Good tech 'makes simple stuff easy and hard stuff possible'. The hard stuff still requires thought, sadly. No silver bullet.
miniblog.
I have a new-found respect for major mode authors. Writing a syntax-propertize-function is hard.
I've already organised my .emacs.d by mode:I have python-customisations.el, lisp-customisations.el etc. Do I gain anything with use-package?
Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts http://t.co/jOaWU18nTj Great, down-to-earth talk on language design and tradeoffs (Java focus)
#Emacs command of the day: `C-x C-x' (exchange-point-and-mark) will reactivate a region if you've deactivated it.
Docstrings have landed in Julia trunk and will be in 0.4! https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8791 The use of markdown is particularly nice.
The Python approach for namespaces is more to avoid name clashes than to make everything private. I miss it in elisp.
Refactoring some old CSS. I think my frontend skills are improving, because I can get the same result with less CSS now.
I'm testing some new ag.el features against the Emacs git repo (anything else searches too quickly). Fun fact: 49,160 defun forms in Emacs!
Emacs has *multiple* browser implementations. shr.el (Simple HTML Render) and eww.el (Emacs Web Wowser). That's what I call full featured!
I still have doubts about proposals to hide parens in lisp, but I like the idea for HTML: http://t.co/9G9KcHzZ82
The principle that you're embarrassed of code you wrote more than 6 months ago is entirely applicable to blogging too.
I think the GPLv2 is a great way to build a community through pushing people to contribute back. I've seen few GPLv3 successes so far.
Interesting discussion of a 'minimal viable editor' for Python: http://t.co/snTbgTzIy6
Wow. You know git has won when Cargo, Rust's package manager includes a --no-git option to change the default.
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