Urgh, something has gone wrong when you seriously consider writing (cons my-regexp ''my-face) ;; yep, two quotes! http://t.co/Tovbkig1E8
miniblog.
Emacs' string model is quite different to anything else I've experienced. They're mutable ropes that can also store arbitrary attributes.
"In Pharo 4, the Inspector and Playground from the Glamorous Toolkit (a part of [Moose]) are now the default." Exciting!
I've seen * used in curse words, but I'm surprised the docstrings in Emacs write 'Un*x' (e.g. man and woman).
Elisp package of the day: eldoc-eval: https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/eldoc-eval It shows eldoc on the modeline when you use M-: http://t.co/ueyTahxrtD
Dilemma: should the minibuffer (using eldoc or equivalent) show the function parameters or docstring? #emacs
Emacs is now on git! http://t.co/sKyXDs5PhW http://t.co/CWtNiDBm55
3 stages of code reading: understanding the flow, understanding the details, then assaulting the code until you're persuaded it's correct.
Comparing compilation strategy in GHC, Mlton and Julia: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2ldvae/why_julia_and_why_not_haskell/cluo8fg
I've seen several Go programmers cite garbage-collection as one of the things they like. Sounds like it is attracting C/C++ programmers.
The code itself matters far less than the team and the culture around it. Code will be different in 5 years, a quality culture should not.
Towards a Vim-like Emacs http://t.co/4aAXHtBAg8 Great intro for people of all backgrounds. I learnt a new command! kill-buffer-and-window
Bosun is an interesting new monitoring tool that treats metrics as an integral part of monitoring. http://t.co/GM8y17Smq2
Elasticsearch gets better with every release. 1.2 has been very reliable on our write-heavy cluster with big datasets (1.1 struggled).
I have helped several companies move to git, but nothing in the same league as ESR's amazing Emacs migration. http://t.co/MLbREbAz9j
Julia's a lovely language to hack on. I hope it gains the traction it deserves.
Writing decent indentation for a major mode is very hard. You need a non-trivial performant parser. I dare not look at perl-mode or C++.
I often get interesting emails when I blog.After my highlighting post, I learnt about nifty performance highlighting: http://t.co/Rp3sLxOoaH
"This patch is made 100% of completely irredeemable pure evil." Parsing elisp is actually pretty difficult. https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters/pull/1
"We had more luck than anyone deserves with things working out just enough to suffice and do what we did." -- Wozniak http://t.co/JWszdkYIVA
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