miniblog.

.@discourse is shaping up into an amazing community project. I've previously looked at mailman, but I'm tempted to take discourse for a spin

Rather than just KeyError, I wish Python said "No such key 'fooz', did you mean 'foo'?"

€3/year hosting at http://t.co/M2UxKWOeFY. Too good to be true?

Turns out I've inadvertently reimplemented GNU Stow in my dotfiles repo. Nice to know I can switch to a widely used tool.

How does a lisper explain their language's semantics? Just by showing the code for eval! http://t.co/8bLJsbhLen

Interesting to learn that Postgres is used more than MySQL in Python and Ruby communities: http://t.co/nmq9q2noie

I'm amused that the requests library has GitHub issue tags 'needs BDFL input' and 'minion seal of approval'.

Advanced magit: http://t.co/eVxJfhMU2b

That unfortunate moment when you hit a bug and find a TODO in the source code for that issue.

#emacs tip: with magit, C-u S will stage all untracked files.

"If you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long” -- Reid Hoffman

f.el makes working with files in #emacs much nicer, I've thrown away several personal utility functions and gained a nicer API.

The most innovative project I've seen this year: http://t.co/NYsOB4wqZP It's a wiki that allows you to edit code as well as text.

@uptimerobot If you're only checking sites every 5 minutes, why does your site say I had a downtime of 4 minutes?

Whilst a personal collection of code snippets is useful, I've found it more useful to put them on SO. There's usually a relevant question.