miniblog.

org-mode cookbook: http://t.co/nr9cqvndLr You'll learn something new, or your money back! #emacs

Turns out that less can read .html files and indent them instead of showing HTML tags. Really caught me by surprise.

Exciting to see Rust 0.10 out! Having prebuilt binaries available is also really nice.

MD5SUM implemenetation in Emacs, complete with hand-rolled 32-bit arithmetic: http://t.co/oWOhOWu3gZ Impressive!

Quorum: An evidence oriented programming language: http://t.co/CagpFAFxU3 (though I'd love to do a web trial that A/B tested syntax!)

Discovered the blog It Will Never Work in Theory http://t.co/Hhm0BVgttO today. Good science on software engineering is useful and rare.

A good visualisation can help clear up the difference between values and references. For example, http://t.co/IRusfIcvW6

Ooh, interesting to see that drone.io is free for open source projects, just like Travis. Waiting for JUnit support ('X/Y passed') though.

Beware slow tests. If your testsuite is too slow or painful to run, developers simply won't.

"'Configurable' is the opposite of 'usable out of the box'."

Unix Crash Recovery: https://web.archive.org/web/20020610182631/http://rocinante.colorado.edu/~wilms/recreation/crash.html (an oldie but a goodie)

OH "I love writing html by hand!" "Me too, but it leaves scratches all over the monitor"

Discovered git grafts and git-replace today. Git is one of those tools you never fully master (it seems).

#Python surprise of the day: `"1 in [1,2]: %s" % 1 in [1,2]`

"We’re going to use gcc 4.7, as the code generated is 10% faster than with 4.6. 4.8 is 10% faster still." Impressive for a mature compiler.