I'm amused to learn that Wordpress has a _doing_it_wrong() function.
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"#emacs Where you are limited only by your imagination and max-specpdl-size" -- current topic on the always brilliant #emacs IRC channel
Buggy software can easily induce superstition in its users.
Every so often I add some code to my .emacs.d that errors on startup. I've come to the conclusion that my Emacs config should be on Travis!
Firefox 32 is out! According to http://t.co/ilDWArewud its EOL will be the 14th of October. So young!
Nice to see @i2p get some press: http://t.co/jTaA3VSuS4 It's a mature tool that fixes a number of Tor shortcomings.
I'm rapidly becoming interested in http://t.co/e87U18b17O The authors understand both Smalltalk and elisp so it may become something special
.@digitalocean I'm seeing what looks like a hardware failure on my droplet, what do you suggest? https://gist.github.com/Wilfred/add25632828102076739
Really interesting Emacs mode that gives each variable a different colour, highlighting spelling mistakes: https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-identifiers
@hober I'm a big fan of your hl-sexp Emacs package, but I hit a minor bug. Where should I file an issue / send patches?
I've never liked arguments of the form OPTIMIZE=y or FAST=y. Why would I want slow? Clearer would be DEBUG_LEVEL i.e. show the tradeoff.
Fun with deeply obscure Python multithreading shutdown bugs, circa Python 1.5! http://t.co/6f9hTXiNQg
Django 1.7 is out! Many nice little features added, such as JsonResponse: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/request-response/#django.http.JsonResponse
Hilarious discussion on r/Emacs where vim is highlighting *elisp* better than Emacs itself! http://t.co/ZbQ6zViv6S (see screenshot)
Emacs command of the day: eshell-life-is-too-much. Kills eshell. Many Emacs commands are quirky but fantastically memorable.
Really nifty tool for browsing git history on Emacs: git-timemachine! https://github.com/pidu/git-timemachine
Learnt today that elisp's apply works with keyword arguments, so (apply 'some-func '(:foo 1 :bar 2)) works as expected. Handy.
Turns out a Scheme implementation is not required to support arbitrary size integers. I'd assumed it was guaranteed. http://t.co/P4fJ1nKJ7e
I'm really enjoying the book A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation but reading pre-ANSI C is *weird*.
MELPA lists an impressive 12 backends for company-mode. I'm considering switching.
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