miniblog.

Whilst the criticisms of git's UI are deserved, SVN is hard if you've learnt git first. Merging branches with conflicts is not easy in SVN!

Turns out that you can convert eggs to wheels. Eggs are nice as they save you recompiling, but using wheels gives you pip! Hurrah!

"Like metaclasses, monkeypatching and metapath[s], if you're not already sure you need [..]this feature, you [..]don't need it." Wise words.

Woah, projectile has gone from good to great since I last looked at it. #emacs

OH: "Also, 11 isn't a pseudo-random number. It's 11."

http://t.co/GVzGvwtwth is a pretty good Emacs advocation page, but my brain is still unable to parse .sexy as a TLD.

#emacs Archive Tracker: http://t.co/yrcOeg4DGy Looks like @melpa_emacs has won the most marketshare.

"Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet." -- Bran Ferren

Lifestreams: http://t.co/47XnT46Rcp Not sure we need to throw out the old FS metaphor, but additional ways of displaying it is worthwhile.

I would love a tool that persisted and indexed shell sessions, for later examination or searching. (Go back to paper teletypes?)

C2 wiki is stuffed to the gunnels with gems. For example, http://t.co/KSrdCpXCpx discusses a live 3D collaborative coding environment.

Button to nowhere: https://medium.com/design-ux/77d911517318 interesting UX concept.

"You aren’t serious about OOP until you subclass Class." http://t.co/NmM88BqzaY Superb discussion of OOP and metaobjects by @raganwald.

Emacs has a game-of-life implementation! The kitchen-sink reputation is well deservied.

Arc lisp uses first class anonymous macros to define `defmacro` and `let`! Really impressive.