miniblog.

I'm generally happy with C-like syntax, but C/C++ still throw me for a loop sometimes. Bitfield syntax is new to me:

Rather than an adblocker, what if everyone ran a tool that automatically clicked every ad? https://adnauseam.io/ (measure conversions?)

How can we make online newspaper comment sections more like Letters To The Editor? Must we pre-approve everything?

Deuce (an Emacs clone in Clojure) has a wonderful Emacsy homepage:

What sort of bugs does flyspell.el have? Naturally, spelling mistakes!

Minix and how it has won mindshare in a way that Hurd struggled to: https://www.reddit.com/r/hurd/comments/273tij/hurd_the_minix_3_microkernel/chxycem/ (due to seL4, Redox I'm excited re microkernels)

How My 10-Year-Old Learned Javascript https://hackernoon.com/how-my-10-year-old-learned-javascript-d8782b586db7 (after Scratch, used JS over Python: more visual and a natural UI component)

I think of FP practices as being young, but *Fortran* supports annotations for explicit inputs, outputs and purity!

I used to think DCE and constant propagation were pointless: eg clean code shouldn't have dead sections. But inlining creates opportunities!

Interesting thread: argues that fake news is just a subset of the clickbait problem. https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/809506887133790208

An elegant blog post demonstrating conversion to A-Normal Form (important in SSA in compilers) using Liquid Haskell:

How language design leads to AOT compilation or a JIT, and how Swift tries a hybrid approach:

Dependency resolution is NP-complete, and many package managers use external SAT solvers!

Why does NPM's policy of duplicated deps work? https://stackoverflow.com/q/25268545 (JS practices around encapsulation tend to prevent problems)

Great overview of the first lisp, which even invented conditional statements!