The battle against spam is a never-ending arms race, and in the last week or two the spammers overcame my defenses. Thus, I have had to disable comments for the time being while I debug the current defense systems and potentially implement new ones.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but I really don’t want our comments filled with nasty links, and we currently don’t have a moderation system (it’s on the todo list, honest!).
After much time (too much, really), we have now deployed the new elehack.net. It now sports a spiffy Common Lisp application server powered by Hunchentoot and Steel Bank Comon Lisp, a Postgres database, and other yummy web goodness. Oh, and a new look too.
Enjoy :).
Through Lifehacker, I found an interesting list of rules for simplicity and contentment in computing. He has some great rules -- don’t use web applications that should be desktop applications (and vice versa), store as many things as possible in plain text, and use a password manager.
Some of the things are a bit more questionable though. For example, he advocates not using your text editor for anything other than editing text. Au contraire — I find that checking my e-mail in Emacs, and managing my calendar in Emacs, and managing my to-do lists in Emacs, greatly simplifies my life.
Reading my blog roll tonight, found this. Enjoy.