miniblog.

http://t.co/7yYNruWbQA provides alerting via SMS or Android/iOS push notifications (amongst other things). Smartphones have won.

Emacs isn't an editor, it's a lisp machine that hasn't died. It does, however, include 7 text editors: http://t.co/GyC5mrcJ2p

I can't imagine another editor with recursive editing. I think it'd be much harder without a lisp.

If you use enable-recursive-minibuffers (and you should) you'll love minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode #emacs

I'm happy to announce v1.0 of django-function-cache, a lightweight friendly wrapper for slow functions:

PyPI has a test server to help you learn packaging http://t.co/dSpRlAP4x4 . Great idea.

Django has a copy of unittest2, but it helps you write integration tests. These days I'd just call them tests for simplicity.

Every Access project will fail because 80% of what the user wants is easy, the next 10% is possible, and the last 10% is not.—Dietzler's Law

Want to share Django templates with your JS?

Discovered that you access {{ forloop.parentloop.counter }} in Django templates. Really handy.

Magit is brilliant. Hit 'l' to see the commit log, then just hit 'x' on the commit you want to reset to.

Cut down on your bug count with this one weird old programming language. -- Tacky Lisp advert.

(The article is thought-provoking too.)

It's not often a usability article cites Emacs (citation 16): http://t.co/oxEwudMASl

"What’s so special about all the bugs in your program? They passed all your tests[...]" -- Rich Hickey. Sometimes painfully true...