Monticello (VCS for Smalltalk) lets you treat email as write-only storage for changesets. Nifty!
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Today I learnt about "bypass charging", a phone feature where it can run directly off the mains without using the battery at all. No battery charging, less heat, less battery wear. Nifty.
Self hosting is really nifty, but it's an additional cognitive burden.
For example, I can run difftastic on its own history. I use plain git-diff just as often.
My best improvements have come from using it in other codebases. It lets me think about one thing at a time
Uniform function call syntax (UFCS) is nifty: I can write foo(x, y, z) or http://x.foo(y, z).
Dot syntax for calls works incredibly well for IDE completion. Are there any languages that explicitly offer UFCS so the IDE experience is better?
