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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

I don't know if HTML+JS is the best way to design an editor, but I love that GitHub is exploring the boundaries of what is possible.

It's oddly satisfying to have a page where HTML rendering the bottleneck, not the backend. (The solution is lazy content loading I think.)

LLVM 3.6 is out! http://t.co/Tvi5AAeSPZ Includes a huge number of improvements.

Emacs hook tip: try to just add functions to hooks, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode #'eldoc-mode). It's easier to remove functions than lambdas.

Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs http://t.co/998njQunmB Full of great advice and broadly applicable.