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Quickutil
Robert Smith and Eitarow Fukamachi have started a really interesting new project: Quickutil. The idea is to do for small Lisp utilities what Quicklisp does for Lisp libraries. Smith explains it all on his SYMBO1ICS IDEAS blog but the TL;DR … Continue reading
European Lisp Symposium
Here are links to the talks from the European Lisp Symposium from this June. There were some technical problems but most of the talks were captured. These are audio links and in some cases the accompanying slides (as PDFs). If … Continue reading
Email and Encryption
In view of the NSA brouhaha, I’ve been thinking about encrypted email as a first step in keeping my private business private. Like most of you, I’m the proverbial “nothing to hide” netizen but I also have an instinctive dislike … Continue reading
Cracking Passwords
Last May, Ars Technica published a chilling article on password cracking that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. I urge you to take a look at it even if you’re just a user but especially if you … Continue reading
Marc Battyani Interview
Vsevolod Dyomkin has another great entry in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything. This time it’s with Marc Battyani, a Lisp hacker and entrepreneur whose company, NovaSparks, builds ultra-low-latency FPGA-based supercomputers for … Continue reading
Emacsy
Shane Celis has announced that Emacsy was accepted as a Google Summer of Code project. Celis describes Emacsy as an embeddable Emacs-like library for non-text applications: Emacs OS without the text editor. The idea is to bring the Emacs way … Continue reading
Obsessed
I’ve been completely obsessed with the unfolding NSA scandal all day (Sunday). I spent most of the day reading various news articles and posts on it. I’m too angry to write about that so here’s a cheerful tweet on the … Continue reading
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Dropbox and the NSA
I’ve written many, many, many, many times that if you are using Dropbox for private information that you don’t want others to have access to you better be encrypting it. And if you’re not, you have only yourself to blame … Continue reading
Where Are My Torrents?
Matt Might wonders why he can’t find a torrent for a BBC show.