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I’m a little unusual. I use Emacs. That alone is unusual. But I get the impression that even amongst Emacs users, I’m in the minority in another way: I use the default keybindings. I love them. A lot of new Emacs users seem to insist on jamming vim keys into Emacs, but not me. These…

I’m not a professional translator, but I know what I like in fiction. When I was a Mexican kid in the 1980s we used to get old re-runs of the Flintstones in Spanish. Of course, my English wasn’t very good when I was very young, and I didn’t know them as “the Flintstones at all.”…

I wrote my Advent of Code in D. The programming language. It was the first time I used D in earnest every day for something substantial. It was fun and I learned things along the way, such as easy metaprogramming, concurrency I could write correctly, and functional programming that doesn’t feel like I have one…

So, let’s get this going!

Consider the following Mercurial screenshot: This might look bewildering at first. It’s a custom hg wip command, a variation of hg log. You can see the DAG on the left, what looks like commit summaries in white, and what looks like usernames in mauve. This is not what stock Mercurial looks like, but in my…

Note: in order to satisfy the exquisite tastes of today’s discerning internet readers, the following blog post is written in Cracked.com style. We have been using open source for so long that we have forgotten, culturally, where it came from. It seems so natural and ubiquitous that we can no longer remember how things were…

So this post made the rounds a couple of days ago, and it got me thinking… can Mercurial (hg) do any better? I think it can, especially with Evolve. Here is me describing how Evolve works: As to the movie, if you have not seen it yet, you might want to wait until after you…

I just spent 5 days at PyCon 2014 here in Montréal (3 days for the actual conference, 2 days sprinting), and wow, what a great conference that was. There are many things I want to praise about the whole experience. The venue was great, the organisation was superb, the talks were interesting, the infrastructure was…

So, we want to know if this is going to work out.