Howto to rebuild Debian packages. Since I had to do it again - especially important is the hint about dch --local blah, so that you get version numbers that differ from the official ones and are not automatically overwritten with the current version from the Debian repository.
Archive 9. February 2012
Laurence Tratt: Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time. Interesting article by the developer of Converge (a language that picks up and combines ideas from Lisp - macros - and Python - indentation for scope and parts of the syntax) about RPython, the base language behind PyPy. This way you also understand a bit more what role RPython plays exactly (namely the implementation language for interpreters that automatically get a JIT).
Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices | The Verge. Well, that was quick. I can't help but smirk. Google should really have better people implementing such things.