miniblog.

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

Python's ExitStack allows you to programmatically enter and leave context managers. Powerful, but it's enough rope to hang yourself.

What properties matter when trying to create a successful programming language? http://t.co/44DWlLTmk3

magit-svn is available on MELPA, and it allows you to use git-svn from the comfort of #Emacs. Indispensible if you're dealing with svn.

"Thank you for caring." -- a bug report. That's what we aim for!

I find it hard to name servers. Cute names are unhelpful, but digiocean-amsterdam-5 is a mouthful.

Interesting library of the day: Joose, a self-hosted OOP library for JS: