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Found a bug with php-mode today, and been hacking on julia-mode. Turns out writing a full-featured major mode is major task (esp non-lisps).

Oct 14, 2014

Firefox 33 fixes a 10 year old bug! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237623 I've never felt the need to have a clear bug backlog, bytes are cheap.

Oct 14, 2014

"The [Forth CPU] got wrong answers on division if the divisor was odd, and they couldn't afford to redo [it] so it shipped [.] with errata"!

Oct 13, 2014

I like to keep a list of webpages whose style I admire and might imitate in future. Today's addition: http://t.co/4JprbRdeY9

Oct 12, 2014

I'm really impressed with the node ecosystem. A great packaging toolset and many great libraries. productivity++; satisfaction++;

Oct 12, 2014

Some exciting ideas being discussed for Julia 0.4: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/SeHfp7Jv7d0

Oct 12, 2014

The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics http://t.co/f93ddZtlAM

Mozilla's GCLI is an extremely neat web CLI prototype: http://t.co/XmrDwhtvhF

change-inner is also nice as it replaces zap-up-to-char in many use cases.

Nifty Emacs package of the day: https://github.com/magnars/change-inner.el -- equivalent to Vim's `ci`.

Some remarkable performance numbers being posted for Julia already! http://t.co/OTf27ssh4j

`regexp-opt` is a great function, but it sets max-lisp-eval-depth and max-specpdl-size to 10,000! Seems rather crude.

Dynamically loading .so files in Emacs! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00292.html

I'm interested to learn that the {sub,}optimality of the QWERTY layout is controversial in discussions of whether the best design wins.

.@ArmyOfBruce Very much enjoyed your command shells blog post! Are you familiar with Tudor Gîrba's projects for Pharo Smalltalk?

I have six different Emacs source versions for testing now. Probably time to give EVM a whirl.

Oct 8, 2014

A wonderfully evil way of implementing a blocking method in JS: http://t.co/Ki8dkWOKvz

Oct 8, 2014