I still find myself comparing my output buffers to those produced by magit. It takes full advantage of the Emacs design.
miniblog.
We have mobile-first website design, but what about PL design? What would a PL coded entirely on mobiles look like?
Reflections: The ecosystem is moving https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ (on the merits of open source, but centralised systems)
Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp, is (back?) under active development!
Great post on federated systems, iterating protocols, and the web:
"Since I'd worked for days to find somewhere to insert a single char, I also added a comment" https://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2013/02/chasing-space-leak-in-shake.html (fixing space leaks)
Emacs is full of specialised commands that you don't need right now, but knowing their existence will help later. Eg `C-x C-t' or `C-x C-x'.
Trying to wrap my head around the Emacs package Hyperbole today. Allowing M-RET in eshell to open dired is handy.
I *still* come across interesting Emacs projects that are only available on EmacsWiki. I'm glad they're available, but it's less convenient.
ao: a scheme-based, homoiconic language for 3D models: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/ (manipulable data structures makes the world of difference!)
Yankpad is a nifty yasnippet alternative that provides contextual snippets from org files: https://kungsgeten.github.io/yankpad.html #emacs
TIL that CompCert, the incredible formally verified compiler, is maintained on GitHub! https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert (it's not FOSS, however)
"RSS solved too many problems to be allowed to live" https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/08/17/the-future-of-the-planet/ Fun, candid discussion of the role of RSS aggregators today.
Superb introduction to writing an interpreter, written entirely as a couple of reddit comments:
"It's a good time to be using Emacs" https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/4086#issuecomment-237184870 (because of things like flycheck being superb and mature!)
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