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2021-04-26 14:16 #

Lovely autocorrection by Git, although 0.1s is a bit too quick for me, especially when I don’t look at the screen (I often perform incremental commits using a combination of git add . && git amend, where amend is aliased to amend = commit --amend --reuse-message=HEAD).

git amend

2021-04-26 14:09 #

Currently reading Common Lisp by Example, and I feel like it is quite a good introduction to LISP in just under 60 pages. #lisp

2021-04-25 22:17 #

JavaScript for Data Science. Great work, but still I don’t like the omnibus word “Data Science”.

2021-04-25 22:16 #
2021-04-25 22:09 #

If you want a single piece of advice to reduce your bug count, it’s this: Re-read your code frequently. After writing a few lines of code (3 to 6 lines, a short block within a function), re-read them. That habit will save you more time than any other simple change you can make. — Don’t write bugs

2021-04-25 22:08 #
2021-04-25 12:15 #

Go is simple to read, Rust is complicated, C++ is familiar, Zig looks promising but is too young to judge. — A “better C” benchmark

2021-04-25 12:13 #