Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 31

@mike_hales @bhaugen This is all new to me but I will certainly keep you posted with thoughts as I'm reading

(Side note: when are you / Bob / et al going to start a podcast discussing all these things)

Mailshot says: Some very exciting news

Mailshot means: We weren't making any money, we're desperately trying something different, please click this button so our investors think its working

OK not their main site but some backwater I ended up in unsubscribing from an email. Not even mobile responsive.

How in God's name does IBM have such a shitty website.

Huh, I got an email from mastodon.social saying 'Hey, we miss you'.

I had forgotten I opened an account on m.s a long while back, before this one.

Generally skeptical of hey we miss you emails. Are they ever genuinely in your interest and not the platforms? I guess if a platform truly believes that they're doing something good then maybe so. Hope I've not become bitter and cynical.

But. If it was titled 'hey we want more active users' I'd probably respect it more.

Proyecto Synco

Programming learnings today:

- debugging WordPress plugins is a massive timesink, I really need to find a more elegant way of doing that if I wish to stick at that
- delegated access is really fun, it takes a while to wrap your head around different OAuth flows though

Really enjoying listening to backlog of episodes of @librelounge.

e.g. a discussion on human rights and how they relate to free software / free culture.

For me the intersection of ethics, politics and libre stuff is very important. Looking back I think I got into it for the fun of it but the philosophy always attracted me. I want to know if and how we can mobilise it as part of a transition to an egalitarian future, and what I can do to be a part of that.

@mike_hales @Graham_Mitchell Thanks both, really interesting. I'm imagining in advance of reading it that it will be an interesting historical study, but definitely rooted in the context of the time. My crude understanding at the moment is that it was a top-down planned economy, which doesn't chime 100% with me, but keen to get learnings of what worked and what didn't. Really interesting to hear that some of the ideas still have legs and/or descendents.

@ntnsndr That's kind of what pushed me to tinker, a couple of copy pastes not working at first - then when I finally got them to work it struck home just how awesome it is to be able to customise your own tools.

Plus I've never had a Lisp-like experience before and I'm keen to know if my brain will transcend/explode as per is generally advertised.

Elisp reflections continued.

It's really fun to be able to execute arbitrary regions of code straight in the buffer as you're writing and tweaking them. Don't know if that scales to bigger programs though.

I want to look into the ert testing framework.

Symbols, quoting, keywords, this hasn't really clicked yet. It made sense when I read it but then I found myself just kind of quoting and hoping and doing trial and error.

Reflecting on what I learned from tinkering with Elisp today.

Was fun to get the noggin thinking functional rather than procedural. For long control flows I seem to think more imperatively at present, but I love mapping functions on lists and wonder if this will scale up.

I love how easy it is to get descriptions of library functions and read their source directly in Emacs.

I can't ever see myself enjoying balancing parentheses but maybe you just get used to it..

Has anyone read Cybernetic Revolutionaries? Think I'm going to finally give it a crack, have been wanting to for a while.

'A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.'

I mean this is very relevant to my interests.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries

Whewwwwww, finding it a bit of a head-bending experience learning Emacs Lisp. Fun when it clicks though.

Why is it Firefox ESR and not Firefox RMS

Alright! Think I've got syndication targets working in my Emacs Micropub client.

Dark UI patterns - making me click through 5 different screens to cancel my membership.

Debian and GNOME rocking it so far on this new (second hand) box.

Seeing how far I can get without enabling the non-free repo. So far Debian has detected that the WiFi card needs a non-free driver, but that's cool, I can luckily just stick with wired for this machine.

This page is horribly full of white dudes.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TWiTFLOSS/videos