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Jun 26, 2012 at 08:37

Twitter and IRC bots are a lot of fun. There is something satisfying about building a tool in a shared environment.

Jun 9, 2024 at 20:47

The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices:

Why bother with Scripting?

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 ...

Sep 4, 2023 at 22:50

Today I learnt that the Glamorous Toolkit has its own VM, implemented in Rust, which wraps the Pharo smalltalk environment!

Glamorous Toolkit

Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment.