Month: April 2019

Went to my first Dorkbot this evening!

Really liked Annie Tådne’s sonification of physical objects (https://tadne.se/) and Deerful’s indie synthpop livecoding (http://deerful.com/)

‘Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. The dorkbot motto is "people doing strange things with electricity".

Here’s a link to my solution that I mentioned recently to a simple elisp programming exercise, where I had helpful feedback on the use of `let` and `or`:

https://exercism.io/tracks/elisp/exercises/two-fer/solutions/66162f8a3c2540c0bfa77d9723da6edb

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Not the best start to an email…

Listening to #librelounge again – the episode on funding free software development.

Only a little way through touching on rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods, marginal costs, commons, so-called tragedy, free rider problem – good discussion!

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-8-funding-free-software-development-pt1.html

I got some feedback on my elisp exercism.io exercise, took a little while but it was really useful! Good advice to use `let` to scope the variable locally, and I learned the `or` macro as an alternative to an if conditional.

The downside of ‘scratch your own itch’ is that it leaves a lot of itches unscratched.

Either you need:

a) a way of enabling more people to scratch their own itch
b) a way of encouraging people to recognise and scratch other people’s itches

Or both.

Reading about Chile in 1970, the book makes a few references to the comparative lack of computing technology in Chile at the time (50 computers) compared to other nations.

What’s a modern-day analagous technology that access to is regarded as giving a country some kind of advantage over others? (Not including overtly militaristic stuff like missiles etc.)