Got my hands on a #shortwave radio, but the fact that I live in a giant concrete box doesn't seem to be helping my reception. Seeing what I can do about that.

Are there any broadcasts that are worth catching that I'd be able to get in Southern Ontario?

(defun lambdamoo-tab-complete ()
  "Complete user input using text from the buffer"
  (interactive)
  (when (memq (char-before) '(?  ?\r ?\n ?\t ?\v))
    (user-error "Point must follow non-whitespace character"))
  (let (replace-start
        (replace-end (point))
        replace-text found-pos found-text)
    (save-excursion
      (backward-word)
      (setq replace-start (point)
            replace-text (buffer-substring replace-start replace-end))
      (when (or (null lambdamoo--search-text)
                (not (string-prefix-p lambdamoo--search-text replace-text t)))
        (setq-local lambdamoo--search-text replace-text)
        (set-marker lambdamoo--found-point (point)))
      (goto-char lambdamoo--found-point)
      (unless
          (setq found-pos
                (re-search-backward
                 (concat "\\b" (regexp-quote lambdamoo--search-text))
                 (point-min) t))
        (setq-local lambdamoo--found-point (make-marker))
        (user-error "No match found"))
      (set-marker lambdamoo--found-point found-pos)
      (forward-word)
      (setq found-text (buffer-substring found-pos (point))))
    (delete-region replace-start replace-end)
    (insert found-text)))

Me realizing that festival uses a Lisp dialect:

Oh cool, I can add accessibility features to my Emacs stuff by procedurally generating the code in elisp.

Me realizing that festival's symbols are case sensitive:

Welp, I guess I can just do

(defun festival-saytext (text)
  (format "(SayText %S)" text))

and do the rest of the processing in elisp directly. That's probably all I wanted anyway.

Hey all,

I have a friend who's been trying to get on Mastodon but tells me that it doesn't seem to play well with screen readers. I know there are plenty of people on the fedi who do use screen readers, but I have no experience with them myself, so I can't really direct him.

Can someone who does use a #ScreenReader point me in the direction of some resources that might be useful?
#AskFedi #a11y

I'm certain I have reinvented a wheel here, but for the life of me I can't find it. Have I?

(defmacro jrl-extract-list (vars list &rest body)
  "Split a list into indiviual variables"
  (let ((list* (gensym)))
    (append
     `(let ,(cons (list list* list) vars))
     (seq-map (lambda (var)
                `(setq ,var (car ,list*)
                       ,list* (cdr ,list*)))
              vars)
     body)))

Edit: Of course it was pcase.