Fabio Natali @fabionatali@mastodon.social

His site is rather interesting. Here's a post discussing how to encode bytes into pronounceable words rather than hex.

https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/14.html

Learn Lisp! Learn Scheme! Upgrade your programming skills! Come to our live tutorial tomorrow! https://octodon.social/@cwebber/108652424020606885

OMG! I'm so excited to announce that through my work at @spritelyinst we've published A Scheme Primer: https://spritely.institute/news/the-spritely-institute-publishes-a-scheme-primer.html
Direct link: https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html

This document manages to serve two purposes:
- As a quick skim, it's a reasonable intro to "how to start programming with Scheme with no prior experience". Hey, tutorials are useful!
- But also, in less than 30 pages we manage to compress a TON of computer science ideas in a way that I think is really, really approachable.

The document ends with a code example, and full walkthrough, of a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme... in a mere 30 lines of code! It's like 3/4 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs compressed into a document you could read in an afternoon!

I've noticed that the periodic complaining about Git is happening again. Git clearly has usability issues given how many people struggle with it but it's not my experience. once I understood the basics it just clicked with me. if I was asked to make a Top 10 list of developer tools I would probably rank it #2 just below Emacs.

“Building a Secure Software Supply Chain with GNU Guix”
https://programming-journal.org/2023/7/1/

New refereed article on #SupplyChainSecurity in #Guix, from #bootstrapping to #ReproducibleBuilds, with a focus on secure #Git updates.

Cc: @janneke @reproducible_builds

💡 ✨ Random Mosaic: Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice

#infosec #security

https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html

#Guix + #Org for reproducible research: a tutorial
https://tuto-techno-guix-hpc.gitlabpages.inria.fr/guidelines/

If you ask to borrow Rick Astley's copy of the movie UP, he cannot give you UP, but by refusing, he would have to let you down. This is known as the Astley paradox.

"I’m using Linux. A library that emacs uses to communicate with Intel hardware.” – Erwin, #emacs, Freenode.

(Mastering Emacs – Mickey Petersen)

The #Guix reference card got an update!
https://guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf

Now features ‘guix shell’, ‘guix home’, and more.

@cwebber @emacsomancer "you don't hate computers, you hate capitalism"