OneAndOneIs2

On Saturday, I attended the London Perl Workshop - an annual event that's totally free to attend and has plenty of useful stuff even for people who don't know Perl. I even did a talk myself - an introduction to Functional Programming for beginners. N… more »

So I got sick of some things on my Android tablet. The crappy privacy settings, the unrelenting stream of adverts in youtube, and so on. So I figured it was time to try out the alternative: Cyanogenmod, an open-source fork of Android. A lot went w… more »

That old chestnut, internet advertising. Still causing problems after all these years... The problem is clicks. When advertisers came to the Web, they realized they could make their adverts clickable. Unfortunately, this single fact caused their brai… more »

This is a rant by somebody who's sick of the "walled garden" approach of many modern technologies. The "iTunes is only for the iPhone"/"Google maps is only for Android"/"Amazon is only for Kindle" nonsense. There's only one reason that this doesn't a… more »

I've been a big user of GNU Screen for.. erm... hang on, let me count.. OMG, it's been very near to two decades now. Holy *&^%! (I've looked at tmux a few times but never found any compelling reason to switch) I first started running it at Uni… more »