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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…

  • Recovery

    This blog is now cleaned of infection and back online. Still working through other applications on my server.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Why use Twitter for identity?

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

  • 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?