Information about the latest version of my ‘spacious-padding’ package for GNU Emacs.

There was a weird thought going over and over in my head, regarding my Emacs configuration, and it extends to the other projects I do both at home and at work. You see, my configuration is riddled with custom code, and up until recently I had mixed feelings…

Random thoughts about programming

Random thoughts about programming

I see today they released Gleam version 1. Let's try it!
Gleam is a BEAM language. That is, it runs on the Erlang abstract machine (the BEAM). I've already got that installed because Elixir needs it too.
❯ iex Erlang/OTP 25 [erts-13.1.5] [source] [64-bit]…

I guess most Rubyists know that you can use the methods Integer#succ1 and its alias Integer#next to increment a number. E.g.: 1.succ # => 2 The method is rarely used directly, but it’s used internally by ranges to compute the elements within the range boundaries:…

This week on "Code Dive" we'll be taking a deeper look at Emacs' built-in project.el to see what interesting features or Emacs Lisp tricks we can discover. If we have time, we'll try hacking on some customizations using the hooks that this package provides!…

Ruby is famous (infamous?) for giving us many ways to do the same thing. One aspect of this is that quite a few methods in core classes have aliases, especially in the Enumerable module. E.g.: collect -> map inject -> reduce detect -> find select -> find_all…

Recently I wrote that it was already possible to run RuboCop with Ruby’s new Prism parser, but that required a bit of manual work. I also outlined some plans to add built-in Prism support in RuboCop. 1 Today I’m happy to report that last week we’ve released…