Bug trackers would really benefit from a Discourse style UI. It lets users like comments (instead of writing '+1') and can summarise.
miniblog.
Choosing a good autocomplete system is a crucial part of UI and language design: http://t.co/gozW6r9gOb (excellent post)
GCC is a healthy project with a growing number of contributors, but LLVM had more contributors in 2014: http://t.co/oT87OQuPtg
Great blog post on termination analysis in compilers: http://t.co/GcEUa9jxYe and scary to learn that while(1){} may be removed by a compiler
Whilst metacircular interpreters are cool (and instructive), they're not normally used for real interpreters. This can confuse beginners.
TIL that Debian folks do not consider CC-BY to be Free: v1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html v2: https://web.archive.org/web/20140202132111/http://evan.prodromou.name/ccsummary/ccsummary.html v3:
EmacsConf 2015 videos are now available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwuyodzTl_KdEKNuJmeo99A/videos
Interesting to learn that LLVM's optimisations can trip up valgrind: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/670 -- tough tradeoff.
The Rust website is already good, but there's a slew of improvements on the way:
Awesome Emacs package of the day: auto-yasnippet: https://github.com/abo-abo/auto-yasnippet/ Brilliant for writing verbose text when macros aren't suitable.
Emacs command of the day: M-x ffap. If point is on a file path or URL, it opens it. Invaluable!
Key ghosting: which/how many keys on a keyboard can you press simultaneously? http://t.co/rdt4HtWkaJ (researched by an Emacser, of course!)
Getting ABI calling conventions right is hard. Here's a compiler author who tests by fuzzing! http://t.co/15f866afFM
Excellent article on Forth design: https://moonforth.github.io/ (entertainingly an implementer is called a 'Forthwright')
What Happens Next Will Amaze You http://t.co/oeRo6ONCkv Superb state of the union talk on web trends with(out) privacy.
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