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Answering a hibernated cry for mercy. Another point for dynamic languages.

# 5th September 2004, 8:12 pm

Drowning in the stream. Using Python 2.4’s generator expressions to emulate Scheme’s infinite streams.

# 5th September 2004, 7:27 pm

Purple Numbers (for Wordpress) (via) A modified version of my plinks.js script.

# 5th September 2004, 7:18 pm

Subtracting to greatness. The less syntax a language has the better.

# 5th September 2004, 7:17 pm

gmcp—gmail copy (via) Less impressive, but probably more useful thant GmailFS.

# 4th September 2004, 7:12 pm

International Talk Like A Pirate Day. September 19—only 14 days to go!

# 4th September 2004, 6:26 am

Spammers embrace email authentication. “More spam than legitimate email is currently sent using Sender Policy Framework”

# 3rd September 2004, 6:43 pm

The Age of the Essay (via) More hacking and painting.

# 3rd September 2004, 2:26 pm

Markdown | Gadgetopia. I hadn’t quite grokked the importance of allowing links to become footnotes.

# 2nd September 2004, 11:26 pm

Programming, aesthetics, and religion. Another thoughtful post on programming languages from Ronaldo.

# 2nd September 2004, 8:56 pm

Afghanistan VoIP. Thanks to VoIP, Afghanistan shares a dial code with Northampton.

# 2nd September 2004, 6:09 pm

The Unpolitical Animal (via) A look at what influences the average voter. Fascinating reading no matter which side you are.

# 2nd September 2004, 7:05 am

Blogzilla: And We’re Back!! Thanks to RSS, I never even noticed they’d gone.

# 2nd September 2004, 6:36 am

Movable Type 3.1 Still a Developer Edition? It looks like MT is running up against the limitations of static publishing.

# 2nd September 2004, 1:53 am

Screenscraping the Senate. Paul Ford’s new column for XML.com.

# 2nd September 2004, 1:35 am

BarlowFriendz: Dancarchy Reigns! RNC protesting with a smile and a jiggle.

# 2nd September 2004, 1:33 am

An Introduction to HTTP Fingerprinting (via) Identifying an HTTP server by probing its HTTP protocol support.

# 1st September 2004, 4:19 pm

Wikipedia is beautiful. So says Tim Bray, eloquent as always.

# 1st September 2004, 5:45 am / tim-bray, wikipedia

manifesto.mp3 (via) The only audio blog you’ll ever need to hear. Hell yeah.

# 1st September 2004, 5:28 am

XML-RPC in JavaScript. Opens up some interesting remote scripting possibilities.

# 31st August 2004, 3:58 pm / javascript, xml-rpc

Perl state machine to scrape HTML. Great working example of a state machine in action.

# 31st August 2004, 3:57 pm

State Machines. Eric Dobbs’ extensive series on state machines.

# 31st August 2004, 3:56 pm

Embittered generals. Daniel Glazman on innovation outside the W3C.

# 31st August 2004, 3:40 pm

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