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Rust tests every PR against a very impressive range of platforms. No code gets merged if any fail!

I'm also still getting used to Smalltalk-style docstrings. They're 1st person, so eg Set "I represent a set of objects without duplicates".

"Forget it -- do nothing -- sorry I asked". The Pharo IDE has attitude!

The success of microblogs (Twitter, Weibo) and micro vlogs (Vine) is in some ways a vindication of the pomodoro technique. Small is easy.

The excellent, new Emacs website is live!

Delightful blog post showing CLOS (the powerful OO system in Common Lisp): https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch-part-3/ (eg value dispatch is cool, as is :after)

Playing with Dr Racket today. It has some really cute highlighting for stack traces and symbol definitions.

Pharo takes a really interesting approach to recursion: instead of TCO, it just has an unbounded stack! '10000 factorial' just works.

I find subversion-based projects difficult to contribute to. With git pull requests and CI, I know everything is in good order when I merge.

I don't see the value of kitsch 404 pages. Surely it would be better to have a search page that shows pages with similar URLs?

Getting started with the very basics of org-mode is tricky IME. https://emacsboston.org/2016/03/21/getting-started-with-org-mode.htmlhttp:/emacsboston.org/2016/03/21/getting-started-with-org-mode.html is a brilliant introductory talk from Emacs Boston.

Still trying to wrap my head around Pharo shortcuts. There doesn't seem to be systematic scheme, and Ctrl+O+W means either C-o-w or C-o C-w.

The term 'scripting language' is usually meant as 'not a suitable lang for serious projects'. It's a shame, because it's a mental shortcut.

As a Python programmer, Go's fast builds seemed unimpressive. But 'go get' is spectacularly fast—initially I though it didn't do anything!

Another innovative feature of Pharo: you can see diffs at the level of object methods, not dumb text! #pharomooc