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Apparently it's common for Scheme implementations (not just Guile) to include partial demo implementations of other programming languages.

Emacs command of the day: facemenu-set-underline. If you don't have syntax highlighting, facemenu lets you experiment.

Related to IPFS, filecoin: https://filecoin.io/ is a beautiful idea. Pay for remote backup storage by renting your storage!

A global, P2P, versioned data store! IPFS is a really interesting idea and works better than I expected.

I think I use anaphoric macros more than any other kind. Macro hygiene has its place, but --map in dash is so darn readable.

What happens if you insert a char after propertized text? Turns out you can configure it! Sticky properties: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sticky-Properties.html #emacs

Scheme is a lovely language. The more I play with it, the more I like it. I'm hopeful R7RS will lead to more portability.

Why should *you* make a programming language? Lots of good reasons!

How to measure quality of discussion online? This methodology uses the ratio of Kardashian mentions to 'thinkers':

Polyglot programmers are often very effective. They can take designs tested in one language and benefit another!

TIL that git log takes a grep option! You can search for commit message containing a string with $ git log --all --grep='my search string'

PouchDB is now shipping a compiled (combined, tree-shaken) JS file to npm! https://pouchdb.com/2016/01/13/pouchdb-5.2.0-a-better-build-system-with-rollup.html (elegant solution overall)

GitLab has a brilliant merge option: require fast-forwards. This ensures that passed tests==build will be green!

How hard is it to compile Guile Emacs? Recent GCC has started optimising the code such that malloc doesn't work!

Guile uses vlists extensively (essentially a linked list of vectors). They're fast, support shared tails, and (pet peeve) always proper!