It's also interesting to see 'Quick Answers' on gov.uk (e.g https://www.gov.uk/maternity-paternity-pay-leave/y/2015-03-02/yes/yes/yes/600.0-week) -- reminiscent of Reactive Documents http://t.co/xzeOFx2W
miniblog.
I'm amazed that the Directgov website used to cover bee-keeping: http://t.co/fB2LzosX -- not a big or important group of voters I'd think!
VideoLAN's stance on patents http://t.co/EjTMvKhy (blunt!)
Taking a Linode instance for a spin.
Interesting discussion on the motivations behind Go: http://t.co/JMCcWdro
Using a Stack Overflow style Q&A site for @webfaction (web host) works really well. It saves so many duplicate queries.
Generally, you can trust GC to do the right thing. PHP has had some nasty garbage-collection bugs though (e.g. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50027 )
Hiccup, the Clojure HTML rendering library, doesn't escape by default. Yikes.
Delighted to see a new version of #Jekyll released this December. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jekyll-rb/EavLPfiLX7k/discussion shows how quiet the project became.
I'm surprised proprietary password storage apps gain traction -- you really want to see what the app is doing with your sensitive data.
$ python2 compiler.py lython_compiler.ly > compiler.py # toy self-hosting compiler! https://github.com/Wilfred/Lython
Emacsattaci -- finally, a home for abandoned packages http://t.co/8vwDqU83 . I often end up grabbing useful things from http://t.co/Oln5lPop
"The greater the probability a random string is a valid program, the harder it is to report errors well." -- Paul Graham
Excited to see Rust maturing. 0.5 has a REPL!
Wow, even Windows doesn't distribute DVD decoders by default any more. Open formats are so important.
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