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Curly braces in Python: http://t.co/4jjtupRgYq

Learnt about `set -u` in bash scripts today. Ensures all your variables are defined, very handy (think `"use strict";` for shell)

New version of IntelliJ is out! It might be time for a visit to non-Emacs-land to pillage features and ideas!

Using a Solaris system today! When I was at university, they were so old that none were available to learn on. Now, found one in prod!

Argh. Creating a file whose filename with a leading space is a royal pain. Ended up using a Python script just to see what was going on.

When first learning about responsive design, I misunderstood it to mean 'unpleasantly long line lengths'. Sadly it's an easy mistake to make

@bodil Saw your impressive Emacs-fu at the Clojure dojo. Which Emacs package were you using to serve files over HTTP?

Probably the best explanation of macros I've ever seen: http://t.co/wvT1DP7Iok

Scala.js looks exciting. It's rare to see compiled-to-JS langs with non-JS semantics but still allow interoperability with jQuery et al.

Brilliant discussion of unicode and bytestrings: http://t.co/cOHhOVxdyb -- most languages get this wrong!

Detecting a pulse from videos of people: http://t.co/f3fXWAhvvZ -- remarkable.

It rarely seems worthwhile leaving breadcrumbs for fixing problems in the form of blog posts. Writing/editing SO answers is perfect though.

Django's loaddata command does not give you full tracebacks by default. Argh. Turns out there's a --traceback command line argument though.

Why is it so rare to see software legal agreements without a table of contents? It's almost as if they don't want you to read it!

@RandomOrg I couldn't see this in your FAQ: do you serve the same bytes to each visitor, or does each user get a nonoverlapping data subset?