miniblog.

An entertaining abuse of Julia syntax for parsing newick strings: http://t.co/TKencTEonf

Emacs' eww web browser actually does everything I want in a text browser. Basic formatting and even pictures! http://t.co/wYosaJUIEE

"There are 2 webs now: document-centric, platform-agnostic presentation of content and the [platform] that is HTML5" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670541

I'm taking the policy of system Python packages installed from distro packages (not pip), but otherwise use virtualenv. Mostly works.

I never know whether to update my blog posts. On the one side,I'm more knowledgeable than I was, but they have dates & little re-read value.

Both of the *Python* data science conferences I've attended this year have discussed #julialang. The future looks bright!

Org-mode is all about getting things done: hence the non-trivial awk scripts! http://t.co/LBodRExUd3

Ruby's flip-flop operator is a remarkable bit of syntax with implicit state: http://t.co/P0nefQprs1

I'm excited about https://sourcegraph.com/ as it lets you intelligently search a huge amount of open source code. Similar ideas to OpenGrok.

What can Scheme learn from JS? http://t.co/mBG4H3Hg3k Great overview of language design: dynamism is hard, consider performance early.

It's a funny state of affairs when Emacs folks cite *performance* as a reason for using a browser written in elisp! http://t.co/TgZOfN75tu

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

Awesome #Emacs package of the day: emr. A refactoring tool for elisp. http://t.co/dDXXD9jA8X

In the Plan 9 document I linked, they talk about the social benefits of programmers working on the same system. What's today's equivalent?

Fascinating description of Plan 9 design: http://t.co/Qa0jkiT1ND many interesting design choices including its sharing and backups.