Use Python? Use Emacs? I've just released a tool for managing your imports! https://github.com/Wilfred/pyimport
miniblog.
I keep reading about computing visionaries (Richard Stallman, Alan Kay) who respond to a large volume of email. It doesn't scale! Blog?
Amazingly, Emacs support for MSDOS is still being maintained! https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/bffda223c210832f535e753585235a791fb6e2f3
Great discussion of the perils of self-modifying elisp code: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20535/why-the-constant-in-let-designed-in-this-way
C-u M-: (buffer-file-name) ; in a pinch, but better to have a proper command! https://twitter.com/emacs/status/746749873018408960
Ever wondered if pip has broken some dependencies in your virtualenv? The patch I proposed has landed! https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3750#event-704050290
"Static vs. Dynamic" Is the Wrong Question https://www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2016-06-18-static-vs-dynamic-wrong-question.html (great post, not zealotry. 'Static types' are a suite of distinct tools)
Great overview of operating systems that took a different (sometimes better!) approach than Unix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020
ThinLTO: https://blog.llvm.org/2016/06/thinlto-scalable-and-incremental-lto.html (output is nearly as good as LTO, but compile times close to -O2!)
Programmatically refactoring JavaScript: https://www.toptal.com/javascript/write-code-to-rewrite-your-code (really neat, versatile tooling)
Fun article exploring the test suite of the venerable Make: https://lowlevelbits.org/system-under-test-gnu-make/
Meta means Alt in Emacs, but meta means ctrl/cmd in Pharo. It's endianess all over again!
Monads provide explicit sequencing. A pure language with monads would be a great for Ethereum (though smart contracts would still be scary)
Cog, the excellent bytecode VM used by Smalltalk impls, has moved to GitHub! https://forum.world.st/Moving-the-Cog-subversion-repository-to-githup-at-2016-6-16-7am-UTC-td4901056.html (langs not on GH may become a minority)
Toward Understanding Compiler Bugs in GCC and LLVM https://chengniansun.bitbucket.org/papers/issta16.pdf (interesting findings: C++ is hard, unit tests are worth it)
The “C is Efficient” Language Fallacy https://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/02/the-c-is-efficient-language-fa/ (it's often the most efficient lang devs know, but not the fastest outright)
Maintainers matter: https://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/ (excellent defence of the Linux distro model and why app stores are not a panacea)
Interestingly, Rust will be adding a C-style untagged union datatype: https://github.com/joshtriplett/rfcs/blob/untagged_union/text/0000-union.md
what3words: https://what3words.com/ and Urbit both explore mapping numbers to pronounceable words/sounds. Is this a new trend? Why now?
Superb blog post on implementing multi methods in Racket: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/02/18/simple-safe-multimethods-in-racket/ (has an interesting design with novel safety features)
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