miniblog.

A great question on good OOP style leading into a discussion of what OOP really is: http://t.co/AEuBxxWpkh

Finally dropped support for Emacs 23 in my .emacs.d. It's been long enough and debugging packages in Emacs 23 starts with `emacs -q` anyway.

Emacs 24.4 introduces new bytecodes (48-50) for efficient non-local exits. 24.4 has no killer features, but improvements across the board.

Boon https://github.com/jyp/boon/blob/master/README.md is another nifty Emacs package that compares alternatives. It's a great practice that helps users.

Have you ever written FIXMEEEEE in your code? Emacs has you covered:

Converting 7 to "C-g": http://t.co/pgMa7v5ClD

"'WYSIWYG' and 'abstraction' [are] antonyms. Editing the artifact and editing the source are [rarely] isomorphic" https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8

flycheck keeps getting better: 0.21 is out with shellcheck, rpmlint and oodles of polish: http://t.co/Vd4QXx143a

Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity http://t.co/wgxD32cFiN

MediaWiki templates are Turing-complete! Perhaps it was inevitable. http://t.co/YCVvALNTDu

Emacs will migrate to git on the 11th of November: http://t.co/5MdG4e0HSd

MELPA now has badges! http://t.co/rywrHQ4jwA

Building An Extensible Syntax: http://t.co/Yw61APHLYM (from s-expression to m-expressions to something new!)

My ISP's T&Cs talk about rights regarding webspace. I haven't seen anyone use those in years!

Use @logstash and Emacs? I've released a major mode for editing config files! https://github.com/Wilfred/logstash-conf.el http://t.co/xMMJ2tt5Y1