I was interviewed on screwtape 2025-11-04 about Gopher, Haskell, Category Theory
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I was interviewed again on Screwtape (an AnonrRadio program powered by SDF):
* Online archive of the interview:
https://archives.anonradio.net/202511050000_screwtape.mp3
* Copy of the interview on my gopherhole, in here:
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/assets/posts/screwtape-interview-2025-11-04/
Some topics covered:
* Writing gopher apps easily with Venusia, porting software to Gopher
* My Gopherspace RPG[1]
* Haskell and Lisp programming languages
* How the people watching the show comment via a MUD (think: adventure game),
which also has a built-in Gopher browser!
* Sentimental tech: tech as craft, art, intimacy with systems, and my upcoming
manifesto/treatise/article, "we need to make tech into something warmer than
just bits."
* Gopher, FTP history
* The logic of Gopher
* I talked about Category Theory (I'm no expert) and... MONADS.
## Footnotes
[1]: My Gopherspace RPG: /0/phlog/gopherspace-rpg.gopher.md
