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Compiling an iOS/Xcode project from Emacs
I've been learning iOS development, and slowly adding objective-c support to my emacs configuration, since Xcode is ridiculously slow on the ancient second-hand macbook air I've been using. So far objc-mode has great syntax highlighting, and my basic autocomplete setup is functional enough, but it's no fun having to keep Xcode open or switch to a shell to build the project.
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A Simple Static Site Generator
While picking a static site generator from the ever-expanding list of possibilities certainly makes it easy to start building a small website, it's not nearly as much fun as creating your own generator. Tools like npm and node.js make doing the hard and boring parts (like parsing markdown) as simple as installing a package, and not having to wrestle with configuring someone else's idea of how a site should built is well worth the effort of assembling these pieces into something that does exactly what's needed.
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