miniblog.

It's weird how ! denotes side effects when it's allowed in names (Scheme, Ruby) but there isn't a clear equivalent in other languages. My only theory is that "side effects" is often vague. list-add!, table-drop! and ping! are very different effects.

Wow, GitHub shows a table of contents on https://readme.md/ files! I did not know this until https://github.com/casey/just added a helpful icon pointing it out.

@friend @janriemer@mastodon.technology Sounds like a good choice! I recently found this interesting benchmark table which shows Blake as a great cryptographic hash: http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/ (FWIW difftastic uses rustc-hash for its hashing needs.)