miniblog.

checkdoc is definitely useful, but rather picky. It's hard to summarise some functions in a very short sentence. #emacs

On-demand virtual servers are great. Rather than simulating with a VM, I can just rent an additional server for testing deploy scripts.

keen.io looks really useful. It's also another example of the 'free for dev side projects' philosophy. Always works :)

I actually needed a try-else statement in Python today! I believe this is the first time I've used it in anger.

Gah. There's no substitute for the real world for testing code robustness.

Lisping has a really interesting UI for editing lisp code: big friendly + buttons to add to a sexp: http://t.co/yKabB9OWHA

I remember discussing at uni whether we'd actually ever implement sort functions. Invaluable when you're implementing a language!

Saw a very sophisticated IPython demo today! Nice to see practical uses of it. The target usecase is very different from a slime repl.

I believe many technically inferior projects have gained majority market share by having a great install process and beginner friendly docs.

PostgreSQL has a MAC address datatype. Neat.

Why haven’t most software development jobs been outsourced to India/China? http://t.co/K9zvkB29ji Interesting discussion.

One man's `git reset --hard` is another man's `svn revert -R .`.

Sometimes I feel coding is simply a matter of 'how do I implement these features whilst minimising the added evil to the codebase?'

Woah, Wikipedia discusses Prolog on its homoiconicity page. Mind-bending.

Aha! Whilst crate.io no longer exists, and PyPI doesn't show all the available versions, http://t.co/GCfPFxNuCS does! #python