Daphne Preston-Kendal
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Daphne Preston-Kendal
@dpk.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Chair of the Working Group for R7RS Large, the next revision of the standard for the Scheme programming language.

Codeberg presidium 2025–7.

Indo-Europeanist.

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Reposted by Daphne Preston-Kendal
this actually looks like a legitimate DoS attack more than anything; the query options are of a kind that would cause cache-busting

@dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
So is it any wonder that I have trouble thinking of any women at all who have the stature and longevity in the Scheme community to be accepted by the community as worthy successors to Bawden, Steele, Wand, Feeley, Clinger, Rees, Hanson, and Shivers?

I think I would like to nominate Dipanwita […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s worth considering that this problem is likely deeply rooted in the place Scheme came from. In the early 1980s, between the first Revised report and the Revised Revised report, MIT published a blistering report on sexism in its CS and AI laboratories – where Scheme was invented, and where […]
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chaos.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I am (or, if you don’t count pre-release drafts, will be) the first woman to appear in the list of editors at the top of the report, rather than only in the acknowledgements section within it.

I was the first woman to write a SRFI – 22 years after SRFIs began. There are still no SRFIs written […]
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chaos.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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digitalcourage.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM