Category Archives: code

the best IMAP client in human history sure sucks

Brent Simmons posted something interesting today: “Email init“. The gist of the idea is that we[1] need a really good IMAP client; no such thing exists; so fuck it, let’s make one.
The bummer is that The Community has to build it, which is always a slightly dubious prospect. But once in a while, that [...]

Dreamweaver f00kin ®00lz, ∂00∂

A few years ago, friend of mine worked on a large specialty retail web site, which had been built-up over the years by people using Dreamweaver. This week, as I was helping to retrofit a legacy (as in EUC, SJIS, Dreamweaver, Flash) web site here in Tokyo and bring it into the modern (as in [...]

OCSNG i18n Support: �¾�

OCSNG generates garbage mojibake data from Japanese Windows XP client PCs. The PC entries in the database end up with fields like “Description: ’†‘º@ՔҖ”. NG, indeed.
1.) Is the problem in the Windows OCSNG agent, or:
2.) Is the problem in the UNIX OCSNG server, or:
3.) Both?
So, let us begin the delightful process of debugging multibyte foreign [...]

2.0

Well, we finally released this crap, whew. I haven’t worked that hard since I was like, in my 20s and shit.