miniblog.

Blogged: Taming a Wild Elasticsearch Cluster: http://t.co/zoqPp4WuPe

Started prefixing my emacs.d functions with wh/. I haven't had name collisions, but I'm tired of 'just call FOO! Oh, that's not built-in...'

Since getting llvm-mode on @melpa_emacs, there have been more patches in January than all of 2014. If you build it (& share it), they come!

Turns out that elisp is a very transferrable skill. Many language communities benefit from a few elisp hackers to help with tooling.

Emacs package of the day: ace-window. Bind it to `C-x o' and save yourself cycling through.

Pharo's Morph has methods with categories 'debug and other', 'miscellaneous' and 'utilities'. It's hard to categorise everything!

I'm considering developing a basic Pharo workspace with Emacs shortcuts. Does that go against the Smalltalk style? (It'd be a fun project.)

A virus that modifies your compiler to insert the virus in newly compiled programs: http://t.co/1VAfnhXUGX (not quite trusting-trust though)

I've started using company-clang instead of autocomplete and hippie-expand, and... whoa. It's superb. http://t.co/YzN4RF8nX2

"In 2008, Cobb Tuning made a splash when they [cracked] encryption on the Nissan GT-R." Welcome to the future! http://t.co/vRDDprJQdV

C is a subtle language. Today I learnt that array parameters always have pointer size, even for fixed size arrays!

Eschewing zshell for emacs: http://t.co/dvPilmJNPP -- eshell is well worth your time, but usually requires configuring to taste.

Theorem: if you have tests for all the features of your program (e.g. implementing a spec) you don't need to measure code coverage. Agree?

Blogged: Hubot for Smartphone Messaging: http://t.co/0KZhd0C2ph

How do you demonstrate that you didn't go fishing for theorems in your data? http://t.co/Xo8XUbP4JG