Arbitrary precision maths in JS: https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/ neat.
miniblog.
Wonderful CAPTCHA explanation on Stack Overflow. http://t.co/W3796y2UgY
A proposed rel="source" web microformat, for linking to the source code of project. Great idea. http://t.co/Z84POPUv0T
Make it right, now, make it fast, later.
The new Python homepage is live! It's a fantastic new design and a credit to the people who worked on it. http://t.co/sPcVi0vNvq
As a result of changing the boolean syntax in Trifle lisp, I've realised that the literal 'true' is much more important than 'false'. Funny.
The difference between a good API and a great API is largely down to the behaviour in the dark murky corners.
It's remarkably satisfying seeing a project develop a good test suite. http://t.co/e7lQiB1kYq
"You can use Bower to simply pull a repo into your project without having to clone, even if it doesn't have a bower.json file." Nifty.
There's a single IPv4 address for _the entire population_ of Qatar. Insane.
Unicode is hard: http://t.co/5MD6zLofXU
How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong. http://t.co/qcBHIPFT9L
Wrote my first non-trivial contextmanager in Python today! One of those tools that you don't need often, but so glad to have when you do!
It's now possible to add notes to stack traces on @getsentry -- really nice.
Writing a -> macro is surprisingly subtle: http://t.co/ch7kMpPXC3 http://t.co/87Bx1Efzwc
Turns out that tags are remote-agnostic in git. Beware fetching them from multiple remote, it can get messy.
I'm happy to announce v0.3 of Trifle lisp! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle It includes revolutionary features like equality tests and opening files!
Browsing MELPA sorted by downloads, I discovered anzu today. It's a neat package that shows the number of matches for the current isearch.
Blogged: Of Types and Men: http://t.co/HaYS8zYs10
Elisp surprise of the day: (commandp []) and (commandp "") evaluate to t. This is because execute-kbd-macro can execute them.
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