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I can't type for toffee on a Kinesis keyboard -- I am far too accustomed to a standard layout (Alt-Backspace is particularly awkward).

I've developed a preference for languages with official style guidelines. It's tedious debating whether `for (var i = 0` is good JS.

Editd on ITV! http://t.co/euqGrBmz

Gah. In YAML, `foo` is equivalent to JSON's "foo" but `123` is equivalent to `123`. So strings that look like numbers are silently converted

Is there value in the term 'Internet citizen'? Even Julian Assange uses it.

Stack Overflow's question editing really works. http://t.co/cWDQstyV was originally a mess and it's been improved drastically over time.

I'm intrigued by http://t.co/33KEa2nV SRFI-105 -- curly infix brackets in Scheme. All the Lisp goodness, but with infix notation optional.

Turns out Perl 5 can't be statically parsed. It's not that big of deal, but it stops you writing interesting static analysers sometimes.

Moved from nano to zile as my quick-and-dirty CLI editor. Zile understands far more Emacs commands, but it's still very lightweight.

Today I learnt that some parts of Python's standard lib are non-free according to Debian's guidelines: http://t.co/8GhLrO1x

Finally been forced to drop into raw SQL for a Django query. The fact that I've gone this long without raw queries shows how good the ORM is

Odd that computers get faster and networks get faster but Wayland is less abstract and not networked. I think it's the right approach though

"Any language large enough to be useful is dauntingly complex" -- Simon Peyton-Jones

Wrote a Brainf*** interpreter in #Haskell and it worked first time. Yikes. I'm not sure what to do next.

Ruby is fun. I'm rather disappointed at the state of Unicode support in places though.