Adding the first GCing code to Remacs!
miniblog.
How much should we self-host services? I've been burned by using platforms that disappear, but they're just so convenient.
Subject matter experts tend to be much more precise in their wording. E.g. distinguishing between file and compilation unit in C.
Emacs package of the day: deft is brilliant for quickly creating new notes files (e.g. with org)
500 chars is an awful lot.
140 chars is too little (though I have long admired https://twitter.com/MicroSFF writing entire stories in single tweets). 500 chars is enough for me to dither over what I've written.
140 chars enables you to write and edit in a short period. That said, I'm forced to ask 'which abbrevation / grammar fault is least irritating?' regularly.
I will be giving a talk on Remacs this Thursday at the London Emacs meetup: https://skillsmatter.com/groups/10531-london-emacs-hacking#next_up
Declarative Debugging https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/debugging (Prolog is amazingly flexible in what you can comment out and still have a runnable program)
Code coverage for CSS! https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/850583918545731584
Thinking the unthinkable What we cannot think in programming https://tomasp.net/blog/2016/thinking-unthinkable/ (which questions we ask matters)
Amusingly, Emacs/Vi had text redisplay algorithms which have much in common with React's rendering logic: https://hackernoon.com/model-view-controller-and-loose-coupling-6370f76e9cde
Tail recursion occurs more naturally in prolog, but it's less useful (you may need to preserve the stack):
Security bugs in smartphone wi-fi chips: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/wide-range-of-android-phones-vulnerable-to-device-hijacks-over-wi-fi/ (hardware is too complex with many embedded CPUs)
Fun post on CSS minification tricks: https://luisant.ca/css-opts-survey2 (shows the huge set of possibilities and the accuracy/aggressiveness tradeoff)
I suspect the Nintendo Switch interaction model will come to general purpose computing. Why distinguish between laptops and tablets?
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