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Fascinating article on building a great Perforce workflow with Emacs: http://t.co/gp1ds4RlUZ
Handling different error types in Rust: http://t.co/ywrmQDghpA (a hurdle for new Rust programmers)
Computational Thinking: The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of VCS https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42942.pdf Interesting and sobering.
An impressive amount of my auto-complete config disappeared when I started using company-dabbrev-code. Nice codebase with good defaults.
The excellent string-edit package (edit strings with escapes) now supports even more major modes!
If you're stuck figuring out the right C++ API call to use with LLVM, you can dynamically generate example code here! http://t.co/z63J8EOmSM
visual-regexp makes complex regexps painless in Emacs. https://github.com/benma/visual-regexp.el Here I'm doing a little refactoring. http://t.co/Jyqw3u8BNa
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Debugging a compiler, even a simple one, is amazingly subtle. You can have great test coverage and nasty bugs waltz past your test suite.
A browser with ad blocking can be more secure: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/ Many ad companies want to be trusted with injecting arbitrary JS.
An increasing number of interesting projects are not available as linux packages. Do developers prefer language package tooling now?
Lisp machines and Forth environments were full-stack monolingual. How do we design good languages for systems, apps and interactive shells?
Duck programming: https://unspace.ca/dev/2012/duck-programming is a classic antipattern of programmable systems (see also 'inner platform effect')
Choosing Smalltalk On Porpoise https://medium.com/@richardeng/choosing-smalltalk-on-porpoise-9bccb7cd53f nice discussion of the perks of the Smalltalk environment
Collaborative editing is one of those fascinating areas where the goal is clear but the implementation is not: http://t.co/igWf75n3TB
I've released ag.el 0.46! https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el/blob/master/docs/changelog.rst#046 Not only does search output now include stats, but typical usage saves a whole keystroke!
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