Parsing iso8601 is way to hard, maybe http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 would be a better choice?

This premise resulted in way too many ideas to post to twitter:↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20flat%20earth.html↵I think I shall do this for more ideas from now on.

those who write their novels in a typesafe language so the compiler would find plot holes↵http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/excuses-excuses.html#comment-1990861

Hipster News ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/hipster-news.html

Magic: The Gathering, Deck Editor ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/mtg-deck-editor.html

NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

calendar2html ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/calendar2html.html

Good office slave manual
Yegor Bugayenko has a few tips—a short manual, per se—to help us be good office slaves.

Don’t Nag. No matter what is happening, you should never criticize your direct manager. The boss is always right. Everything else may be wrong — the situation, colleagues, suppliers, computers, the CEO, investors, the market, or the weather, but not the boss you directly report to. The word of this person is the law. The boss is the god. … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

Disappointing

Pope Francis “thanked her for her courage” and told her to “stay strong”, Mr. Stavers said.

— BBC News

If this truly happened, it is disappointing. A person as charismatic as Pope Francis, who has been so politically careful, should have known better. She is a government employee, fulfilling an official task. She must abide the law, or simply le … ⌘ Read more

Protecting Francis
The Pope has recently been to Cuba, and today he will be arriving to the United States. Like any other dignitary, the Pope needs protection from both, bad people, and adoring crowds. Yet, doing so is not easy feat.

“The crowds throw things,” Mr. Clancy, who took over as the head of the Secret Service last October, said in an interview. “They throw flags, dolls and, obviously, babies towards him. It� … ⌘ Read more

NixCon 2015

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Huckabee offers his support
Mike Huckabee, a christian pastor turned politician has offered his support to the Court clerk in Kentucky who, against Supreme Court order, [refuses](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/supreme-court-rejects-county-clerks-request-in-gay-marriage-case/2015/08/31/6ec094bc-4ffd-11e5 … ⌘ Read more

NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more

Using HTML Templates from a Folder (Complied) ⌘ Read more…

Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

Redo implementation in Bourne Shell ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/redo-sh.html

ASCII2Unicode Utilities ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/ascii2unicode.html

Speed Dating Utilities ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/speeddating.html

OpenBSD httpd, slowcgi and cgit: https://www.codemadness.org/openbsd-httpd-and-cgit.html

unicode ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/unicode.html

NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.8 released
Nix 1.8
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

url2htmlcite ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/url2htmlcite.html

htmltitle ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/htmltitle.html

calendargen ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/calendargen.html

httptaild ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/httptaild.html

mc ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/mc.html

twitch: application to watch Twitch streams: https://www.codemadness.org/twitch-interface.html

aqbanking2ledger ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/aqbanking2ledger.html

tsv2html ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/tsv2html.html

phonemic2decimal ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/phonemic2decimal.html

mimesniff ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/mimesniff.html

pngtruncate ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/pngtruncate.html

NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
We’re having a NixOS sprint at the Kiberpipa hackerspace
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August
23—27. Joining is free! For more information and to
register, please go to the sprint\
 page. ⌘ Read more

jpegtruncate ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/jpegtruncate.html

unswizzle ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/unswizzle.html

swizzle ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/swizzle.html

decimal2phonemic ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/decimal2phonemic.html

NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
 notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
 section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.2 released
NixOps\
 1.2 has been released. This release contains contains many nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.7 released
Nix 1.7
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of new features. ⌘ Read more

Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
A serious security\
 vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL. All stable
NixOS releases prior to version
13.10.35708.15a465c are vulnerable. (You can
see your current version by running nixos-version.) To
upgrade to the latest NixOS version, run nixos-rebuild
switch –upgrade. You can verify whether you are safe by
running

$ nix-store -qR /run/current-system | grep openssl

If this shows any OpenSSL ve … ⌘ Read more

file2datauri ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/file2datauri.html

FOSDEM talks
Domen Kožar gave a\
 talk at FOSDEM about NixOS ( video).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave a talk\
 on\
 Guix, the Nix- … ⌘ Read more

Userscript: focus input field: https://www.codemadness.org/userscript-focus-input-field.html

httptail ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/httptail.html

man2html ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/man2html.html

tsv2html.sh ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/tsv2html.sh.html

tsv2html.rc ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/tsv2html.rc.html