The Fishbowl

One day, my boss pulled me into his office and said “Do you know Microsoft Active Server Pages?” →

The first priority of any software should be to do what the user is asking it to do. Don’t tell me that your time is worth more than mine. →

All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done! →

I’m not sure whether I prefer to be 0x28, or 101000. →

Many things in Star Wars don’t make sense, but this one turns out to be pretty straightforward. Leia is badass. →

Arbitrary object deserialization (or marshalling, or un-pickling, whatever your language calls it) is inherently unsafe, and should never be performed on untrusted data. →

To members, these sites are vital means of maintaining contact with friends and loved ones, of not feeling left out of important parts of their lives. →

Step 5: GOTO 3 →

Sure, the component parts of blogging are everywhere now. The Internet is drowning in self-publishing, link-sharing, articles scrolling by in reverse-chronological order. But somewhere along the way, the soul of blogging was lost. →

Once upon a time, I was dead-set against people deleting things from blogs. After ten years though, you find that parts of the site don’t smell so good… →