Chas (pvp gank paladin) Emerick Profile picture
Making PDF documents a reliable data source @pdf_data. And: PLT, distsys, future-computing, politics, policy, ethics in 'tech'.
Mar 31, 2020 19 tweets 7 min read
I understand that IA needs to deal with takedown requests, but seeing it happen is sad. All the noise seems to be ignorant (willfully or not) of "real" libraries broadly supporting the waitlist suspension for digital works enabled by IA, ginned up by anti-library groups like @AuthorsGuild and a handful of loudmouth best sellers that claim "ia ISn'T a LiBRAry" 🙃
Nov 26, 2018 15 tweets 4 min read
Here @stuarthalloway very succinctly cosigned and distilled @timbaldridge's account of what to expect when contributing to Clojure. If only both had been available long ago, I would have moved on from Clojure as my primary tool years earlier. gist.github.com/halgari/c17f37… There's a *lot* going on here, and it's easy to get lost in the weeds, so I'll only address one problem: time.