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I didn't see the utility of first class symbols when I first saw them—strings worked fine. Eventually I realised symbol:string :: int:float.

Interpreted programming languages https://fexpr.blogspot.in/2016/08/interpreted-programming-languages.html (sexps, M expressions, lisp history and the designs that resulted)

Racket: Lisp Beyond Clojure https://slides.com/ronie/racket-beyond-clojure (Racket is a hotbed of PL ideas. 'Sideband data' is new to me--looks like dynamic vars)

I think R7RS is great for Scheme, but adoption has been gradual. Of the three Schemes supported by Geiser, none have full official support.

mosey: not just an interesting package for movement within an Emacs buffer, but the best readme I've seen in ages!

Is Docker appropriate for programming playgrounds? E.g. rust uses it https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-playpen but sec people say

A major problem with captchas is that OCR is good enough to fool it some of the time. Will machine learning do the same to Mechanical Turk?

It wasn't until I wrote a Scheme interpreter that I really understood the relationship between lists and cons cells.

Nightlight: An embedded editor for Clojure https://sekao.net/nightlight/ Very cool -- embedding an editor in the live application!

Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/esug/perfection-feedback-loops-or-why-worse-is-better (on the striving for perfection vs iteration)

If you want to get your feet wet with Pharo Smalltalk, the videos and materials from the MOOC are now available!

Linux 4.8 would crash due to aggressive asserting: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html (interesting thread: hard to segment critical code in a monolith)

I'm surprised by how often Wikipedia is a good resource for technical documentation. I'm using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format to write ELF files!

What's the antonym of 'hostile fork'? 'Friendly fork'? 'Affectionate fork'?

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