miniblog.

Pharo 3.0 is out: http://t.co/4hXSrtG5Dr It's improving at an increasing rate! I'm often impressed with how slick their user experience is.

Firefox 29 is out! Nice to see box-sizing finally available without a prefix. number and color inputs are nice too.

Fixing old-style classes with multiple inheritance in Python: http://t.co/wCgq7l3d1J neat!

"allow an Avail programmer to provide transformation rules[..], as long as she provides the corresponding proof to be checked." Impressive!

Automatic sphinx docstrings in Emacs: https://github.com/naiquevin/sphinx-doc.el Nifty, though they can be a little verbose.

The unknown character symbol, e.g. 􏿿, is sometimes referred to as a tofu symbol. Cute. Reliable display isn't easy: http://t.co/ozXRBCDViz

Fantastic article contrasting Haskell's laziness and macros: http://t.co/lP2IBPsUMc

"thanks to Windows support most of our [KDE] applications just work on Wayland" http://t.co/UBWs6uSQvD

numericalunits: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numericalunits works with an arbitrary number implementation! Impressive.

It seems that a major security bug is a great way to get code review on your project.

A FFI for Emacs that is safe and does not require patching core!: http://t.co/xjrpy9Kxsd

Reckon: https://github.com/cantino/reckon uses machine learning to understand CSVs exported by banks. This plus ledger may replace much old code!

"I'm pretty sure you'll want to use Go for web development at this point."--Creator of Julia. Impressive neutrality!

Dynamically generating lambda expressions using eval() in Python: http://t.co/fLp1HwewWt (legitimate usage!)

Writing unit tests for an interpreter is a really interesting task. It forces you to find ways to break the semantics.