miniblog.

Using a Stack Overflow style Q&A site for @webfaction (web host) works really well. It saves so many duplicate queries.
Generally, you can trust GC to do the right thing. PHP has had some nasty garbage-collection bugs though (e.g. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50027 )
Hiccup, the Clojure HTML rendering library, doesn't escape by default. Yikes.
Delighted to see a new version of #Jekyll released this December. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jekyll-rb/EavLPfiLX7k/discussion shows how quiet the project became.
I'm surprised proprietary password storage apps gain traction -- you really want to see what the app is doing with your sensitive data.
$ python2 compiler.py lython_compiler.ly > compiler.py # toy self-hosting compiler! https://github.com/Wilfred/Lython
Emacsattaci -- finally, a home for abandoned packages http://t.co/8vwDqU83 . I often end up grabbing useful things from http://t.co/Oln5lPop
"The greater the probability a random string is a valid program, the harder it is to report errors well." -- Paul Graham
Excited to see Rust maturing. 0.5 has a REPL!
Wow, even Windows doesn't distribute DVD decoders by default any more. Open formats are so important.
Awesome git command of the day: `git tag --list | sort --version-sort`. Sort is clever.
Anaphoric macros are a neat way of avoiding boilerplate. I'll become a smug lisp weenie at this rate.
Found another excellent Python library with a 'class variable that should be an instance variable' bug. One of the few sharp edges of Python
Automatic method spelling correction -- what could possibly go wrong? https://github.com/AndrewVos/metherd-missing
Cripes. There are even JS minifiers in C. I like C, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
Worringly, http://t.co/ZyLup5GD shows a small increase in IE6 in 2012.
Interesting blog post on building dynamic (nomic, more or less) games: http://t.co/bcN6x1lc
Even bots submit pull requests on GitHub now! https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints/pull/6
@kennethreitz It would be wonderful if http://t.co/OA43LXO4 could return a malformed HTTP response for testing `httplib.BadStatusLine`. :)
http://t.co/2VXCvYXN is great. It saves and shares excellent web typography. I just had a poorly maintained personal list of nice examples.
Showing 1-20 of 137 posts