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Yet another nice UI feature in magit: when interactively rebasing (press `E`), `C-k` on a line crosses it out. http://t.co/L4jBE6ykGY

Turns out that `C-u M-x magit-status` will prompt you for the path! I've been navigating to project roots all this time, pointlessly...

JS emulating hardware running Smalltalk: we're coming full circle: http://t.co/XArAUyZcve

Cripes, FreeBSD doesn't yet have ASLR! http://t.co/ddBKus0PTd Looks like it will be coming soon.

It is extraordinary how much information can be learnt by analysing a JPEG in depth: http://t.co/faG13NFsym (image forensics!)

Something has gone wrong with YouTube's targeted advertising when it shows you an advert for the film you're trying to watch a trailer for.

The 'do one thing, and do it well' unix philosophy would be better as 'compose well, then specialise' I think.

Great example of clean opinionated JSON API design principles:

Jisp http://t.co/JaVqYA7MJ8 is another lisp that compiles to JS. It's unusual in that it supports (elif foo bar) inside if expressions.

It's interesting to note that 'Smalltalk' is a reserved word in Smalltalk. I don't know of any other languages where this is true.

We all [..] defend on the grounds of technical merit when really the decision is [by] comfort [and] random prejudices http://t.co/rgxUscyInL

A DOMain of Shadows http://t.co/G8Fu78l0dd Superb discussion of internal DSLs vs custom syntax.

A clever bot that validates pull requests on the Bootstrap project:

"I want a language that assumes I'm brilliant but distracted :)" http://t.co/9UEKKvZax9 A taste of Rust (yum) for C/C++ programmers

It's common and reasonable for blog post comments to close after some time has elapsed, but how do you choose that threshold?