David Thompson davexunit@identi.ca

Had a nice test call with David Thompson over Mumble. Mumble works so nicely and easily for voice chat out of the box it's almost offensive.

Guile now ships with HTTPS support out of the box! Exciting! I need this for my own projects. :)

Thanks to Andy Wingo and Ludovic Courtès for helping me get this one in. :)

I wanted to be able to use GOOPS for its live hacking features but also its super nice generic methods system, while also keeping my code mostly functional.

Here's an attempt of adding functional setters to GOOPS. Seems to work!

Well that was a weird debate.

Clinton pretty much kept it cool the whole debate through. You can tell she's practiced. For the first 30 minutes I think Trump did a pretty good job of catering to his base, especially evangelicals, and I thought maybe it was enough to win over some of the undecided conservatives in his favor... maybe it was. But then he just went into meltdown. Core overload, burning straight through the floor.

Anyway, I voted today, and I voted for Clinton. She really wouldn't be my choice for president if the world was more balanced for other things, but I mean, in an election between her and Trump, there's no contest.

This election can't be over fast enough!

Test Driven Development found to not be more productive than Test Last Development.

Playing Mr Rescue on my Guix system. Neat little arcade game, with some awesome chip tunes. Very challenging, will need some practise!

• What's in a name? by Olin Shivers (one of the greatest schemers/lispers of all time)
• An epic thread on dynamic-wind including Gerald Sussman, RMS, Jonathan Rees, Aubrey Jaffer. Includes the interesting tidbit of history by gjs: rms was the inventor of dynamic-wind in 1980, for a Scheme-on-a-chip! (hat tip to David Thompson who first pointed to me to this thread, which I have returned to repeatedly over time)
• Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures Frequently referenced all over the place in reference to Monads, and no wonder why! I'm drafting an article explaining how to do this with generic methods and GOOPS (yes, GOOPS) in Guile, since that was the first way I ever wrote monads supporting code I understood.

Anyone want to pile on some more interesting links?

Once again I am trying to correct information about guile-emacs on the intarwebs.

New release of Guile's beta series is out! New exciting nonblocking IO features, overhaul of ports, and more!

Someone requested an "emote" command in the MUD and I live hacked it into the game while it was running! #mudsync #lispgamejam

I can now easily interact with objects in mudsync and write new commands. Finally, the real fun starts. Content authoring! #lispgamejam

"Don't get into a license discussion on IRC, don't get into a license discussion on IRC" I tell myself all the time, and then do anyway.

I wish I had realized match-lambda existed in Guile sooner. It's making a lot of my code much cleaner.

I've finished a basic tutorial for 8sync. I'm working on converting it to texinfo now, but I'm curious if anyone will find it helpful or has feedback!

First 8sync release is really close. Writing up the blogpost now...

Lazy Saturday. Got my hair cut, got brunch, writing an actor model on top of Guile + 8sync. (More or less reimplementing XUDD in Guile.)

Every place I've posted in the past 2 days is within 1.5 hours of my hometown. And every one, I've never been to before. Whole lotta hidden amazing stuff in these hills.

Head on over to http://gnu.org/s/8sync/ and check things out. We're live! Live-ish.

There's a little (display "Hello, World!") blogpost, too.

I don't consider myself a "graphic designer", but I think this new 8sync site design is going pretty great.

I'm using Haunt by @David Thompson which is an absolute delight to hack in.

• wikipedia via telnet
• metafilter via gopher
• olduse.net via nntp with special NSA appearance
• xeyes