Some Jazz chill for the morning session.

The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in ePub format. #emacs

Slideas is the easiest way to create a beautiful Markdown Presentation, with all the features you need. (via Brett Terpstra)

Concurrent programming, with examples. #clang

Modern Statistics for Modern Biology, by Susan Holmes & Wolfgang Huber. #rstats

Shell scripting for personal productivity.

The thing about blogging is, you can just write about the things you love. A “professional” “critic” (scare quotes because who even knows what words mean anymore) has to do something else, something more difficult: manage a kind of unfolding… aesthetic… worldview? Balance one thing against the other? A blogger suffers no such burden. — The thing about blogging is

About to finish the 6th of The 100… Given the obvious lack of motivation for routine work, I think the best option for the next few days is to write some Stata and Lisp code.

Rust has also mostly replaced Go as my go-to language for writing small performance-sensitive programs, like the numerical simulators I use a lot. Go replaced C in that role for me, and joined R and Python as my day-to-day go-to tools. I’ve found that I still spend more time writing a Rust program than I do Go, and more than C (except where C is held back by a lack of sane data structures and string handling). I’ve also found that programs seem more likely to work on their first run, but haven’t made any effort to quantify that. — Two Years With Rust

Nice specs for System76 laptops.