Wilfred miniblog

A colleague pointed out to me that bitrot is much faster when you have more external deps. NIH isn't a solution either — tricky problem.

Love @emacs_flycheck, but use eldoc and company too? I've released a new package to show errors in the window title!

A templating language that compiles templates to Rust code! Really interesting design (I think some JS templating engines do this too). https://twitter.com/LambdaFairy/status/797223356470697984

Generic tech often replaces more specific h/w. Something similar is happening with USB: supporting power lets it displace the alternatives.

A featureful JSX major-mode is now available on MELPA! Highlighting looks really good, plus other nice features:

Emacs 25.1 command of the day: xref-find-definitions. Language-independent jump-to-def! This has even replaced elisp-slime-nav for me.

After benchmarking, the Arch Linux devs have found no significant perf cost in security hardening CFLAGS! https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-October/028405.html (PIE etc)

I'm persuaded that measuring total coverage isn't very useful. Coverage-per-test is much more interesting, but rarely implemented.

Fairbairn Threshold: the point where it's easier to rederive a fn than to track the definition: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2012-February/017548.html (tooling specific?)

A bug story: data alignment on x86 https://pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug-story-alignment-on-x86.html (fun post on writing good C, and verifying the compiler is doing what you want)

Superb post on what assertions are, and how to use them effectively:

Org 9.0 is out! https://orgmode.org/Changes.html More DBs in ob-sql, more languages in babel, and a slew of bug fixes and polish!