An impressive amount of my auto-complete config disappeared when I started using company-dabbrev-code. Nice codebase with good defaults.
miniblog.
The excellent string-edit package (edit strings with escapes) now supports even more major modes! https://github.com/magnars/string-edit.el
If you're stuck figuring out the right C++ API call to use with LLVM, you can dynamically generate example code here! http://t.co/z63J8EOmSM
visual-regexp makes complex regexps painless in Emacs. https://github.com/benma/visual-regexp.el Here I'm doing a little refactoring. http://t.co/Jyqw3u8BNa
Debugging a compiler, even a simple one, is amazingly subtle. You can have great test coverage and nasty bugs waltz past your test suite.
A browser with ad blocking can be more secure: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/ Many ad companies want to be trusted with injecting arbitrary JS.
An increasing number of interesting projects are not available as linux packages. Do developers prefer language package tooling now?
Lisp machines and Forth environments were full-stack monolingual. How do we design good languages for systems, apps and interactive shells?
Duck programming: https://unspace.ca/dev/2012/duck-programming is a classic antipattern of programmable systems (see also 'inner platform effect')
Choosing Smalltalk On Porpoise https://medium.com/@richardeng/choosing-smalltalk-on-porpoise-9bccb7cd53f nice discussion of the perks of the Smalltalk environment
Collaborative editing is one of those fascinating areas where the goal is clear but the implementation is not: http://t.co/igWf75n3TB
I've released ag.el 0.46! https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el/blob/master/docs/changelog.rst#046 Not only does search output now include stats, but typical usage saves a whole keystroke!
Emacs' read-from-minibuffer is great for common cases, but it's annoying when you want a default: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el/commit/54a3e3a876c5839b7aa63e866da00b78a3bedc32
Amazing long form article that suggests targeted advertising is bad for brands in the long run: http://t.co/j0FbOAhNxD
The RISC-V specification is full of interesting discussions of ISA design goals. http://t.co/6SG5TB6Riw http://t.co/Tyl6GTBx2N
Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors http://t.co/NBDpkKCFsN -- great discussion of programming language design philosophy.
Wow, Common Lisp has some amazing documentation tooling! http://t.co/9U6m166yIY (It's interesting to see less use of UPPER-CASE-SYMS too.)
F-expressions and call/cc are often regarded as elegant but far too powerful. Are there other language features like this?
To what extent are our jobs being automated, and to what extent should they be? http://t.co/Y5rxMJX3hN
I'm playing with use-package after http://t.co/jdSq57nl5S has persuaded me it's well worth using.
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