miniblog.

The Emacs Commune: http://t.co/cWRxuELVJl

Also learnt that Microsoft does usability tests with all new C# features, which is very impressive.

Heard an extremely interesting talk by Andreas Stefik on empirically measured language usability. http://t.co/gr0sT2TfEA

Code Generation Is a Design Smell: http://t.co/DRTZmzzpGo -- interesting perspectives.

I'll be attending Code Mesh 2014! Excited to hear about a range of less mainstream languages.

Great language design retrospective from a Forth developer:

The complexity of Emacs' C codebase:

... and ten minutes after setting up collectd monitoring, I've spotted an issue!

Woohoo! I've successfully configured a collectd + statsd + graphite + nginx stack pretty painlessly with Docker!

Tried a Python IDE and I discovered how much I was missing! anaconda-mode fills that gap with jump-to-def and eldoc! http://t.co/qXV9EnELNc

Argh. Turns out that GNU netcat and OpenBSD netcat behave differently with the same flags. Much confusion ensued.

I'm developing a dislike for PID files. There are too many failure cases. Supervisord, runit and others have more robust solutions.

I'm considering throwing out a pile of Ansible scripts in favour of just taking off-the-shelf Docker containers.

It's tricky to replay handlers in an Ansible script after a failed run: http://t.co/K1k1I5U989

It's easy to implement, but I'm still surprised Emacs doesn't ship with an indent-buffer command. I use it often.