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With all the current excitement about leaked password databases, I thought I'd take the time to make doing it the right way a bit easier. If you're working on a PHP app, start using lib_bcrypt right now.

This is an excellent idea for business cards.

Hopefully you're already familiar with the reference. And the meme.

Meissner bodies are fascinating. Wikipedia has a little on them, but there's some more detail on MathOverflow.

The image is Copyright Christof Weber 2009, who wrote an excellent paper about them and has set up an interactive java demo.

You can also buy your own set to play with.

If you play wow on intel integrated graphics and you've been freezing on the last boss in hour of twilight, this thread contains the answer.

pathod seems like it'd be useful for testing any code that consumes a service over http [via torrez]

12 factor app says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh?

I'd like to check out travis-ci, but loading it crashes chrome. How does it even do that?

Oh god, I need to get all of these. Especially the narwhal.

This piece of genius advice just got me back into a borked server. How did sshd get removed from chkconfig to begin with?

A nice read about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.