Marvellous paper discussing the complexities of modern OS development and the design philisophies of Interim OS: http://t.co/wVRbGkKYgZ
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Smalltalk has a concept of blocks, which is a lightweight syntax for anonymous functions.
However, they have this marvellous property: you can return from the enclosing method! This makes them far more useful for things like iterating with early termination.
/proc/$PID/maps is a marvellous debugging aid. It helps answer questions like 'is this pointer in range for the heap?'
Magit tip: `l f` shows you commits, but only those that touched a specific file. Marvellous. #emacs