miniblog.

How copying an int made my code 11 times faster https://medium.com/@robertgrosse/how-copying-an-int-made-my-code-11-times-faster-f76c66312e0f (JITs are criticised as black boxes, but LLVM can be subtle too)

Great to see many new Emacs projects popping up:

The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now… https://medium.com/@sitapati/the-impact-github-is-having-on-your-software-career-right-now-6ce536ec0b50 (advocates for OS contributions inside work hours)

A computer is a device that you can give instructions to in a Turing complete language. On this basis, my phone isn't a computer!

pcase is incredibly powerful. The syntax is a little `(,noisy) but the docs are good and it covers tons of usecases. #emacs

Demangling C++ Symbols in Rust https://fitzgeraldnick.com/2017/02/22/cpp-demangle.html (fun deep dive into how C++ demangling works)

I've noticed that the more experienced a front end developer is, the less HTML they write to achieve their desired result.

Every few months I bite the bullet and upgrade all 211 pkgs I've installed from MELPA. After one minor yasnippet change, everything worked!

Remacs has hit 1,000 stars! https://github.com/wilfred/remacs We now have four people who can accept your contributions too :)

Emacs trivia: the list of buffers used to be exposed to elisp as buffer-alist. It's now C-only because it's a footgun if you mutate it.

Danger is a neat pluggable tool for automating PR checks (eg enforcing a commit message format) https://danger.systems/

The GitHub mobile UI is good: so good, in fact, that I have forked projects and sent docs PRs from my phone!

GitHub's Open Source Guidelines are chock full of good advice:

Responsive design for code formatting! From the refmt docs, demonstrating its flexibility:

Emacs command of the day: pop-global-mark, bound to C-x C-SPC. Perfect for navigating backwards (previous positions in previous buffers).