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The Frontier in Open Source https://medium.com/@ztellman/standing-in-the-shadow-of-giants-9ac52f8b4051 Great post exploring the narratives and dynamics around OS projects and communities.

A debugger should show you the source code of every method in the stack trace, simultaneously:

A new version of Self has been released! https://blog.selflanguage.org/2017/05/24/self-mandarin-2017-1/ Great to see this innovative PL continuing.

After implementing COND in my partial evaluator, I've concluded that IF is a better special form. COND simply has too many ways to use it.

Travis is introducing Build Stages, supporting workflows like 'run all this in parallel but only proceed if green' https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-05-11-introducing-build-stages

Language Server Protocol using Clangd https://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2017/april/article5.php C++ is a textbook example of a community benefiting from a shared OS parser!

Blogged: The Astounding Variety of Groovy Strings

'Fishing' for p<0.05 is an unfortunate term:it implies ill-intent rather than inadvertently finding spurious results https://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf

I've not found anything that scales to lengthy text as well as book/ebook. Long webpages are too easy to accidentally scroll.

The Smalltalk Blue Book https://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf is great (introduces the language, explains usage) but also has this cute mouse explanation!

Ensure you have enough data to run any subset of the code!

It's always seemed odd to me that Lisp is mentioned with functional programming. Perhaps FP colloquially means 'effective but uncommon'?

'yarn create foo' automatically installs create-foo, so users don't need globally install the correct tools: https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/05/12/introducing-yarn/ (neat!)

Really interesting filesystem, which even uses machine learning to predict access patterns to help caching!

GitHub integration in Atom: https://blog.atom.io/2017/05/16/git-and-github-integration-comes-to-atom.html (I'm excited to see how this develops, it's GitHub's central feature set)