This notably introduces The TAME Programming Language Living Document,
and effort to begin to formalize the language I've been working on over
the past decade on-and-off for my employer.
It's pronounced "new"plot, where "gnu" refers to the animal, pronounce
"new", not GNU, pronounced "guh-new".
I did not know this at the time.
http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2
Older versions of Gawk did not mind an empty string as the third
argument, but newer versions complain:
warning: gensub: third argument `' treated as 1
Figures will have margins on the left and right sides by default, unless
explicitly denoted "inline". The caption will also be a lighter typeface
rather than bold. When the figure caption appears at the bottom, it will
have a top border.
I'll be using this to show example HTML code and then output it as actual
HTML to be rendered as part of the article. Otherwise the HMTL has to be
duplicated and maintained in multiple places.
An alternative is to include a file, but that is much less convenient for
smaller snippets.
I hate Markdown as a format for disciplined writing, especially when I want
macros (mostly semantic), indexes, and such. I was originally going to use
LaTeX with Pandoc, but it lacks support for inline HTML and such, and I do
not want to distract too much from the work that I want to be doing.
Over the past year, my GNU Social timeline has gone almost completely
silent; it seems that many people have moved to Mastodon and maybe those
instances have stopped federating.
Further, GNU Social development has been stalled for a long time.
So this seems like an inevitable decision to give Mastodon a try. I'll
start by following people and will post both on here and GNU Social
initially. See https://social.mikegerwitz.com.
This better describes my experience and responsibilities, though I have
never been particularly comfortable with the term. My manager describes me
as an engineer in my current position anyway.
I do not have time to update the features that do not work without JS,
though admittedly they have done a good job of providing fallbacks to
some of the things that are listed here.
Was finally published. This year they included the slides in the video,
which is perfect, since this was a technical talk that used the slides to
demonstrate the commands, and I actually did some stuff on the computer
during the talk.
Though the PIP did slightly cut off some commands; see the PDF or Org
sources for the full commands.
It had to be shortened to 100 words. This also more accurately reflects what
I will be talking about; it will be a slower pace than I had originally anticipated,
and will focus a bit more on some core philosophical concepts. But it will still
be interesting to both hackers and non-technical users.
I noticed a lot of odd `/rss.xml' requests in my 404 log. As it turns out,
it was my fault. This both fixes it and adds a redirect in case someone
tries to do this manually. I suppose that'd be convenient.
Wow. I had wanted to spend less than an hour on a response, and instead I
wound up writing my largest article since the NSA revelations and
GHS. Hopefully others find this useful.
I've been sitting on this for weeks because I didn't have the time to finish
final proofreading and changes. I need to release this before I sit on it
for another couple; I have to start working on my LP2019 talk soon.
* post/2019-02-18-ghcq-exceptional-access-e2ee-decentralization-reproducible.md:
New post.
* src/papers.rec: Add post to top.
Mike Gerwitz