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2020-09-14 13:31 #

Git Magic is really great, especially chapters 7 and 8. #git

2020-09-14 12:47 #
2020-09-14 11:03 #

Hlint is such a killer feature for writing Haskell in Vim or Emacs!

hlint

2020-09-14 09:53 #
2020-09-13 21:03 #

Longer functions contain more code, and the more code developers write the more mistakes they are likely to make.
But wait, the evidence shows that most reported faults occur in short functions.
This is true, at least in Java. It is also true that most of a Java program’s code appears in short methods (in C 50% of the code is contained in functions containing 114 or fewer lines, while in Java 50% of code is contained in methods containing 4 or fewer lines). It is to be expected that most reported faults appear in short functions. — Impact of function size on number of reported faults

2020-09-12 20:36 #

TIL that Helm development is now stalled (via Bastien Guerry). I’m using Ivy from a while ago now, but my heart goes out to helm’s advanced users, like Manuel Uberti. #emacs

2020-09-12 20:34 #
2020-09-12 20:33 #

fastmac: Get a MacOS or Linux shell, for free, in around 2 minutes.