<p>tl;dr - avast’s web shield functionality appears to insert itself into SSL connections using a self signed trusted root certificate and a simple kind of man-in-the middle “attack” on SSL. I would recommend you turn off web shield’s https scanning or choose another virus scanner.</p>

<p>As mentioned in <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/02/improving-my-blogging-workflow-using-emacs-of-course/">an earlier post</a>, I changed my blogging workflow to org2blog for writing and editing posts in Emacs and only push them up to my WordPress blog when the posts are almost done. I still do the final editing in WordPress so I can tweak the SEO settings and all that, but the majority of the work happens in <a href="http://orgmode.org/">org-mode</a> now.</p>

<p>Yes, I know <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu</a> already come with Chromium in their official package repositories, but sometimes it does help to have the official/commercial version installed in addition to the Open Source one. I actually both installed right now, plus Firefox and <a href="https://vivaldi.com/">Vivaldi</a>. You could almost think I’m some sort of web developer or something.</p>

<p>I’ve recently been working in <a href="http://clojure.org/">Clojure</a> on some code that really benefits from parallelization but doesn’t need to squeeze the last available cycle out of the machine.</p>

<p>GNU Emacs 24.5 was <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining">released</a> on April 10th. I’m in the process of setting up a dual boot Windows/Linux machine right now as I’m slowly moving away from Mac OS X, mainly because of the cost of the hardware but also because I don’t like it that much as a Unix-y development environment anymore.</p>