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Prot Asks: Erik about Emacs since the 1990s, Oregon and Portland, and podcasting

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In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here: https://protesilaos.com/prot-asks/.

Today I talk with Erik Arneson about a number of topics ranging from Emacs to how life in Portland and Oregon is, to podcasting and relevant tooling, and to how regular users deal with word processors. We start the chat with the theme of providing software services and how it relates to the open source experience. Erik tells me about the aesthetics of the Go programming language and how it compares to coding in Lisp. Then Erik tells the story of how it all started with Emacs some time in the 1990s, before Linux was available. I ask how was Emacs back in the day and how things developed over time. Our discussion explores life in Oregon and its largest city, Portland. We tie it all together with Emacs and specific workflows and tools of it. The final part covers Erik’s endeavours with podcasting and the relevant technicalities, including nerdy stuff like writing music with a Lisp engine.

We had some technical issues with the connection as well as with my audio input. Apologies for that!

Erik Arneson’s links

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