Wandering Thoughts archives

2023-09-22:	Changing GNU Emacs Lisp functions through `advice-add`, not brute force
2023-09-18:	Making a function that defines functions in GNU Emacs ELisp
2023-09-14:	An important difference between `intern` and `make-symbol` in GNU Emacs ELisp
2023-09-11:	GNU Emacs, use-package, and key binding for mode specific keymaps
2023-08-28:	Go 1.22's (likely) new `reflect.TypeFor()` generic function
2023-08-11:	Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data
2023-08-09:	A program's (effective) log messages can have many sources
2023-08-08:	Programs shouldn't commit to fixed and predictable log messages
2023-07-28:	The issue with control flow in interpreters using the 'eval' pattern
2023-07-24:	The 'eval' pattern for interpreting simple languages
2023-07-09:	Polymorphism and other important aspects of inheritance
2023-06-23:	Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default
2023-06-19:	Failing to draw lines between 'script' and 'program'
2023-06-18:	One temptation of shell scripting is reusing other people's code
2023-06-07:	A retrospective on my thesis about language niches, fifteen years later
2023-05-25:	That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
2023-05-20:	Some notes on the cost of Go finalizers (in Go 1.20)
2023-05-14:	Why I use separate lexers in my recursive descent parsers
2023-04-22:	The two types of C programmers (a provocative thesis)
2023-04-19:	An interesting mistake I made with a (Go) SSH client API
2023-04-10:	Failing to build a useful pre Go 1.21 static Go toolchain on Linux
2023-04-07:	Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux
2023-03-27:	Moving from 'master' to 'main' in Git with local changes
2023-03-05:	An unexciting idea: Code changes have context
2023-02-12:	The case for atomic types in programming languages
2023-02-01:	C was not created as an abstract machine (of course)
2023-01-28:	I should assume contexts aren't retained in Go APIs
2023-01-16:	Backporting changes is clearly hard, which is a good reason to avoid it
2023-01-10:	My Git settings for carrying local changes on top of upstream development

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