miniblog.

What can you do with macros that you can't do with lazy evaluation? http://t.co/puUfpYIASd

Programming Languages as Operating Systems (or Revenge of the Son of the Lisp Machine) http://t.co/MS9bvQHytO

"It is impossible to safely implement any cryptosystem providing forward secrecy in C." http://t.co/jcyseXkmC0

Julia uses $foo for both string interpolation and backquoting in macros. That's *really* nice.

Pharo is pharo [not Smalltalk]: http://t.co/482iVThDjE

Being Productive With Emacs (great slides)

I'm amused to learn that Wordpress has a _doing_it_wrong() function.

"#emacs Where you are limited only by your imagination and max-specpdl-size" -- current topic on the always brilliant #emacs IRC channel

Buggy software can easily induce superstition in its users.

Every so often I add some code to my .emacs.d that errors on startup. I've come to the conclusion that my Emacs config should be on Travis!

Firefox 32 is out! According to http://t.co/ilDWArewud its EOL will be the 14th of October. So young!

Nice to see @i2p get some press: http://t.co/jTaA3VSuS4 It's a mature tool that fixes a number of Tor shortcomings.

I'm rapidly becoming interested in http://t.co/e87U18b17O The authors understand both Smalltalk and elisp so it may become something special

.@digitalocean I'm seeing what looks like a hardware failure on my droplet, what do you suggest?

Really interesting Emacs mode that gives each variable a different colour, highlighting spelling mistakes: