Compiled and ran Servo today on a few test pages. It's making amazing progress, both as a browser and a Rust language testbed.
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"When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code." - Richard Pattis
Today I learnt "use strict"; even forbids with() statements! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions_and_function_scope/Strict_mode#Simplifying_variable_uses Probably a good thing.
You can abuse JavaScript's setTimeout for basic tail call optimisation. Neat.
"getLine :: IO String contains a String in the same way that /bin/ls contains a list of files"
I've open sourced several small bits of code recently that were previously only in internal projects. The code has benefited every time.
Turns out that IE8 emulation in IE9 does not always behave the same as IE8 proper. Lesson learnt.
JS worries about size get silly sometimes. Found a library that refused to fix a known bug, because it would have added 0.5KiB!
I'm a big fan of backup-each-save.el. I've been able to resurrect old prototype code that turned out to be useful elsewhere. #emacs
@getsentry Any idea where the site name is taken from? I'm afraid I can't find it in the docs (Django site). http://t.co/tFajhkfCG8
Very impressed with Digital Ocean. Slick UI, good pricing, no complaints so far.
Announcing django_test_mixins, a collection of useful Django assertions we use in internal projects:
@duolingo running out of hearts when unlocking a bigtest shortcut redirected me to http://t.co/6Da4ilFOeI which 404s.
Just discovered https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc for adding tables of contents to README.md files. Previously I had to put important stuff first.
Firefox 23 disables <blink>, so naturally they (ab)use the tag in their release notes:
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