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Emacs' ignore-errors is a nuclear option. When in doubt, use condition-case to show what error you're expecting or bugs will lurk.

Emacs tip: if something evaluates to a number, Emacs shows all possible interpretations of it e.g. 97 (#o141, #x61, ?a) (octal, hex, ASCII)

"developers prioritize expressivity over correctness" -- Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla2013.pdf

Word to markdown to asciidoc: using an effective GitHub workflow for writing Pro Git

Blogged: Even More BF Optimisations

Emacs tip: If your instance hangs and won't respond to C-g, you can use `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` to force emacs to stop whatever it's doing.

It's really hard to build an effective online anonymity tool. Despite this, boiler room scams seem to have no trouble hiding phone numbers.

Nifty Emacs package of the day: list-environment https://github.com/dgtized/list-environment.el . It gives a pretty view of environment variables with editing.

I'm all in favour of exploring syntax design, but sometimes I wish an ASM syntax had won. I see (and muddle) both AT&T and Intel frequently.

An exciting proposal to add inlining reports to LLVM: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091687.html Inlining is crucial for optimisation so transparency is great.

If you work with a programming language long enough, you will see every feature abused at some point.

Clang has already landed initial patches for C++1z coroutines! https://llvmweekly.org/issue/95 Impressive since this is just an anticipated feature!

Writing a changelog programmatically: https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli (really nice idea, saves duplication of work if your messages are thorough)

Emacs tip of the day: try smartparens-strict-mode. It makes C-k keep brackets balanced! `foo(1, |bar(2))` press C-k and `foo(1, |)`. Nice!

LLD, whilst producing bigger binaries than gold, is linking in *half* the time! Incredible