It's remarkable how many software projects never reach 2.0. Reaching 1.0 is also getting rarer.
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Turns out using Python 2.7 does not make you entirely immune to memory leaks: http://t.co/9vbgL2dDMJ (fixed in 2.7.4)
According to T&Cs our solicitors will keep electronic records for _15 years_! That'll require good backups and careful file format choices.
http://t.co/2YpqiHIbF6 is a PHP interpreter using the pypy toolchain. RPython is superb for this use case and it's exciting to see it grow.
"unfamiliar symbols, like |@|, <$> and<<*>> (all pronounced “pleasejustletmeusehaskell”)" http://t.co/ZhLMoJCSma
Really exciting to see jsonb in postgres. More options in the DB world is a good thing.
#Python surprise of the day: `x = []; x.insert(999, "foo")` does not throw an error.
Excited to see my elisp TCO package becoming available on MELPA! https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/pull/1595 #emacs
Writing a programming language has given me a newfound appreciation of other languages out there.
Fantastic suggestions for making REPL programming even nicer: http://t.co/NqvMfbXYFD (Clojure)
My blog posts tend to grow rather than maturing until they're ready to go live. I'm considering an arbitrary limit -- it worked for Twitter!
Achievement unlocked: Found an unbalanced paren in #Emacs source:
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 :)
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