miniblog.

Aug 3, 2015
Emacs' read-from-minibuffer is great for common cases, but it's annoying when you want a default:
Define ag/read-from-minibuffer. · Wilfred/ag.el@54a3e3a
Define ag/read-from-minibuffer. · Wilfred/ag.el@54a3e3a
It's remarkably fiddly to read an input, but provide a default if the user doesn't enter a specific value. There's a good discussion of the different argument options (all awkward!) at ...
Aug 1, 2015
Amazing long form article that suggests targeted advertising is bad for brands in the long run: http://t.co/j0FbOAhNxD
Aug 1, 2015
The RISC-V specification is full of interesting discussions of ISA design goals. http://t.co/6SG5TB6Riw http://t.co/Tyl6GTBx2N
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Jul 31, 2015
Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors http://t.co/NBDpkKCFsN -- great discussion of programming language design philosophy.
Jul 30, 2015
Wow, Common Lisp has some amazing documentation tooling! http://t.co/9U6m166yIY (It's interesting to see less use of UPPER-CASE-SYMS too.)
Jul 30, 2015
F-expressions and call/cc are often regarded as elegant but far too powerful. Are there other language features like this?
Jul 29, 2015
To what extent are our jobs being automated, and to what extent should they be? http://t.co/Y5rxMJX3hN
Jul 29, 2015
I'm playing with use-package after http://t.co/jdSq57nl5S has persuaded me it's well worth using.
Jul 29, 2015
Rust has an impressive list of influences: http://t.co/Fwy8HFtljC It's not often you see NIL and newspeak discussed!
Jul 28, 2015
Git v2.5 is out already! https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt Lots of polish, no major changes. Feels like the pace of git development is increasing!
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Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
Jul 28, 2015
It's increasingly common to build bots that manage issues on GitHub. For example Go has a bot that cross-references:
cmd/compile: mis-calculates a constant · Issue #11369 · golang/go
cmd/compile: mis-calculates a constant · Issue #11369 · golang/go
For the following program: package main var f = 7 / "0"[0] go tool compile says: tmp.go:2: constant 1197 overflows byte Now sure where 1197 came from, but it must be 0 and the program must compile ...
Jul 28, 2015
Do people get value from live streaming conferences? I've watched some great recorded talks but I'm indifferent to watching live.
Jul 28, 2015
Whilst representing an AST as a list is lovely for macro writing, I've never liked that parsing is lossy. You also can't recover line nums.
Jul 28, 2015
Amazing Haskell library that builds an AST but preserves comments and whitespace for editor refactoring:
Announcing ghc-exactprint: A New Foundation For Refactoring Tools
Jul 28, 2015
Exciting early results on using superoptimisation to discover missing simplifications in LLVM: http://t.co/jo2dc4KJ1f
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