miniblog.

"in about 2 weeks, Emacspeak was already a better environment for developing Emacspeak in" http://t.co/ZnPSOkuxCN

It was a smart person who decided that a:visited and a should be different colours in the browser stylesheet. Usability win by default!

Pygments supports an astounding range of languages for highlighting. For example, it has *three* Dylan highlighters! http://t.co/bM8leCklEO

Blogged: Comparative Macrology: http://t.co/aT684ynoSe (more macro systems than you can shake a stick at!)

Emacs' default value for kill-ring size (`kill-ring-max') is only 60. Memory is cheap, bump it up!

Man, f-expressions are mind-bending to write.

lobste.rs have a public log of moderation actions: https://lobste.rs/moderations . Admirable transparency and accountability!

Anyone have a lobste.rs account? I'd like one and I need a reference.

Clojure has both ~@ and @~, but they mean completely different things. Tricky.

.@melpa_emacs "Contacting host: http://t.co/WRBAREGidh"; -- is it possible to access MELPA over HTTPS from package.el?

SO has an amazing community. I asked about Scheme's macro hygiene: http://t.co/1J8ZBe9hR1 and had an answer from an author of a paper!

There's something unproductive about quoting something and doing a blow-by-blow attack of each of their points. It's usually nitpicky.

Saw a job advert looking for someone with Yii experience. Disappointed to learn it's a PHP web framework, the Haskell editor is 'Yi'.

I am very impressed with reveal.js. Easy with a little HTML knowledge, attractive, and effortless code highlighting.

Writing a stack overflow question on Scheme macros, and it suggests the tags 'excel' and 'vba'. Thanks, but not what I was looking for.