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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.)

Hmm, I would like to use markdown when publishing to my site via Micropub. I see there’s some discussion of it as a micropub extension (https://indieweb.org/Micropub-extensions). I wonder if there’s a simple way to enable it at least for WP publishing via the Micropub endpoint.

Noting for myself, whenever I get an `org-preserve-local-variables` error, this is the way to solve it:

# bash
cd ~/.emacs.d/elpa
find org*/*.elc -print0 | xargs -0 rm

(where the elpa directory might be in a different location depending which version/branch you’re on.)

And then run `M-x spacemacs/recompile-elpa`.

source: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11801

Ooo, Magit Forge is niiice.

Let’s me work with issues in a Github/Gitlab repo straight from Magit in Emacs.

(https://github.com/magit/forge)

exercism.io seems like a nice approach to learning to code in new languages where you solve problems and get advice from a mentor on your solution.

Trouble is that for elisp the mentors seem to be AWOL…