Yikes! Talk about scary tweets on Halloween...

This thread is spot on.

I'd been wondering about what became of the subject of "Computer Literacy" as we called it when I was in K-12 and saw this today. I love the "learning to program" and "programming to learn" synergy of the Explicative Programming vision described here. m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021…

I appreciate that the Python license specifically addresses the topic of "examples, recipes, and other code in the documentation". This should be the norm. docs.python.org/3/license.html…

What's the predominant package management strategy for #emacs these days? Built-in package.el? straight.el? What would you choose if you were restarting your Emacs setup from scratch?

Love this!! I 100% believe an interview for the right job SHOULD feel fun. (FWIW on our team we've spent a lot of time developing an interview that reflects the work—and we review our process after every few interviews we do.)

Input is still my favorite font for coding. With these settings, to be specific: input.djr.com/preview/?size=…

Just when you thought that linear-probing hash tables are about as old-hat as data structures get...

✨ New article: Peritext, a CRDT for rich-text collaboration 📄 This one was hard work. We went through at least half a dozen algorithm designs until we found one that worked! Joint work with Geoffrey Litt Nintendo .DS_Store and Peter van Hardenberg at Ink & Switch inkandswitch.com/peritext/

TIL: In Emacs, the C-x 8 prefix sequence can be used to enter multi-byte characters. E.g., `C-x 8 +` will produce ±. `C-x 8 RET` allows the entering of arbitrary characters by name or hex. `C-x 8 C-h` shows all the available mappings.

I updated my take on "Accountability: The Good Parts" medium.com/@kentbeck_7670…

Readable, evident tests are just as important as readable, evident production code.

Good food for thought and discussion here.

Getting the itch to do some C (or maybe C++) programming for fun. It's been 17 years since I worked with C professionally and longer since I dabbled in C++. Any recommendations of resources for coming up to speed with current language features and commonly accepted style?

There is such a large difference between a prototype and a system. Yet, in a world of 15 seconds attention they look just the same.

Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation is probably the best example of technical documentation in my collection. It's a masterpiece!