https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans mentions the importance of layout and paragraphs for compile error messages.
Perhaps tools should do line wrapping if the terminal is very wide? It's definitely more comfortable to read.
miniblog.
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Develop in Pharo, deploy in Seaside: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/pharoproject/yesplan-10-years-later
Interesting to see commercial web projects written in Smalltalk! Their JS stack sounds like it's evolved with framework conventions.
(Mentions the excellent GT debugger. Maybe their use case is like mixing clang&gcc?)
Twitter users are younger, more left-leaning, and more educated, than the US median: https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/
Interesting to see that despite its size, the userbase isn't entirely representative in some areas (although the article mentions it's pretty similar in others).
Some interesting insights on early Emacs in these annotated emails from Guy L Steele: https://gist.github.com/lispm/8c6783be2f5a3d41b7592ba3b2c453ea
The name was picked in 1976, and a number of concepts that still exist today were created! It mentions the kill ring, yanking, and even the same keybindings for them!
