palindromically delimited carnival
Our time aligns on strange axes, sometimes. Last palindrome day, 11/11/11, found me walking the streets of Gothenburg with Werner Koch, the GPG maintainer. Werner said that in Germany, the carnival season opens on the 11th of November, at 11:11:11 in the morning. Today, 21022012, closes the carnival week here in Catalunya.
I was in Gothenburg for FSCONS. It so happens that the videos for the talk I gave there, Guile: Free Software Means of Production, just came out last week. So, as another point along that carnival axis, I offer in <video> form:
Alternately you can download the video directly (~112MB, 50 minutes). There are notes too, a superset of the slides from the talk.
As I said back then, this one was aimed at folks that didn't necessarily know very much about Guile. It was also different from other talks in that it emphasized Guile as a general programming environment, not as an extension language. Guile is both things, and as the general-purpose side gets a lot less publicity, I wanted to emphasize it in this talk.
In the last 20 minutes or so, we did a live-hack. Inspired by a tweet by mattmight, we built Bitter, a one-bit Twitter. I tried to convey what it's like to hack in Guile, with some success I think. Source code for the live-hack, such as it is, is linked to at the end of the page.
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Your video isn't being served with the video/webm MIME type, which prevents it from displaying correctly in Firefox. The console indicates it's instead being sent with "text/plain"; I'm guessing you need to add an extension mapping for .webm.
Very interesting talk. Really makes me want to dig out my copy of SICP and dive into Scheme again. Guess it's time for a weekend spent in front of my computer :)