OS X Text Substitution
The last couple of versions of OS X have had a cool feature: user-added text substitutions. Meaning, you can set some placeholder text (like “lod”) that will...
Recent Posts
A Whole New World
I started working at Improving this week which has required a major shift in my development ways. First and foremost is the change from PHP (which I’ve been ...
Kill Multiple Lines with kill-lines
Today, I wrote an Emacs package called kill-lines. It is a simple package with an interactive function of the same name that, when run, allows the user to en...
Combining Blogs
Today I decided to combine my Emacs blog (formerly a Blogger blog) with this development blog. You will see all the old posts, and I have created a new menu ...
Why the PHP Interactive Shell Isn’t a REPL, and Why It Is Lacking
After a recent conversation on Twitter, I felt like I should explain why I feel that php -a, the PHP Interactive Shell, isn’t a REPL, and where it falls shor...