miniblog.

PLs where you can see the ASM from a REPL (CL, Julia) tend to have high perf ceilings. If you can see issues, you're inclined to fix them.

The hyperlink has changed publishing forever, but it's made using underlines for emphasis much harder. I keep trying to click them.

Program synthesis is just magical. The next version of https://github.com/Wilfred/suggest.el will support nested functions. E.g. searching 0 => 3 here.

Rust is going to make ! (which represents a function never returning) into a fully fledged type!

Fun post showing how to emulate double precision with single precision: https://web.archive.org/web/20110831040222/https://www.thasler.org/blog/?p=93 (illustrated with mandelbrot fractals)

The IKEA Effect on Software https://medium.com/@khasan222/the-ikea-effect-on-software-95240dd58a3 (interesting perspective: "I've just built this so you should use it!")

Typescript 2.4 is out! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/06/27/announcing-typescript-2-4/ The nice thing about type checkers as libraries is that they can be improved over time.

I wish I learnt about cl-defstruct earlier. A little struct with a few keys is really useful for complex return values in (e)lisp.

I've created a homepage for the London Emacs meetup! https://london-el.github.io/ Naturally, it includes an org-mode/zenburn style in pure CSS.

Understanding ResourceT https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2017/06/understanding-resourcet (covers how it works and the surprising number of pitfalls)

Easy Parsing with Parser Combinators https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/EasyParsingwithParserCombinators.html Lovely introduction to parser combinators with a good rationale discussion.

Doing a brute force search of bitwise operators to produce more efficient code:

Interesting post on GC implementation: https://olshansky.me//gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-gc.html (I learnt jemalloc doesn't only offer reserving powers of 2 — avoids wastage)

*Amazing* blog post on modelling compilers as a search problem on a Value State Dependence Graph: https://jamey.thesharps.us/2017/06/search-based-compiler-code-generation.html

Making smallest possible test suite using Z3 https://yurichev.com/blog/set_cover/ (really elegant application of the set cover problem to test suites)