I've finally added a loop-for-each-line macro to my loop library: https://github.com/Wilfred/loop.el#loop-for-each-line -- I've often wanted this.
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I'm still learning lispy, but it's well worth your time. https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy Today I learnt that s and w move expressions up and down.
Emacs packages often have great names. Today's favourite: 'lispyville' https://github.com/noctuid/lispyville (combines lispy with evil)
The end of economic growth: https://timothyblee.com/2016/05/07/some-thoughts-on-the-end-of-economic-growth/ (can we spend more on tech? When is it branding rather than meaningful improvements?)
Interesting deep dive on Apple's new file system: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/a-zfs-developers-analysis-of-the-good-and-bad-in-apples-new-apfs-file-system/1/ (QoS to prioritise foreground applications is a really neat idea)
Parsing shell scripts is hard. Here's a fun ambiguity:
Use Python? Use Emacs? I've just released a tool for managing your imports!
I keep reading about computing visionaries (Richard Stallman, Alan Kay) who respond to a large volume of email. It doesn't scale! Blog?
Amazingly, Emacs support for MSDOS is still being maintained!
Great discussion of the perils of self-modifying elisp code:
C-u M-: (buffer-file-name) ; in a pinch, but better to have a proper command! https://twitter.com/emacs/status/746749873018408960
Ever wondered if pip has broken some dependencies in your virtualenv? The patch I proposed has landed!
"Static vs. Dynamic" Is the Wrong Question https://www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2016-06-18-static-vs-dynamic-wrong-question.html (great post, not zealotry. 'Static types' are a suite of distinct tools)
Great overview of operating systems that took a different (sometimes better!) approach than Unix:
ThinLTO: https://blog.llvm.org/2016/06/thinlto-scalable-and-incremental-lto.html (output is nearly as good as LTO, but compile times close to -O2!)
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