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Mandelbrot
Yesterday (I rule at this Daily Update thing) was the birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, creator of the Mandelbrot…
Vizzinibugs, Heisenbugs and the vanishing birthday
Heisenbugs are bugs that vanish when you turn debugging on. Schrodinbugs are bugs that don’t manifest until you…
Softly softly
Yesterday, one of my pet bugs in the Mozilla codebase was finally fixed. Almost exactly one year ago…
Debugging Ajax
One of the problems with Ajax is that the server side of it becomes invisible. You send a…
Djingle Django Scarecrow
One of the concepts you may run into if you read into Python and its fans in great…
Textile
For the last couple of hours, Aquarionics has been using Jim and Lissa’s TexilePHP system, which is a…
T Paamayim Nekudotayim
Lesson of the day, PHP calls the ”::” – used to identify an uninstantiated class function – a…
Free as in Mortgage Repayment
Okay, so in the first (zeroth?) hashlugradio broadcast, I put forth the view that the OS business model…
Happy Birthday To You
Since I have so far missed both parents and both siblings birthdays because I am incapable of remembering…