e.g. a discussion on human rights and how they relate to free software / free culture.
For me the intersection of ethics, politics and libre stuff is very important. Looking back I think I got into it for the fun of it but the philosophy always attracted me. I want to know if and how we can mobilise it as part of a transition to an egalitarian future, and what I can do to be a part of that.
It’s really fun to be able to execute arbitrary regions of code straight in the buffer as you’re writing and tweaking them. Don’t know if that scales to bigger programs though.
I want to look into the ert testing framework.
Symbols, quoting, keywords, this hasn’t really clicked yet. It made sense when I read it but then I found myself just kind of quoting and hoping and doing trial and error.
Was fun to get the noggin thinking functional rather than procedural. For long control flows I seem to think more imperatively at present, but I love mapping functions on lists and wonder if this will scale up.
I love how easy it is to get descriptions of library functions and read their source directly in Emacs.
I can’t ever see myself enjoying balancing parentheses but maybe you just get used to it..
‘A historical study of Chile’s twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.’
I mean this is very relevant to my interests.
Seeing how far I can get without enabling the non-free repo. So far Debian has detected that the WiFi card needs a non-free driver, but that’s cool, I can luckily just stick with wired for this machine.