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Since CPU performance is no longer rapidly increasing, have we passed the golden age of interpreters? Many newer languages are compiled.

The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story http://t.co/J9KwGdLQxY Great discussion of configuring CUPS -- user testing matters!

If you perform the same edit repeatedly, create an elisp command! Today, I added a command to toggle func visiblity:

An extraordinary feat of engineering: a self-hosting lisp system in the browser: http://t.co/jsKJMtJqRp

Using docker to root the host machine: http://t.co/ZDMrD0oyZz

Fantastic lisp-machine influenced 'language oriented kernel' on raspberry pi: http://t.co/CNuyhDh08Z

Rebol keeps coming up as a language with interesting metaprogramming features. Worth putting in some time to explore it.

Do syntax-aware diff tools exist? I'd like to see "in this commit: one function added, one parameter added to function foo".

Rust source code includes everything you need to generate basic tags!

Ordering compiler passes is a really interesting problem. When you get it right, each pass increases opportunities for the others.

Interesting to see ag beat pt in code search benchmarks: http://t.co/6YbJZRCyGk (I'd love to see measurements of other projects too though)

Sloccount says I have 360KLOC in ~/.emacs.d/elpa! Biggest packages are org, slime, helm, haskell-mode and magit (94, 45, 15, 14, 12 KLOC).

It's a shame unfollowing folks where 20% of tweets are great but 80% are boring (or not in English). Are there smarter Twitter clients?

In assembly, JMP may be encoded as various different opcodes, and compilers (LLVM here) carefully choose the best: http://t.co/fFSbavVxd6

I suspect there's a strong correlation between the age of a programming language and how much it uses UPPERCASE FUNCTIONALITY.