After only 2 years a resounding 38 links out of 347 on this site are no longer operational. I’m only counting 404 error — the 301 are way more (around 100), but these are just normal redirects and the links pointing there are still available even though they’re somewhere else...

At every social meeting, this topic comes up. I might be stuck with it, but I’ve seen so many people that don’t understand it.

During the past few days, I’ve been playing with the Twitter APIs. Yes, I’m a few years late to the party… I realize that. But as they say, better late than never.1 Not that I never played with them before, I’ve only made little scripts for myself. ↩

These last few years I run an experiment, started with this post back in 2012.

Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to get hold of secrets stored...