libexplain is an interesting library intended to make *nix error codes more friendly: http://t.co/lLMduUDx3y
miniblog.
Proposed an improvement to errors in the rust compiler, and a patch landed in less than a day. Seriously impressed. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25468
Emacs tip of the day: (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always) will ensure that M-v always undoes C-v, so you can go back exactly.
On a related note, moving to company has been one of the best things I've done to my Emacs configuration this year.
company-mode and yasnippet work brilliantly together. Try M-x yasnippet-company to see snippets available. http://t.co/KKdeEFPVtx
"Crates.io is reasonably complex, linking to libgit and such, and still uses roughly 25MB of RAM, constant." Impressive!
Rust 1.0 is out! Great language, wonderful community, excellent package tooling. I'm excited to see where it goes!
Wow, there are already Visual Studio plugins for Rust! http://t.co/Fy9QdAeLn2 -- A great omen for Rust on Windows.
I've tweaked my Emacs configuration default to github-flavoured markdown syntax for .md files. GFM is remarkably common these days.
Lies, damned lies, and floating point arithmetic.
I'm amused/delighted/intrigued by 'the Zen of Pharo'. Very Pythonesque. http://t.co/tza6P50lXi
OH: If premature optimisation is bad, and we should measure first, why not use bubble sort?
It's very rare for HTML/CSS rendering to not be break old sites, but it's interesting that JS changes more aggressively. Eg parseInt("010")
Working with Large ML Code Bases https://ahamsandwich.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/working-with-large-ml-code-bases/ Interesting discussion of the relationship of IDEs and community maturity.
Pharo's online API docs are pretty darn good, though still no substitute for the live environment: http://t.co/zM70FUhL8u
Awesome Emacs package of the day: togetherly https://github.com/zk-phi/togetherly -- lets multiple users edit a buffer together!
Today's I-wish-I'd-known-earlier of Emacs: map-query-replace-regexp. http://t.co/6smi9e8uln
Why the blub paradox makes it impossible to measure programming language usability: http://t.co/TI6fp1O2SE
$9 Linux PC with 512MiB RAM! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer It's amazing how close we are to ubiquitous computing and smart dust.
Today's ingenious Emacs package: syntax highlighting JS using tern! https://github.com/katspaugh/tj-mode
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