How Emacs changed my Life
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_my_life.html

Slides
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/8/items/HowEmacsChangedMyLifeMatz/How%20Emacs%20changed%20my%20life%20-%20libreplanet-matz-120326052231-phpapp02.pdf

#ruby #Matz #emacs #freesoftware #rms

The #GNU Kind Communication Guidelines are Bad for Free Software — Emacsen's Blog - https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/10/19/gkcg-is-bad/

#fsf #freesoftware

In a parallel universe where Ubuntu hadn't provided the "install alongside Windows" option (which it did about 10 years ago), I'd be writing enterprise Java on a Windows 10 machine, blissfully unaware of the existence of free software and believing that privacy is dead if Mark Zuckerberg says so.

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Dear #purists and #absolutists,

It's great to be clean and pure yourself, but sometimes you have step into the mud to pull out others who are stuck in it.

#windows #ubuntu #privacy #freesoftware

« Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World by @glynmoody. We need a free software mobile operating system. Is it eelo? »

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/now-time-start-planning-post-android-world

#android #eelo #mobile #freesoftware #FOSS #opensource #Linux

#introductions

Hello social.coop people,

I'm Alfonso, connecting from the Pyrenees, the mountains in the south of France.

I'm a developer and architect interested in #digitalcommons #freesoftware #datacommons to build free digital ecosystem attached to territories.

Here in the Pyrenees, i've co-founded Lab Place, a maker and co-working space in a little village https://lab.place

I also take part in the international network Civicwise https://civicwise.org

Can't remember if I've done #introductions, so:

I code professionally in #Clojure and for fun in #Lua, #Emacs, and #Racket

I care deeply about making computing serve users thru #FreeSoftware but don't have easy answers as to how.

I sell DIY #keyboards and kits: https://atreus.technomancy.us

I'm doing #gamedev: https://technomancy.itch.io/bussard

I grew up in Indonesia & Singapore and lived in Thailand 2 years.

It pains me to use all these #unironichashtags but I guess I need to get over it?