miniblog.

I rather like that npm says "installed 123 packages from 45 authors". It gives you a sense of how big the team you're depending on is. I'd love to see something similar for other parts of the stack: "43 kernel developers have worked on your wifi driver!"

On the three distinct problems that inheritance can solve, depending on your programming language:

Today I learnt that Emacs keyboard macros can just be strings in a keymap! (global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") "hello") Types the keys h, e, l, l, o in the current buffer, which might insert or do something else depending on the mode.