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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:

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.

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