Posts from 2014 - Wilfred miniblog

The Internet is increasingly optimised for its cat userbase, it seems:

.@nfsn is a fantastic service. No nonsese hosting, scales down for small projects, and I've paid less every year for more projects!

.@nfsn It seems it's no longer possible to 'just pay' with Paypal. My choices are only login or create a paypal account. Can you undo this?

I have tried, but failed to persuade the denizens of Stack Overflow to add highlighting to #Emacs questions. http://t.co/rOmXAdEbgR

Memacs: An implementation inspired by the Memex concept, using #Emacs and org-mode:

I've written a Python program that *requires* TCO. I'm going to have to rewrite in continuation passing style. Argh.

Describing a program as 'just a very large number written with 0s and 1s' is rather like describing a book as a very long word.

Dark, unsound corners of the Haskell type system: http://t.co/9JrcMtQ4co

I was rather surprised to learn that some lisps have separate types for identifiers and symbols. The difference is subtle.

Improving an average project is a matter of learning from the alternatives. To push the state of the art you need to consider fundamentals.

With a little care and experimenting with re-builder, you can use query-replace-regexp to do syntax transformations on old code. Wonderful.

If you're using expand-region in #emacs, you probably want to require the mode-specific expansions too. E.g. `(require js-mode-expansions)`

'Why I'm Ditching CoffeeScript': http://t.co/uvhisjNrA5 Interesting discussion of array length caching gotchas in CS.

I am regularly impressed with range of dialects available in Racket. For example, strongly typed without parens:

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