Christine Lemmer-Webber
Spritely Goblins v0.13.0 is OUT! More powerful than ever, it includes a whole new persistence system and, long requested, easier more goblins'y IO! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0130-object-persistence-and-easier-io.html Distributed programming has never been so cool! But there's more to say about this release... (cotd)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Yo there's a new release of Spritely's Hoot Scheme->Webassembly compiler... v0.4.0! https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v040-released.html And this one, yes, at last includes user-defined module support! But it's also way better in terms of debugging, disassembly, and like a bajillion bug fixes, not to mention call/cc...! Scheme in the browser, it's happening!!!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
unhinged? I have several hinges
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Every now and then I'm screensharing with someone and they seem impressed by my srfi-9 record yasnippet Here it is, if you want it: https://github.com/cwebber/cwebbers-emacs-config/blob/master/yas-snippets/scheme-mode/record
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) has raised over $132k but still needs $29k left to make their annual fundraiser. There's only 6 days left... if you have funding to give and are open to supporting them, it's definitely an organization that puts that money to very good use!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
A couple of years ago I helped @conservancy with their fundraiser and actually made an *animated ascii art* program. (They also mailed out a physical postcard based on this design!) You could telnet in and watch it thank donors who contributed that year even :) Fun fact, it ended up being an early test program of Spritely Goblins!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
In Unexpected Places is OUT!!! GO SEE IT!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JUfWLJJ5g https://share.tube/w/k6zcRg7zbR1BRvuedseTGZ This music video features hot beats from my girlfriend @vv and is animated by me using #Blender and #greasepencil! Action packed and more of an emotional journey than you might expect! Go watch it! Tell us what you think!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Prescheme!!! It's got a website and everything now! Awesome. https://prescheme.org/
Christine Lemmer-Webber
We're very excited to put out this blogpost about OCapN, the underlying network protocol which powers Spritely Goblins' mind-blowing distributed object programming tech! https://spritely.institute/news/introducing-ocapn-interoperable-capabilities-over-the-network.html But OCapN isn't just for Spritely Goblins: thanks to a generous grant from @NGIZero, Spritely engineer (and fellow co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub!) @tsyesika has documented how it all works!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
OCapN is in the pre-standards phase but thanks to this work already includes not only the core specifications, but also a test suite and an implementation guide! We've already seen a Haskell implementation which passes the test suite for the parts it implements... we're excited to see more! 
José Albornoz
@cwebber this is amazing!!! I have a pet project of a network of “virtual tamagotchi”s that run on raspberry pi’s, communicating over MQTT. I’ve always wanted it to have meshing capabilities, this would be perfect.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Spritely at MIT! @dthompson and myself presented at MIT's Open Learning Salon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5oqYQttS4&t=2120s And guess what? Gerry Sussman was in the audience!
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Parnikkapore
@cwebber @dthompson The fact that you're on a nickname basis with prof Sussman is both surprising and not surprising lmao :blobmiou: 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
A space shooter! Written in SCHEME! In your freaking BROWSER! With code by @dthompson and artwork by me!! And you can play it RIGHT NOW in a nightly browser! (Be sure to use a *nightly* build) Play it!!! (in a nightly browser!) https://davexunit.itch.io/strigoform
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
And of course, if you were wondering, why yes, this was written using Guile Hoot https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot And of course it's free software, you can go get it and compile it right now if you like! https://git.dthompson.us/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2023/ 
Job
@cwebber @dthompson does that include nightly *mobile* browsers? (oh wait, I uninstalled FF Nightly Mobile recently due to spurious daily updates. Let me reinstall and check for you) Edit: it does if you use an external bluetooth keyboard! 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
GET READY! It's just about time for the System Crafters live stream about Spritely's Guile Hoot! With special guests from the Spritely Institute!!! https://youtube.com/live/Vd9zooWMOsM
Christine Lemmer-Webber
My favorite operating system / distro (It's the Guix logo, for those who don't know!)
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Manolo Martínez
@cwebber what would you say is the best way to dip one's toes into guix? This looks so different from the linux distros I'm used to.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
If you like this version of the Guix logo, I put the Blender source here: https://dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/guix-logo.blend CC BY-SA 4.0, just like the logo it's based on! 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Rash for Guile when https://rash-lang.org/
Christine Lemmer-Webber
cloudflare is still a sign of a broken internet
Christine Lemmer-Webber
NaN:NaN:NaN ... Katamari Damacy
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Maybe I should write up my "how to get a CS education without getting a CS degree" blogpost at this point 
Ret the Folf
@cwebber ask a uni student for their timetable then just go to all the lectures yourself for free? I never got asked for ID to go into a lecture theatre and there's so many students you'd never be noticed anyway. :blobfoxdealwithit:
Christine Lemmer-Webber
> Meta launched Threads, which will eventually be compatible with Mastodon’s ActivityPub, a competing standard to Bluesky’s AT Protocol https://fortune.com/2023/07/31/inside-bluesky-moderation-crisis-investor-pushback-user-backlash-ceo-apology/ Remember when we standardized Mastodon's ActivityPub at the Mastodon Web Consortium? Really proud of that work
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Andy :aglaceon: :teapot_blush: #RIPYassie
@cwebber I've never been happy an article was paywalled before.
LIZZIE CROWDAGGER
@cwebber OTOH while activity pub is open, the specific things (fields? I guess) and quirks Mastodon uses do tend to have an heavy influence on other federated microblogging software, for the better and the worse, no? 
Irenes (many)
@cwebber it's a frustrating asymmetry. some people try to cast themselves and/or their organizations as dramatic figures, for the sake of fame and fortune, at the expense of social change. anyone doing that has an advantage because the public LIKES drama and easily-understood narratives. disseminating ideas for their own sake is inherently harder. it sucks.
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Gregory's Server
So, as I said, new Goblins, new persistence system: https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0130-object-persistence-and-easier-io.html
That persistence system, now fully integrated with Goblins, has quite some history! Internally, we call it "Aurie", which is the name of the animated character you see in the post (yes, I animated it)
Originally, Aurie was written by me as a standalone library on top of Goblins. However it was really, *really* hard to use, and we decided that it made most sense to make it more integrated in Goblins... and we have! Now Aurie is so easy to use, with an included macro, it's nearly automatic to make many actors use this persistence system... but it's not orthogonal persistence, it's not a snapshot by the language! It's clever engineering on top of a manual persistence approach that takes some briliant research and insights by Mark Miller and Jonathan Rees! (The blogpost says more!) Now you can use Aurie as Goblins' default integrated persistence system to save your program to disk, yes, but also to do upgrades and even to improve live hacking!
But it is @tsyesika who made Aurie into the REAL persistence system we have inside of Goblins now. It was much more effort to work out how to make something fully developed and integrated than it was to make my mockup, not to mention converting all of the Goblins standard library to support it!
So, as I said, new Goblins, new persistence system: https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0130-object-persistence-and-easier-io.html
That persistence system, now fully integrated with Goblins, has quite some history! Internally, we call it "Aurie", which is the name of the animated character you see in the post (yes, I animated it)
@cwebber hmm seems neat might check it out sometime
@cwebber You can also now enjoy guile-goblins 0.13.0 on macOS!
brew install guile-goblins
https://github.com/aconchillo/homebrew-guile