miniblog.

Turns out that you can convert eggs to wheels. Eggs are nice as they save you recompiling, but using wheels gives you pip! Hurrah!

"Like metaclasses, monkeypatching and metapath[s], if you're not already sure you need [..]this feature, you [..]don't need it." Wise words.

Woah, projectile has gone from good to great since I last looked at it. #emacs

OH: "Also, 11 isn't a pseudo-random number. It's 11."

http://t.co/GVzGvwtwth is a pretty good Emacs advocation page, but my brain is still unable to parse .sexy as a TLD.

#emacs Archive Tracker: http://t.co/yrcOeg4DGy Looks like @melpa_emacs has won the most marketshare.

"Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet." -- Bran Ferren

Lifestreams: http://t.co/47XnT46Rcp Not sure we need to throw out the old FS metaphor, but additional ways of displaying it is worthwhile.

I would love a tool that persisted and indexed shell sessions, for later examination or searching. (Go back to paper teletypes?)

C2 wiki is stuffed to the gunnels with gems. For example, http://t.co/KSrdCpXCpx discusses a live 3D collaborative coding environment.

Button to nowhere: https://medium.com/design-ux/77d911517318 interesting UX concept.

"You aren’t serious about OOP until you subclass Class." http://t.co/NmM88BqzaY Superb discussion of OOP and metaobjects by @raganwald.

Emacs has a game-of-life implementation! The kitchen-sink reputation is well deservied.

Arc lisp uses first class anonymous macros to define `defmacro` and `let`! Really impressive.

ipdb is nice for debugging #python (it's an IPython-y version of pdb), but pdbpp https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdbpp/ has a swankier display.