
  ≈260 words
• “Everything I Know about Programming” /log/310/
  Christopher Diggins on the software developer experience
  ≈180 words
• RSS overload, part 2 /log/309/
  ≈410 words
• Overjoyed /log/308/
  Victory in a decisive battle against software patents in Europe
  ≈130 words
• Unexpectedly unique /log/307/
  ≈30 words
• Grown up and boring /log/306/
  The state of computing is stagnant
  ≈300 words
• A short note on consensus /log/305/
  ≈220 words
• Endorsing Clearlooks /log/304/
  Clearlooks is a beautiful, unobtrusive gtk+ theme
  ≈100 words
• On high hopes, misconceptions, and Apple on x86 /log/303/
  ≈1080 words
• Linguistic snobs united /log/302/
  ≈10 words
• Atom 1.0 has landed /log/301/
  ≈60 words
• It’s getting cold down here /log/300/
  ≈40 words
• Unwelcome solutions /log/299/
  ≈20 words
• Tomayko’s Law of The Internet /log/298/
  ≈20 words
• Rewriting software considered inadvisable /log/297/
  Real-world experience confirms that repairing software is better than rewriting
  ≈120 words
• Can we tone it down please? /log/296/
  ≈40 words
• More shell quoting: this time for C /log/295/
  ≈120 words
• Reliable shell quoting in shell /log/293/
  ≈360 words
• I don’t GET the problem /log/292/
  ≈460 words
• Aggregator engineering: feed refresh /log/291/
  ≈530 words
• Delightful dotfile debauchery /log/290/
  ≈300 words
• Myths about functional programming /log/289/
  ≈130 words
• How to amuse yourself for five minutes /log/288/
  ≈40 words
• For reference: on netiquette /log/287/
  ≈120 words
• Who needs Google Search History? /log/286/
  ≈40 words
• On the applications of Postel’s Law /log/284/
  ≈180 words
• XHTML for IE /log/283/
  ≈210 words
• The heights of idiocy /log/281/
  Dan Sugalsky on stupidity as exemplified by mail server configuration
  ≈20 words
• All XML, all the time /log/280/
  ≈340 words
• Tagging bubbles in a sea of spam /log/279/
  ≈220 words
• “Expressiveness matters” /log/278/
  Brian McCallister on the goodness of concise languages
  ≈120 words
• Introducing dirsize /log/277/
  ≈220 words
• Many ways to skin a char /log/276/
  ≈290 words
• “Participatory narcissism” /log/275/
  Maciej Cegłowski on Paul Graham’s essay “Hackers and Painters”
  ≈60 words
• Can’t not. /log/274/
  ≈10 words
• UTF-8 and how mutt just made me angry /log/273/
  ≈100 words
• Endorsing Fusion /log/272/
  Fusion fuses the load progress bar into the Location bar of Firefox
  ≈100 words
• Frank Hecker ponders weblog architecture /log/271/
  ≈100 words
• Chlorine hazard: do not mix cleaning agents /log/270/
  ≈540 words
• Zzzzzzzzap! /log/269/
  ≈50 words
• Have I mentioned that Vim rocks? /log/268/
  ≈20 words
• Announcing Planet use Perl! (Sorta.) /log/267/
  ≈210 words
• What shall we paint this wiki? /log/266/
  ≈290 words
• For warm fuzzies, please enter the blast furnace. /log/265/
  ≈30 words
• The perils of STFW /log/264/
  ≈60 words
• Do as I say /log/263/
  ≈50 words
• 1111111111 /log/262/
  ≈10 words
• Bloglines is not for onlookers /log/261/
  ≈60 words
• Copying elements between namespaces in XSLT /log/260/
  ≈130 words
• XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy /log/259/
  ≈210 words
• Trainwreckspotting, or: Corporations vs IT security as exemplified by the HBS /log/258/
  ≈490 words
• Way ahead of the curve /log/257/
  ≈160 words
• When more forgiving is less forgiving /log/256/
  ≈280 words
• On corporations /log/255/
  ≈260 words
• Lip service to democracy /log/254/
  ≈110 words
• Link to Bill O’Reilly! /log/253/
  ≈20 words
• Things that annoy a weblog reader: /log/252/
  ≈40 words
• A trivial patent filter for the PTO inbox? /log/251/
  ≈390 words
• Endorsing bmp-rootvis /log/250/
  bmp-rootvis is a lovely visualisation plugin for Beep Media Player
  ≈80 words
• The fine print /log/249/
  ≈50 words
• Just a mirage, after all? /log/248/
  ≈10 words
• Patent macht frei. /log/247/
  ≈70 words
• IE 7: predictions /log/246/
  ≈330 words
• Did you need any further proof that Microsoft is evil? /log/245/
  ≈100 words
• Surprising uses for technology /log/244/
  ≈190 words
• Wikipedia’s trajectory in Google’s gravitation /log/243/
  ≈190 words
• Why sIFR and co are a bad idea, #298734 /log/242/
  ≈50 words
• Firefox cache sanity /log/241/
  ≈140 words
• September ended: too little too late /log/240/
  ≈20 words
• A lightweight clustering method for distributed computing with mobile code /log/239/
  ≈130 words
• “Bereft of ability and substance” /log/238/
  ≈20 words
• Blogs work when… /log/237/
  ≈30 words
• Javascript-based web form validation done correctly /log/236/
  ≈330 words
• Delicious /log/235/
  ≈60 words
• Sick mind’s make abuse /log/234/
  ≈130 words
• Serendipity /log/233/
  ≈30 words
• linkextor /log/232/
  ≈50 words
• A beautiful hack /log/230/
  ≈40 words
• User interfaces that suck /log/229/
  ≈380 words
• Linguistic “escapades” /log/228/
  ≈80 words
• The filter chamber /log/227/
  ≈120 words
• vi appreciation entry /log/225/
  ≈40 words
• <a href="hype-and-childishness" rel="nofollow"> /log/224/
  ≈40 words
• Stupid neologisms /log/223/
  ≈30 words
• Security and the popularity factor /log/222/
  ≈620 words
• Endorsing rxvt-unicode /log/221/
  rxvt-unicode is a highly recommended terminal emulator
  ≈50 words
• The sorry state of usability /log/220/
  ≈330 words
• On titles, or maybe not /log/218/
  ≈580 words
• Javascript instant iterators /log/217/
  ≈80 words
• Hashcash (12″ Web Remix) /log/216/
  ≈190 words
• Small fonts can be readable /log/215/
  ≈50 words
• Intellectual komrad! /log/214/
  ≈30 words
• Your job, your purpose /log/213/
  ≈10 words
• templates.vim /log/211/
  ≈130 words
• The tagged log /log/210/
  ≈320 words
• Quality engineering indeed at Sun Microsystems /log/209/
  ≈60 words
• Depressing /log/208/
  Be has left the building…
  ≈30 words
• Convincing L^AT_EX to produce good-looking PDFs /log/205/
  ≈50 words
• Word wrapping in XSLT /log/204/
  ≈160 words
• Escape the caps lock /log/203/
  ≈110 words
• Check out Krzysztof Kowalczyk’s weblog /log/202/
  ≈100 words
• “But thankfully, we did have a Y2k-compliant toaster.” /log/201/
  ≈20 words
• Child naming in the Google era /log/200/
  ≈90 words
• Mob Encyclopedia /log/198/
  ≈70 words
• Prehistoric filesystem iteration /log/196/
  ≈330 words
• Vim vs poor typography /log/195/
  ≈170 words
• Netscapelorer: the beachhead /log/192/
  ≈240 words
• Life-long debuggers /log/191/
  ≈70 words
• Discovering XMLHttpRequest /log/190/
  ≈60 words
• Secure password generation /log/189/
  ≈40 words
• highlight /log/187/
  ≈240 words
• Writing XUL and Javascript /log/186/
  ≈280 words
• Vim never ceases to amaze /log/185/
  ≈110 words
• Permalinks! /log/183/
  ≈70 words
• It’s the language, silly /log/182/
  ≈160 words
• Software piracy; morals; free software /log/181/
  ≈530 words
• Endorsing Devel::Trace /log/180/
  Use Devel::Trace to watch the execution of Perl scripts
  ≈90 words
• Not the end of malware /log/179/
  ≈1000 words
• Java versus Perl /log/178/
  ≈60 words
• Wiki musings: one living document /log/176/
  ≈440 words
• Endorsing OpenNTPD /log/174/
  OpenNTPD is what NTP clients should always have been
  ≈60 words
• Intellectual property and preachers practicers /log/173/
  ≈30 words
• Vigilantism doesn’t pay /log/172/
  ≈10 words
• ISO-8859-1 vs Win-1252 in mutt /log/171/
  ≈160 words
• No apocalypse at Microsoft’s hands /log/166/
  ≈290 words
• C#: a fitting name? /log/164/
  ≈20 words
• Software piracy and preachers practicers /log/162/
  ≈60 words
• Shameless boasting /log/161/
  Complete rewrites reveal bad programmers
  ≈80 words
• Atom-to-HTML 0.2 /log/160/
  ≈130 words
• Windows may not have /dev/null, but its vendor does /log/157/
  ≈150 words
• Betting your income on free software /log/155/
  ≈240 words
• “Why am I on this mailing list?” /log/154/
  ≈40 words
• My data on my system /log/153/
  ≈100 words
• Running Apache2 under init control /log/151/
  ≈60 words
• attachments /log/150/
  ≈30 words
• A first foray into feed generation /log/149/
  ≈90 words
• Nerdvana: Nixie Tube Digital Wristwatch /log/148/
  ≈20 words
• My first ever CPAN upload /log/147/
  ≈120 words
• Fragile windows /log/146/
  ≈40 words
• Paul Graham tries his hand at cultural stereotypes /log/145/
  ≈490 words
• Patently plotless /log/144/
  ≈20 words
• Think about it /log/143/
  Bruce Schneier on the expertise hidden behind NSA’s doors
  ≈20 words
• A religious metaphor for the web /log/140/
  ≈20 words
• My monitor is on fire! /log/138/
  ≈10 words
• Brain twisters and learned cognitive conflict /log/137/
  ≈370 words
• Libertine software /log/136/
  ≈20 words
• Bad idea /log/135/
  ≈30 words
• Stranger than fiction… /log/134/
  ≈20 words
• Gmail is not for me /log/133/
  ≈250 words
• The Browse Happy Information Bar /log/131/
  ≈100 words
• Another installment of “Things not to do when writing Javascript” /log/130/
  ≈40 words
• Silly email fun /log/127/
  ≈40 words
• GNU Info sucks /log/126/
  ≈280 words
• How to make favicons using NetPBM /log/125/
  ≈30 words
• Cleaning up JPEG artifacts with GIMP /log/124/
  ≈180 words
• Dealing with RSS overload /log/123/
  ≈20 words
• Patently safe? /log/118/
  ≈10 words
• Serge Lang says, /log/117/
  ≈250 words
• Trust in collaborative creation /log/115/
  ≈200 words
• Hilarity /log/114/
  ≈70 words
• ASCII (he)art /log/113/
  ≈10 words
• Introducing Atom-to-HTML /log/111/
  ≈40 words
• The licence is as open as the project /log/109/
  ≈20 words
• Opensource sucks /log/107/
  ≈240 words
• OPML blows /log/105/
  ≈180 words
• Today in “Things not to do when writing Javascript” /log/101/
  ≈90 words
• GUIs: the long road ahead /log/96/
  ≈460 words
• mod_rewrite-free MIME type switcheroo /log/94/
  ≈90 words
• Aristotelian Syllogism and Object-Oriented Programming /log/92/
  ≈100 words
• The barrier-to-entry build system /log/91/
  ≈390 words
• The future is bland /log/87/
  ≈330 words
• “Plutotropic transhuman corporate overlords” /log/86/
  ≈20 words
• Webdesigners suck /log/85/
  ≈190 words
• rsync snapshot backups /log/84/
  ≈90 words
• Trust the process /log/83/
  ≈340 words
• How to create a Maildir /log/81/
  ≈30 words
• Emulating shell worksheets in Vim /log/80/
  ≈100 words
• Perl-enabled Vim tricks /log/79/
  ≈90 words
• Hacking Firefox to follow Usenet links without a newsreader /log/77/
  ≈90 words
• Strike three for Microsoft /log/75/
  ≈110 words
• Gmail, or, of the window and the rationality being hurled thereout of /log/74/
  ≈270 words
• Google rah-rah /log/73/
  ≈240 words
• “Cargo cult” /log/71/
  ≈30 words
• The ideal system monitor toy /log/69/
  ≈210 words
• Flying under the music industry's radar /log/68/
  ≈100 words
• Nerdvana: Phone Dial Web Browser /log/67/
  ≈20 words
• I do declare… /log/61/
  ≈80 words
• Wiki musings: reader as author /log/59/
  ≈80 words
• aluminium-lp for Pekwm /log/57/
  ≈50 words
• Wiki musings: subsuming the weblog metaphor /log/56/
  ≈360 words
• Liquidly extending CSS boxes /log/55/
  ≈120 words
• Restrictions sprout creativity /log/54/
  ≈240 words
• Bookmarks in Vim /log/53/
  ≈70 words
• Security: just a marketing problem /log/52/
  ≈250 words
• Eric Raymond is not my voice /log/51/
  ≈270 words
• Endorsing Enigma /log/49/
  Enigma is an Onyx clone and will steal your sleep
  ≈50 words
• Re: The reason OSS isn’t taken seriously… /log/47/
  ≈20 words
• have sum respect 4 ur readers /log/46/
  Avoid internet-speak if you want to be read
  ≈360 words
• gtk-chtheme 0.3.1 /log/45/
  ≈30 words
• gtk-chtheme 0.3 /log/44/
  ≈40 words
• gtk-chtheme 0.2 /log/43/
  ≈50 words
• Introducing gtk+ 2.0 Change Theme /log/41/
  ≈370 words
• Keeping out the spam /log/40/
  ≈550 words
• More layout container SSI hacking /log/39/
  ≈60 words
• — /log/37/
  ≈40 words
• Endorsing Liferea /log/36/
  Liferea is a “Just Works” desktop aggregator for Linux
  ≈70 words
• pekwm-menu /log/35/
  ≈20 words
• Layout container SSI hack /log/34/
  ≈160 words
• Going maildir /log/24/
  ≈90 words
• Home in version control /log/23/
  ≈110 words
• Getting used to an English keyboard layout /log/21/
  ≈140 words
• alien-silk for Pekwm /log/18/
  ≈20 words
• aluminium for Pekwm /log/15/
  ≈20 words
• Endorsing hsetroot /log/14/
  ≈110 words
• Here we go. /log/1/
  ≈10 words