Article exploring some of the most-loved and most-despised programming languages, and exploring the culture around them. With a bit of a laugh thrown in.

A pretty neat list of programming problems, that are intented to be solved in a number of languages and the solutions tested. Good for people getting to grips with a new language, or with programming in general.

As this article says, I've always tended to drop down to the CLI to delete a branch, and ensure it's cleaned from the remote, etc. Somehow I'd never picked up on the fact that Magit just handles this. And of course, it does, Magit does so much!

Fortran wasn't dead, but it did smell a bit funny. Some work to make it a bit more "modern".

Interesting-looking tutorial on making VR apps with the Web.

Handy view of the state of the Common Lisp ecosystem as of 2020.

The Genomics Boot Camp is a resource that helps you to start your journey in practical analysis of genomic data, with a focus on SNP data. The chapters follow the same structure all the time: provide background information and practical insight to the topic, and when appropriate exercises to reinforce the obtained knowledge. The Genomics Boot Camp as a whole was designed to cater to various learning preferences with written text, video demonstrations, and the possibility of hands-on exercises. There is a certain overlap between the book and the YouTube channel contents, but each has unique pieces of information as well. So for the full experience, I suggest checking out both.

Handy approach to processing strings in Python that, in some situations, should save time and memory.

This article opens a series which seeks to answer this very question. We'll dive into the internals of CPython, Python's most popular implementation. By doing so we'll understand the language itself at a deeper level. That is the primary goal of this series. If you're familiar with Python and comfortable reading C but have no much experience working with CPython's source code, there is a good chance you'll find this writing interesting.

Sequence alignment code, in Python, with a good explanation of the problem and the solution.

Very simple config change to git that makes diffs so much more useful for so many more languages -- especially Python in my case.

New implementation of Scheme with a compiler for building standalone applications.

Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.

Article about experimenting with static type checking in Common Lisp.

Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to change some of our underlying assumptions about how we write programs. A promising approach seems to be to separate software that does the work (allopoietic) from software that keeps the system alive (autopoietic).

Another linter of sorts for Python, with an emphasis on code style as defined in PEP 8. I tend to use pylint for linting but this seems to be in favour when using lsp-mode in Emacs.

So the "Director of AI at Tesla" appears to be in the habit of not committing code for at least 2 months at a time, and doesn't do backups... O_o

Handy little blog post that provides an introduction to getting started with ASDF.

Blog post that explains how to get lsp for Python going with Emacs -- especially useful in this case as it relates to virtual environments, pipenv, and also projectile; all things that I make use of for major Python development.

A project to revive and make available Medley Interlisp.

Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.

Guide to writing a parser.

As the title says: a guide to parsing. A fairly comprehensive into to issues relating to writing your own parser.

Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.

Library for Django that provides a GitHub-a-like contribution graph.

Excellent blog post about the conventions normally used for CLI options; and also why Python's argument parser gets it wrong.

Paper that describes how native compilation of Emacs Lisp code can be done. Potentially appearing in Emacs 28, I believe.