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Urbit has tons of interesting ideas: http://t.co/6IrAVbOBpP though the terminology is weird: gate=lambda, vane=kernel module, wire=path etc

Awesome Rust testing technique: if your API should forbid certain usage, verify that it cannot compile! http://t.co/oyf1BrTX43

Interesting post on which computer hardware is best suited for developing a new operating system:

Ubiquity is like M-x for Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_Tutorial (interesting idea but depends on API availability, which many sites lack)

Bug trackers would really benefit from a Discourse style UI. It lets users like comments (instead of writing '+1') and can summarise.

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.

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!

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