Wilfred miniblog

The experience resulting from the toolset around a language is so important. If your compiler always takes one hour, I'm not interested.

It is ridiculous how hard it is to find out anything online about people standing to be voted for: http://t.co/fp6DI4NCLu

Debugging regular expressions with precedence issues is a royal pain. The pattern "[a-z]+ '(Foo)|(Bar)'" matches "Bar'". Argh.

Wow, I had no idea so much OCaml work was going on at the university of Cambridge: http://t.co/vll4eSet34

I like to have macros and metaclasses in a language. I prefer it when I don't have to use them.

"Previously [comparing Unicode with a non-ASCII string] would raise a UnicodeDecodeError exception." Python 2.5 became more weakly typed!

@andreassavvides Recently discovered the ES bulk API http://t.co/nKWSzLcQ5i batching could potentially could speed up brewing and rebrewing!

It is usually impossible to use reductio ad absurdum if someone has already taken their idea to its logical conclusion.

#churchofemacs meetup was excellent and highly educational once again, thanks to @bodil and @dotemacs!

It depresses me when a dev gets nervous about changing code in a project they're involved in. If they're not I'm control, no-one is!

Compiled logstash-forwarder (a Go program) in 2.8 seconds. Impressive!

Logstash with Kibana (after the initial learning hassle) is excellent for numerical data. It's a replacement for Graphite in some cases.

Marmalade is now running on elnode! Amazing! I built an elisp templating library once: https://github.com/Wilfred/mustache.el but never a whole site!

Ooh, LLVM has a Phabricator instance: http://t.co/KnqZav6eLS -- first public major project I've seen using it.

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