2025-02-16 Xah Talk Show 2025-02-16 Ep614 emacs lisp coding, keyword parameters Elisp: Function Parameters (optional, rest)

Sometimes to chill out I go and watch time-lapse videos of ocean creatures such as starfish colonising patches of sea floor. Perhaps they're gracefully devouring a seal's carcass, or moving to escape a lethal descending finger of ice. Look, I'm quite a morbid guy, but 'beauty of nature' and all…

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would like to know if video games journalism is OK. He is concerned that the "whole space is gonna go away or be corrupted by things". He mourns the heyday of magazines, and is bemused by this "SEO" malarkey he keeps hearing about. Much like…

With a demo now available, Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderfully charming idea for a logic puzzle game about picking up people and putting them in the right seat..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago…
Vineet Naik has a post with a nice tip. He often has complex build processes and rather than automating them with a script, he prefers to use an Org checklist that specifies the steps. He likes to keep the checklist in the project directory and check off the build items…

Here's a bit of fluff for you today: fans of Deep Rock Galactic are in for a treat, as you can now grab an officially licensed beer mug and they sure do look fancy..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first release or first commit. Usually, these are observed at five and ten‑year increments; the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release, or 25 years since from the first…
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released three more stable kernels: 6.13.3, 6.12.14, and 6.6.78. There was a bit of confusion that resulted in the patch for CVE 2025-21687 getting applied twice — but that doesn't result in any problems for users of the kernel, just a bit of extra noise in the…

In a world where Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, you work for an AI megacorp and you're the one sent around to people's homes to fix up all their problems..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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