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A very impressive pedigree! ESS has a Changelog with entries for 1990!
Wow, Emacs Speaks Statistics contains an msdos.el and XEmacs compatibility!
Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel http://t.co/aNNCee7VfM
Emacs package of the day: ctable: https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-ctable A great library for displaying tables in Emacs.
Only one of the five most downloaded Emacs themes has screenshots on its web pages / GitHub page. Thank goodness for http://t.co/xkvHghLdIl
.@bruceconnor If you're interested I'm backfilling numbers on your archive tracker, there's additional data on http://t.co/L6z43elEDB
"an impressive rate of over 2 new packages every single day." http://t.co/KgiBDHVKaI A very healthy elisp ecosystem!
x86 oddities: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/x86oddities?show=content
A great question on good OOP style leading into a discussion of what OOP really is: http://t.co/AEuBxxWpkh
Finally dropped support for Emacs 23 in my .emacs.d. It's been long enough and debugging packages in Emacs 23 starts with `emacs -q` anyway.
Emacs 24.4 introduces new bytecodes (48-50) for efficient non-local exits. 24.4 has no killer features, but improvements across the board.
Boon https://github.com/jyp/boon/blob/master/README.md is another nifty Emacs package that compares alternatives. It's a great practice that helps users.
Have you ever written FIXMEEEEE in your code? Emacs has you covered: https://github.com/rolandwalker/fixmee
Converting 7 to "C-g": http://t.co/pgMa7v5ClD
"'WYSIWYG' and 'abstraction' [are] antonyms. Editing the artifact and editing the source are [rarely] isomorphic" https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8
flycheck keeps getting better: 0.21 is out with shellcheck, rpmlint and oodles of polish: http://t.co/Vd4QXx143a
Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity http://t.co/wgxD32cFiN
MediaWiki templates are Turing-complete! Perhaps it was inevitable. http://t.co/YCVvALNTDu
Emacs will migrate to git on the 11th of November: http://t.co/5MdG4e0HSd
MELPA now has badges! http://t.co/rywrHQ4jwA
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