GitHub provides a REST API for rendering markdown! https://developer.github.com/v3/markdown/
It's handy for quick throwaway projects, but I'm struggling to think of where I'd use it otherwise.
miniblog.
It's amazing how many different research papers are used in LLVM, and they're often cited in the source code!
Altruism versus fun in open source motivations: https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2019/03/14/altruistic-innovation-and-the-study-of-software-economics/
Woah, today I learned that Rust has a doubly linked list in its standard library!
It's a common example of something you can't do in purely safe Rust. Nonetheless, the core Rust devs have done the hard work already!
Shower thought: there's already some precedent for intelligent, self-driving vehicles. Horses!
Admittedly the speeds are much lower.
At what point do we start talking about a minimum expected level automation in industries? To what extent are there industries that still lack basic automation?
A code completion tool built on n-grams could be very effective. Many special cases for types arise naturally from this.
`foo.` is probably a void method, whereas `await foo.` is an async method. `return foo.` and `x = foo.` probably have different properties too.
Ideological diversity producing better articles for Wikipedia articles about both politics and science:
https://m.nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds
Reinventing, rethinking and playing with UI that is just fine already:
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
A nice example of creativity in software design, and the value of building things that already exist!
An interactive site that asks to press random buttons, and predicts your next key press:
https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html
It's now possible to edit results buffers inside deadgrep! This has been a much requested feature. https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/issues/12
I'd love to hear any feedback you have on the design. #emacs
A fun project for generating random Stack Overflow questions with a neural net: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html
It's also fascinating to read that the author was unable to predict question popularity, even by manual examination.
Why data science often doesn't suit specialisation by team members:
Contrasting consequences of bazaar and cathedral style development, and the role that fun plays:
Showing 2,236-2,250 of 7,581 posts