A technical proposal argues that US federal statutes should be tracked like source code, with line-by-line attribution showing which public law changed a provision, when it took effect, and what the text read on any given date. It uses the shifting small-business debt limit in 11 USC § 1182(1) — altered repeatedly by the CARES Act and subsequent extensions between 2020 and 2025 — to illustrate how current amendment notes and effective-date prose make it hard to reconstruct the law as it stood at a specific moment.
lexifina.com
· 2026-10-28
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt publicly accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury in a viral exchange, but his version of events and underlying facts have been disputed. Schmitt has not acknowledged any errors in his account despite the discrepancies being pointed out.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-30
The Consult package for Emacs deliberately delays asynchronous search commands like consult-ripgrep and consult-grep using debounce, throttle, and refresh-delay settings rather than firing a new search on every keystroke. Users can lower these default values, such as setting consult-async-input-debounce to 0.05 seconds, to make the interface feel snappier and closer to how Counsel behaves.
jamescherti.com
· 2026-09-09
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