Diaspora startup script / status cron job

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.

Diaspora Dissent = "Stupid + Ugly"

Why Diaspora* is not a democracy. And therefore why it's so cool.

The Unwritten Rule - Making Sense of the Wikileaks/Guardian Cablegate Drama

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.

Bye Bye, Genie

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.

Shebang!

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:

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