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  • Why use Twitter for identity?

    Dave Winer on why he’s using Twitter for identity?

  • Clojure Reader Conditionals

    So Clojure is getting Reader Conditionals ie. a way to put Clojure / ClojureScript etc. variants into ordinary source files. It’s like .cljx files but without the separate pre-processor. Now the Clojure / ClojureScript compilers themselves will be able to pick out the variant of the code relevant to them. Most of Patterning’s core is…

  • Figwheel

    Wow! Figwheel looks pretty damned interesting. Another item for my Mind Traffic Control queue … try using it for Patterning apps.

  • Project ThoughtStorms fixes

    While on the subject of Project ThoughtStorms, I realized that the tools Quick Paste and Compare were broken. These are now working again. Quick Paste lets you quickly paste a a bunch of paragraphs of text and get back an SFW formatted file that can be dropped directly into your pages directory in an SFW…

  • WTF SourceForge?

    Seriously?

  • SdiDesk VB.NET on GitHub

    At one point I had SdiDesk converted to VB.NET because VB Classic was clearly deprecated and maybe VB.NET was the future. In the event I never really liked this idea or immersed myself in VB.NET. But the code was sitting around on Google Code hosting. Now Google Code is shutting down, I did the automatic…

  • Conceptual Refactoring : Project GeekWeaver

    A few years ago I looked at some of the programs I was writing, both for public release and libraries / scripts for internal consumption, and realized that even I was confused. I needed a new map to understand what I was doing. Hence I came up with Project ThoughtStorms. A quick and dirty overview…

  • Node-RED

    Yahoo Pipes may be dead, but Node Red seems to be the device swarm orchestrating, data-flow programming tool I was hoping it might evolve into. It’s free software, it runs on everything including RaspberryPi and talks pub-sub protocols like MQTT.   Source: Node-RED

  • Why do IDEs get criticized so much?

    My Quora answer : Simon Kinahan‘s answer is good, though I think he’s over-emphasizing the snobbery aspect. What’s definitely true is that IDEs are often not particularly optimized for the application you want to write. And often they’re optimized for the application you DON’T want to write. This is particularly true as, like most user-facing…

  • WebAssembly

    The browser keeps evolving to become a more comprehensive platform, operating system. WebAssembly is a new proposed standard bytecode that the major browser-makers are committing to support. It will interop with javascript (I believe) and HTML5 APIs, and is intended as a compile-target for other languages. More information here.

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