I have always been against FeedBurner. I don't like it at all. I've never liked it, as a matter of fact, I have no actual idea why I've been using it on my blog. I do know why I used it on the country feeds on Planeta Linux, and that is because it was very easy to mask all of our URL changes with some level of stability on the subscribers (in times where me being technically competent was a bad joke for myself). Plus, we could plug AdSense into it (that later on I removed because I like to earn actual dollars, not pennies, you cheap clickers!). Or maybe I'm just so against it because of pure jealousy: A few RSS feed geeks, like myself, sold a sub-parproduct to Google in a hundred million dollars. At the very end, I've never had a good reason to use FeedBurner or to stick with it, so hereby I'm dropping it entirely from my own personal blog.

It's obvious that some people who subscribed to my feed using that FeedBurner URL aren't reading this very blog post. It's alright, I've lost reigns before, I will get over it and conquer their hearts again. But you, dear blog reader, planet subscriber, or eventual visitor, have the power to change things, to help workaround the evils of FeedBurner and make me be myself again. Please, help me myself again! And that is, from now on, use this feed URL and only this feed URL, I promise I will support as long as nice good looking HTTP servers (such as nginx or Cherokee) exist:

http://stereonaut.net/feed/

That said, I will get you a beer next time we meet each other and you, dear reader, mention this blog post and mention that you changed to this new feed URL of mine. I'm not kidding. Just go ahead and tell me

Thank you.

Google created an official Twitter account. Its first tweet was something odd:

I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010

I had previously written (in Spanish, for La Columna de Perl), how to quickly decode this "way" of binary writing with Perl's chr and oct. So, to find out what was Google really tweeting, run:

perl -e 'map { print chr oct "0b".$_; } split /\s/, "01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010";'

So, what's really happening with this snippet? Well, the zeroes-ones string is being passed to the split function that explodes the string with a whitespace delimiter and passes that exploded string, a list, to map. map takes each one of the elements, the 8-character substring, one by one and preppends "0b" so that oct can understand it as an octal string and returns the value for that character. Then, that value is passed to chr that takes the numerical representation of a given character and returns that character. Then, it's just passed to print that, surprise, prints out that value.

How do you do it in your language of choice?

Con la reciente y repentina muerte de Cofradía, la comunidad de linuxeros (y demás rarezas) en México necesita más que nunca un nuevo nicho. Afortunadamente, Planeta Linux México se ha consolidado como una verdadera comunidad de linuxeros mexicanos, y tan es así que ahora somos el resultado número uno en Google y en Google México para «linux méxico».

Aunado a ésto, algunos colegas y yo hemos iniciado un simple y sencillo grupo LinkedIn de Linux en México para que todos nosotros, profesionales, desarrolladores (y usuarios también, ¿por qué no?) hagamos networking. Únanse.

Linux México en LinkedIn.