miniblog.

Learnt today that Checker (for Java) provides pluggable type systems. They've also annotated the whole JDK! Impressive.
The best looking library website I've seen in some time: http://t.co/gpCJ3scEIh
"PyBozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load written in Python." https://github.com/ikkebr/PyBozoCrack
Centralised logging with kibana, logstash and elasticsearch is a breeze. A+ would use again.
Logstash's demo is impressive: http://t.co/HO6CIJnhGe Zero to action in four simple commands!
Python oneliner of the day: `x[:] = y` mutates x so it's the same as another list.
OH: "supporting multiple users is just a workaround for not having good virtualization technology"
The niftiest elisp hack I've seen in some time! https://github.com/wasamasa/svg-2048 http://t.co/ut3NCQjcQ1
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Overall I think the emacswiki benefits from allowing editing without logging in. It reduces friction (provided you can deal with vandalism).
Pharo 3.0 is out: http://t.co/4hXSrtG5Dr It's improving at an increasing rate! I'm often impressed with how slick their user experience is.
Firefox 29 is out! Nice to see box-sizing finally available without a prefix. number and color inputs are nice too.
Fixing old-style classes with multiple inheritance in Python: http://t.co/wCgq7l3d1J neat!
"allow an Avail programmer to provide transformation rules[..], as long as she provides the corresponding proof to be checked." Impressive!
Automatic sphinx docstrings in Emacs: https://github.com/naiquevin/sphinx-doc.el Nifty, though they can be a little verbose.
The unknown character symbol, e.g. 􏿿, is sometimes referred to as a tofu symbol. Cute. Reliable display isn't easy: http://t.co/ozXRBCDViz
Fantastic article contrasting Haskell's laziness and macros: http://t.co/lP2IBPsUMc
"thanks to Windows support most of our [KDE] applications just work on Wayland" http://t.co/UBWs6uSQvD
numericalunits: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numericalunits works with an arbitrary number implementation! Impressive.
It seems that a major security bug is a great way to get code review on your project.
A FFI for Emacs that is safe and does not require patching core!: http://t.co/xjrpy9Kxsd
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