The logstash project principles are something I'd like to see in more projects: https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash/tree/v1.4.1#project-principles
miniblog.
"we assume the patches of the set to be partially guilty until proven innocent" http://t.co/CjsHTpTlit
That awkward moment where you find a web page that says "you can answer that question by using Google"--and you found the page with Google.
Spending time optimising the Trifle lisp test suite to run in <1 second was well worth it. It makes coding more satisfying!
A delete all *.pyc files is a useful script to have handy, but it does occasionally reduce Python developers to superstition.
"As of March 2014, there are more than 1 million Diaspora accounts." Woah, I had no idea it had grown so big!
The difference between a distribtion and a package in Python: http://t.co/GOXt9LFWVt
Bending lambda to breaking point in Python to contrast with functools.partial: http://t.co/6Y0txgyG4U
Python 3 fact of the day: map and filter are lazy in Python 3 (which is a change from Python 2).
Not just using spaced repetition, but engineering the knowledge to be useful: http://t.co/SPfdNDjzBE
Memorising passwords via spaced repetition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722863 Not sure if it's ingenious or an indictment of password inconvenience.
"If you only use languages that everyone else is using, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."--Haruki Murakami (paraphrased)
Just realised that it's been years since I deliberately recorded a TV show. Catch-up websites have rendered it obsolete.
Deciding to do releases for pet projects is wonderful for productivity. Releases focus the mind, helping me write tests and docs!
I think the success of MELPA and the communities around popular packages refutes the notion that lisp programmers prefer solo hacking.
Spinning up a fresh Xen instances *for every page load*! http://t.co/nFu8Q9vvvM Impressive. We live in the future!
It's worryingly easy to disregard empirical evidence, if it supports a viewpoint that differs from our friends: http://t.co/HceBUrgu11
Let Over Lambda suggests that CL's uppercasing of symbols is to show which symbols have been read: http://t.co/L79tZ2zQx7 Interesting.
WebFinger: http://t.co/a7et3uyLnG is the finger command for the web age. I like the idea, but it needs critical mass to be useful.
Interesting to see that even people who don't like Common Lisp, prefer it over languages without a REPL: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1120
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