miniblog.

Reflecting on Haskell in 2016 https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2017.html (tons of interesting projects, and a Haskell 2020 standard under discussion!)

Should you consider learning Emacs? Why does it have such passionate devotees? Here's the sales pitch:

Emacs tip of the day: if you don't like Emacs updating init.el when you use Customize, just set custom-file:

The web is not print, and the design consequences of assuming fixed layouts:

I'm really bad at saying no to PRs. I really appreciate people sending contributions, but it's not always right for a project.

Another Git catastrophe cleaned up https://blog.plover.com/prog/git-tastrophe.html (nice demo of custom merge drivers and advanced git-fu)

A Quick Guide to Org-Mode TODO's https://www.theproductiveprogrammer.blog/do_today.el.php -- helpful overview of org-mode for todo lists, and the most important keybindings

I'm generally happy with C-like syntax, but C/C++ still throw me for a loop sometimes. Bitfield syntax is new to me:

Rather than an adblocker, what if everyone ran a tool that automatically clicked every ad? https://adnauseam.io/ (measure conversions?)

How can we make online newspaper comment sections more like Letters To The Editor? Must we pre-approve everything?

Deuce (an Emacs clone in Clojure) has a wonderful Emacsy homepage:

What sort of bugs does flyspell.el have? Naturally, spelling mistakes!

Minix and how it has won mindshare in a way that Hurd struggled to: https://www.reddit.com/r/hurd/comments/273tij/hurd_the_minix_3_microkernel/chxycem/ (due to seL4, Redox I'm excited re microkernels)

How My 10-Year-Old Learned Javascript https://hackernoon.com/how-my-10-year-old-learned-javascript-d8782b586db7 (after Scratch, used JS over Python: more visual and a natural UI component)

I think of FP practices as being young, but *Fortran* supports annotations for explicit inputs, outputs and purity!