I really enjoy anti-feature promotional webpages for software. For example, http://t.co/5JjNLT6GkL and http://t.co/NeoXuAUWdj
miniblog.
I'm still not sure whether the correct pronunciation of 'numpy' is num-pea or num-pie. I hear both regularly.
A colleague asked me if my Moto G was the new iPhone! Turns out that a black, rounded corner phone can be deceptive...
Borrowed a copy of: Smalltalk-80: The Language and Implementation. It's a good book, but it's funny to read an explanation of mouse usage!
pip-tools is really nice for separating requirements from their deps: https://github.com/Wilfred/simpla-vortaro/commit/8c1adc4438503d3df0de15bfb8b42a3d0f46fbe7 (cc @sujaymansingh)
If you use Emacs for Python, pip-requirements will now auto-complete package names! https://github.com/Wilfred/pip-requirements.el http://t.co/gB3oe5b2ZJ
The benchmark for the minimal expected functionality in a major mode must be @bodil 's fantastic LOLCODE mode: https://gitlab.com/bodil/lolcode-mode/tree/master
You may think you've seen all the ways you can write a SQL query library, but Yesql is elegant and novel (AFAIK): https://github.com/krisajenkins/yesql
I haven't touched xorg.conf on any of my boxes in several years now. I don't miss it.
I'm looking at an online man page with adverts for 'russian senior dating'. I would have preferred a little more user targeting!
@b0rk I always enjoy your blog posts, but thought I'd mention you have a stray < on http://t.co/pdDJLhdPWT
"an unavoidable tradeoff between feature-richness and usability" great Yegge article that I hadn't seen before: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/nonesuch-beast
Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480 Great discussion of WYSIWYG design.
There's a comment on HN that says that Gnus includes code written in elisp bytecode. That's amazing if so (I can't find it in a brief read).
A sysadmin looked me in the eye today and said "I've found the problem. We're ignoring martians." I had no idea if he was serious. (He was!)
I've disregarded criticism of threaded discussion previously, but http://t.co/MaeTCSdDeZ does get difficult to read. Maybe Jeff was right.
I'm impressed with the vigour and range of ideas coming out of the Atom editor community: http://t.co/WOBsnW5fo2 (many worth stealing!)
Really interesting discussion of what Emacs is/should be/will be on LtU: http://t.co/AZ7yGo6iVl
It's also impressive to see that @spolsky (a Stack Overflow founder) has given his support of the Emacs stack exchange propsal!
"Emacs sits in a fuzzy boundary between language, platform, software package, and lifestyle." http://t.co/HNjdr9ub6V
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