Peter Stuifzand

The use cases of Camlistore or all very interesting.

Camlistore seems like a really cool project when it gets farther along.

Today I wrote an rssCloud in Perl.

I am building my own microblogging tool.

This week I created a way for me to post small messages, as there is not yet a good decentralized way to make this happen.

Just for reference, maybe somebody can find some use for this.

I just released Abacus as Free Software.

With Eben Moglen’s Freedom Boxes in our minds, I will paraphrase Danny O’Brien, who talked about the Web 2.0 privacy paradox in his Living on the Edge talk.

Eben Moglen in Freedom in The Cloud (around 24:50): The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr.

In the past people could leave comments on my weblog.

At some moments in time, ideas come together in a mind to form a new idea.

A small list of ways how articles (or documents) will disappear at some future point in time.

The internet is an amazing place.

I tweeted about it before: I think the Twitter website isn’t realtime, because the little number in the title of the webpage makes people click the blue label that shows there are new tweets.

Anti-Fragility is an amazing idea.

US Scientists Significantly More Likely to Publish Fake Research, Study Finds: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

I just read this piece by Marc Hedlund, in which he says Shipping Solves Everything.

Sometimes you find packages on your Ubuntu box and you don’t know how they got there.

What if the bottleneck of your software isn’t in your CPU, memory, network or I/O throughput, but in that of every website on the internet?

With thanks to Startup Lessons Learned for the idea.

Dividing a product list into multiple numbered pages provides no extra functionality to customers.

From neugierig.org: A UNIX wizard hears cries of torment from his apprentice’s computer room where the apprentice is studying, and goes to investigate.

After these two changes I got into an object-oriented (with a splash of functional and generic programming) mindset.

While I was thinking about how to structure some of my access handling code in my web app, I saw that it currently is impossible to return a 403 code when a user reaches a password protected page.

I’ve been using Plack for a few days now, and I have to say, I really like it.

In Hash function performance Dave Winer writes: It’s been a long time since we looked at the object database in Frontier, so today Brent wrote a little app that checks out how the hash function distributes objects across the buckets for each table in the…

I’m really not sure what to say about EWD 1036.

Until today I couldn’t use variables in my template that are pieces of code.

While browsing around StackOverflow I found a page about Square root function implementation.

In the last two essays we established that there is a dispatcher, multiple controllers and multiple actions.

Yesterday we looked at the structure inside of two simple controller actions.

Alex Stepanov writes in Notes on Programming: We often get the idea that a mathematical theory is built in a logical way starting from definitions and axioms.

Steve Yegge wrote (and writes, again) about interesting stuff.

I was reading presentation slides from YAPC::EU 2010 and found this one: Web Automation with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.

Here are two talks about Generic Programming, that I like very much.

Update on Google Wave: Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science.

New study suggests full-fat milk might be better: We find that the persons who consumed the highest amount of full-fat dairy had a 70 per cent reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, compared to people who do not eat full-fat dairy; so that’s q…

Translation from Lost in Translation: DIRECTOR (in Japanese to the interpreter): The translation is very important, O.K.?

This is an old story about young people that can’t remember as much as old people: This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info.

I’ve been writing this weblog for six years and fourteen days now.

John Carmack on Software Patents: The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some ye…

Charles Bukowski: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.

Richard Feynman on doubt and uncertainty: You see, one thing is I can live with doubt, uncertainty and not knowing.

In photos it seems like minimalism is white and black designer furniture.

I created a new calculator.

Google is amazing for searching the public web.

Canonical just released the latest version of Ubuntu.

The latest version of Perl, version 5.12 has been released.

Gearman released the latest version, 0.13, of the gearman server and C libraries.

I just noticed something: the Gmail buttons have changed.