<p>Artur Malabarba over on Endless Parentheses has a <a href="http://endlessparentheses.com/embedding-youtube-videos-with-org-mode-links.html?source=rss">short post</a> about embedding a YouTube video directly from org-mode. I haven’t tried using it in org2blog yet, but I’m hoping/expecting that it’ll work there, too.</p>

<p>I’ve recently switched to using homebrew as my source for Emacs on OS X  after seeing <a href="http://struct.tumblr.com/post/46754394733/emacs-24-use-homebrew-instead-of-emacsformacosx">this blog post by Philip Ingram</a>.</p>

<p>I <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/05/smartphones-computers-need-regular-patching/">recently</a> blogged about Google and Samsung starting to offer regular security patches for their Android devices.</p>

<p>I’ve been doing a reasonable amount of <a href="http://clojure.org/">Clojure</a> development recently and like a lot of other Lisp dialect have marveled at the ease of separately pulling out the keys and values from a map. This is a very common operation after all, but C++ does only appear to support manual key or value extraction from a std::map.</p>

<p>Some security researchers from UCSD <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-cut-corvettes-brakes-via-common-car-gadget/">showed a proof of concept exploit via one of the dongles</a> that appears to be also used by car insurance companies to monitor your driving “to give you discounts for good driving”. I’m not really a fully paid up subscriber of the tin foil hat brigade but stuff like this makes me glad that I’m still opting for the old-fashioned way of paying…