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My tmux setup

I’ve been using tmux as my main terminal multiplexer for about 3 years now and have refined my configuration over time to fit my daily workflow. Which is usually a mix of writing code, chef recipes, remote login into different servers and various shell tasks. This is a flexible setup that doesn’t concentrate too much…

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Trying out this Go thing at Disqus

Disqus has a history of using one tool for the job and hammering through everything. Until now, that tool has been Python. This mentality has been extremely beneficial for us since we are a small team. Everyone is able to jump in to any piece of our stack with minimal effort.

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Light Table 0.5.0

This release was about simplifying the experience of Light Table, making it far more robust, and making sure it’s fast enough to handle whatever you throw at it. We’ve made big strides in each of these areas, from removing some of the UI elements that didn’t add anything (the left vertical menu), to reaching the point…

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A surprising JavaScript memory leak found at Meteor

This week, my teammates at Meteor tracked down a surprising JavaScript memory leak . I searched the web for variations on javascript closure memory leak and came up with nothing relevant, so maybe this is a relatively unknown issue. (Most of what you find for that query talks about the bad garbage collection algorithm…

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ClojureScript 101

While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…