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Nitrogen module auto-reloading - 15 days ago
This is a really simple tip, but it was handy for me, and it could be helpful for someone else, too.While playing around with Nitrogen, which is a great project by the way (more in a later blog post, I guarantee it), I noticed that I had to restart the... Topics: erlang, mochiweb, nitrogen, Programming

simple textarea auto-resizer - 73 days ago
Today I was having issues with a textarea resizer (a hacked-up version of SmartArea) that I had been using for a while in a work project. It was working fine for textareas of a certain width, but it got less and less useful as the textareas got less... Topics: Uncategorized

I got hacked, via RoundCube - 74 days ago
So for the last couple of weeks or so, there has been potentially participating in DDOS attacks (more likely it was sending spam, actually), unbeknownst to me until today. Well, it explains some of the server instability I’ve been having lately.For. Topics: botnet, ddos, hacked, Python, security, spam

q, textual queue manager - 76 days ago
I wanted a quick, command-line way to handle a list of to-do items and to show me the next item that I want to work on, so I hacked together a quick little program that manages queues for you.It’s handy for those times where I think of something to. Topics: Programming, Python, queue, todo

Untiny that url! - 85 days ago
Since most URL shortening services use an HTTP redirect to do their job, all it takes is a HEAD request to the tiny URL in question, and then a look at whatever "Location:" header is returned to see what the real URL is. In fact, you don't.. Topics: erlang, php, Programming, Python, Ruby


