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Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables.

Heterogeneous codebase optimisation with LLVM! Serious compiler framework leverage there. http://t.co/pZq60Kmt1A http://t.co/qpZINav2fd

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction http://t.co/y4gI5M6pRy fantastic cogent discussion of programming challenges in IF.

Brunch is a convention-over-configuration alternative to Gulp with a focus on high performance incremental builds:

If I want to link to a specific heading on a webpage, I have to open a DOM inspector to find out if there is an ID. Is there no better way?

Nifty Emacs project of the day: tdd.el https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/emacs-tdd/ lets you run a compilation command on every save.

Learnt today that core Emacs contains a misc.el. Crikey! It's small at least.

"Whitespace[..]behaves the same as any other undefined var[..]This has potential to cause hard to track down errors" http://t.co/vzlLRdzoBS

There must be a market for a programming language where all the examples can fit in a tweet.

What is Emacs still missing relative to Zmacs? http://t.co/8ZsHIsYR2K (some distros still package Emacs without sources!)

Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinator library in Rust http://t.co/MLsvAozIRV impressive, also shows the tricky bits

Depending on multiple versions of LLVM can be very difficult. The GHC developers are looking at only supporting one:

I've heard several Emacs folks say you should read the whole info manual (Emacs/elisp) once. Agree/disagree?

"Windows kernel coding typically uses Hungarian notation for type names, but not for variable names." Crikey, new one on me.

Rust's compiler warnings are already excellent, but rust-clippy https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy provides a slew of other useful lints.