Are there any #Lisp programmers out there who use a #ScreenReader? Given how messy Lisp can be to read without proper indentation (which I imagne wouldn't translate well on a screen reader) I can't see it is being an easy language to work in without being able to see it.

I've been thinking about a way to make an editor that lets you explore a Lisp program by walking through the forms in the program in a manner similar to the way one might navigate in a MUD. Is this a crazy idea, or one with some merit?

Can anyone recmmend a FOSS solution for converting an .azw file to .epub on Debian that isn't Calibre?

I thought maybe pandoc could do it, but apparently not.

Oh, this bottle of coconut water has "no added sugar"; I wonder if it's okay for my diabetes?

*checks the macros*

(It's roughly equivalent to a can of coke.)

*drinks it anyway*

A question for the #lisp folx:
What, if anything, is the difference between #'(lambda ...) and just plain (lambda ...)?

They seem functionally equivalent to me.

I've been taking a bunch of tests to qualify for a transcription job. They're not easy and I need a perfect score to pass. I finally failed one of the tests but managed to pass it on the retry.

They're really picky about their style guide. Fortunately, it basically amounts to syntax rules and I've been dealing with compilers that are equally picky about syntax for decades.

It also helps that all throughout my schooling my mother worked at the local university proofreading research scientists' papers and she insisted on proofreafing all my essays too.

I never thought I'd end up being happy about that.

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