If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. – https://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/19/why-emacs/

rga: Meet ripgrep with PDF full-search. (via HN)

[Quickdocs](Library Documentation Hosting for Common Lisp). Like Quicklisp, but for docs. #lisp

Formatting floating point numbers. (via HN)

Currently reading a review on Molecular Population Genetics. I have no idea what movie I can watch to occupy the rest of my evening and I’ll probably end up drinking on my couch, which is also my bed. Bad news from the stars…

  Alboran Trio, Near Gale.

Cultures of programming: Understanding the history of programming through controversies and technical artifacts (PDF, 75 pp.). (via @Jose_A_Alonso)

Significant Pattern Mining for Time Series. I really like such dynamic illustrations.

Interactive Charts with D3.js. (via HN) #dataviz

Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronald L. Rivest.