GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions[3] (GNU Guile) is the preferred extension language system for the GNU Project[4] and features an implementation of the programming language Scheme. Its first version was released in 1993.[1] In addition to large parts of Scheme standards, Guile Scheme includes modularized extensions for many different programming tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile

Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed Racket (a sister language of Racket with a static type-checker), Swindle, FrTime, Lazy Racket, R5RS & R6RS Scheme, Scribble, Datalog, Racklog, Algol 60 and several teaching languages. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed as a platform for programming language design and implementation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. It is known as the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs Originally based on Scheme; 2022 version is based on JavaScript. See WikiWikiWeb:StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms (more)

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Richard Feynman process of learning and problem solving and innovation (cf Grand Challenge, Working Question) (more)

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Tiago Forte: How to Thrive in a World of Uncertainty (VUCA). The future has become so uncertain that goals are now obsolete. (no-goals) (more)

Nate Eliason: The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas. ...people approach idea generation like baking or cooking, a precise practice that you can squeeze into a 50-minute meeting block or a daily regiment of “write down 10 ideas.” But brines don’t care about your 50-minute meeting block. They bubble when they’re ready (more)

Integrating LinkBlog, BookMark, MicroBlogging Into WikiLog... (more)

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I'm pondering Threading Across Twitter And Digital Gardens.... (more)

a PayPal founder; founded Tesla Motors and Space X. 2022: bought Twitter, taking it private (LBO) (more)

Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. https://www.farcaster.xyz/ (more)

microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. https://docs.microblog.pub/ (more)

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini.[2] In November 2022, it agreed to acquire Evernote.[3] Bending Spoons is one of the world's leading mobile developers, by number of app downloads.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

Dan Hon: s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More. Here’s the inevitable thinking about The Next Phase Of Social Networking [sic]. (more)

Hometown: a Mastodon fork created by Darius Kazemi https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (more)

PixelFed - Federated Image Sharing https://pixelfed.org/ (more)

Dan Hone: s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person. (On Gabrielle Zevin‘s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.) When I was around 16 years old (which is strange, in my head I remember being younger), Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland, was published in the UK. Microserfs is one of my comfort books, alongside The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which, I’m afraid to admit, makes me a stereotype (more)

Dorian Taylor: Muskus/Domesticus 🐀 Prior to Twitter, I got my up-to-the-second situational information mainly from IRC, supplemented by a rotating cast of one-off, bespoke private message boards, and finally, RSS. (more)