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Ferrier on Agile

Posted on 2015-04-07 by jcs

InfoQ has a nice interview with Nic Ferrier on good software and agile. Irreal has mentioned Ferrier several times: he’s a good hacker and someone who deserves to be taken seriously. Ferrier’s take is the agile is a way to … Continue reading →

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Support Melpa

Posted on 2022-02-09 by jcs

I’ve said this several times but, really, MELPA is one of Emacs’ great resources. Think for a moment how important it is to your Emacs life and what you would do if it disappeared. How would you replace it? There’s … Continue reading →

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The Map Library

Posted on 2017-08-30 by jcs

Recently I’ve written about Wilfred Hughes’ ht library for dealing with hash tables and Nic Ferrier’s kv library for dealing with alists and plists. Nicolas Petton commented that there is also the map library, which is built into Emacs as … Continue reading →

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The kv Library

Posted on 2017-08-28 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Wilfred Hughes’ hash table library. In the comments, Noonian Atall remarked that Nic Ferrier also has a key/value library (kv) that’s worth taking a looking at. Whereas Hughes’ ht library is primarily concerned with … Continue reading →

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What is a Hacker?

Posted on 2015-06-29 by jcs

That’s a notoriously difficult question. Nik Ferrier has his own answer, which seems to me as good as any other I’ve read. Hop on over and see if it resonates for you.

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The Case Against Agile

Posted on 2015-05-02 by jcs

Back in early April, I wrote about Nic Ferrier’s take on agile. Ferrier understands it as a way of increasing communication in development teams. He makes a good case that agile is at worst benign and that in most cases … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chua and John Wiegley on Elisp Development

Posted on 2015-04-11 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a great video chat with John Wiegley on Elisp development. If you work with Elisp, you really should spend the time to watch it. Chua and Wiegley start by discussing paredit and its capabilities. I’ve been using … Continue reading →

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Britain Too

Posted on 2015-04-04 by jcs

It turns out that it’s not just the U.S. Britain, too, has bozos in charge of keeping us safe (via Nic Ferrier): Tories plan porn site age checks http://t.co/mftZlYDrHq <- more unicorn-farming fantasies from the techno-illiterate — Simon Phipps (@webmink) … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015

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Sleepwalking into Tyranny

Posted on 2015-01-18 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a few words of his own on government snooping. This time from a British point of view. We appear to be sleep walking into a world where MI5 can constantly watch us. If you don't think this … Continue reading →

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