Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems.

Eventually you’ll be both fast and good.

That’s where the bat hurts, sometimes.

TIL how to get proper ligatures with Iosevka font in Emacs when running in GUI mode (which we get for free in iTerm for basic ligatures, like <-). See the instructions at the end of this issue. #emacs

Learning Parser Combinators With Rust. #rust

Efficient Leave-One-Out Brier Score for time-dependent evaluation of Bayesian Survival Models. #rstats

indextree: Arena based tree structure with multithreading support. #rust

Want quick tips and tricks for using Git efficiently? Try http://gitready.com!

Information Theory for Intelligent People (PDF, 15 pp.). (via HN)

A Pragmatic Introduction to Signal Processing. (via HN)

Memory management in Python. #python

Killing a process and all of its descendants. There’re some subtleties to learn regarding nohup and exec and how UNIX systems handle sessions and processes.