miniblog.

Quorum: An evidence oriented programming language: http://t.co/CagpFAFxU3 (though I'd love to do a web trial that A/B tested syntax!)

Discovered the blog It Will Never Work in Theory http://t.co/Hhm0BVgttO today. Good science on software engineering is useful and rare.

A good visualisation can help clear up the difference between values and references. For example, http://t.co/IRusfIcvW6

Ooh, interesting to see that drone.io is free for open source projects, just like Travis. Waiting for JUnit support ('X/Y passed') though.

Beware slow tests. If your testsuite is too slow or painful to run, developers simply won't.

"'Configurable' is the opposite of 'usable out of the box'."

Unix Crash Recovery: https://web.archive.org/web/20020610182631/http://rocinante.colorado.edu/~wilms/recreation/crash.html (an oldie but a goodie)

OH "I love writing html by hand!" "Me too, but it leaves scratches all over the monitor"

Discovered git grafts and git-replace today. Git is one of those tools you never fully master (it seems).

#Python surprise of the day: `"1 in [1,2]: %s" % 1 in [1,2]`

"We’re going to use gcc 4.7, as the code generated is 10% faster than with 4.6. 4.8 is 10% faster still." Impressive for a mature compiler.

Fascinating that there are REPLs available for Android. I think programming on a smartphone could work, but needs much UI thought.

guilemacs is 'mostly indistinguishable' from normal Emacs: http://t.co/tcFFVNSGZP I like elisp, but proper namespacing would be nice...

Most used functions in Racket code: http://t.co/RPmTA6C0O8 (always interesting when you can get quantitative data)

Erlang: because naturally you want to run your Hello World program on 20 CPU cores! http://t.co/vifY64DVVP