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Catching up 26 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm

For a while now I’ve been pretty embarrassed by this site. Not by the visual design, or the functionality (though some bits have been lost along the way, for reasons that will become obvious in a mome...

Good tools 5 Apr 2013 | 09:05 am

Apparently we’re in one of those every-couple-of-years cycles of everybody and their brother rushing to adopt/encourage others to adopt the hot new programmers’ text editor. This time around it’s Subl...

Persistence 29 Jan 2013 | 08:55 am

The last couple weeks have been rough, on a personal level. Nothing I can’t get through with a little help (and thankfully, there is help), but nothing particularly fun to get through, either. I’ve sp...

On "magic", once again 23 Jul 2009 | 04:31 pm

So it seems Giles Bowkett is upset about use of the word “magic”. I’m happy to agree with the general consensus from various fora that the specific article he’s complaining about is, well, pretty much...

When licenses attack 14 Jul 2009 | 01:25 pm

Jacob posted twenty questions about the GPL. Zed followed with an explanation of why he placed Lamson under the GPL. This has provoked some discussion around the internets, some of which I have read a...

In pace requiescat 8 Jul 2009 | 04:41 pm

So the charter of the XHTML Working Group will be allowed to expire without renewal. This is a source of consternation for some, who feel that the W3C is perhaps sending conflicting messages — how lon...

A fun little bug 26 Jun 2009 | 10:04 am

About two months ago, I quietly wrote and released a little Django application which generates cross-domain policy files for Flash (if you’ve never encountered this aspect of Flash, here’s an introduc...

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