Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves. #emacs

Julia 1.7 Highlights. #julia

It took little under a decade for the headline feature developer Jon Skinner added to Sublime Text’s second version to become one of the defining features of this decade’s software. — The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again

When I first started using Rust, I really missed monads. But here’s the thing. Having used lots of monads in Haskell, and read lots of blog posts about monads, I’ve learned that in systems contexts, it’s often best to just have a simple monad stack that just consists of Reader + IO (and Maybe’s and Option’s sprinkled about occasionally). Huge monad transformer stacks often raise more problems than they solve. But Reader + IO is essentially the “default monad stack” of Rust. — Haskell’s Children

Introducing Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp. #lisp

First attempt looks nice:

Not to say, but this should be the 2958th post since 2018-02-15, when I first launch this micro-blog. Other than that there are 586 posts available on the regular blog, of which 319 were written the last 4 years. #this

  Alice in Chains, Facelift. Long time no see.

The Arcane Algorithm Archive.

If you are looking for some small or largish dataset for your statistical machinery, don’t forgetStatSci.org.