I hate Regular Expressions.
I don’t hate them because they’re broken, or stupid, or don’t work. Rather, I hate them because I’m one of those few people who started programming back in the days of the Commodore Vic-20 and who still has not taken the time to learn them. Actually, I don’t hate them at all, I simply fear them.
It’s like talking to a 50 year old who says “I always meant to learn how to swim, I just never got around to it.” That’s the way I am with Regular …

I had an interesting experience yesterday that illustrated to me the danger of building Twitter-based web applications without seriously considering the consequences of what you are doing. It was a perfect low-consequence wake-up call on the incredible responsibility web application programmers have.
It was basically a case of my Twitter stream being SPAMmed by an application that I didn’t know existed and don’t really care about. This is pretty important to me since I’m developing the “for fun” side project Tweetscore, which might have some day done the same thing.