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 »

I'm so sick of the "Right to be forgotten" ruling being misrepresented by journalists. For anyone who didn't hear about it: an EU court ruled that Google (and others) must remove links to stories about people that contain outdated or incorrect inform… more »

A good rule of thumb for version control is to have each commit reflect a single operation. Nowhere is the failure to adhere to this rule more annoying than when somebody moves a block of code *and* edits it in a single commit: The move makes the whole… more »