Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Response to "Victimology bites"

This started out as a comment on Eric Raymond's "Victimology bites" blog post, but got long enough that I figured I'd turn it into its own blog post.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

yt-bulk-py: A good program with a bad name

So I just finished another exhausting Ballroom competition, and once again, there are a ton of videos to upload (133, to be exact). Since I found myself doing this more and more, I decided to make my life easier by some code to help the process out.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Comparing Emacs Version-parsing Libraries

Recently, I've become interested in advancing the (currently sad) state of Emacs package management. It is a well-documented problem (see here for more detail), so I won't discuss it generally.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Letter to the US Trade Representative

From this Ars Technica article, the US Trade Representative, the body in charge of negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), has a section open for comments about the treaty. Let them know that you favor an open Internet and balanced copyright laws. I've copied my comment to them (which was too long to fit in the form, blah) here.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Just to make your lives difficult...

I finally bit the bullet and renamed my GitHubaccount from "dhax" to "haxney". I did
this to increase the consistency of my online names, so hopefully things will be less confusing overall.