miniblog.

From the Rust blog "Everything marked stable will have at least a usage example" -- nice to see examples being prioritised for docs!

"Many people try to compare Rust to Go, but this is flawed. Go is an ancient board game that emphasizes strategy." http://t.co/Afyws0rm0V

I really like the pairing of Julia's non-sexpr syntax with macros. For example, elegant pattern matching: http://t.co/cieAPYxSeC

Emacs of the package of the day: goto-chg.el: lets you jump to the last changed place in the buffer. Handy for small changes in big files!

Had my first patch accepted on LLVM!

Ha, you can run Emacs from within eshell (though not `emacs -nw`). Real elispers use recursive editors though.

Bash's builtin getopts doesn't support --long-name args . Linux has a getopt command, but OS X's is limited. Perhaps I'll just use Python.

Shen is now going to be BSD licensed! Awesome!

I discovered Ansible's with_items today. It's great for removing duplication, and some modules (such as yum) even run faster with it!

LLVM is a big project (several hundred MiB for the git repo) and you can actually compare how fast different hosts are. GitHub is fast!

Playing with Gitorious, a F/OSS GitHub alternative. It's not quite as fast or polished as GitHub. Amused that my repo is 'wilfreds-evil'!

I'm simplifying several Python projects as I realise just how generally useful the pandas Dataframe data structure is.

Twitter:StatusNet, Facebook:Diaspora -- do decentralised services gain much traction today? The most recent success I can see is bittorrent.

Generally I try to push my changes to code upstream, but it's not really an option when I'm removing functionality (eg in Hubot scripts).

Emacs lisp, python, JS, Julia, C, C++, asm, and my own language Trifle. Diversity is a great way to grow. #code2014