By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 19, 2007
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
- Perl 5.10.0 ★
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New feature release of Perl, the world’s best programming language. Oh, yeah, that’s what I said, bitch. My regex-savant mind is immediately drawn to the new stuff in Perl’s regex engine, including recursive patterns (which PCRE has offered for years, but Perl 5.10’s allow backtracking) and, at last, named captures (which PCRE and a few other engines have offered for a while, too).
But there’s really a slew of new stuff, much of it back-ported from the long-in-development Perl 6 endeavor.
- The 23rd Annual Editors’ Choice Awards ★
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Macworld’s Eddy awards are out; software winners include a bunch of apps that I use: Red Sweater’s MarsEdit, Alsoft’s DiskWarrior, HandBrake, Ambrosia’s WireTap Studio (and Leopard and iLife).
- Lynne Spears’s Parenting Book ‘Delayed Indefinitely’ ★
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Not surprising at all that Britney Spears’s 16-year-old sister is pregnant. Depressing, yes, given that this is likely to garner more media attention than the entire U.S. presidential race, but surprising, no. What is surprising is that their mother had a deal for a parenting book, and only now has it been cancelled. I say go with it, and just change the title to Raising Skanks the Spears Way.
- SunSpider 0.9 ★
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New JavaScript benchmarking test from the WebKit team.