- Discussion of the U.S. federal “Blue Button” / “Blue Connect Director” healthcare-data mandate: participants criticize it as expensive, risky, and poorly aligned with modern separation-of-content-and-presentation principles, with one estimate that a compliant implementation should command ≈ $100 k per month.  
- juri_ argues that MU2 (Meaningful Use Stage 2) requirements are “a pain,” costly to implement, and laments that “no-one remembers XML anymore,” suggesting XML-based data exchange might be cleaner than the mandated alternatives.  
- kanzure shares a PHP quine (https://eval.in/108854) that unexpectedly prints its own source, prompting curiosity about the language’s parsing edge-cases.  
- bjonnh requests and receives a pay-walled paper via paperbot (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jbn/2012/00000008/00000004/art00002); kanzure invites bug reports at https://github.com/kanzure/paperbot/issues.  
- ruphos asks whether paperbot operates through a proxy with institutional journal access, highlighting community interest in open, automated literature retrieval.  
- kanzure announces attendance at the Texas Bitcoin Conference (http://texasbitcoinconference.com/schedule) and offers to produce transcripts for the channel.