Wilfred miniblog

What is it about pastebins that invite spam? It seems spam is more endemic for pastebins than for other hosted services.

I am blown away by https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter . Is an Emacs package setting a variable you didn't want? This pkg can bisect and find it.

Firefox increasingly supports -webkit CSS prefixes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile/Non_Standard_Compatibility (which is why vendors no longer like prefixes)

WebRTC will let users do voice calls, video calls or P2P file sharing just by visiting a website. I'm sure we'll see an explosion of apps.

Of C-style langs, I think C++ has the steepest syntactic learning curve. Reading C is easy after Java, but lambdas and init lists are novel.

Red is the most lispy language I've seen that doesn't use parens: https://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/

Did you know there's a subreddit for org-mode? https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode (seems justified: ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org/ contains 119KLOC!)

Red (the language) supports some very elegant DSLs. Here's Parse, a lovely way of defining grammars:

Are you comparing floating point numbers? Choosing a correct value for epsilon is impossible in the general case:

Woah, even in 2010, a license for OpenGenera (ancient lisp machine software) costs $5,000 to run on a single CPU! https://www.lispmachine.net/symbolics.txt

I like to think of Emacs being programmed in uncommon lisp.

Excitingly, there's a @pharoproject MOOC next month! https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about I've signed up, because I'm fascinated by live programming.

"what you’re bad at is not email, it’s transactional interactions" https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html (superb post on how we interact electronically)

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