There's actually a z-machine interpreter written in elisp! Using it, you can play zork from the comfort of #emacs. http://t.co/U8bdVkF0te
miniblog.
Learnt you shouldn't add ~/.emacs.d to load-path because it's used for autogenerated files. Instead, use a subdirectory for elisp files.
Contrasting Cider and Slime: http://t.co/J1IosWFR4N -- I feel few languages have caught up with Common Lisp's REPL experience.
Reviewing Paul Graham's Common Lisp style: http://t.co/Exu6cM2g5r (critiques are always educational!)
The org-mode talk at #churchofemacs introduced it as 'like markdown' instead of 'this huge todo app'. Much more helpful for getting started.
Diminish is a great #Emacs package, and it comes with philosophy! https://github.com/emacsmirror/diminish/blob/b50752d7e2ed87e2c729ccbb82f418c2145b3983/diminish.el#L139
Obscure Python of the day: You can specify the version-numbering scheme version number, e.g. '1:2.0' comes after '5.0'.
Implementing things like addition in Trifle lisp seemed straightforward, but there are some interesting wrinkles with a full numeric tower.
Met a guy a the Emacs meetup who was using Emacs with a Dvorak layout! Impressive! (It did mean no-one else could type, though...)
Haskell goes from strength to strength. GHC 7.8.1 is a very impressive release with a slew of new optimisations.
@otfrom pushed https://github.com/otfrom/otfrom-org-emacs to 12 stars, trawling through for elisp snippets to steal :)
Emacs meetup was excellent! Put some faces to handles, learnt a number of things and was introduced to browse-kill-ring! #churchofemacs
Excited to be going to the Emacs meetup this evening!
GHC using Perl for bootstrapping seems rather incongruous somehow.
Interesting to see objections on HN to the new Python matrix multiplication operator. It shows how much people like Python syntax.
Failure Friday: http://t.co/KgX1JM3m5m Not quite as aggressive as ChaosMonkey, but all failure testing is worthwhile.
Yikes. In #python, (-7) % 4 == 1 but Decimal(-7) % Decimal(4) == Decimal('-3'). That's really confusing.
Implemented quicksort in Trifle lisp! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle/commit/4e7aa895e88fbb7f936927c4e8e14f25c9a618fd Inspired by the minimalist Haskell implementation, which is pretty but slow.
Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source http://t.co/NRzFey3i3S Extraordinarily creative!
Today's HN article linking to Phrack has revealed that my mobile ISP has decided to start filtering 'adult content'. Hmph.
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