This took me a while to figure out, so in the hopes that I can save someone some time, here’s how to use markdown with Mutt: Step 1: Install msmtp (or any other program) On OS X you can do this with “brew install msmtp”. (You can use sendmail or whatever, but msmtp was easy [...]

Google has started offering two-factor authentication for Google logins, using Google Authenticator. They have applications available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry that give time-based passwords based on the proposed TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) draft standard. The Google code provides a command line program that can generate secret keys as well as a PAM module, [...]

I’ve found WordPress to be pretty decent, aside from the security updates every other week, but for me writing is a very spur of the moment thing; I prefer to be able to go into Emacs and just immediately type anything without having to log into my blog, create a new post, and then suffer [...]

For comparison purposes, I was rewriting the silly little e-mail digest program in Haskell, using Python libraries for the IMAP interface (it’s available on Github). It’s hard to beat Python’s amazing collection of libraries. Cabal / hackage isn’t bad, but it doesn’t yet approach Python’s “batteries included” philosophy and ease of use. Anyway, I couldn’t [...]