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@susam coincidentally, I've been learning #racket and really, really liking it.

I like their focus on Racket being "a programmable programming language" or "a language-oriented programming language". And it does seem delightfully suited for writing DSLs.

Also, I think I am starting to understand macros! I have seen the light, I think...though I still don't have many ideas for how I'd use them in my own coding.

What kinds of macros have you written?

#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status

DIY robots "drones"

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9

Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it

Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.

Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools

Writing more of my own tools #DIY

#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift

Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic

Start an #InternetResiliencyClub

Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy

#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial

#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse

Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures

Start asking money for advice & technology support

Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art

#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic

#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki

#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise

Incessant pickleball pops infuriate some.

“It’s not a continuous noise, like the sound of the furnace in your house. That’s a continuous, background noise that we can get used to,” said acoustical engineer Ryan Skoug, with ESI Engineering in Minneapolis.

“Pickleball creates what we call a highly impulsive noise. It startles us. It triggers a fight-or-flight reaction in us.”

“I sort of jokingly compare it to a prehistoric man out walking in the woods, worried about lions or something else that might attack him,” he said. “He listens for that ‘crack’ of a twig or a stick, alerting him someone is getting close to him. It’s that ‘crack’ that we hear that makes it so alerting to us.”
startribune.com/pickleball-noi

The noise from pickleball paddles and players has become a contentious issue in Apple Valley. This photo shows pickleball players at a park in Shoreview in June 2016.
www.startribune.com · Pickleball noise serves up drama, police calls in Twin Cities suburbsAs pickleball has exploded in popularity, it has sparked noise complaints, petitions and neighborhood feuds.

Racket folks: so I hear that Racket is good for making DSLs, and that it's a "programming language programming language".

For example, there's Scribble, for writing documents -- which I'd describe as "Racket's TeX": docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

I want to learn a bit about this, and have an idea for a little DSL I'd like to make: it would describe hikes, walks, bike routes, etc -- any sort of 1-d path. It would describe waypoints, landmarks, elevation, directions, maybe alternate routes, and so on.

The neat thing would be "compilers" for such a DSL: imagine "compiling" such a hike/path into a regular map with the path...or an elevation profile...or a textual list of directions...or a GPX file.

#racket folks, what are some good resources for getting started? I'm poking around but would like to hear your thoughts.

docs.racket-lang.orgScribble: The Racket Documentation Tool
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Now that I've gotten all of that off of my chest, I'll get to the point.

I need help on how to RECOVER everything "stored" on #Onedrive, put it all on my #harddrive (where it was SUPPOSED to be since the beginning) and THEN tell onedrive to fuck off a cliff.

Help me do that on my #pc, please, and I should be able to help my mother do it on hers and we can stop getting #extorted by this "Cloud storage" #racket.

This is fascinating! Programming language as a means of understanding Lacanian philosophy. This reinforces something I'm increasingly persuaded of, that computer science and programming languages exist not merely for computers but more importantly as a means of understanding how we think about how we think. This places comp sci squarely in the realm of epistemology, a branch of philosophy.

willkurt.github.io/lacan-racke

willkurt.github.ioProgramming Lacan’s Symbolic Chain using RacketWho would think French Critical Theorist Jacques Lacan would have an intersection with the Racket Programming Lanugage? These notes explore an interesting part in the appendix to Seminar on the Purloined Letter using Racket!