HOPL 4 is out. Lot of interesting articles on the hsitory of (many) programming languages, including an article by John Chambers on S, R, and data science.

Everyone is constantly online, and the need for statuses has seemingly disappeared. But has it really? Toggling between online and offline may not be all that useful anymore, but along with that we lost a way to specify whether we want to talk or not. At best you’ll get a green dot meaning only “they’re looking at the screen right now”, or a note saying “last seen 10 minutes ago” – which could just mean that they woke up, checked the screen and went back to sleep. Combine that with the absurd amount of competing platforms, and your best bet at “hey everyone, I need to talk” is messaging every single person on every single platform and hoping that they respond. — I miss being online

Worse, it turns out that nobody else found all this stuff to be fascinating. Even though GPG has been around for almost 20 years, there are only ~50,000 keys in the “strong set,” and less than 4 million keys have ever been published to the SKS keyserver pool ever. By today’s standards, that’s a shockingly small user base for a month of activity, much less 20 years. — GPG And Me

Signal is pushing the envelope when it comes to forgetting information about its users. And as far as my technical knowledge goes I choose to trust Signal that they are doing whatever they can to stay the most private and secure messenger out there. — Signal - the secure messenger

Teddy: A data framework for Common Lisp, wanna be like Pandas for Python. #lisp

DBCore: Generate applications powered by your database.

I’ve spent one hour this morning to build this little snippet in R. I’m so used to base R that using dplyr/tidyr stuff is painful at time, although chaining operations like this makes the workflow of data management so much more readable for other people. #rstats

Emacs as Email Client - Part I. Note taking as plain text attachments and reduced distraction mode are two of the most valuable features of mu4e, IMHO. #emacs

Demystifying text editor keystrokes. (via Irreal)

A List of Hacker News’s Undocumented Features and Behaviors.