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Tomas Jogin:

To begin with, they, the beggars—and some of the undead minions—all want an “invite.” Not an invitation, mind you, they want an “invite.”

lftp

Nicholas Riley:

lftp is really amazing. Perhaps it seems odd I'm saying this for a command-line utility, but it does what I mean, virtually every single time.

Code TODOs in RSS

Ben Hammersley has posted a short Perl script that collects TODO comments from source files and puts them into an RSS feed. I read TODO comments in BBEdit’s search results browser, but I'm tickled that finding and displaying them is so easy with Perl’s File::Find and XML::RSS.