A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Your Text Editor is Malware
Deciphering Glyph : Your Text Editor Is Malware
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What's going on behind the scenes at Scripting News
Worth a listen : Podcast: What’s going on behind the scenes at Scripting News Also :
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Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp
Interesting to go back to Stevey’s Blog Rant from 2006. Quite perceptive … the ascendent Lisps today, at least the ones that have caught my attention, are Clojure and Racket. Neither of which really existed at the time he was writing (although Racket’s ancestor, Dr. Scheme did). Both of which do, indeed, have offered a…
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Tab Stack
Here’s a thought. Wouldn’t it be awesome if editors / environments that could open multiple windows / tabs could have a “stack” semantics for it. I mean in browsers, the terminal application etc. It would be great when I have something new to do to be able to open a new environment / tab to…
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Recovery
This blog is now cleaned of infection and back online. Still working through other applications on my server.
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Websites Under Attack
Some of my websites seem to be under attack at the moment. Or rather, WordPress hosting is infected by some kind of PHP virus. So, I’m in the process of containing and fixing the issues. First I’m using the extremely useful HTTrack to make flat copies and swap the live-sites for these. In fact, I’m…
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Things to think about
A blurst of fascinating things to think about today: Rich Hickey’s “Language of the System” : Johnathan Edwards’s “Two Way Dataflow” : Grokking Reactive Demand Programming
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Handmade Manifesto
There’s a lot to like about the Handmade Manifesto. But I wish it hadn’t been quite so conflated with talk of avoiding abstraction and hand-rolled efficiency. Anyway, I’ll keep an eye on it.
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Patterning …
So I wasn’t actually planning this. But I’ve been working on Patterning again in the last week or so. There’s a new version coming. The bad news is that it’s going to break the “API” and your existing code. 🙁 The good news is that there will now actually BE an API. A real one,…
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Colourize Clojure Errors
Clojure is a wonderful language. The more I use it, the more I like it. But the default error reporting is catastrophically bad, forcing you to look through screensful of Java stack-trace for the needle of a bit of code that’s actually yours. I’m sure there are better solutions, but today I just hacked a…
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