I've been playing with mercurial lately and the defaults are really interesting.
There's no staging area, so by default 'hg commit' is like 'git commit -a'. Seems beginner friendly.
Also, branches are optional! It's much easier to start working on a feature.
miniblog.
Atlassian created Stride in 2017, already had Hipchat, and it's now deprecating both in favour of Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership
Consolidation is happening very quickly! It reduces the number of self-hosted options though.
What proportion of Americans don't use the Internet, and what are their demographics? https://thehustle.co/meet-the-11-of-americans-who-dont-use-the-internet/
@kensanata@octodon.social @ckeen @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz For sharing whole packages or writing official docs, I suppose GitHub and a README.md are more common these days.
I do refer to the wiki several times a week for all the additional reference material and advice though :)
Tramp using the new multithreading in Emacs! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00862.html
h/t @Koral_001
I was slightly shocked when a Common Lisper first pointed out to me that macros are syntactic. For example, threading macros aren't limited to function composition.
(->> "UTC"
(current-time-string (current-time))
(lambda ()))
This elisp is building a closure!
Today I learnt what specpdl means in Emacs internals!
Special variable PushDown List.
Special variable means a dynamically bound variable, and pushdown list means a stack.
Interesting discussion of inefficiencies in elisp bytecode during function calls: https://www.xemacs.org/Architecting-XEmacs/faster-elisp.html
(From the XEmacs site, but entirely applicable to GNU Emacs and Remacs too I think)
Have you ever wondered which buffers have a buffer-local variable set? It's now possible to view every buffer with an overridden value using helpful.el!
.@magit_emacs has some brilliant error messages. This one made me smile.
Fascinating article on Google's control on Android and how difficult it is to develop and manufacture a device using only the open source parts: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
Today I learnt about the redisplay function in Emacs lisp!
This function allows Emacs to redraw the GUI. It's really useful when you're doing computation in a loop, and essential if you're using spinner.el.
Thoughtful article on the industries that Amazon hasn't gained a foothold in: https://www.wired.com/story/the-false-tale-of-amazons-industry-conquering-juggernaut/
(It misses AWS though, and the fact that some competitors run their services on Amazon hardware!)
There seems to be a trend towards value-oriented programming languages. Even established statement-oriented languages are moving: Hack added ==> for values with anonymous functions, JS has fat arrows and now do syntax too.
PhpStorm shows annotations on method calls so you can see argument names. https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2017/03/new-in-phpstorm-2017-1-parameter-hints/
The heuristic is really interesting: it only shows hints for literals and null! Presumably other values are considered to be more obvious.
Showing 2,611-2,625 of 7,508 posts