Palindromes, redux, and the Sufficiently Smart Compiler. #lisp

If Lisp’s great insight was that code is data that programmers can take advantage of that with metaprogramming, then git’s great insight is that code changes are data and programmers can take advantage of that with metachanges. — The Communicative Value of Using Git Well

OMG, 2,3,4 movies in a day… I remember the time when I was able to read 2 to 3 books a day, but I never watched 3 or 4 movies a day. Our best strike with my son was 4-5 episodes of GoT or Walking Dead last Summer.

I haven’t personally found any use for Dark Mode on my Mac. — The Dark Side of Dark Mode and Night Shift

Nor did I, which is why I long deactivated it on my Macbook. Yet I like dark themes for Emacs and iTerm, despite all they say about dark theme mode for text editing.

Mercurial’s Journey to and Reflections on Python 3. String literals are so fucking awesome in Python.

In Python 2, a ’’ string literal is a sequence of bytes. In Python 3, a ’’ string literal is a sequence of Unicode code points. These are fundamentally different types. And in Mercurial’s code base, most of our string types are binary by design: use of a Unicode based str for representing data is flat out wrong for our use case.

  Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex.

Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use. So nice…

CleverCSV is a Python package for handling messy CSV files. #python

Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast. #python