miniblog.

Write code to be read first, and tested second. Tests may promote better structure, but prioritise readable code with more {mock,patch}ing.

Package managers should cache by default. This generally works, but I was forced today to delete the 24GB of pacman packages (2 years worth)

There's actually a z-machine interpreter written in elisp! Using it, you can play zork from the comfort of #emacs. http://t.co/U8bdVkF0te

Learnt you shouldn't add ~/.emacs.d to load-path because it's used for autogenerated files. Instead, use a subdirectory for elisp files.

Contrasting Cider and Slime: http://t.co/J1IosWFR4N -- I feel few languages have caught up with Common Lisp's REPL experience.

Reviewing Paul Graham's Common Lisp style: http://t.co/Exu6cM2g5r (critiques are always educational!)

The org-mode talk at #churchofemacs introduced it as 'like markdown' instead of 'this huge todo app'. Much more helpful for getting started.

Diminish is a great #Emacs package, and it comes with philosophy!

Obscure Python of the day: You can specify the version-numbering scheme version number, e.g. '1:2.0' comes after '5.0'.

Implementing things like addition in Trifle lisp seemed straightforward, but there are some interesting wrinkles with a full numeric tower.

Met a guy a the Emacs meetup who was using Emacs with a Dvorak layout! Impressive! (It did mean no-one else could type, though...)

Haskell goes from strength to strength. GHC 7.8.1 is a very impressive release with a slew of new optimisations.

@otfrom pushed https://github.com/otfrom/otfrom-org-emacs to 12 stars, trawling through for elisp snippets to steal :)

Emacs meetup was excellent! Put some faces to handles, learnt a number of things and was introduced to browse-kill-ring! #churchofemacs

Excited to be going to the Emacs meetup this evening!