Undeployed code is almost always a liability. Deploy early and often.
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Emacs' hexl-mode is smart enough to ignore line breaks in the ASCII display. Impressive! http://t.co/cLvuQFTb4R
Emacs feature of the day: `M-x calc' supports a dizzying range of arithmetic with arbitrary precision, and keybindings like M-/ work too!
A healthy server setup is one where you can restart a box without fear. It often takes work to reach that point sadly.
What are the disadvantages of open source projects growing? Are there diseconomies of scale?
TinyCC is so fast at compiling that you *can boot Linux from source*. Extraordinary! http://t.co/DQ8ueLPR2b
Fascinating rust compiler deep-dive on the steps necessary to implement incremental compilation: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/594
Excellent example of using ghp-import to generate a gh-pages branch with your HTML docs: http://t.co/40un66gbMB
Developing Windows-friendly Python modules written in C is *hard*. http://t.co/HjjLKa2bDa Microsoft ships a compiler just for this!
Analysis of linguistic structure in doge: http://t.co/81vsFziBMr I particularly like the example of someone *correcting* unidiomatic doge!
Influxdb is an absolute joy to install and use. I'm thinking of migrating to it for server metrics.
Awesome Emacs feature of the day: winner-mode. It lets you undo window changes, helping you keep the perfect layout.
Choosing between -Wall, -Wextra and -Weverything with Clang: http://t.co/eEx2wa1zMu
Do you monitor how many lines of code exist in your projects? Is it a useful thing to do?
Instaparse https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse is an extraordinary parse library. Left/right recursion, ambiguity and some lovely debug tooling.
The LLVM team have released a great document describing how to generate fast LLVM IR from your frontend: http://t.co/XvvdZeTN98
Developing Windows-friendly Python modules written in C is *hard*. http://t.co/HjjLKa2bDa Microsoft ships a compiler just for this!
Fascinating analysis of why it's hard to build a fast JIT for PHP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9123254
My Julia microbenchmark takes 20% less time to run than before (0.3.6 vs 0.3.1), and there's still scope for Julia to get faster! Exciting!
I'm a big fan of the node packaging toolchain, but I was amazed to learn they had 1 billion downloads last month! http://t.co/aA3UPdxaLE
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