miniblog.

Playing with some new Emacs themes. They're good, but the lazy option is to use a mainstream theme as it has colours for *everything*.

Do people find imenu handy? I generally prefer occur to get an overview of a buffer, and TAGS to jump around.

A very impressive elisp project that generates elisp code coverage statistics!

Interesting comment about the relevance of Common Lisp to Emacs users: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-07/msg00765.html -- I wonder how many Emacsers know CL?

The Emacs stack exchange will spend at least 90 days in beta, and it's looking pretty healthy so far: http://t.co/qjgCoKwwiC

I'm fascinated to see a https://github.com/Bruce-Connor/names -- an elisp namespace library that solves the debug challenge! Kudos!

Used variable variables in bash today. Didn't feel as dirty as I expected!

el2markdown -- Convert commentary section of elisp files to markdown:

I still find Python's descriptor protocol a little complex. I think it will be easier once I've found a way to use it in anger.

It's nice that Julia is expression oriented. It's elegant and makes things like one-line-conditional statements unnecessary.

It's funny debugging syntax highlighting. I end up staring far more carefully at little details than I normally would.

libmojibake https://github.com/JuliaLang/libmojibake is an excellent name for a project (although the software hopefully avoids producing its namesake!)

Fascinated to learn that casino gaming software has a regulatory requirement for reproducible builds:

"To be Turing-complete is to be logically inconsistent." http://t.co/KwuMenJ8mT

I've written a definitive guide to the different ELPA archives: http://t.co/VzMg8hAfHh -- have I missed anything?