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Nov 24, 2020 at 06:56
One consequence of moving all my personal projects to automatic deploy with Docker: I've started avoiding configuration files. Command line arguments or environment variables are much easier to work with, and don't require fiddling with Ansible or similar.

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Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.
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The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices:
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Oct 3, 2023 at 03:48
Achievement unlocked: when trying to work around an Emacs bug with long lines and pipes: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6149#19 I hit a bug in Cask, the Emacs environment manager! https://github.com/cask/cask/pull/596 Software is hard.
#6149 - 24.0.50; shell buffer overflow when input longer than 4096 bytes - GNU bug report logs
Fix Makefile compatibility with recent GNU Make by Wilfred · Pull Request #596 · cask/cask
Fix Makefile compatibility with recent GNU Make by Wilfred · Pull Request #596 · cask/cask
GNU Make will directly invoke simple commands[1], which causes the following error when installing Cask: make: which: No such file or directory bin/cask install make: -c: No such file or directory ...