Various things we do at work involve taking RSS feeds from elsewhere. Some incompetent people emit feeds that are broken in one way or another.

There’s been some discussion lately about the utility or otherwise of keyboard shortcuts, after Tim Bray linked to several pieces by Tog on the topic. Tim disagreed with Tog’s analysis, leaving explanations as an exercise for the reader, and Kevin Scaldeferri, one of his commenters, took up the challenge:

GNU Screen is an extremely useful piece of software, but one that requires an annoying amount of hackery to make it useful. Herewith a description of why you want to use it, and what you have to do to make it work better.