Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

@paige heck yeah, that sounds cool

Are you in Montreal? Because I am about to be in Montreal for a while. It would be good to know more people there!

*pronk*

good meowning

@cwebber do you have script links by any chance?

@dragonminded @cwebber that helps a lot, thank you!!

Bad news: last night the spending bill in the US House of Representatives was amended to exclude transgender *adults* from medicaid https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-spending-bill-now-bans-medicaid

And worse: this bill just passed the House of Representatives, is on to the senate. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/house-vote-trump-tax-bill

Call your senators *now* before hundreds of thousands of transgender folks lose access to health care!

"Hey guys"

"NOT WHAT WE'RE CALLED"

"Oops sorry to use default-gendered language"

But actually this is burying the lede a bit, because the big news blogpost from @wingo was a couple weeks ago, in that we are very close it seems to seeing BDW-GC replaced with Whippet https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/05/15/guile-on-whippet-waypoint-goodbye-bdw-gc

Big and exciting news!

i have two pairs of jeans. they both decide to give out on the same week. pray for me 🙏

@wingo has been working on Whippet, a new general purpose garbage collector library, aimed to be used by Guile but not only! And all the updates have been interesting, including, and sometimes especially!, when over my head. The new one is no exception: https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/05/22/whippet-lab-notebook-guile-heuristics-and-heap-growth

One of the main ways I learn computer things is being lost trying to understand a wingolog blogpost, reading, being lost, reading up on things I don't know, re-reading

Please read Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon.

https://mangadex.org/title/051e6a66-7373-4583-98b6-b746153041e9/doughnuts-under-a-crescent-moon

@evan It's definitely true that @tsyesika did a ton of work on ActivityPub!

You can see her technical writing skills through the OCapN docs which were *almost entirely* written by @tsyesika https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/tree/main/draft-specifications

The Implementation Guide of OCapN has a story-like flavor which I encouraged (and edited a bit) inspired by the success of the AP intro section, but that work is also largely @tsyesika's! https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/blob/main/implementation-guide/Implementation%20Guide.md

@evan lmao now that's a marketing strat

@miaq @dot_social sure probably!

I'm not much of the ActivityPub inventress; I did shape it a lot, and guided it through the process. Ultimately, ActivityPub's core design ideas came from @evan, though really I think they really derive from the kind of design that comes out of actor model systems (even though AP deviates in various places from the actor model, it's best when it follows it)

Ultimately the merge between MicroPub and ActivityPub didn't happen, but they did learn from each other, and ActivityPub did keep its improved name. The "Pump" language was awkward; Pump.io had an infamously awkward (but I don't think intentional) tagline along the lines of "Pump.io pumps your life through your family and friends" or something else that made me think yes, actually dropping the name "pump" might be a good idea, and ActivityPub seemed good

- @evan developed Pump.io's API experimenting towards a new, simpler, better design to replace OStatus called the "Pump.io API" https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md
- @erincandescent sets up "ActivityPump" doc, converting Evan's api docs into more formal protocol format/language, using ActivityStreams2
- In the SocialWG, MicroPub was also being standardized; there was hope the two specs would converge, and @rhiaro suggested we rename to ActivityPub, a big name upgrade anyway

@jupiter_rowland Well I don't think I'm the ActivityPub inventress, though I certainly played a big role in its standardization and etc. The history of the name "ActivityPub" is one of those things that could be lost to time tho, so here's what happened, per my memory: 🧵

@dasyatidprime lol, let me know how it goes

btw the prefried onions in a can work well also! and you could just use those and sour cream!

Or use one of the sour cream and onion dips

It would be an interesting kind of delicious heresy