And now you can have config files for VS Code as well, thanks to Bodil Stokke: vscode-use-package and vscode-init-script.

Let’s Write an LLVM Specializer for Python!. #python

Ok, Fish shell is great: fewer config files–all in a centralized location, btw–, clean syntax. And it works right out of the box without any plugin! Once I figured out how to setup the $PATH variable, I knew I will probably not look back.

Trying the Fish shell right now. Looks good so far.

The talk that wasn’t: Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus. #lisp

There is now a JS api for Vega-Lite, and it looks quite awesome (i.e., compared to writing raw JSON specs). #javascript #dataviz

TIL about Yack!: The Unified Community Browser.

Season 1 of 12 Monkeys, done.

Racket 7.4 is out! #racket

How many of you are still using or even knowing the APL language? I remember that Jan de Leeuw played a bit with R to resurrect it at the REPL several years ago, and that Nick Cox used to use J in addition to Stata. Never used any of those two languages, but the APL book contains a lot of useful information on designing PL.