miniblog.

To post a comment, you must demonstrate you understood the story: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nrk-norwegian-news-site-comments-read-story-understand-post-quiz-questions-a7607246.html (cute! May be insufficient for contentious issues)

Applying the Knuth/Plass algorithm to paragraph justification in Emacs:

"The framework provides the following, or you can plug in anything you like." Focus on what you make easy! An empty program is flexible too.

autobookmarks: an alternative to recentf that handles open unsaved buffers. Especially useful for crash recovery.

Remacs is generally a drop-in replacement for GNU Emacs, but we now run magit without warnings too!

If you're looking for ideas of neat elisp projects, https://todo.org/ in wasamasa's .emacs.d is full of fun:

Worf is an Emacs package that provides lispy-style editing to org-mode! https://oremacs.com/worf/README.html (offers commands when point is on headings)

Fun article on how J manages inverting functions: https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/jlang/beyondfunctional.html (communicating the exotic ideas of niche PLs is a rare skill!)

Sandsifter slides are now available: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter/blob/master/references/domas_breaking_the_x86_isa.pdf (great overview of the technique, and showcases some HW bugs found)

Angelix is an incredible tool for automatic patches to fix bugs. It even generated a patch to fix heartbleed!

Blogged: Optimising Dash.el:

I'd love to see code completion that tried your tests with every suggestion. You r IDE could finish the implementation of your functions!

Fuzzing x86 CPUs for bugs: ingenious! https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter (I'm surprised the search space is small enough to be thorough though)

Do we create less on phones? Most people don't create with PCs, and the phone form factor means we work differently https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/7/13/creation-and-consumption

On compilers in OpenBSD, and the need for LTS releases of compilers: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232