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Maker of things for Emacs and Racket. Founder of Cakewalk. Alum of Recurse Center.

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Any sufficiently cynical tweet about programming contains an ad hoc, misleading, poorly phrased plagiarism of half of Greenspun's tenth rule

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I've been meaning to end my overpriced, underutilized Netflix membership, so I'd like to thank @reedhastings for their brave and creative leadership in this regard. Nudge noticed. Action taken.

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Racket Mode is now available from NonGNU ELPA (which Emacs 28.1+ comes configured to use automatically) as well as still being available from the still-amazing MELPA archive.

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"downsize" is an antonym of "elongate", in which the most tiresome, cloying, self-owning fat fuck of supposed "innovation" betrays the esteem in which he holds both employees and user-not-customer fodder i.e. all of us

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@brainwane Casual brilliance.

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bitch please

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Did somebody say we needed a variable naming style D&D alignment chart? Gotcha. https://t.co/y42jgnZjg9

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RIP Cleo. You were so full of love. Saying goodbye hurts so much.

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@ann_arcana You are wise. I visit much less frequently than I used to; just weekly or even monthly.

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Another orange site post about a language that made choices they don't prefer, and the inevitable comment thread that any "AI" could generate, and yada yada yada... but it's no-troll Labor Day Monday holiday so cheers.

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@AkitaSoftware Who needs noumena just use phenomena

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It's the time
of the season
for hairballs
- The Cat Zombies

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@jmiven No, it's my fault for posting on Twitter at all. :)

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Although the photos are impressive they should not expect more funding until they make a Webbb telescope with Merkle trees.

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@no_pullbacks Kindly fuck off you anonymous trolling twatwaffle.

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A reminder that opposition to abortion originated as a dog whistle about desegregation. https://t.co/oRjM6QEqrX

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@spdegabrielle @dustyweb Another useful concept is that dynamic vars in Emacs can be buffer-local. There's a shared initial value for new buffers, but then it can diverge per-buffer. (Similar to say how parameters in Racket are thread-local.)

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@spdegabrielle @dustyweb Yep, it's pretty straightforward.
1. Start source file with:
;;; foo.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
2. Byte compile with things like byte-compile-warnings set true.
It helps catch places you might be confusing lexical vs. dynamic.

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When an error message shuffles off to the Elision Fields, that might spark joy for humans, yet tools and IDEs do weep.