miniblog.

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.

Nose is excellent for Python unit tests. I really like how it ignores stdout (i.e. print statements) in your passing tests.

Excellent Hacker News comment about constructive disagreement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7236280

Rust's implementation of fasta is the third fastest on the language shootout, and uses no unsafe code. Really impressive.

EmacSQL is a very impressive piece of software. It allows Emacs to talk to all of sqlite, mysql and postgres!

I like publishing projects along with a Chef/Ansible script. It gives users a known-good example of how to install the project