miniblog.

Aug 23, 2015
Rust nightly is now warning about upcoming changes to the type checker. There are some (obscure) soundness holes:
rfcs/text/0000-projections-lifetimes-and-wf.md at projection-and-lifetimes · nikomatsakis/rfcs
rfcs/text/0000-projections-lifetimes-and-wf.md at projection-and-lifetimes · nikomatsakis/rfcs
RFCs for changes to Rust. Contribute to nikomatsakis/rfcs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 22, 2015
Why did the minidisc not succeed because outside Japan? http://t.co/Djbxm9d5nP
Aug 22, 2015
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't: http://t.co/AOrXRumJn5 Great data-driven analysis of the effect of the internet on creative industries.
Aug 22, 2015
Interesting summary of pain points using Rust in production: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/production-user-research-summary/2530 (apparently early adopters use emacs/vim/ST/atom)
Production user research summary
Production user research summary
Hey, team. During the week of July 13 members of the Rust core and community teams sat down over four meetings with a number of individuals using Rust in corporate and startup environments. The intent was to establish relationships, gather requirements, and otherwise solicit feedback to inform the project roadmap. These were amazing calls, and we were very thankful (and kind of astonished) that so many people made the so much time for us. I've tried to frontload this with the most pertinent i...
Aug 21, 2015
Discovered that LLVM's lli command has a --force-interpreter option! If you're debugging your LLVM IR, it give significantly more info.
Aug 21, 2015
Inspirations For Eve reading list https://gist.github.com/jamii/8957881c8eaa4035f4ae hqs some fascinating papers on language design. Definitely a project to watch!
Inspirations for Eve
Inspirations for Eve
Inspirations for Eve. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Aug 21, 2015
I keep expecting to reach a point where I'm happy with my .emacs.d. Instead I get better at elisp and experiment with more workflow helpers.
Aug 20, 2015
A basic major-mode is just a syntax table and font lock keywords. I've done a revamp of llvm-mode: http://t.co/vqf6Yx1EIv #emacs
Aug 19, 2015
Using gdb or lldb with Rust:
a bit of respite by michaelwoerister
Aug 19, 2015
On a developer team, the fewer distinct admin powers, the better. Empower your team so anyone can make things better.
Aug 18, 2015
Another syntax highlighting package for Emacs that simply calls an external tool! https://github.com/katspaugh/tj-mode (good software should eat itself)
GitHub - katspaugh/tj-mode: Highlight JavaScript with Tern
GitHub - katspaugh/tj-mode: Highlight JavaScript with Tern
Highlight JavaScript with Tern. Contribute to katspaugh/tj-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 18, 2015
Tracing has comparable performance to partial evaluation, but with significant less implementation effort: http://t.co/BKkZhzFAkv
Aug 18, 2015
Tonic is a great REPL environment for node: https://tonicdev.com/ . I think web-based REPLs are still a massively underexplored area.
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Aug 17, 2015
Neither mobile Firefox nor Chrome (as far as I can tell) have a View Source feature. I think this is a loss though I'd never noticed before.
Aug 16, 2015
Good software testing takes a 'guilty until proven innocent' approach.
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