Formerly the man from MJ13, I'm now a freelance web consultant, applications developer and graphic designer. This site is home to my articles (below) and a portfolio of selected past works. I'm based in London; you can reach me on Twitter as @clancyhood or by various means on the contact page.
I found my Diaspora process missing, with no clues in the logs as to why. Hmm - think I forgot to use nohup. Anyway, I just wrote a cron job to check on the status of its child processes.
Unwittingly, David Leigh broke rule number one of the digital age's many abstruse commandments - that the only safe place for a password is in your head. Assange, however, is acting very oddly.
Every now and again someone declares that we are to implement new technology to limit the functionality of old technology. In developmental terms, this is inherently ridiculous.
LFY's command structure is now a lot more flexible since I stuck a function in the core codebase that parses for an (optional) shebang-inspired opening line. Basically, the first line of a node file may include comma-delimited commands that follow a hash sign and a space: