The problem with programming is that it's fun to make things. How do we incentivise reuse and collaboration?
miniblog.
A wonderful code completion tool in Eclipse: suggest completions, sorting them by popularity in context!
Tracking Flash's decline with Stack Overflow question trends, and looking at tech with similar trends: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/08/01/flash-dead-technologies-might-next/
Fascinating discussion of effective comment style in GHC (see both the thread and the wiki link)
macroexpand is itself a macro rather than a function in Julia. Seems odd to me: saves quoting, but makes expanding forms in vars trickier.
Dynamically defining properties on Python objects: https://gist.github.com/Wilfred/49b0409c6489f1bdf5a5c98a488b31b5 (forced me to use some crazy metaprogramming!)
Today's awesome Emacs package: fence-edit! https://github.com/aaronbieber/fence-edit.el (helps you edit fenced code in e.g. .md, just like C-c ' in org-mode)
@monzo It looks like your forum is down -- specifically, https://community.monzo.com/ isn't resolving on DNS.
Agile is an attitude: https://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/7/27/how-we-work-agile-is-an-attitude (on the value of agile techniques, but applying them with an awareness of their limitations)
Why a large game benefits from a minibuffer UI, and a library for adding one to Unity projects: https://seawisphunter.com/minibuffer/api/index.html (Emacs style)
How easy is it to build new abstractions on top of the web? https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-bootstrapping-mindset (can we compile different layout engines to CSS yet?)
What's the largest tech company you've dealt with that had genuine, helpful support? Atlassian have done a good job IME.
Stack Overflow is shutting down its Documentation section: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation (makes sense: it didn't fit the Q&A model very well)
On designing the UI of Glitch: https://medium.com/glitch/designing-glitch-look-and-feels-e033040255b (it needs to be scrappy and accessible to encourage people to create!)
Fun Common Lisp advocacy: https://tiborsimko.org/common-lisp-runtime-redefinition.html (very few languages let you continue after Ctrl-C)
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