Posts from 2016 - Wilfred miniblog

Did you know there's a subreddit for org-mode? https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode (seems justified: ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org/ contains 119KLOC!)

Red (the language) supports some very elegant DSLs. Here's Parse, a lovely way of defining grammars:

Are you comparing floating point numbers? Choosing a correct value for epsilon is impossible in the general case:

Woah, even in 2010, a license for OpenGenera (ancient lisp machine software) costs $5,000 to run on a single CPU! https://www.lispmachine.net/symbolics.txt

I like to think of Emacs being programmed in uncommon lisp.

Excitingly, there's a @pharoproject MOOC next month! https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about I've signed up, because I'm fascinated by live programming.

"what you’re bad at is not email, it’s transactional interactions" https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html (superb post on how we interact electronically)

Turns out that you can use magit-popup as a standalone library! https://magit.vc/manual/magit-popup.html I'm prototyping and so far, it works really well.

Multithreaded matrix multiplication in Rust with rayon: https://athemathmo.github.io/2016/04/16/multithreading-multiplication-1.html (comes pretty close to BLAS in some cases!)

Elisp can have long symbols, but tramp-sh-handle-start-file-process--magit-tramp-process-environment (from magit-process.el) is remarkable.

"Other than trying to support Emacs versions from two decades ago, there's never a reason to sharp quote a lambda."

It's rather shocking to see the team sizes of multibillion dollar startups: https://medium.com/@foundercollective/you-need-less-than-you-think-a8f6d0f84cbd#.j3jvvqwvq (bubble and/or productivity today?)

"Implementation errors found in 10% of privsep programs"—pledge is a rare seccomp tool that is friendly and useful.

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