Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 11

turned out to be about 250 lines of code, though there's still a few bugs

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/menelaus/tree/master/menelaus.scm

the difference in the dev flow is like night and day; I got much further than I had in the past in much less time.

I still prefer the ESP32 when it's an option but in cases where I'm tied to Arduino hardware this is a far better way to go than using C

in 2015 I came across Microscheme, a subset of Scheme which runs on Arduino devices: https://ryansuchocki.github.io/microscheme/

I gave a shot at writing a keyboard firmware for it, but debugging on the device was just too tedious since the only output available was the blink patterns of a single LED.

but last week I took another look at it and realized I could run all the code on my laptop if I wrote a test harness in Racket; that way I'd get prints and stack traces working.

RT @levelsio@twitter.com
🔴 Tourists in red

vs.

🔵 Locals in blue

Eric Fisher made a set of maps showing where locals vs tourists hang out based on photos uploaded with EXIF data: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/with/4671594023/

1) NYC, 2) SF, 3) AMS, 4) Tokyo

One of the more interesting things to happen in architecture during the late twentieth century was the discovery by Christopher Alexander of 'Pattern Languages'.
http://jomardpublishing.com/UploadFiles/Files/journals/NDI/V3N1/PostleB.pdf

'A Pattern Language' has 253 chapters in a kind of early hypertext format; the idea is that a collection of patterns like this forms a thing called a 'Pattern Language', and Alexander's book is just the first of these.

Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released! https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-news

If you use apt-get to upgrade to buster, you won't be asked about the security repository info changed from 'testing' to 'stable'. Use the --allow-releaseinfo-change option, as Eriberto Mota explains here: http://eriberto.pro.br/blog/2019/07/07/debian-repository-changed-its-suite-value-from-testing-to-stable/ or use apt instead

The existence of fluffy, light, subtly-flavored angel’s food cake is of course typically contrasted with the dark, rich and extremely chocolatey devil’s food cake, which encompasses the theological spectrum of baking.

In another field, that of noodles, the existence of fine angel hair pasta, by analogy, suggests a hypothetical thicker noodle known as “devil hair pasta.” In this essay I will

Wheelchair all made up ready for a music festival next weekend 😊🐞🐙 ·

Debian 10 buster has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/buster-released.html

aaaaaaaaa :yell:

Dear reader, I got neither a big beaver nor a little beaver today.

relationship goal: Brad Leone and Claire Saffitz's bromance

You don't need to be an expert to contribute to Debian! Assisting users with problems on the user support channels is a large contribution to Debian. https://www.debian.org/support #ReleasingDebianBuster