mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchLisp, Emacs, APL and a bunch of other stuff.
From Sweden, living in Singapore.
I always work on a bunch of projects. My current major ones are:
A graphical frontend to Maxima: https://github.com/lokedhs/maxima-client
Kap: An APL-based programming language: https://codeberg.org/loke/array
#lisp #commonlisp #apl #retrocomputing #linux #kap #climaxima #emacs #atari #fedi22
So, here's a controversial topic, maybe?
I personally find conspiracy theorists, antivaxxers, science denialists etc to be actively dangerous to society. And we should do whatever we can to minimise their negative impact on the world.
I used to listen to a bunch of different skeptic podcasts, which was fun for a while. But eventually I came to realise that a lot of the people in the "skeptic community" all appear to be insufferable arses.
Could it be that because these people spend much of their time reading and responding to the stupidest people on earth, so now they exhibit something analogous to billionaire supremacy syndrome where they think they are experts in everything?
It's kinda sad, because if the goal is to educate and help people look at things critically, that kind of attitude kinda defeats the purpose.
This industry is weird. On one hand, you have slides like this at Def Con.
On the other hand, it's all "hrrr agentic security".
I implemented support for the graphics API in the web-based implementation.
Getting the html components laid out correctly was the thing that took 90% of the time. UI layout was a solved problem in the 90''s. Why is this still such a struggle?
Anyway, it kinda-sorta works now, so here's an example
Go ahead and follow the link and click on 'Send' to try it. Everything is client side. No tracking or anything like that.