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Properly validating e-mail addresses (or converting EBNF to Parsec)

Update: See the better code in the next post.
In recent times there have been several calls for websites to properly validate email addresses. Invariably, the compiled regex from Perl’s RFC822 is pasted up as The Way To Do It. The problem with this is (as the source code from the Perl module notes) is that [...]

Posted 09 March 2009 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , ,

What Unicode sounds like

lame -r -m m -s 16 –bitwidth 8 ~/Downloads/UnicodeData-5.2.0d2.txt
unicodedata-520d2txt

Posted 03 November 2008 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music you didn’t expect to hear in places you didn’t expect to hear it

The M.I.A./Diplo mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism includes samples from the game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in tracks 10 & 11 (“M.I.A. [Diplo mix]” and “You’re Good [Diplo mix]”). Neato!
Big props to Diplo

Posted 07 October 2008 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Compare and Contrast

Coldplay’s ‘42’ from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (starting about 1:45), Nine Inch Nails ‘Complication’ from The Fragile.

Posted 04 September 2008 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,