I learnt today that Quake Live is no longer free-to-play and requires an upfront purchase. Challenging to do this without upsetting users!
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I've realised that splitting and amending commits is exactly like refactoring. You have the same goals: clear, well-defined units.
Deleting more MS-DOS code in remacs. There's a lot of it: the commitment to Emacs portability is impressive!
Excellent deep dive on the size of Rust data types: https://medium.com/@robertgrosse/optimizing-rc-memory-usage-in-rust-6652de9e119e
ipython 5 has a superb CLI interface. Syntax highlighting! Tab completion! Cursor keys, but you can scroll back in time!
.@magit_emacs is on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/tarsius Patreon seems like a great fit for magit: high quality s/w with passionate maintainers.
I like Common Lisp's ability to annotate functions with types *for performance*. It removes much of the dynamic typing overhead.
The ideal authentication system demands that you provide your identity exactly once. The bigger the system the harder to maintain this.
Interesting to see the Language Server Protocol grow, now supporting over 20 PLs: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations#language-servers (often wrapping existing tools)
Function: addToBasket docstring: "Adds to basket". I see docs like this pretty often! Inform the user, or say nothing (which is reasonable!)
Awesome Emacs package of the day: magithub. Manage issues and PRs from the magit UI!
Emacs is now considering caaar (and the other cXXXr functions) as a subr function rather than part of cl: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=43eba4955350b787c5567a31e2980ae70b9fb52f
Found a reliable way of segfaulting Emacs, without using threads/FFI! https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25684 (last time my Emacs segfaulted was bad memory)
Statically typed PLs can lead to a more interactive experience when writing code: the editor knows more! Not a REPL substitute though.
There's so little agreement on what's 'unacceptably proprietary'.
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