On WebKit Security Updates https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/ (browsers have a huge attack surface, release early and often!)
miniblog.
https://www.unfitbits.com/ is a website entirely devoted to gaming fitbits! It was probably inevitable given the reward systems available.
Why is Babel a monorepo? https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/doc/design/monorepo.md (makes sense in the highly modular JS world, still a long way from a Google-style monorepo)
Given the popularity of zero-based indexing in programming, shouldn't we call the first release v0?
Fantastic blog post demonstrating how to write your own clang analysis: https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2015-12-07/c-static-analysis-using-clang#comment-3494 (compilers are great for nonlocal reasoning)
TIL about the remarkable FRACTRAN. It's a crazy Turing-complete language that just compares numbers with fractions:
Emacs tip of the day: use (interactive "*") for commands that edit the buffer, so they show a helpful error if the buffer is read only.
What if Smalltalk had won on Linux, instead of C? https://thoughtstorms.info/view/smalltalkunix (technology popularity is very path dependent)
clang-cl can now compile Firefox on Windows! https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2016-01-29/building-firefox-with-clang-cl-a-status-update (LLVM increasingly works *everywhere*)
Apparently, to make a successful language:
1. Good semantics
2. Thorough tests
3. Great tooling
4. Grow a beard!
I think it's been several years since I had a spam email in my inbox (or vice versa). I'm amazed how far we've come.
100 Rust lints in clippy! https://llogiq.github.io/2016/01/28/hundred-lints.html (makes Rust a delight, and regularly adds new suggestions).
Crux https://github.com/bbatsov/crux is a fantastic collection of Emacs conveniences. You've probably reimplemented several of them (I have)!
Nifty talk of an 'org-mode meets prolog' knowledge system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voG5-15aDu4
Compiling LLVM can be slow (20 mins on my little box). Luckily, there are pre-built binaries you can use to bisect!
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