February 2010
Finally finished Lethal Theory by Eyal Weizman (http://bit.ly/d4tbWg). *MUCH* more interesting than BLDGBLOG’s Hasbro-tinted take on it.
January 2010
New blog article: How To Safely Store A Password (http://bit.ly/cINVWa). (Had to explain this one too many times recently.)
SOOPACROZ is a seductively easy way to feel superior to other people.
SOOPACROZ!
Man, the Scala 2.8 plugin for Eclipse is *smooth*.
Fuckin’ Facebook, man. http://bit.ly/as4ra6
Half the whitepapers I read these days all solve problems by extending HTTP or changing browser behavior: bringing the mountain to Mohammed.
“[this] will almost certainly be obsolete within the year, when long-polling… goes out of style.” (from Mar. 2008) #html5isntmynewbicycleyet
New Readability themes use TypeKit and are silky smooth: http://bit.ly/JSMli
So it begins: http://bit.ly/d0GHZk
RT @blaine: Thanks to @aaronofmontreal, I have seen the best thing, ever: http://www.vimeo.com/7577554
Wrong wrong wrong: http://bit.ly/7LRq1X Use bcrypt to store passwords, HMAC to sign messages, hash function for simple checksums (rare).
The iPad is for porn.
Remember: this fuggin’ guy http://bit.ly/dnszXX can do 700M passwords/sec, salt or no salt. Use bcrypt to store passwords.
I guess I wasn’t clear about bcrypt. This: http://bit.ly/cgSZJL http://bit.ly/9DGM84 http://bit.ly/cFluQ4 http://bit.ly/aZDlFM Use it.
Oh good: a benchmark of a JVM-hosted language done by someone without any knowledge of JVM internals.
Your tech commentary: fuck it. http://bit.ly/dvpDTI http://bit.ly/5kUcWC http://bit.ly/92VOsA
Welcome to the democratization of distribution mechanisms: now everyone on the Internet can be a breathless Wired writer from the mid-90s.
The amount of navel-gazing induced by the iPad is fucking astounding. Stop planning your future purchases and get back to work, nerds.
Good God’s balls. The Simple Web Token spec couldn’t be harder to find. Eff.
Current status: http://bit.ly/amKek9
RT @jacqui: RIP Howard Zinn http://bit.ly/cXYqVd
You can keep up to date on the art of @KirinDave’s latest photography critic here: http://bit.ly/axT7hq
RT @emerose: Ouch. Trivial, unpatched integer overflow in mod_proxy for Apache 1.3.* — http://blog.pi3.com.pl/?p=69
A room full of white dudes with brown hair. #nerds
RT @cassandra: 0.5.0 final released! Features, performance, tools; this is the best release yet! http://bit.ly/6T2C9y http://bit.ly/68HQQm
Really fucking glad I figured out Philz uses heavy cream. That’s the only kind of cream I want in my coffee.
Fucking Ashby @SFBART, man. Someone stole my bicycle seat and left theirs lying nearby. Punchline: incompatible seatpost sizes. #fml