Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social
User freedom activist, ActivityPub co-editor, parenthesis enthusiast, occasional artist. https://dustycloud.org/
the safest way to use computers is still abstinence
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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
gosh working with picture combinators is just the best
Oh my god, i just realized the custom instance emojis are essentially the exact same concept as the like custom smileys on Internet forums in 1999
Like y’all remember BBcode smileys, that is literally what this is. I can’t believe i didn’t make that connection sooner
It's come up so many times, plus the RWoT papers editor asked me about it, that I'm trying to finish the Petnames paper today. https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md
I'm toying with adding some UI mockups to the doc to help with the explanation. How does this look? https://dustycloud.org/tmp/search-interface-medium.svg https://dustycloud.org/tmp/search-interface-medium.png
There are a lot of unsung heroes out there, but today I want to thank my friend Deb Nicholson for working hard and trying to make free software a better place despite all the bullshit. We need, but perhaps do not deserve, the help of people like you. Thanks.
August has been busy because of the talk and the wallet.
The Racket community is really great and responsive. As just one example of many, Greg Hendershott has fixed two bugs I filed in racket-mode in the last week! https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/issues/323 https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/issues/326
Just dropped off @mlemweb at the airport. 4 month separation... Morgan got a teaching opportunity, which is great. Feeling sad about being apart but we'll be seeing each other once a month, and this isn't the first time we've done the long distance thing. We can do it.
Secondly, go-fed/activity v0.3.0 has been released, with things like Announce support!
https://github.com/go-fed/activity
Please see the CHANGELOG for even more details.
Interactive Overlays With the Racket Plot Package https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/03/interactive-overlays-with-the-racket-plot-package-update.html
@cwebber I really don't understand complaints about syntax because Lisp has the *least* syntax of any language I've ever used! It was by far the easiest to pick up in that sense
>syntax is too advanced
S-expressions is a trivial data format. You can't get much simpler than words wrapped in parentheses.
@cwebber my neighbor is practicing the piano, time to make a cup of tea and grab a cat and a book!
it is with much remorse that i announce that due to all of my posts on this site i have been
"lisp is cool and all but the syntax is too advanced for most people"
Racket literally started to teach youth how to code
Bootstrap World is a series of classes teaching middle school kids math concepts through programming videogames with Racket in the browser http://www.bootstrapworld.org/index.shtml
The real barrier isn't the syntax, but existing familiarity with other languages, and an editor which supports the language.
Which Rugby union tours of Canada does your state love the most?
Excellent article discussing the bytecode used to fit text adventure games on early PCs with tiny RAM: http://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm
ZIL was lisp-inspired, heavily optimised string storage (5.5 bytes per character!) and had some fun opcodes that were very specific to text games.
@KevinMarks Arguably git is a non-consensus blockchain. Again, blockchain is very loosely defined, and hence my post here: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/100622592068943907
Blockchains are both massively over-hyped and also massively ridiculed incorrectly. But a lot of that is due to vagueness.
But it's the "get rich off of blockchains" hype that's making that whole space unbearable right now.
