miniblog.

"The nix expression language is not statically typed yet". Cripes, that's not what I was expecting for a functional package manager!

Semantic Diffs: http://t.co/m4eXPq7bK4

I don't often like screencasts as they're inflexible to the speed you work though them. I'd rather read. Pharo, however, benefits from them.

The response to R6RS (or lack thereof) rather reminds me of ECMAScript 4.

Isomorphic Clojure[script]: http://t.co/u4mujStxWu

Bjarne Stroustrup on language comparisons: http://t.co/d17jLZDVvz

I haven't found a good way to test major mode highlighting. I end up writing a file that uses all the language features and eyeballing it.

Running shipyard with Docker is really easy and slick. I'm impressed.

A discussion of Forth vs Lisp macros leads to this extraordinary Forth code: https://github.com/davazp/eulex/blob/master/kernel/keyboard.fs#L135

"Using an IDE is like going to a workshop, but Emacs is like having one in your garage. It's all the comforts of home right there at hand."

Exciting to see list destructuring being developed for dash.el! #emacs https://github.com/magnars/dash.el/pull/67

I am _extremely_ impressed that bison-mode.el (last modified 1998) still works in modern Emacs. Now to package and slap on MELPA...

I'm surprised that `tar -zfx` doesn't work, even though `tar -xzf` does. http://t.co/FAdGj7xXTs strikes again!

Released v0.10 of Trifle lisp! Now with arbitrary size integers and arbitrary size fractions! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle#trifle-lisp

Also interesting that the Firefox security team is quite happy with ignoring autocomplete=off on password fields: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906#c9

console.count: https://github.com/DeveloperToolsWG/console-object/blob/master/api.md#consolecountlabel is another nifty JS debugging function I haven't seen before.

Firefox 30's developer console has many nice touches, such as displaying objects in a more helpful manner: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console#Inspecting_objects