Alain M. Lafon
The last two days were EmacsConf 2020. It was a great conference as always. Last year, 200ok was able to host one of two real-world satellites. This year, we are happy EmacsConf is happening, again. This time even in a 2-day format hosting many great talks! This blog post is accompanying Alain's...
Alain M. Lafon, Phil Hofmann, Alex Mihov
EmacsConf 2019 is over. At 200ok, we were very happy that we have been able to host one of two official satellites - with the FSF being the second hosts. It was great fun to enjoy the talks together, share food and have interesting discussions. We want to especially thank the organizers Amin...
Alain M. Lafon
EmacsConf 2019 is coming closer! Save the date: November 2nd, 2019. EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and memorizing key sequences. The Free Software Foundation has kindly provided us with a set of great goodies that we're giving away at the Zurich...
Alain M. Lafon
The ETH society for students studying Computer Science (VIS) has invited Alain and Phil to serve as 2 of a total of 4 mentors during this years 3 day VIScon which is a Hackathon and a symposium on the same weekend. We are very happy to be there the second year in a row! The Hackathon was fully...
Alain M. Lafon, Phil Hofmann
Save the date: EmacsConf 2019 is happening on November 2, 2019. EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and memorizing key sequences. We are happy to announce the official EmacsConf 2019 Zurich (CH) satellite! For the satellite, there will be a physical venue...
Phil Hofmann
Phil was invited to speak at the Goto conference in Copenhagen last November. By now the video has been uploaded to Youtube for everyone to enjoy: Abstract Clojure and ClojureScript provide fine-grained control over the state of a running application. Especially when combined with a reactive...
Phil Hofmann, Alain M. Lafon
Due to his experience, Phil was asked to give an interview to the paper Netzwoche in which he outlines the benefits of PWAs. You can find the original article on the Netzwoche website here or download it as a PDF. This is a copy of the article: Mit Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) verschwimmen die...
Alain M. Lafon
The ETH society for students studying Computer Science (VIS has invited Alain to serve as a mentor during this years 3 day Hackathon / Symposium. The Hackathon is fully booked with about a hundred participants. So far, it has been an awesome event! From the obvious points like the location (ETH),...
Alain M. lafon
This is a talk Alain gave at the Web Zueri Meetup in Zurich, Switzerland on July 24, 2018. The complexity of software is growing at an exponential rate. The biggest challenge is the growing complexity of dynamic state which makes it hard to reason about a system. There are many paradigms aiming to...
Alain M. Lafon
Lean back and relax while enjoying a deep dive into the wonderful world of the Emacs editor. Emacs renaissance came with the advent of Clojure and undoubtedly is the most popular editor among Clojurians today. Of course there is a lot more you can do with Emacs, but much like playing an...