Christine Lemmer-Webber

CTO at @spritelyinst. I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @fossandcrafts. Nonbinary trans-femme, she/they. https://dustycloud.org/

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npub1y593y33836cy4rxaz0mrcg8fyg9js3w767lk9ypcrn6tafrc2ftsa0svk3

NIP-05 Address

cwebber_at_octodon.social@mostr.pub

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2024-08-07 20:02:56

New blogpost: Two songs in Milkytracker https://dustycloud.org/blog/two-songs-in-milkytracker/
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/922/522/154/413/028/original/d4298cad0abc87ea.png

2024-07-28 13:10:40

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Update: said person who hated group projects burns out on interacting with people and begins fantasizing about building a commune in a rural environment where things would be better.
Said commune, if constructed, turns out to be an isolated group project which eventually turns into a cult

2024-07-28 13:08:45

Person who spent entire time in school complaining about group projects dedicates life to community moderation, standards work, FOSS ecosystems, cooperatives, and other forms of governance

2024-07-26 12:03:43

A horror story of what happens when you don't use lisp, SMH https://mihaiolteanu.me/defense-of-lisp-macros

2024-07-22 12:57:30

another music experiment, aiming for something moody
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/830/252/939/285/581/original/6dc467b0c955c503.mp3

2024-07-07 11:04:36

eyeliner pen exploded twice on my face, probably ruined by the plane, so you know what, fuck it, going goth bitch mode on the exit of this conference

2024-07-05 15:50:14

The new "filtered mentions" interface is making me spend more time on notifications for people I might not know, not less? I can't figure out how to turn it off, is there a way?

2024-07-05 05:54:27

compilers are definitely the kind of thing you want built on top of a neural network. you definitely want bullshitting/hallucinations in your compiled output. you want this

2024-07-04 15:36:56

my brain will never accept that couscous is not itself a grain and is instead effectively a kind of pasta

2024-06-28 04:34:51

Are you in San Francisco? Will you be attending the trans march tomorrow? I'm in town, maybe we should hang out

2024-06-24 16:12:54

I put all my data in the cloud, since as we all know, clouds are solid and reliable structures

2024-06-23 15:32:25

Evidence of a bubble in mid-burst: this is in the #1 slot on HN right now https://dropofahat.zone/

2024-06-20 21:55:06

5 Reasons to Learn Scheme in 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXK9YZ0NjU

2024-06-20 19:13:09

If you live in the US, please please PLEASE contact your reps to oppose KOSA. https://www.stopkosa.com/
Seriously. Contact your reps. Contact your reps!!! Don't wait for everyone else to do it. This hurts queer youth, but also, it's likely to have a big impact on decentralized social media at large. It's likely to hurt the communities you have here.
Don't sit by. Please take action!

2024-06-20 12:15:47

Announcing the Pre-Scheme Restoration https://prescheme.org/posts/announcing-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html
Pre-Scheme! A "systems lisp" with static type analysis, *no* GC, compilation to C, and... you can hack it live at your REPL!
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/648/887/103/677/294/original/c346e219b1373af0.png

2024-06-18 13:45:03

A talk on @npub1hc2…7065 at the Guix Meetup today https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024
Sure to be interesting!

2024-06-18 11:23:20

Chat Control, the EXTREMELY DANGEROUS bill to insert mandatory surveillance into EU citizens' communications, is set to be greenlit tomorrow https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/
If you are in the EU *TAKE ACTION NOW*, this is NOT A DRILL

2024-06-15 17:55:05

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Hack & Craft is in just a few minutes! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/
I'll be hacking on some Goblins code one way or another (either Goblins itself or Terminal Phase)
Cya there!

2024-06-10 16:08:43

thank god org-mode 9.7 removes the "searching sometimes expands and opens and just leaves open links" thing, I am really grateful

2024-06-10 15:19:45

👀 minikanren running on Hoot

2024-06-10 13:45:36

Sad that the MIT Museum moved from having a display with the original CADR lisp machine to a bunch of new exhibits featuring:
- patting yourself on the back for inventions that will probably never be deployed to help out developing countries
- genetically engineered pink chickens, consume them as a way to fight the patriarchy (?!?!?!)
- a man wailing while burying 3d printed pigs
At least they have the awesome mechanical sculptures still

2024-06-06 20:40:06

I am so SICK of cloudflare "are you a human?" captchas
fucking breaking the web, fuck you

2024-06-06 12:55:18

thank your local catgirl / dragongirl / foxgirl / puppygirl for saving the internet TODAY

2024-06-05 12:15:53

Relax! You're breathing Nestle Oxygen (TM)
(that'll be $15)

2024-06-04 21:01:37

I gave a talk recently on how and why @npub1hyz…gswq uses games to test and demo our tech, and that talk is now online! You can see it! https://archive.org/details/dweb-virtual-meetup-camp-demos-may-2024?start=1154

2024-06-04 16:20:24

I'm not shocked that the hype train on GraphQL is ending in a crash, I had enough experience with Sparql endpoints to know that transitioning to API endpoints for user defined queries of potentially unknown complexity on graphs might be A Fun Time with Lots Of Interesting Security And Privacy Issues

2024-06-03 17:35:15

Oh and if you WANTED to play Cirkoban earlier but tried playing it in mobile firefox or chrome and the scaling was weird, that's now fixed, so give it a try! https://davexunit.itch.io/cirkoban

2024-06-03 17:00:14

The Spritely crew made a really fun game called Cirkoban! Push blocks, make circuits! You can play it! https://spritely.institute/news/cirkoban-sokoban-meets-cellular-automata-written-in-scheme.html
The undo feature is powered by Spritely Goblins' time travel and it's running in the browser thanks to Hoot!
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/553/749/292/708/880/original/b9874c0d4af22079.mp4

2024-06-03 12:33:59

Animation for @npub188e…x54a and I's 15th wedding anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0ksYfUf0c https://share.tube/w/ccw8rEM8PRhHWgtQUWerir
Love you dearly, Morgan, and I'm glad we're on this journey together!

2024-06-02 15:42:21

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Also sorry to spoiler the last line of the article but it's so good it bears quoting:
> It’s not a piece of cake to bake a lispy cake, and the way is often hazy, but I know we can’t be lazy and just do the cooking by the book. Rewrite it in Rust? No way! Rewrite it in Lisp!

2024-06-02 15:41:53

Lisp: Icing of Cake? https://dthompson.us/posts/lisp-icing-or-cake.html
A lovely blogpost by @npub1hc2…7065 analyzing the lisp game jam (Guile is the #1 language, and most of those entries used Hoot, wow!) and ruminating on a meta-discussion: should lisp be an "extension language", or the main thing?

2024-05-30 13:03:41

pst hello

2024-05-28 11:58:41

Cirkoban, a block pushing puzzle game written in Scheme made by combining Spritely Goblins and Spritely Hoot: https://davexunit.itch.io/cirkoban
Time travel brought to you by Goblins! Running in the browser brought to you by Hoot!
Give it a try! Can you collect all the bonus gems?

2024-05-27 04:01:34

Our entry for the Lisp Game Jam is in! You can play it! https://davexunit.itch.io/cirkoban
But I'm gonna write about it more in the morning. Can you get all the gems before I wake up?

2024-05-26 21:40:28

It's a little bit weird when someone asks "what would you be doing with your life if you could be doing something else" and I can't honestly think of anything better than the work we're doing right now
(I guess I would like to not be in charge of fundraising but you know,)

2024-05-26 19:26:16

I am extremely stoked about the game jam progress. Honestly, I think our game jam entry looks and feels as good as some recent commercial indie games I've played recently. Can't wait for people to give our game a try.

2024-05-23 20:16:53

Hey if you haven't told your congresspeople that KOSA is a horrible, horrible law that will make the internet worse and outright endanger queer youth, let them know https://www.stopkosa.com/

2024-05-23 11:03:39

I mean Emacs has a lot of things but... a mouse-driven point and click vector tool?! That's a category of program I haven't seen before... https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/490/064/142/110/463/original/9396128d8718ed5f.mp4

2024-05-22 21:08:35

it's past 5pm here already?
shit

2024-05-22 15:09:09

ChatGPT is thirsty, literally. Huge consumer of water resources for just a few prompts. That's to say nothing of electricity, hardware costs, etc. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/water-why-a-thirsty-generative-ai-boom-poses-a-problem-for-big-tech.html

2024-05-22 12:37:07

There's a live System Crafters stream where @npub1w66…rc58 is making a game featuring a little lisp editor where you control "NPCs" in a dungeon and is using Spritely's Hoot and it's *really cool*! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD1-UIY0jvA

2024-05-21 18:54:54

I'll be appearing on two virtual presentations this Thursday:
At the DWeb Camp Virtual Meetup I'll be talking about how and why Spritely uses games to demo and robustly test decentralized networking tech https://www.eventbrite.com/e/may-2024-dweb-virtual-meetup-camp-demo-preview-tickets-906439554107
At Northwestern I'l be speaking on a panel: "Decentralizing Social Media: The challenges and opportunities of federated systems" https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/articles/2024/decentralizing-social-media-thought-leader-dialogue.html

2024-05-21 18:37:59

Wrote a little blogpost about the NOVA documentary I appeared on https://dustycloud.org/blog/i-appeared-on-pbs-nova/
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/480/527/620/111/569/original/95e36b763faab71d.jpeg

2024-05-17 21:13:39

Doing some pixel art for the lisp game jam
pretty sure this is gonna be awesome
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/458/491/177/659/059/original/e0ed8857f8ede53f.png

2024-05-17 19:53:26

The lisp game jam started today! And as a reminder, we have this lovely template for you to make browser games in Hoot + Guile Scheme: https://spritely.institute/news/make-a-game-with-hoot-for-the-lisp-game-jam.html
And as a bonus, the blogpost now contains the *complete* image with even more Spritely characters celebrating the lisp game jam! (You're amazing, tessa!)
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/458/175/245/803/564/original/43bb39a59adeb0fa.jpg

2024-05-16 20:41:48

New blogpost by @npub1cww…ny8k: "On Hoot, on boot" https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/16/on-hoot-on-boot
Lots of interesting things about Spritely's Hoot Scheme->WASM compiler in here!

2024-05-16 20:39:44

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The PBS Nova documentary with me in it is also on YouTube if that's more to your liking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_GGQX_zmM

2024-05-16 17:25:34

I'm in a documentary on PBS Nova! https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/
It was really fun being filmed for this. I... haven't watched it yet! I'm a little afraid to, but friends are going to come over and we're going to have a pizza party watching it tonight!

2024-05-15 19:44:53

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The Lisp Game Jam is at 114 sign-ups at the time of posting! https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024
I really have a feeling this game jam is going to be *amazing*!

2024-05-15 18:24:43

It's time for the Lisp Game Jam and this time we've got everything you need to get going fast to build your dream videogame with Scheme in the browser! https://spritely.institute/news/make-a-game-with-hoot-for-the-lisp-game-jam.html
That's right! *YOU* could build a fabulous lispy browser game using Hoot, and we've got a template ready-to-go that even includes a sample game!
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/446/491/930/149/446/original/cec9942eca5c20e8.jpg

2024-05-09 17:58:31

What's that? Spritely Goblins + Shepherd for *distributed* daemon management?! Yes, it's been funded by NLnet! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-december-2023.html
Also shout outs to fellow NLnet funded projects: Prescheme (yes, systems programming and ~scheme) and Whippet GC (a new garbage collector for Guile)!
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/412/425/492/186/716/original/a24117aa036562eb.jpg

2024-05-07 21:20:06

Thank you @npub10em…7t54 for pointing me to this music video which I can only describe as "peak jorts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1NS1vEhSg