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François-René Rideau

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Lair of the French Resistance

I, François-René Rideau, have been building reflective computing infrastructure since the TUNES project.

My current active projects include growing the ecosystem for Gerbil Scheme, my Lisp platform of choice, on top of which I am building a compiler for a programming language for decentralized applications (see my early startup MuKn.io).

My aspiration is to empower individual developers and users to fulfill their creative potential and cooperate freely with each other, without falling prey to centralized people-farmers.

My contribution towards that goal is to promote computational reflection: the property of systems that possess an active, bidirectional representation of themselves as first-class computable data.

Reflection supports the creation and maintenance of whatever invariants digital systems possess that makes them valuable to humans, even as they evolve based on interaction with humans. In particular, Reflection allows humans to bootstrap their trust in a digital system: they can reach high levels of trust from lower ones at minimal cost by using those parts they trust to assess the trustworthiness of larger parts and extend their trust.

More generally, Reflection enables digital systems to interact with humans and each other beyond the paradigm of command-and-control by superior beings, into conversations between complementarily abled entities. The underlying attitude towards computing is a challenge to the hierarchical attitude promoted by dominant corporate and political Establishments.

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Featured work

  1. fare/asdf

    Another System Definition Facility, de facto standard build system for CL (mirrored from Common-Lisp.net)

    Common Lisp 198
  2. fare/lisp-interface-library

    LIL: abstract interfaces and supporting concrete data-structures in Common Lisp

    Common Lisp 145
  3. fare/asdf3-2013

    Material about ASDF3, its history and lessons, and how to use it.

    Scheme 37
  4. fare/xcvb

    eXtensible Component Verifier and Builder for Common-Lisp (mirrored from Common-Lisp.net) https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/xcvb/xcvb

    Common Lisp 36
  5. fare/cl-scripting

    cl-scripting, utilities for scripting in Common Lisp

    Common Lisp 38
  6. fare/moll

    My Own Linear Lisp

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Your monthly token appreciation might not seem much by itself, but it's the kind of small streams that contribute to large rivers, and I am most grateful for it. Thank you for promoting the Reflective attitude towards Computing. You can look at yourself with pride in the big Mirror of Computing.

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Contributing 9 dollars a month will help the steady development of a Reflective Computing infrastructure, so we reach Plan 9, but from a higher, deeper space.

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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder (G. K. Chesterton). It will not starve while you're there to support my work on Reflective Computing. What is the ultimate answer to the great question of Life, the Universe and Everything? Together we may find out.

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By coordinating a little bit more than one third of a committee, one can disrupt a consensus like Spider Jerusalem disrupts the bowels of his enemies. Together, we will change the face of Computing and bring about new tools that reveal those of today as comparatively primitive. Let's build excavators, not pick-axes, to dig the mines of algorithmic thought!

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