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I've actually seen a project with #Guile Scheme plugin support! http://t.co/Qt4P8weV Sure there are others, but it's so rare.

Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else.

I have yet to see a variable that could not be called 'data'. Thus it seems like a lousy variable name.

Programming languages tend towards more power over time. Even Lisp and Fortran.

Idling in Freenode is a wonderful way to learn by osmosis. This is true for both languages and tools, provided the regulars are friendly.

Django is remarkably faster on Pypy than CPython: http://t.co/QKpHr2Tb

Macros aren't just for Lispers. #Scala, #Perl 6 and #Haskell have them too!

I'm not sure I've ever used a program and said "oh, if only it had more settings!".

Wappr: http://t.co/aclZKd7w app wish list from tweets. Now, to find some time to do *more* projects.

Line length is the new tabs vs spaces.

#Emacs tip of the day: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el allows you to expand the region in a syntax-aware way. Saves a few keystrokes.

Today I learnt that ;: is a more portable # for shells like #zsh which use # for pattern matching. Works with #Bash too. Handy.

Ask Hacker News archive: http://t.co/tSDhv4XY -- a real treasure trove.

#Git magic of the day: $ git log --graph --all --decorate

Latest blog post: Playing Blackjack With #Haskell: http://t.co/dJGv10PY