miniblog.

I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project". Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket. What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/

Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk. (Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.) https://blog.racket-lang.org/2009/03/the-drscheme-repl-isnt-the-one-in-emacs.html

Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?