miniblog.

Interesting to see that .gitkeep has become a convention: http://t.co/yOwmolGIbm

;;;###autoload seems rather silly in elisp, since you typically want all interactive functions to be loaded. Flexibility is good I suppose.

https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc is an excellent Emacs package for generating Tables of Contents for your README.md files.

ipython tip: `$ ipython --pdb` drops you into a debugger on exceptions, so you can explore what went wrong.

Algorithmic complexity attack on qsort: http://t.co/0EQHQBx5IU Fascinating, and a good discussion of sorting approaches in practice.

A rant about lisp machines and contrasting with other systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880821

Interesting stats on how many changes are necessary for each Rust version: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/616e89860446eb2a6732 (~25% total LOC typically)

Nifty, a command-line pastebin: http://t.co/JHoae6BO7i

"There's no fairness in love, war and language benchmarks."

"A more correct but less catchy term would therefore be NoACID." http://t.co/6ZYOMfj5t0

Safely chaining messages in Smalltalk (cf Maybe monad): http://t.co/pRkkq1XCxi

You can go to programming Q&A sites too early in the investigation, but you miss out by not using them at all.

Docker 1.0 is out! We live in exciting times. Also interesting to learn that Docker uses kernel APIs rather than LXC now.

Proper 64-bit integers for JS:

Confusingly, moment.day returns the day of the week, and moment.date returns the day of the month. Cripes.