So it appears that ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4! is a chess move (and also the password of Ken Thompson from the good old Unix days). I’d be foolish to remember that kind of thing, but it’s definitely a strong password!

Plain text can certainly have a reputation for looking lazy or cheap, but I feel this is mostly perpetuated in the design and marketing communities. I can assure you that your average day-to-day users are much less opinionated about your email campaign design than you are. Look to satisfy your customers’ needs before your own. — Plain Text Emails, Please

Nicely done: Visualize the execution of different algorithms for solving the traveling salesman problem.

One-to-one Tmux session reinvented: please assist.

What a beautiful Emacs for writers! #emacs

A functional language is a programming language made up of functions. — Doug Hoyte, Let Over Lambda

Beautiful Quicksort in Common Lisp. #lisp #haskell

  Wolfert Brederode Quartet, Post Scriptum.

Browsing Apple source code reminds me so much of plain old iWeb design. (I came revisiting this site after reading Beating Decades Of Optimized C With 80 Lines Of Haskell.) #apple

From Job Losses from Automation Are Being Actively Engineered and Funded, by Daniel Miessler:

Because humans are so static, and the types of things we need on a customer service call are so similar, the AI Customer Service Agent problem is similar to attacks against cryptography. Once you get a foothold, the attacks predictably get better, and they never get worse.