miniblog.

Gradually rewriting my first ever Django website, written in 2010. Happy to report I've improved a lot!

Law of large technology communities: They seem to expand until they have a jobs section.

Sometimes refactoring is simply an excuse to (re)acquire familiarity with a codebase.

.@CoverallsApp looks like you have some encoding issues when showing UTF-8 files:

Use Python? Use Emacs? I've just released a major-mode for pip requirements files! https://github.com/Wilfred/pip-requirements.el (Coming soon to MELPA too!)

I can't believe I haven't installed virtualenvwrapper before. I already had great completion in zsh, but workon's tab completion is perfect.

I've found some cases where helm works for me! I prefer the preserved screen-estate of ido in many cases.

hungry-delete-mode is great, and I'm gradually fitting it into my flow. Many modes override the delete command though.

I feel that every "can I do $x in Emacs?" question has a "yes, $elisp_src" answer. Many answers are followed with a "but why?" however.

I think you can tell quite a lot about someone by looking at code they've written.

@melpa_emacs should you be showing the full source code here? http://t.co/vwC9ptO0OT

movd %xmm0,%eax movd %eax,%xmm0 I don't want to read assembly that's been optimised to kingdom come, but GCC can be verbose otherwise.

Nasty Python 2 gotcha with hasattr():

I'm considering learning Ruby. The Ruby community has a wealth of mature developer tools and I suspect some ideas don't yet exist elsewhere.

.@semaphoreapp I'm playing with Semaphore! What Linux distro do your VMs use? It seems I will need to install pip manually.