Warning: this post is a rant. It is subjective and probably contains nothing but anecdotes, personal observations, exaggerations, and straw men. There is nothing scientific about it. Take it with a generous sprinkling of salt. I also make no guarantee that it is coherent.
Before I begin, I need to …
more ...E-mail address parsing is a requirement in many web applications. It's not uncommon for web applications or services to need to store e-mail addresses and to send e-mail messages for one reason or another.
A new security vulnerability surfaced in the sydent identity server of Matrix.org …
I have finally migrated this blog from WordPress on a Site5 shared hosting plan in US central, to a Pelican static site on my Linode instance in Singapore. I've wanted to do it ever since I found out about static site generators. However, I've been putting it off for a …
more ...On August 31st, 2014, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) made its pronouncement about the selection of the HKSAR Chief Executive in 2017, through a document entitled “Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Issues Relating to the Selection of the Chief Executive of the …
more ...While reading the book "Two Scoops of Django", I learned many useful things about Django. One of the really useful tips in chapter 5 of the book is the isolation of secrets (e.g. API keys and database passwords) from the source code repository, through the use of environment variables …
more ...Seriously, Microsoft, what part of "internationalisation" and "Unicode" did you not understand? Unlike your majority of US-based coders, we Asians often need to work with multiple languages. Just Japanese+Chinese+English is enough to completely break the programming experience in Office 2007. Yes, it was 2006, but …
Here is a piece of cynical thought: Extreme Programming works not only because of its inherent traits, but also because of some interesting side effect.
Let's start with two simple questions: how many times have you been interrupted in your work today; be it by your boss, your superior officer …
more ...Gentoo Linux is not for everybody, seriously. And by that I don't mean only the average computer user, but also the majority of application developers. Of course, this is just my opinion, which I will explain below. I do not in any way mean that Gentoo Linux is inferior to …
more ...Kalunite.net and all sub-sites may be down for a few days from January 24th onwards while I migrate everything to a dedicated server in Hong Kong. The new server shall shift the access speed in the favour of visitors from the Asia-Pacific region, possibly at the expense of visitors …
more ...星期日行街行到腳仔軟。先係朝早同屋企人响荃灣兆和街嘅合發茶餐廳喫早餐，跟住我同家姐疙咗去如心廣場睇吓落成咗係乜樣。點知原來咩都冇，得間酒店開咗。隔離荃新天地又係未裝修完。結果唯有走去荃灣廣場行Jusco。不過一入廣場門口，就俾Wanko雞乸咁大隻字嘅「二折」牌嗍咗埋去。就咁樣就開咗市，家姐即刻搵到聖誕禮物俾阿媽同係Montreal嘅死黨同學。跟住再上幾層，喺間DVD/唱碟鋪搵埋老竇嘅禮物。Jusco嗰度反而乜都冇買就走咗。
第一回合完，就哽係食嘢補充能量。上次喺綠楊食越南河，發然仲有好多檔可以試。所以今日又番去綠楊，試另一檔唔知"Euro"乜鬼嘅（家姐溫馨提示：「係EuroGoGo呀。」）。啲意粉都OK，係嗰兩支奇異菓汁同橙汁甜咗少少。
補給完，我地就先分道揚鑣：家姐去銅鑼灣會合企鵝姐，開始佢嘅第二回合；我就去展開我嘅旺角探險。點解去旺角？因為我隻踎屎死咗。讀者一定諗：『踎屎死咗關旺角咩事呀？』。咁我就話你知啦。話說PCCW寄咗封信嚟話多謝我申請寬頻，所以送無綫踎屎，要去旺角挪。不過我點會淨係為咗隻踎屎去旺角丫。前世未迫過咩。其實我主要仲想搵OS X Leopard Family Pack，買番隻模型鉗 …
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