Stack Overflow's question editing really works. http://t.co/cWDQstyV was originally a mess and it's been improved drastically over time.
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I'm intrigued by http://t.co/33KEa2nV SRFI-105 -- curly infix brackets in Scheme. All the Lisp goodness, but with infix notation optional.
Turns out Perl 5 can't be statically parsed. It's not that big of deal, but it stops you writing interesting static analysers sometimes.
Moved from nano to zile as my quick-and-dirty CLI editor. Zile understands far more Emacs commands, but it's still very lightweight.
Today I learnt that some parts of Python's standard lib are non-free according to Debian's guidelines: http://t.co/8GhLrO1x
Finally been forced to drop into raw SQL for a Django query. The fact that I've gone this long without raw queries shows how good the ORM is
Odd that computers get faster and networks get faster but Wayland is less abstract and not networked. I think it's the right approach though
"Any language large enough to be useful is dauntingly complex" -- Simon Peyton-Jones
Wrote a Brainf*** interpreter in #Haskell and it worked first time. Yikes. I'm not sure what to do next.
Ruby is fun. I'm rather disappointed at the state of Unicode support in places though.
I suspect it's GitHub's forking model that stops projects dying so easily. Launchpad seems to have a higher proportion of unmaintained code.
So, Python has no QIF libraries, but Ruby has one: https://github.com/jemmyw/Qif as does Perl: http://t.co/ZCjH6mrh . Is Perl or Ruby more fun?
An important part of development is throwing it away when you find a better solution written by someone else.
I have really high hopes for #jsctags (ctags for JS): https://github.com/mozilla/doctorjs but it's still very immature.
I am amazed that Google Translate correctly understands '雅格獅丹' to mean 'Aquascutum'. Statistical methods win the day again.
Haha. I'm now seeing adverts for @potatolondon 's Google Art Project. How well does Google know me?
I've seen Java parodies without (I thought) much credibility, then there are things like this: http://t.co/wYJktI9L (yowza!)
'gray' in CSS is actually darker than 'darkGray': http://t.co/IpEue8Vj Bah, I've seen worse.
Really slick realtime monitoring of Twitter voters in the US of A: http://t.co/UZ6EjFtm
Ordered a foot pedal on Amazon -- the hardcore solution to the #Emacs aptitude test http://t.co/Cn0TDdd1
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