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Minuscule linkscrape of mischief

While I’ve been in my corner hacking on low-level Haskell nonsense, apparently someone figured out how to make the internets more better. To wit, a few judiciously curated sources of visual edification: for great justice unhappy hipsters riot right click
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A new (well, to me) spam vector: google.com

This is, I must say, very clever. In my latest round of inbound spam, I’ve noticed that some senders have begun sending valid links to http://google.com/ in their messages. The technique they’re using is to obfuscate a target URL inside

Posted in web

Why is del.icio.us trapped in amber?

I’ve had an account on del.icio.us for several years, but I only started using it heavily perhaps a year ago. While it’s a wonderful site in many respects, I’ve been surprised and disappointed by what’s happened since Yahoo acquired the

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Parsing a simple config file in Haskell

Even though I wrote my Haskell blog helper tool purely for my own use, I don’t want to store hard-coded strings in it, lest my username and password escape into the wild. This suggests that I need a small config
Posted in haskell, web

Blogging with Emacs and Haskell, part Zero

Since I started using WordPress to host my blog, I’ve generally been fairly pleased with it. Its killer feature has to be Akismet, the built-in spam filter. Akismet has so far killed over 18,000 spam comments for me, or roughly
Posted in haskell, web

Mathbin, a pastebin that renders mathematics using LaTeX

If you use IRC to collaborate on a software project, chances are you’ve come across pastebin.com, a site where you can post snippets of code, program output, patches, and the like, and then give out the URL of the snippet
Posted in open source, web