Memorable names for characters: http://t.co/oQy2rbC9m4 -- brilliant.
miniblog.
I really like Python 3, but `print "foo"` is burned into brain. Argh.
I'm using a library today that's Python 3 only. A sign of the times.
@sanityinc I emailed a chap about adding MELPA counts to http://t.co/B48H9pUeq9 . What's the best JSON file on MELPA for him to acCess?
"It's opt-out, but it's easy to change." We really need objective usability measures to be applied to ensure it really is easy.
Merd has a remarkable syntax. `sin x+y` parses as `sin(x + y)` but `sin x + y` parses as `sin(x) + y`.
I've been learning backbone this week. I find my JS is more robust (and often works first time!) when it's all neatly separated.
Firefox's scratchpad is very interesting. The Ctrl-I to inspect a result feels very smalltalky.
Chrome is taking over the world: http://t.co/Iy0qjpPvpm
"Being able to write APL programs doesn't normally imply that you are able to read APL programs – not even your own!"https://www.cccs.de/wiki/pub/Main/VorTraege/apl_slides.pdf
Shoulda woulda cdr.
"When you're learning, an answer that works is a correct answer."
If you're looking to detect URLs in text, this is an excellent set of tests: http://t.co/VtjHm8SLvq
The CSS selector `bar .foo:last-child` is surprising. It only ever applies to the last child of bar, iff it has the class foo.
PyPI statistics: https://caremad.io/blog/a-look-at-pypi-downloads/ Python 2.7 is still by far the biggest, 3.3 beginning to grow.
Discovered shellcheck today, a lint tool for shell scripts. Really valuable.
Digg uses CDNJS. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me (for most projects).
Good monitoring means the dev team finding out about problems before anyone else.
I've just set up my first elisp project with Cask and Travis, and it worked wonderfully. Definitely the way to go.
It's unfortunate that a common reaction to information leaks is "everyone in the know already knew that X planned/wanted/did Y".
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