Wow, I had no idea @pharocloud existed. Very cool to see Pharo-specific application hosting!
miniblog.
Interesting to see a Rust raytracer compile faster than the equivalent C++: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2014/10/20/writing-a-path-tracer-in-rust-part-7-conclusion - that itself is a compelling advantage.
New version of pypy is out! http://t.co/QcTwH3qbfe 2.5.0 shows some impressive performance gains in an already mature project.
Learnt today that x86 has UD2, a deliberately invalid opcode for testing. It's a big instruction set.
LLVM is the first curly-braced language project I've hacked on that uses UpperCaseVariableNames. New conventions are always hard at first.
Pharo 4 will define ifTrue: on non-booleans, adding truthiness to Pharo (for better or worse): http://t.co/A7wNcGVqa9
Generational GC lands in Julia! https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8699 I'm also flattered some of my benchmarks were useful.
"I was surprised by the power and I say that as a Lisp programmer that's used to modifying live systems." http://t.co/9ODcn5L070 (on Pharo)
Crouton (a tool for running 'normal Linux' on a Chromebook) has the most wonderfully written FAQ: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton#hey-now-ubuntu-1204-is-pretty-old-im-young-and-hip
Managed to segfault LLVM's llc today. Tried to reproduce on trunk, which doesn't compile on my machine. Time to file some bugs!
Blogged: Taming a Wild Elasticsearch Cluster: http://t.co/zoqPp4WuPe
Started prefixing my emacs.d functions with wh/. I haven't had name collisions, but I'm tired of 'just call FOO! Oh, that's not built-in...'
Since getting llvm-mode on @melpa_emacs, there have been more patches in January than all of 2014. If you build it (& share it), they come!
Turns out that elisp is a very transferrable skill. Many language communities benefit from a few elisp hackers to help with tooling.
Emacs package of the day: ace-window. Bind it to `C-x o' and save yourself cycling through. https://github.com/abo-abo/ace-window
Pharo's Morph has methods with categories 'debug and other', 'miscellaneous' and 'utilities'. It's hard to categorise everything!
I'm considering developing a basic Pharo workspace with Emacs shortcuts. Does that go against the Smalltalk style? (It'd be a fun project.)
A virus that modifies your compiler to insert the virus in newly compiled programs: http://t.co/1VAfnhXUGX (not quite trusting-trust though)
I've started using company-clang instead of autocomplete and hippie-expand, and... whoa. It's superb. http://t.co/YzN4RF8nX2
"In 2008, Cobb Tuning made a splash when they [cracked] encryption on the Nissan GT-R." Welcome to the future! http://t.co/vRDDprJQdV
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