I wish I had read this earlier when I stopped myself using Textmate: Coming Home to Vim. The discussion around Vim philospohy for modal editing (verb, noun and adjective) is quite on the point. See, I’m not against Vim itself–I use it to edit those posts, btw–but we need to agree to make some compromise for editing purpose.

Your syntax highlighter is wrong. Interesting take on the importance of comments in code. This reminds me of the arguments advanced by Nikita Prokopov (aka tonsky) for developing his own color theme for various editors:

Alabaster highlights comments. Most schemes try to dim comments by using low-contrast greys. I think if code was complex enough that it deserved an explanation then it’s that explanation we should see and read first. It would be a crime to hide it.

The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (via HN).

  Beirut, The Flying Club Cup.

The Common Lisp Cookbook looks like an essential resource. #lisp

Variables are not values.

Updating Doom Emacs is so much fun compared to Spacemacs on the develop branch. You even get a pointer to check the diff on GH! #emacs

The reason I am using Altair for most of my visualization in Python. I can understand the why – I too find that Matplotlib is not that good when it comes to statistical graphics, and that’s why I used to use R, Stata, Gnuplot or even Mathematica for that purpose. That being said, Altair like D3js are great but they require much more work compared to statistical packages. That’s why DSLs are important. #python #dataviz

DuckDuckGo has been my default search engine since 1.5 years. But there’s more on the market apparently, e.g. startpage.com (via Jack Baty).

Ivre et je confonds le jour
Et la nuit je leur appartiens
A ces songes qui détourent
Hier et demain