miniblog.

Local state is harmful http://t.co/1JU8nelfIJ Fascinating blog post on modelling debugging on a transaction log.

Trying to get good signal is the modern dowsing.

Eve is exploring radically different ways to program. Great developer progress log: http://t.co/RoX53C559H

Fault Injection in Production: Making the case for resilience testing (Etsy) http://t.co/nfcVG86TPQ

I like how boon-mode is modal in an Emacsy way, but using y and u for moving up and down is awkward. Those are my most common commands!

Playing with boon-mode today. I'm not a vim user, but I think there's some comfort and efficiency to be gained from modal navigation.

Hopper http://t.co/L4swyilnCx has a fascinating ability to compare airfare seasonality. It's hard to find disruptive tech in airfares.

A very impressive pedigree! ESS has a Changelog with entries for 1990!

Wow, Emacs Speaks Statistics contains an msdos.el and XEmacs compatibility!

Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel http://t.co/aNNCee7VfM

Emacs package of the day: ctable: https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-ctable A great library for displaying tables in Emacs.

Only one of the five most downloaded Emacs themes has screenshots on its web pages / GitHub page. Thank goodness for http://t.co/xkvHghLdIl

.@bruceconnor If you're interested I'm backfilling numbers on your archive tracker, there's additional data on http://t.co/L6z43elEDB

"an impressive rate of over 2 new packages every single day." http://t.co/KgiBDHVKaI A very healthy elisp ecosystem!

x86 oddities: