Some wild things happening over in McCLIM development land http://turtleware.eu/posts/Tixel-Viewer.html

Ooh a new GC in progress by @wingo https://github.com/wingo/whippet-gc

Whippet... whippet gud 🎶

guile-prescheme's prescheme emulation mode now works! I gave the example in the README a try! https://gitlab.com/flatwhatson/guile-prescheme

Nice work! Can't believe just how fast Andrew Whatson is going!

The emulation mode means that live REPL hacking of prescheme is now working (simulating writing to memory the same way C would).

Once the "compile to C" port is there, we'll have a pretty exciting thing to use! Low-level, high-speed programs, developed live at the Guile REPL!

I bought a very silly coffee table book.

The beginning was very interesting, but I will admit that I got bored in the middle and jumped to the end.

I'd complain that the bulk of the book was repetitive but that's only true in terms of structure. The content was very varied.

time for a joint operation between Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and Software Heritage to emboss the intellectual commons onto diamond tablets so that when the next sapient race emerges on this planet all this work is not for naught

Goodbye Miranda Rights https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-miranda-rights/

you know it took a bit longer than I expected for the Trump-appointed supreme court to settle into full-on-terrifying-mode but good to know that WHY AM I WRITING THIS IN THIS PATTERN OF SPEECH IT'S NOT GOOD TO KNOW OR GOOD FOR ANYONE

The only thing worse than a get-rich-quick-scheme is a get-rich-quick-programming-paradigm. #snarks
https://dustycloud.org/misc/computing-snarks.txt

"Pirate site blocking making its way into free trade agreements" https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/

This is much more serious than "can I get a pirated copy of something". The real effects of stuff like this is control, censorship, and gatekeeping of the internet in general.

SOLVED: the barber does not grow facial hair, and so they do not shave themselves

I hear they're going to ban SICP from schools for being trans propaganda

it's nice that every now and then centralized social networks do the work for me to reinforce that dedicating my life to architecting decentralized social networks wasn't a waste

Okay, I think I've figured out a lot more about how to use the pinephone + keyboard as a PDA type thing.

And, ladies, I've got the answer to the question in every woman's heart: is it a viable portable emacs device?

The answer is: yes.

engagement based media phenomena making you wonder if you should quickly research a topic so you can weigh in on it since everyone else is?

we've all been there! the pressures are big! but sometimes it's ok to not express an opinion on a thing! it's ok. it's ok!

The ActivityPub spec is finally updated! No more deadname, it says "Christine Lemmer-Webber"!!! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Thank you @rhiaro for poking the right people to make this happen :)

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

Just another great Perlisism https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

> Christine likes to use technology that's too advanced to do something as mundane as "work"

A while ago I wrote up "What is a blockchain, really?" because I was seeing people talking past each other because they had different definitions: https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-is-a-blockchain-really/

Many expansions in there, but my favorite is still "Blockchain is to Bitcoin what Roguelike is to Rogue"

do you have opinions about

*whispers*: negative zero

I'm happy that I'll be part of two meetings this month in front of the EU Commission talking about decentralized social networks and the work we've done https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ec-ngi0-liaison-webinars-and-workshop-april-2021/1539

I believe this conversation is an important one to have, and I'd like to expand on why below.

your periodic reminder that you can do anything at zombocom, anything at all https://html5zombo.com/