On following up on emailing others, as they may often be drowning in email: https://guzey.com/follow-up/
miniblog.
It's fascinating how podcasts have become a thriving indie phenomenon. They're easy to create, require no special equipment, and easy to distribute. What other fields have an appetite for diverse content with little post-production polish?
Google is moving towards making Kotlin the recommended language for Android development!
The Pharo debugger has a super convenient Restart button. This lets you go back to the beginning of the current method and step through it again!
This is really useful when you've executed too far.
Pharo is moving away from representing instance variables and methods as strings. Instead, they're more powerful objects! https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/MarcusDenker/lecture-27685035
This enables autogenerating accessors, ORM style relationships, and easier static analysis of methods.
Excellent discussion of verbosity (many keywords), orthogonality (scalar vs record expressions, calling conversations) and semantics (bizarre equality for NULL) in database query languages, focusing on SQL: https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql/
(Uses 'design by implementation' as derogatory!)
Preserving scroll position on a page even if an ad loads asynchronously or if you rotate your phone!
Signing up to the Raspberry Pi website, and it encourages users to use a password manager! Great to see them teaching good computing practices.
I've learnt a little hg recently, and I really like how it distinguishes local branches that haven't been released yet. With git, a local branch is not shown as diverging from the upstream trunk!
Mercurial has strictly more information here with its notion of phases.
Code completion for Pharo is in GSoC again, looking at type inference and statistical ordering based on recent classes! https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/improving-code-completion-gsoc-2019-introduction-de36e106a12f
Zero cost abstractions, and what persuades other developers to use our abstractions: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/
Wonderful article on Racket, phase separation when expanding macros, and Racket's logging tooling:
Trialling a simpler UI for Twitter, without like/retweet counts:
IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that people are committing fraud to obtain them!
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