miniblog.

Emacs as FOSS predates even the GNU project! (rms quote from MIT lisp machine manual https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml )

Just discovered counsel-yank-pop. Fuzzy completion for the kill ring -- brilliant! #emacs

Awesome Emacs command of the day: counsel-descbinds. Search your keybindings!

Emacs tip: use savehist-mode to save minibuffer history between Emacs sessions! (via https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1umzxo/full_persistent_minibuffer_history_it_was_built/ )

An alpha version of incremental compilation is now available in Rust!

Metaprogramming in Tcl: https://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html (even implementing a macro system! Feels like fexprs, but uplevel seems nicer than eval)

Apparently it's common for Scheme implementations (not just Guile) to include partial demo implementations of other programming languages.

Emacs command of the day: facemenu-set-underline. If you don't have syntax highlighting, facemenu lets you experiment.

Related to IPFS, filecoin: https://filecoin.io/ is a beautiful idea. Pay for remote backup storage by renting your storage!

A global, P2P, versioned data store! IPFS is a really interesting idea and works better than I expected.

I think I use anaphoric macros more than any other kind. Macro hygiene has its place, but --map in dash is so darn readable.

What happens if you insert a char after propertized text? Turns out you can configure it! Sticky properties: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sticky-Properties.html #emacs

Scheme is a lovely language. The more I play with it, the more I like it. I'm hopeful R7RS will lead to more portability.

Why should *you* make a programming language? Lots of good reasons!

How to measure quality of discussion online? This methodology uses the ratio of Kardashian mentions to 'thinkers':