@jnpn

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lisp, prolog, sml, apl, forth, st (+math)

looking for freelance opportunities in FP, LP, CLP, RO and comp bio

70% emacs / 20% vi / 10% ed

I also enjoy electronics, mechanics, woodworking and any kind of hacking

lastly sociology of group work is a recent passion of mine

githubhttps://github.com/jnpn
Replacing Photoshop With NSString - The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Mine

Hello! This post somehow got a lot of attention. Thanks for visiting! If you like it, it would be awesome if you’d check my app Findings, a …

Racket v9.2

_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `match` form checks that when non-linear patterns (patterns where the same vari...

The Mysterious Inner World of Aphantasia

A new scientific perspective on aphantasia suggests it may be a form of "mental imagery blindsight" rather than a lack of mental imagery altogether.

Psychology Today
The pressure

I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a … Continue reading The pressure β†’

daniel.haxx.se
Clojure Dev Team Call, May 2026

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Apparently mesoamericas had wearable wrist abacus like devices. (unless purely decorative)

From https://kartsci.org/kocomu/computer-history/history-abacus-ancient-computing/

#mathematics #history #counting #computing

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", and they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-japanese-sword-guards-1916

@profoundlynerdy There are a few academics that I'm aware of (and no doubt more I'm not!) who use Emacs.

Off the top of my head...

@jameshowell
@rougier

EmacsConf has had various talks that are relevant

https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/reference
https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/students
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/uni (from @jameshowell )
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/teaching
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/table

lots more talks of relevance too.

(I work in academia but as a research software engineer with no teaching nor paper authoring)

#emacs #academia

EmacsConf - 2025 - talks - Emacs as a fully-fledged reference manager

Gleam is such a brilliant language. Even the anti-patterns are pretty 😍

Personal advice: If you're looking for a new ecosystem to dive into, become a gleamlin ✨!

#IndieDev

https://gleam.run/documentation/conventions-patterns-and-anti-patterns/

Conventions, patterns, and anti-patterns | Gleam programming language

Tips and guidance for writing good code in Gleam