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Writing a -> macro is surprisingly subtle: http://t.co/ch7kMpPXC3 http://t.co/87Bx1Efzwc

Turns out that tags are remote-agnostic in git. Beware fetching them from multiple remote, it can get messy.

I'm happy to announce v0.3 of Trifle lisp! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle It includes revolutionary features like equality tests and opening files!

Browsing MELPA sorted by downloads, I discovered anzu today. It's a neat package that shows the number of matches for the current isearch.

Blogged: Of Types and Men: http://t.co/HaYS8zYs10

Elisp surprise of the day: (commandp []) and (commandp "") evaluate to t. This is because execute-kbd-macro can execute them.

Nose is excellent for Python unit tests. I really like how it ignores stdout (i.e. print statements) in your passing tests.

Excellent Hacker News comment about constructive disagreement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7236280

Rust's implementation of fasta is the third fastest on the language shootout, and uses no unsafe code. Really impressive.

EmacSQL is a very impressive piece of software. It allows Emacs to talk to all of sqlite, mysql and postgres!

I like publishing projects along with a Chef/Ansible script. It gives users a known-good example of how to install the project

Excited to see Rundeck 2.0 released! It's a very valuable tool and developing nicely.

@CoverallsApp I'm getting 500 errors on this page: https://coveralls.io/r/EDITD/django-test-mixins, anything I can do?

Writing unit tests for a utility library of Django HTTP assertions (namely: https://github.com/Wilfred/django-test-mixins). Meta.

ChatOps at GitHub: https://speakerdeck.com/jnewland/chatops-at-github the money quote: "everyone sees [deploys, logs, monitoring with the bot] on the first day"