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2026-07-10 08:16:40 UTC

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Great! Way ahead of me now. We will get to issue 0 eventually now I don't have the Mastodon down excuse and you and also hairylarry wrote that game.
@npub1vq4…wkq3 [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) did either of you come up with anything? Your ai-to-antiai-trajectory Ramin? @npub1gnu…0jmx can I betray my lisp theme and share some of your writing.

2026-07-10 07:14:43 UTC

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Don't internalize the system!

2026-07-08 02:59:51 UTC

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jd if you have a thought.
@npub1yna…cu6l

2026-07-08 02:52:08 UTC

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I have to think for a bit about how I want to convey matching e.g. a lisp source block to a presentation-type of (e.g. a string or number) in the table that has been popped up.
With embeddable common lisp having transparent support for nowebbing in C or C++ source blocks, you could attach common lisp or C or C++ (or elisp via swank which is also what McCLIM uses) source blocks to types to click on in the table.
</spam>
@npub1urw…lh52

2026-06-23 11:11:24 UTC

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#plan9 is the grownup #unix
@npub1gnu…0jmx

2026-05-27 03:52:12 UTC

Okay, next week can we rename the show #antislop climate
Edit: Milder language

2026-05-17 11:41:54 UTC

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I had an idea for a few projects I will look into contributing to org. Particularly, my usual common lisp compiler is lisp-as-a-C-or-C++-library which would benefit from explicitly different treatment to most lisp compilers, and explicit support for the common lisp interface manager.
Admittedly, both my ideas are just @npub1urw…lh52 s' keynote and regular European lisp symposium talks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHjIqlITmE
Will see what I think about bugs.

2026-05-16 00:48:12 UTC

@npub1yna…cu6l #interview on the #lispyGopherClimate Sunday-Morning-in-Europe
So please #AMA in this thread, where "me" in this case is Ihor and "anything" is "questions about orgmode <dev>"
Tuesday-night-in-Americas was Charlie Holland (KMP, Ramin, mdh, sacha, ..) on "emacs minibuffer style" incremental completing read and lisp https://toobnix.org/w/imfwummHKcycJoujnGVjgy
Last week was bagder of Curl (feat KMP, Ramin, the moo crowd) https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo
#lisp #dev #softwareEngineering #emacs #orgmode #pleaseBoost
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2026-05-12 02:16:15 UTC

Tomorrow, "Tuesday evening in the Americas" #lispyGopherClimate #podcast will feature @npub1hll…0fjp and we will be talking about fancy #emacs #autocomplete, its #lisp diaspora (#McCLIM completions!), antecedents and... Future.
Thoughts (and prayers) here please. #AMA (about the topic. Me mainly being https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot in this case.).
Edit: Aside, it probably does to mention for context that the following Sunday will be @npub1yna…cu6l on #orgmode .
#softwareEngineering #programming #dev
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2026-05-09 00:38:21 UTC

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Thanks for this note, I am thinking about how to relate your experiences with subsequent generations to the Curl interview tomorrow https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116541210939949273
[@rusty__shackleford](https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford )

2026-05-08 23:00:37 UTC

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something I remember hearing from @npub1gnu…0jmx recently was that typical senior programmers in their 40s now - I guess a generation after him and before me - had mostly never been associated with a successful project. I wonder if these were phases of Doctorow's enshittification. First there were techie nerds. The next generation of those techie nerds had their careers drained of value. The generation after that (right now), having careers at all is the value recently drained.

2026-05-07 11:43:48 UTC

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Though, all of what you said are basically the subject of popular standards or formal specifications.
I would add graphics / rich interfaces to that http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/index.html
I guess crypto is openssl,
mathematics ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima
lisp has a few de facto standards, bordeaux-threads, trivial-garbage ..
I do not see these special cases as the same as extremely dense external module glueseage.
Though I know my opinion here is boutique!
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@khinsen](https://scholar.social/@khinsen )

2026-04-24 09:20:14 UTC

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an anti-ai singularity
@npub16ys…sjae @npub1lym…fqe3

2026-04-16 10:04:57 UTC

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I see your ed(1) and raise you @edit #lambdaMOO
@npub18p8…6yfl

2026-04-16 08:22:59 UTC

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My interpretation of mdhughes' point is that it is a failure to say, hey, try my program. And then it turns out you have to define what the program will do yourself in /etc/my.conf, or worse "there's an api! (which you could write a different, useful program with)".
In rms' paper presenting emacs, his emacs had the explicit goal of providing an off-ramp out from secretarial work into authoring original emacs lisp programs. So his intent was to fail secretaries per se.

2026-04-08 20:34:11 UTC

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Yes, that was what they thought explained it.
@npub1326…gzqx
Well, we come from tech background, right? And it is accepted wisdom that if the company's VC budget gets directed to marketing, that means the whole company has failed. But in the business world, the theory is that the invisible hand of the market makes the best things best advertised.

2026-04-08 20:30:34 UTC

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E.g. one cited study was
Langer A et al., Technology in Society, 2025 [17]
surveying 37 children aged 6-10, finding children performed at or below chance, significantly below adults at detecting AI (who perform at chance) for generated pictures.
If children were good at detecting manipulative content, you would expect them to find Ronald McDonald telling them how many calories are in their locally sourced ground meat mixture sinister, wouldn't you?

2026-04-08 20:22:46 UTC

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The article thinks that the reason is that AI generated content has been groomed to look heavily edited and overproduced, and overproduced content seems more professional (hypothetically they must have some professional editing software or something) to explain the general results of AI being ranked 'better' than human content.

2026-04-08 20:20:33 UTC

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Yes, I agree. I think it is likely to say people on the Mastodon, and our ouevre especially might be the subpopulation "good at" recognizing AI, and also be the minority who are revulsed.
But in a meta-study of thousands of normal people - students, professionals, workaday, .. - the majority can't tell better than chance, but rank AI content as being better.
In particular, children on average were seen to be more likely to think AI content is human and attractive than human content.

2026-04-08 07:21:34 UTC

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Historically, a message from a stranger was reliably done by a human whatever their motive. But now messages from strangers (such as essays submitted by students, social media posts, or medical reports) could as well be a GPT.
So, community is much more important than it used to be I think.
#LLM

2026-04-08 07:06:28 UTC

I lost the source toot, but I read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.03437 .
The gist is that in a review of multifarious studies on whether humans can tell ai content from humans', the gist is
- no better than a monkey (to use the snarxiv phrase) on social media posts, cybersecurity, medical reports, sports/fitness coaching, and student essays
- Expert examination like poetry or doctoral candidate screening reliably caught ai.
- Some people are good at it
- AI content is more attractive than humans'
#LLM

2026-04-04 22:23:52 UTC

There was a time change this morning, and I have no idea what time it is in any country.

2026-03-27 01:19:42 UTC

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Did you see that now-famous rust article by the chief rust promoter at the rust foundation, that is this formulation over and over again:
I am going to invest in rust and make billions of dollars because rust is great
- quote, "every smart businessman"
I am going to retrain in rust because it is super the best decision for my career.
- quote, "every smart programmer"
I am going to have my product rewritten in rust because it is best
- quote, "every smart product owner"

2026-03-22 23:50:39 UTC

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I have no idea what @npub1d93…cnl2 is talking about but could you venture an oddly authoratative opinion.

2026-03-22 22:13:40 UTC

If I want to encode
1, 2, 3, 4, ..
"bit-adjacently" like
1 3 2 6 4 5 7 15 11 9 8 10 14 12 13 29 ..
What is the name for doing this?
#mathstodon

2026-03-17 21:51:18 UTC

o/ alive once more. See everyone for the show in two hours ! Like last week: https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116207479387846267
Gee, I wonder what my mastodon coming back up will do to my writing density.

2026-03-11 03:06:18 UTC

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sorry! I was saying that if you are not a lisp-head, we could just hang out normally in lambda text-based virtual reality MMO running over telnet ~continuously since 1990, which is my main internet home for a long time now. Otherwise, I might visit BC sometime ;p

2026-03-11 03:03:16 UTC

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Modern lambda is still compatible with its initial release in 1990 I think.

2026-03-11 03:02:12 UTC

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problem being 1990 does not have modern ssh / tls.

2026-03-11 03:00:59 UTC

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telllnnneeeetttttt

2026-03-11 02:59:58 UTC

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can we hang out in lambda (outside of shows) as a practical compromise?

2026-03-10 10:40:16 UTC

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How tear-jerking is the scan of McCarthy's Lasting Autograph right at the end, right! #lisp #bookstodon
@npub1r3t…cnew

2026-03-10 01:34:16 UTC

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sharpsign hot takes

2026-03-10 01:27:54 UTC

Imagine lexical closures providing restart-cases, handler-binds and signals appearing in two different branches of a nest of restart-cases and handler-binds. At first I thought that the innermost "peaks" of nested restart cases were disjoint, but if you have a closure's dynamic scope and infinite extent, you could have literally the same peak in multiple places.

2026-02-28 08:35:16 UTC

I would like more
sharpsign
boost for breadth of opinions and timezones please.
Not that I will blindly listen but you could put it out there on the table.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/
#programming #technology #lispyGopherClimate #lisp

2026-02-28 07:49:38 UTC

Modern #news media web is utterly unuseable except via #tor browser "extra safe" which disables all the marquee javascript and nonjavascript swirling scummy advertisements and fraudulent pivot to video segments while leaving the articles and menus to some extent intact.
I guess that #links2 is better, but console-text-experience presumes some power user configuration that tor firefox does not ask for other than disabling the remaining default-active basically-viruses mozilla garbage.

2026-02-24 21:47:28 UTC

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Do you have first hand memory of the funtoo/gentoo schism?
Edit: I would take second or third hand
@npub10p2…t4w2

2026-02-24 21:43:58 UTC

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Ironically last I tried I found gentoo much easier to install than arch, but maybe The Freebsd Handbook tempered me
@npub12n5…9dex

2026-02-23 21:48:02 UTC

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though now I have actually read the article, I agree that it is basically interesting how we naturally contrast to their roll call of evil, with us being both more vibrant in our arts and not literally-the-plot-of-doctor-strangelove.
Honestly now I wish they leaned further into better conveying the movie characters rather than just being Nazi pseudoscientists repopulating the earth after killing everyone with a nuclear holocaust, given that this is explicitly their plan already.

2026-02-23 20:26:25 UTC

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it would make sense for you to mention, though I strictly hang the show in main on
- climate activism
- constructive and enabling lisp topics
- smallnet communities e.g. gopher and lambdaMOO / community news
rather than politics as such.
I am happy for you to bring something new, but I don't think I have the same quality to offer our community and the world in personally analysing political problems of the 60s (more than I already do).

2026-02-23 20:14:28 UTC

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Returning to reality a bit, @npub1fdr…lvhs is saying that there are widely available, redistributable offline spellcheckers that enable being-an-author, e.g. in combat of the Peter Thieles and Epsteins. However the demonic soul shard itself is inescapably from the Peter Thieles' stuff.
A different ffnn thing with a different technical premise would not be the LLMs now and would need a distinct name, e.g. small models that are also transformer based.
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) [@tante](https://tante.cc/author/tante_/ )

2026-02-23 20:04:00 UTC

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antihero doesn't mean Cool Hero. The terminator sent back in time was captured and reprogrammed after hunting and killing countless humans. This is the definition of objectionable.
On the other hand, he functionally protected humanity's key revolutionary figure, John Conor with a paradoxically fatherly and self-sacrificing tinge.
The plot premise does not allow choosing to just make skynet actually-just-good-somehow. LLMs as such are not good.
[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) [@tante](https://tante.cc/author/tante_/ ) @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-23 19:58:13 UTC

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As another point, did you read [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) 's https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-tedious-pained.html about objecting to LLMs?
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )
In combating LLMs myself I have some expertise in what ffnns (the algorithm that hosts llms) actually are and are like. I don't regard ffnns as necessarily evil. I hope to raise insights of what ffnns are, dispelling pseudoscience claims.
[@tante](https://tante.cc/author/tante_/ ) is saying smash the electric looms, and no we are not wearing affordable electric loom fabric while we do it.
@npub1fdr…lvhs is an antihero.

2026-02-22 03:19:37 UTC

#ai, the Terminator, my periodic revisiting of Terry Winograd Breaking the complexity barrier (again). Absolutely no lisp code. #article #engineering
I revisit how Winograd was resisting exactly the current sloppy epoch (in 1972) and chatbot atrophy
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/demonic-soul-shards-and-winogradian-knowledge-crystal-software-artifacts/#demonic-soul-shards-and-winogradian-knowledge-crystal-software-artifacts
@npub1fdr…lvhs
originally you were incidental to this article
which turned out to mostly be incidental commentary in the vein of your
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback .
I would be interested if you cared to venture an opinion.

2026-02-21 09:05:07 UTC

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unrelatedly, top-level comes up in discussions of threading where a thread's toplevel might not be (is not) your toplevel.
I see it was mentioned here in the context of what setq wants to do: https://sionescu.github.io/bordeaux-threads/threads/make-thread/ which I guess you were investigating.

2026-02-17 23:14:14 UTC

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#lambdaMOO #live #liveChat as always!
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape
"Hey!
:thinks for a minute
[@wm_annis](https://mastodon.art/@wm_annis ) @npub1urw…lh52

2026-02-17 23:12:39 UTC

#lispyGopherClimate #technology #programming #show
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio #live on the hour.
- [@wm_annis](https://mastodon.art/@wm_annis ) reports an sbcl merge of slop. Big switch to #ecl viz @npub1urw…lh52 time. #commonLisp
(#clisp)
Individual heterogeneity
- in #climate activism
- in the #gopher
- in The #Lisp Community
- My idea of sharing conditions/handlers rather than programs
Cf the fully intended homogeneity from LLMs.
- yduJ is square dancing this week, as all lisp users must.
Me: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/
#ai
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2026-02-15 05:53:41 UTC

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Maybe it is not that big a deal which your story is suggesting I guess. I can happily use vi, or ex, or ed, or sam, all of which are more at the could-basically-implement-from-memory-scope in contrast to Ramin's 3-years-to-make-a-new-emacs. But the analogy to emacs lisp would be like using GIMP's tinyscheme script-fu. Storing work in there gives you vendor lock-in to emacs. I guess I know enough 60-80 year olds s.t. emacs changes broke their setup for no reason
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@vidak](https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak )

2026-02-15 04:51:53 UTC

@npub1tw9…za5q I had the disquieting thought that I could not even possibly maintain a gnu emacs fork myself.
In fact the only person I know who could roll-their-own-emacs-lisp in a pinch is [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) .
Do you worry about this?
I know [@vidak](https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak ) has a bunch of self-implemented magazine basic text editors, iirc.

2026-02-09 20:15:39 UTC

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great essay.
I had a thought at the end that like how the epstein class benefits from economic depressions by buying financially collapsed assets
so their personal wealth number goes up disproportionately more relative to how the whole world's aggregate wealth number goes down,
we would *want* the gdp to go down, but specifically so that real peoples' wealth numbers are disproportionately higher (and the epstein class wealth numbers are even more disproportionately lower).

2026-02-02 01:26:38 UTC

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By the way, could I ask if any of @npub1vlc…mzqq @npub1gnu…0jmx [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) @npub1aql…46zu [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) have any particular comments? I will also visit this topic on the Tuesday-evening-in-the-Americas lispy gopher climate.
@npub1dqw…h4lu @npub1z8r…mrq6

2026-02-02 00:59:39 UTC

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I had this feeling when I noticed I could just change +1 and -1 to foo and (complement foo) in a hopfield network, which is an implementation of (is dual to) deep learning (it turned out; they didn't know this originally).
Then, all the conventional wisdom about the disadvantages and advantages of deep learning seem to mostly have been artifacts of the string encoding being used.
@npub1z8r…mrq6
what should I read about your connexions (or dare I say, neurons!)?

2026-01-28 20:37:34 UTC

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like saying vibe, agent is well-known for being an almost meaningless term - if a string with a web browser name in it is an agent (a software agent), what is not an agent?
@npub1pkr…8c98

2026-01-27 21:51:12 UTC

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do you mind if I use sharpsign daily words as well?

2026-01-27 21:23:05 UTC

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I think the secret-sauce is going to be having multiple SBCs operating while I am carrying them and have only the screen easily accessible. The screen lets you toggle between three inputs, so I could be actively using 3 low power sbcs while walking, and periodically check in on each of them from the one portable screen.
One or more chargers also seems more dynamic than a laptop battery.
[@moses_izumi](https://fe.disroot.org/users/moses_izumi )

2026-01-27 21:16:47 UTC

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#2026 Travel #sbc
Sorry about the blurry photo!
Some of the kinks are that the palmshell sbc's usb-c is "power only", so I need the hdmi as well. Then, the charger only has one powerful output, so the charger goes into the screen, and screen plugs into the sbc's power.
Perhaps there is a better configuration.
Only FreeBSD has an "expect bugs" driver for the wifi device, so linux currently.
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@moses_izumi](https://fe.disroot.org/users/moses_izumi )
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2026-01-27 05:53:21 UTC

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Tomorrow. It's actually one of those unreasonably big and hot sbcs. I'll get smaller auxilliary ones. The display has one of those foldy magnetic stands, though I haven't found a configuration that actually holds up the display properly yet.
[@moses_izumi](https://fe.disroot.org/users/moses_izumi )

2026-01-27 05:12:24 UTC

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my new PC is a non-rpi sbc organized for carrying around. I do have a 12" thin display (which lets you toggle between 3 inputs). Hypothetically I would carry 3 SBCs and the display. Need one charger per SBC though.
So, separating batteries and boards from displays and the display-sized form factor I guess.
[@moses_izumi](https://fe.disroot.org/users/moses_izumi )

2026-01-25 20:01:33 UTC

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Can't make an omlette without burning a few bridges.

2026-01-25 19:59:20 UTC

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hang on I like this metaphor but I am having trouble tracking it. Once you have composed some music, you will burn the bridge to you becoming a composer behind you, preventing your own escape from musicality?

2025-12-31 04:01:51 UTC

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you were missed today! Did you have any thoughts about generational divides in computing?
[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman )

2025-12-30 23:49:56 UTC

Alright I better actually make the #lispyGopherClimate https://communitymedia.video/w/khYLxfJchsANRyB8tckwpn
Joined by [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) - talking about generational divisions in computing ( #lisp ?), and I think the difficulties with getting paid for software in an open source world.
#pitman_errors progress report too? #python #programming sharpsign crosspollination
Loosely apropos my 2026 plan for us all to make reuseable #commonLisp condition fragments on #itchio for a year https://screwlisp.small-web.org/momentary/my-cl-2025-and-2026/
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2025-12-25 08:44:35 UTC

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Side note @npub1p09…m5vl did you notice how underscores sometimes work inside htmlised markdown code blocks.

2025-12-25 08:35:12 UTC

I think the most important #kitten #smallweb #webFramework structural feature is dynamically generating composite #markdown documents from reuseable fragments, the markdown then rendered into sanitized #html the usual way. #web #programming
Article: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/this-is-just-arals-fragment-md-example/
Which is admittedly just me reproducing one of @npub1p09…m5vl 's tutorials: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/layout-components/#markdown-fragment-md
I can imagine you (yes you) have a sophisticated opinion on this topic I would like to hear.

2025-12-23 07:17:34 UTC

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Thanks kindly. Sorry for making you browse your tutorials for me ;p

2025-12-23 01:30:03 UTC

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or better yet, a .page.md file that is able to seamlessly include other .page.md fragments. ( .fragment.md ?).

2025-12-23 01:27:27 UTC

@npub1p09…m5vl I'm going to do kitten x itchio x my gof_ai system (lisp classic..!) for 2026. I'm just trying to find kitten's idiom for including separate files in the kitten md :
const foo = ({ x , y }) => kitten.markdown`
# ${ x }
${just-include-this-external-markdown-file(y)}
`
Ideally, kitten.markdown would sanitize the external file retrieved using y. Otherwise, I guess I would have to sanitize them separately and concatenate them, but I don't want to separately sanitize and concatenate pages.

2025-12-17 22:51:57 UTC

I'm going to try #librewolf instead of mozilla.

2025-12-06 15:54:02 UTC

[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) just watching #emacsconf , someone is using lisp's slime mode for python development in a way that looks very powerful https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/swanky

2025-12-06 14:30:17 UTC

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#schemacs Talk is definitely playing right now
https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm #scheme #emacsconf
Q&A after: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-schemacs
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )

2025-12-06 14:07:05 UTC

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Alright the opening remarks finished, I guess I have 20 minutes to make more #coffee

2025-12-06 13:54:21 UTC

I guess [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) 's talk at #emacsconf #conference will be #live in 5 minutes on the dev track: https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm presenting Schemacs #scheme #emacs #lisp #IDE #liveNow

2025-12-02 23:30:34 UTC

Thank you for all your warm wishes everyone! I am still going to turn on a microphone in 30 minutes, against good judgement. #lisp #lispyGopherClimate https://anonradio.net
- I lost track of it, but I think everyone should attend #emacsconf live https://emacsconf.org/2025 which is this weekend. Not to play favourites but see you at [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) and [@eduardoochs](https://emacs.social/@eduardoochs ) ' talks particularly. #emacs
- I have a note on a bait-and-switch I had missed in the quote unquote #ai skynet we all cannot escape
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/652/571/836/638/107/original/022470b82c396d54.png

2025-11-14 23:24:09 UTC

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if I understand, I don't need to change anything about:
```
---
layout: ../Site.layout.js
---
# My Head Markdown Heading
```
? But I can now inline arbitrary bits like a .page.js file

2025-11-13 09:55:26 UTC

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I guess something like MPI is really going to use cl-mpi (on your cluster or whatever), though I think that the weay mpi is exposed in lisp does involve and reflect ANSI CL's strengths.

2025-11-13 09:50:17 UTC

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if GPUs weren't evil, the idea of cl-elephant (or etc) but it's GPUs seems quite funny.

2025-11-13 09:49:16 UTC

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I guess the de facto model of threading is lisp's bordeaux-threads (or you use cl-mpi or whatever)

2025-11-13 09:45:37 UTC

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Hmm, when you say massive parallelism you mean GPUs? Using the MOP to back objects onto GPU memory is a funny idea. Kent did originally coin the term substandards, but it didn't catch on.

2025-11-06 06:57:11 UTC

#gameDev
@npub1vlc…mzqq 's
> beef is that all of those Rogues and Roguelikes used random() heavily. That's fine for generating objects and such, but it sucks for determining winning versus losing. That should be determined mostly by skill.
>
> But that's a design parameter; not everyone agrees, at least for a Rogue-like.
though, games like go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) might as well have a random seed. One tiny difference completely changes the scenario. I guess rogue-likes would diverge too.

2025-10-23 02:33:55 UTC

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Amen's tagged me in response to his friend on the topic of whether someone had taught programming using the fediverse / the mastodon as the medium.
I then had the idea that Mastodon threads of toots containing code could be a computer program, which I guess you are relating to Forth of which the closest I got to it was reading Let Over Lambda.
Then, someone could start adding their own fork of someone else's computer program toots by replying at the point they wish to diverge.

2025-10-23 02:16:48 UTC

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I take your point that having done very little, it appears that I have done very little.

2025-10-23 01:45:27 UTC

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being https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115420841088106458 .

2025-10-23 01:45:14 UTC

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Now that I had a follow-through (which involved getting a new key for mastodonel, which involved figuring out the gpg password mechanism in this emacs environment), what do you think?
I guess brutaldon would work for non-emacs; or shinmera's api for custom apps.
I wonder if I could finally fulfill your suggestion of months ago of rewriting the anatomy of lisp, but as a mastodon thread. I guess people will figure out to block my #tooteev tag pretty quick if they aren't playing.

2025-10-22 22:02:53 UTC

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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use midi. I think @npub1sfp…f0ge did lisp bindings https://codeberg.org/pkw/midi9000
@npub1nwt…n7m0 @npub1ckx…8e3n @npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-22 21:53:26 UTC

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There is a long history of music programming in lisp, though this means when you look for it sometimes you find things from the 70s/80s/90s/00s that search engines are confused about.
@npub1dqw…h4lu did you do any music with https://github.com/aartaka/cl-pure-data ?
I guess music programming is an interesting idea pedagogically. Does anyone know if the idea has been developed?
@npub1ckx…8e3n @npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-22 20:49:29 UTC

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I guess I am also very guilty of that.
@npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-22 20:45:41 UTC

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I'm imagining using #mastodonEl + #eev #emacs for interactive execution. I'll make a gif example later.
@npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-22 20:42:49 UTC

#pedagogy #programming
Mastodon Threads As Computer Programs, along the style lines of the structure and interpretation of computer programs. @npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-06 20:35:28 UTC

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sorry for punting the question. In your experience, is there any meaning to people nefariously stealing games from you?
From my perspective if someone got some authentic lisp knowledge from me, and started distributing it, I could basically take a holiday. Maybe misrepresenting authorship of code could be actively bad.
@npub1ekj…wjxt @npub1nwt…n7m0

2025-10-06 06:52:25 UTC

#gameDev #devlog #NicCLIM #McCLIM Map editor #alphaRelease explainer part 2 ! Things begin to get crazy. #commonLisp #programming .
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-ii-lambdas/
Here I focus on writing normal lisp lambdas, and pasting them into the active map. Part 3 will be about picking up the lambdas and walking around the map, using them (i.e. to effect hextille game of life).
I look forward to your thoughts. We are in strange waters.
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/325/870/137/520/021/original/02dd60b679a5a911.png
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/325/870/348/710/759/original/a97b5d8b05110d3e.png
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/325/870/396/825/195/original/b1a6360353e3c59e.png
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/325/870/397/715/781/original/e8a39ff41d471893.png

2025-08-26 22:04:24 UTC

8pm Tuesday Boston time
#lispyGopherClimate #commonLisp #astrophysics #supercomputing #softwareEngineering #archive , https://communitymedia.video/w/9kysH4ZwVuP4J4erZozqFT we will have (now done) a live interview with
https://as.tufts.edu/physics/people/faculty/ken-olum
about the recent largest-ever cosmic string simulation also introducing their new spacetime-volume pseudo-parallel simulation technique, relating to gravitational backreaction.
People sometimes ask, "who uses common lisp today".
Olum learned #lisp from John McCarthy.
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/097/326/540/569/746/original/f4ac2bb9d7e7a775.png

2025-08-02 08:26:59 UTC

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it's as you say, I'm using kitten for generating eev-style emacs 'dashboards' visited in emacs (on localhost). I will write a readable article with gifs about it when I've done a bit more.
@npub1c78…wp89

2025-08-02 08:08:21 UTC

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Thanks again for kitten!
the main thing for me (still quite a while til I need to use it) is that the kitten eepitch is a very convenient interface into the #kitten's kittendb (from inside #emacs).
So the kitten eepitch can be used to read and set values that determine what pages are generated, in real time.
This is useful reflectively by visiting the kitten in emacs' eww browser.
@npub1c78…wp89 we must convince Aral to adopt your category diagrams for Kitten's database typing ;p

2025-08-02 03:48:10 UTC

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Cool! my thinking was just that we are pitching line by line, whereas
```
1
2
3
```
might be confused with
#+begin_src lisp
1
2
3
#+end_src
from orgmode, which is one source block.
On the other hand, you're right that visiting-my-current-file-in-eww-to-use-it is an awkward step ;p
And they render differently in some places (like separate lines vs a code block)
cc @npub1p09…m5vl kittens + eev-mode
I have occasionally had an eepitch-kitten on the brain.

2025-07-21 02:47:52 UTC

#programming #workflow #GUI #mcclim #commonLisp #emacs #ecl #clisp #slime #leonardoCalculus #eepitch
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-object-oriented-simulation-simulation/
I have to say, I am really, really happy with how the flow into the thirty second GIF reflects my ideal computer useage.
Basically, I write a clim command that steers my leonardo system "like a person does" via emacs-server, visible in the background of the straightforward clim interactor GUI I generated in a couple lines.

2025-05-31 07:02:39 UTC

#commonLisp #emacs #smallweb #kitten https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/clkitten-parenscript-kitten-2/ #webdev
Eev (and lisp secret alien technology) made it /really/ easy and convenient to generate a kitten matching @npub1p09…m5vl's Tutorial 2: dynamic pages, https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/ serve it and visit it inside emacs (just press F8 over and over again and it happens on its own).
I guess you can do it too...? What do you think? How much of a Hurkle itch is this giving you Aral ;p. It seems /really/ easy to get a fancy! #tls site up like this.
https://gamerplus.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/601/158/232/034/281/original/f527475e6e5430c3.png

2025-05-25 09:41:42 UTC

@npub1p09…m5vl's #smallWeb #kitten #webdev
Trivial example of having done exactly what it says in the reference here https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#markdown-pages-page-md-files in my own just-a-bunch-of-markdown-files.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/markdown-kitten-front-matter/
I'm looking forward to doing some of the fancy tls-as-authentication interkitten communication with all the other cats with kittens soon.

2025-05-22 08:09:40 UTC

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withstanding I'm bringing my undeveloped brainstorming to your decades of wisdom, but what if there was a sort of GM kitten, and a party of kittens were battling their way through some portentious communal hack scenario governed by the GM kitten.
And kittens were something like those early 90s experimental games where the character just executes a macro written by its player outside of and prior to the live events happening independently.
@npub1p09…m5vl

2025-05-22 08:01:36 UTC

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I'm not exactly sure what having a public cryptographic exchange could be good for but I can imagine scenarios where my kitten would like to respond without my direct action to something your kitten pinged it with. I dunno if I'm just inventing busywork or what.
@npub1p09…m5vl

2025-05-22 07:49:41 UTC

@npub1tw9…za5q
Did you say you played with #Kitten (s) earlier? Can I friendster you in such a way that someone with your own kitten's ed25519 can freely write to a blackboard on my index.page.js ?
Edit: Relatedly, https://screwlisp.small-web.org/
cc @npub1p09…m5vl