miniblog.

Dec 24, 2012
"The greater the probability a random string is a valid program, the harder it is to report errors well." -- Paul Graham
Dec 21, 2012
Excited to see Rust maturing. 0.5 has a REPL!
Dec 21, 2012
Wow, even Windows doesn't distribute DVD decoders by default any more. Open formats are so important.
Dec 20, 2012
Awesome git command of the day: `git tag --list | sort --version-sort`. Sort is clever.
Dec 20, 2012
Anaphoric macros are a neat way of avoiding boilerplate. I'll become a smug lisp weenie at this rate.
Dec 18, 2012
Found another excellent Python library with a 'class variable that should be an instance variable' bug. One of the few sharp edges of Python
Dec 18, 2012
Automatic method spelling correction -- what could possibly go wrong?
GitHub - AndrewVos/metherd-missing: Translates misspellings of method calls to actual method calls!
GitHub - AndrewVos/metherd-missing: Translates misspellings of method calls to actual method calls!
Translates misspellings of method calls to actual method calls! - AndrewVos/metherd-missing
Dec 18, 2012
Cripes. There are even JS minifiers in C. I like C, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
Dec 18, 2012
Worringly, http://t.co/ZyLup5GD shows a small increase in IE6 in 2012.
Dec 17, 2012
Interesting blog post on building dynamic (nomic, more or less) games: http://t.co/bcN6x1lc
Dec 17, 2012
Even bots submit pull requests on GitHub now!
Hi! I cleaned up your code for you! by GunioRobot · Pull Request #6 · mailchimp/email-blueprints
Hi! I cleaned up your code for you! by GunioRobot · Pull Request #6 · mailchimp/email-blueprints
Hi there! This is WhitespaceBot. I'm an open-source robot that removes trailing white space in your code, and gives you a gitignore file if you didn't have one! Why whitespace? Whitespace i...
Dec 14, 2012
@kennethreitz It would be wonderful if http://t.co/OA43LXO4 could return a malformed HTTP response for testing `httplib.BadStatusLine`. :)
Dec 14, 2012
http://t.co/2VXCvYXN is great. It saves and shares excellent web typography. I just had a poorly maintained personal list of nice examples.
Dec 13, 2012
I can't type for toffee on a Kinesis keyboard -- I am far too accustomed to a standard layout (Alt-Backspace is particularly awkward).
Dec 12, 2012
I've developed a preference for languages with official style guidelines. It's tedious debating whether `for (var i = 0` is good JS.
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