This is a fantastic read. A look behind the scenes of the creation of the Common Lisp standard and the HyperSpec: The aims, forces, struggles, personalities and random events that caused it to be what it is.
It's a written version of a talk given by Kent Pitman, the main editor of the standard, at Lisp50@OOPSLA at OOPSA 2008:
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html
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Irregular reminder: I don't post much here, my main is over at @clacke .
This account here is just a liaison account, to get another view of the Fediverse and occasionally help cajole a wayward post into libranet.de that couldn't find its way in there by itself.
things that annoy me about racket https://write.lain.faith/~/Haskal/things-that-annoy-me-about-racket/
Esoteric
ok but 'Autobiography of son of Peter Tomkins, WW2 spy and psychic guru' is a pretty good lede so I'm borrowing this one too
thanks to @clacke's mentioning of Huey, Dewey, and Louie in reference to my post about Rock, Paper, Scissors; I started thinking about the alignment of the nephews to the TMNTs. What other color coded mutant animal gangs are there?
🎉 Happy 12th Birthday, #Fediverse
It's great that you don't put all your eggs in one basket ;) Stay cool.
post: https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-12-years-in-2020
full-sized image: https://gitlab.com/distributopia/sticker-bay/-/tree/master/promo-1
✔ idea to not let this day pass unnoticed - by @titi
self acceptance not in a woo fluffy kind of way but in a "it's ok to do things half assed, just for fun, or at your own pace and fuck everyone who says otherwise" kind of way has made my life so much easier.
I am still working on it, but when I realized I was shaming myself for not having as much energy as my peers and just said, fuck it im a low energy person, I'mma live in the slow lane and like it, my life got so much easier just cuz I was not anxious about shit I can't change. I still try to eat and sleep appropriately so I can have ~some functioning but besides that, screw it. better to get things done half assedly than to never do them and panic about it
(Brene Brown and Pete Walker helped a lot with this)
Saving the world by solving first-world problems.
My main is at https://libranet.de/~clacke .