dgoodwin's blog

Some things I've been tinkering with lately:

For those of us who spend heinous amounts of time online, cryptography and it's applications are both interesting and increasingly relevant. Stopping to consider the information we transmit and receive over the course of a day and then analyzing the potential ways that information could be exploited can be a little scary. The following are some freely available open source tools that can be used daily to protect your privacy and reduce some of the risks for information abuse.

Just discovered rTorrent last night via a link from Why Console Apps Still Rock. I've been using Azureus for awhile, which seems to always eventually top out at around 300 megs of RAM and is one of the very few reasons I need the non-free and PITA Sun JDK.

Bram Moolenar (the author of Vim) did a presentation for Google last week on effective text editing. Video of said presentation is now available on Google Video, or by direct download on Vim's FTP.

Presentation is very good, I've been using Vim quite heavily for years now and I still managed to pick out some tips.

For a good five years I was a loyal user of the text based Mutt e-mail client, which may sound archaic, but actually turns out to be a pretty amazingly powerful program and great for your productivity.