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Aug 12, 2015
Great deep dive into Emacs' string implementation: http://t.co/y6Xsk82ZGw (strings are crucial in an editor so it has some unusual features)
Aug 11, 2015
Really interesting LLVM RFC on improving performance of instrumented binaries: http://t.co/b04txi6Nhk Interaction with inlining is subtle.
Aug 11, 2015
The excellent 'linked lists in Rust' has a section on lifetimes: http://t.co/ndcTrTMUIb It compares lifetimes with pointers to scopes.
Aug 11, 2015
Scary example of MITM against http://t.co/gC9yMtJTuN with faked HTTPS:
CryptoStorm: Berita, Analisis & Panduan Cryptocurrency
CryptoStorm menghadirkan analis mendalam, informasi terkini tentang Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFT, dan teknologi blockchain.
Aug 11, 2015
Fascinating article on building a great Perforce workflow with Emacs: http://t.co/gp1ds4RlUZ
Aug 10, 2015
Handling different error types in Rust: http://t.co/ywrmQDghpA (a hurdle for new Rust programmers)
Aug 10, 2015
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.
Aug 10, 2015
An impressive amount of my auto-complete config disappeared when I started using company-dabbrev-code. Nice codebase with good defaults.
Aug 9, 2015
The excellent string-edit package (edit strings with escapes) now supports even more major modes!
GitHub - magnars/string-edit.el: Avoid escape nightmares by editing strings in a separate buffer
GitHub - magnars/string-edit.el: Avoid escape nightmares by editing strings in a separate buffer
Avoid escape nightmares by editing strings in a separate buffer - magnars/string-edit.el
Aug 9, 2015
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
Aug 8, 2015
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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GitHub - benma/visual-regexp.el: A regexp/replace command for Emacs with interactive visual feedback
GitHub - benma/visual-regexp.el: A regexp/replace command for Emacs with interactive visual feedback
A regexp/replace command for Emacs with interactive visual feedback - benma/visual-regexp.el
Aug 8, 2015
Debugging a compiler, even a simple one, is amazingly subtle. You can have great test coverage and nasty bugs waltz past your test suite.
Aug 7, 2015
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.
Firefox exploit found in the wild – Mozilla Security Blog
Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded ...
Aug 6, 2015
An increasing number of interesting projects are not available as linux packages. Do developers prefer language package tooling now?
Aug 6, 2015
Lisp machines and Forth environments were full-stack monolingual. How do we design good languages for systems, apps and interactive shells?
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