Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

#introductions

Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Other things you may want to know:

- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history

well bloomberg is at least doing a nice job of demonstrating that much of the center-left vote *can* literally be bought

holy moly that doc writing marathon felt good

I have pushed a substantial number of changes to the Spritely Goblins docs: https://dustycloud.org/tmp/goblins-draft.html

Feedback is very welcome.

If you want to play along, please use the "dev" branch of goblins as some semantics have changed: https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins/-/tree/dev

Racket-on-Chez is looking damn good https://blog.racket-lang.org/2020/02/racket-on-chez-status.html

You may wonder, "quick cooking pasta! quick cooking beans! what sorcery is this???"

You can make them at home with just an ordinary stove (but a dehydrator is more convenient). Simply *fully cook* the pasta or beans (or open a can of beans), drain, then dehydrate until dry.

The trick is that it has to be fully cooked. With that done, it'll rehydrate in a snap, fully ready to go in your recipe.

Works for most vegetables, too!

Making quick-cooking versions of beans and noodles and having dehydrated vegetables and etc on hand means I can make a complete dinner in record time.

Last night I set a timer. Made a full dish of a smoky pasta and sausage with artichokes inner in exactly ten minutes (to the beep!) after I set a 10 minute timer on my stove, before I even heated up the pan. It was good.

ah my favorite tv show, star truck

your monthly reminder that it's over a decade later and all mobile computing is still dramatically worse than the n900

Just a reminder that https://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/ exists and is great.

I get math-notation-anxiety when I read CS papers. Maybe I need to overcome it some day. The underlying concepts usually aren't so hard, but sorting through all the equations makes my brain shut down...

When papers instead provide programming code, I tend to get through them much faster...

spent too long zoning out looking at things on the internet that I lost my morning buffer to do some cycling. exercise will have to come *after* work today.

I'm making an exception to my no-traveling rule for Penguicon... where I'll be technical guest of honor! I'm very excited! https://2020.penguicon.org/this-year-at-penguicon/special-guests/

Penguicon seems like a pretty wild event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulPb9JIgMw4

well this seems like an ill advised thing to make https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/8/18216053/new-world-game-mmo-impressions-preview-colonization-controversy

Could it really be that as expensive as it once was to run train lines anymore? Seems like something that could be made into a very efficient modern process. I'd guess that in the US like for longer, inter-state trains, the main challenge isn't laying the rails, it's clearing all the property issues...?