The Emacs Problem: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
A good discussion of lispiness, the inherent structure in many text formats, and editors that are dynamically configurable.
miniblog.
"Significant effort has been put into making optimization output agnostic of the -gsetting (so you can rebuild binary with debug info after your program core dumped and use it to debug the core dump)"
Impressive gcc features discussed in https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/06/gcc-8-link-time-and-interprocedural.html
Machine-assisted literature review in medicine!
Apply NLP to papers to extract the relationships they found, then use miniKanren to find drugs with desired properties: https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-medical-breakthroughs
Interesting article on how and how much income people earn from social media: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/how-much-do-influencers-make/
Useful introduction to basic Awk usage: https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-awk.html
A thorough introduction to Rake, including a good discussion of why you might want an internal DSL on top of Ruby rather than a custom language like Make: https://martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html
GitLab is building a nifty editor to enable you to commit changes across multiple files within your browser: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/15/introducing-gitlab-s-integrated-development-environment/
Build Server Protocol, taking the ideas from the Language Server Protocol and extending it to builds: https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2018/06/15/bsp.html
Really cute video demo of the hypertext documentation in Symbolics Lisp Machines: https://youtu.be/7DxYj32cvoE
The speaker carefully explains why links are a good thing! It also lists history in a pane (rather than a back button) and has a stronger notion of navigating hierarchies.
https://build.rs/ is a handy Rust pattern for compile-time code generation. E.g. https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-bindgen/tutorial-3.html
It's a small standalone program that prints lines of Rust code! It reminds me of much more dynamic languages.
An ingenious way of adding commenting to a static blog (e.g. Jekyll): a service that opens PRs to add comments to your content! https://staticman.net/
Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226371-lessons-from-building-static-analysis-tools-at-google/fulltext
An excellent 'view from the trenches' of static analysis at Google's scale. Thread.
With hindsight, the app craze with early smartphones was much like .com mania. There was a belief you could get rich by just building something on this new platform.
Today, it is necessary but not sufficient for successful businesses to be available on both platforms.
Nice introduction to Rust that even shows how it compiles down to assembly! https://jakob.space/blog/post/First+Impressions+of+the+Rust+Programming+Language
I really like that Mastodon doesn't rewrite your links. I've never got much value out of "N users clicked your links" data and it means you can read the full URL before clicking.
Medium's approach of allowing comments, but hiding them by default, seems like a good behaviour. You can still have a conversation in the context of the post, but they don't distract from the primary content.
eslint is an incredible boon to the JS community. Rather than advising new JS developers to read books like The Good Parts, I just encourage them to use eslint with the default checks enabled.
"GitHub makes it easier for large, loosely coordinated groups of programmers—in corporations, for instance—to use git. It has a well-designed web interface. If you don’t think that’s worth $7.5 billion, you’ve never read the git manual."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
GitHub is adding an API that will allow linters to automatically fix your code for you: https://blog.github.com/changelog/2018-05-23-request-actions-on-checks/
I suppose it's the next logical step, but it will be lovely when I can apply compiler fixits from the comfort of a PR :)
Cute project being trialled in California: use a monochromatic display for your rear license plate!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17409112/digital-license-plates-california-reviver-auto
I can certainly see the personalisation value and the utility for large car fleets, but it could introduce a whole new genre of popup adverts.
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