Michael Ekstrand (elehack)

Michael Ekstrand

If I were a nerdcore emcee, and didn't go by M.C. MC, Run-G.H.C. would be a tempting name. Thoughts that occur while hacking Haskell…

Michael Ekstrand Greg Grossmeier

Sad!

Michael Ekstrand

Brilliant: "We Just Want To Visit Websites and Look At Them" http://onion.com/ZY2WKP (remember when web delivered content, not buggy apps?)

Michael Ekstrand Fedora users

Congrats to !Fedora people on a nice F18 release. https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

Michael Ekstrand

that time when you wonder if you're better off trusting data to something you hacked together or someone else's low-activity project.

Michael Ekstrand Scala Programming Language

Using !Scala path-dependent types for awesome. http://tmblr.co/ZMM04vbg3JzS

Michael Ekstrand

Very smart writing by Aaron Swartz on the futility of fixing a machine by yelling at the gears. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi

Michael Ekstrand

C++ STL, algorithm design, and type classes. http://tmblr.co/ZMM04vbVbqLK

Michael Ekstrand Scala Programming Language

New release of argparse4s, my !scala command line parsing library. http://tmblr.co/ZMM04vbP21Cf

Michael Ekstrand Fedora users

Seems that package management (Yum & PackageKit) have seen some nice speedups in !Fedora 18.

Michael Ekstrand Bradley M. Kuhn , Nicolas Delvaux

for me, it isn't about licenses, but freedom to use hardware as long as skilled people find it useful, not at vendor's whim. /cc @bkuhn

Michael Ekstrand Dan Lynch

there's really no excuse in the modern world not to offer callback.

Michael Ekstrand

did some attempted hacking tonight, but unfortunately it dead-ended. Will try later to build automatic productivity proxy on Polipo.

Michael Ekstrand

Working on revising a paper. Keep discovering cool new things that our framework can do.

Michael Ekstrand

Why do all these random people think I want to hire an Oracle DBA? For the record, my requirements are simple: don't spam me.

Michael Ekstrand

Lesser-known fantasy novels: “The Dough is Rising”

Michael Ekstrand Fedora users

I somewhat understand why SELinux gets so much hate, but it isn't that hard. Really, it isn't. !fedora

Michael Ekstrand Fedora users

Finally have PulseAudio & MPD running & discoverable via ZeroConf on !fedora. Gory details: http://elehack.net/writings/howto/audio-server

Michael Ekstrand Simon Phipps

@webmink I have to give some credit to Microsoft - “Shared Source” seems seems like a useful, non-deceptive way to describe the concept.