Spritely Goblins v0.11.0 is OUT! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0110-released-time-travel-distributed-debugging-and-more.html

- A time travel distributed debugger you can play with LIVE, right in your dev environment!
- Overhauled documentation!
- A whole bunch more!

Guix (and Mes) have achieved a FULL source bootstrap! This is INCREDIBLE STUFF! https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

> We are delighted and somewhat relieved to announce that the third reduction of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been merged in the main branch of Guix! If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program—something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the birth of Unix.
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> We refer to this as the Full-Source Bootstrap.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

somehow I've noticed that the youtube engagement algorithm seems to be repeatedly sneaking in a bunch of "subtly religious" content that then walks you into more and more extremely religious stuff, with more and more of it being right wing religious stuff too

eg you're listening to lofi girl and then suddenly at "catholic lofi" girl praying rosaries and you didn't notice and then suddenly you've got all this deeply religious christian stuff and you can't stop it without clearing your cache

I set up my browser to clear my cache every time I restart my browser, so seeing this happen multiple times makes me think there's been intentional effort to have this kind of "algorithm onboarding"

also every time I restart my browser I get a fresh look into what the current lowest common denominator of the unspecialized youtube recommendations is and hoo boy it's more depressing every time

@ekaitz_zarraga @civodul @spritelyinst @andrewrk Aw this is really sweet! :)

And you know I love your work and energy too, and hope to see each other IRL in the not distant future (maybe next FOSDEM?)! :)

BTW, if you see ⸮ in my posts, that's because I'm aware I'm making a post that MIGHT NOT BE OBVIOUS that it's humorous or sarcastic to some readers. (I will not always mark my humor/sarcasm.) In other words, it's similar to /s, but a bit broader. And there's a character for it!

Read up on "Irony punctuation"! It has a history! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

gimme all the shit you want for picking a lisp, Goblins is awesome as fuck to program in, and there's no other way we'd have gotten this far this fast with so few resources if I hadn't made that choice

Or perhaps you'd like to help a poor confused girl make it through an original printrun of Guy L. Steele's seminal dissertation on compiler design

Maybe lisp books disguised as AI books are more your thing

Now That's What I Call SICP Posting Vol 2

but that's not all

when the girl flirts with you by posting selfies of her and SICP

Are YOU going to Decent Social this weekend?

The ONLY decentralized social networking (un)conference with a pixel art logo done by yours truly!

http://decentsocial.net

@ekaitz_zarraga aw thanks, what an incredibly sweet thing to say :)

(also omg my headband is just sliding off my head in this talk over and over and gosh it's really obvious to me that I've gained a bunch of weight recently by watching this video but hey, I think my presentation style was pretty good)

Hey look it's me speaking at the Plurality Research Network Conference about Spritely and the work we're advancing (and, to some degree, how we both do and don't relate to ActivityPub and the fediverse) https://www.youtube.com/live/RyObAHv777E?feature=share&t=7902

@technomancy @jfred @dthompson @ekaitz_zarraga @civodul It's super important from a hygiene perspective, yes

@dthompson @technomancy @jfred @ekaitz_zarraga @civodul Yeah I usually use #:select instead of prefixing, but sometimes prefixing is really convenient!

@dthompson @ekaitz_zarraga @civodul In that sense it's kinda reasonable

but it kinda sucks for us

@technomancy @jfred @dthompson @ekaitz_zarraga @civodul Yeah "from foo import *" is considered bad form in Python but it's kind of the default in Guile