The Opus codec was developed for low latency speech encoding, but it's incredibly good at all bit rates! 1/2
miniblog.
Great introductory talk on Pony: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony (actor-based language with E-style capabilities!)
Pharo's exception system is my new fave. You can resume, retry—like other condition systems—but with great syntax!
A neat result of Pharo reifying the stack: CI can just dump the stack, and you can continue locally! https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI/issues/146#issuecomment-222537286 (cf core dumps)
Smalltalk reifies the stack as objects you can manipulate. Interestingly this allows even serialising continuations! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099817
Just realised that #pharomooc is using #moocpharo as the official hash tag. Argh. I thought it was quiet.
TIL about midnight-mode, an Emacs package for cleaning up old buffers: https://emacs-fu.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/cleaning-up-buffers-automatically.html (courtesy of #churchofemacs today!)
At least, this has been my experience with Scheme. I think Shen and Forth run the same risk. 2/2
A lang should not be too easy to implement, or devs have more fun writing an interpreter than learning how to use the lang effectively! 1/2
Emacs 25 will introduce xref, a generic go-to-definition framework! https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4m9rle/how_is_the_emacs_25_pretest_faring/d3u6myu (obsoletes the find-tag commands)
Blogged: The Strange World of Directory Scope
I keep stumbling across references to the language E. I can find basic tutorials, but nothing describing the overall design goals.
Reading lots of "poor books" is also part of literacy: they help the understanding and appreciation of "good books" considerably—Alan Kay
Designing a Browser that isn’t a Browser https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-isn-t-a-browser-685b63c4b6f1 (always worth revisiting UI designs to see if their assumptions still hold)
I like to learn tech that has a different philosophy, even if it's not useful to me. However, at what point do you know you grok the design?
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