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New pixel speech bubble thing
I made a new pixel speech bubble site. It's like the old one on Wigflip, but I think it's better. -
My blog has moved
I've been writing over at lispblog.xach.com. I'm not going to update LiveJournal any more. -
Common Lisp bits
Heinrich Apfelmus has updated to the source code from Computer Models of Musical Creativity and put it on github. Looks like it's meant to work with RMCL.
"CEPL is an extension for common lisp that makes working with OpenGL simple and familiar," according to Baggers. There is a blog and a number of videos about CEPL. The readme cautions: PRE-ALPHA ( Read more... ) -
Where to get help with Common Lisp
There are several options for getting help with Common Lisp.
First, some general sources of help.- Any coherent question posted to Stack Overflow with a Common-Lisp tag gets answered very quickly by a number of informed people. Rainer Joswig in particular has answered hundreds of questions with quality information. There are many other people who ( Read more... )
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Starting a Lisp project in 2014
If you're starting a project today and you want to make it easy to interact with the outside world, there are many, many, many services available. If you're feeling overwhelmed with all the options, here's what I'd recommend to get started:- Manage sources with git and host the code, issue tracking, and website on github
- Get a blog on Tumblr or ( Read more... )
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Common Lisp bits
The International Lisp Conference 2014 is history. I didn't make it, but Julian Squires did and provided a nice write-up. So did Nick Levine.
Reddit user FightAnArmedBearP started a discussion titled "Should my startup attempt to use ABCL in a production environment?" The ensuing feedback from Mikel Evins, Cyrus Harmon, Mark Evenson, and others is ( Read more... ) -
International Lisp Conference 2014
I'm going to the International Lisp Conference in 2014 and so should you. It's great to meet Lispers in person and swap stories. Montreal is also a great city ( Read more... ) -
Common Lisp bits
A collection of Lisp Usenet gems, including articles from Kent Pitman, Erik Naggum, Chris Riesbeck, Pascal Costanza, and Will Hartung.
Things I Want in Common Lisp by Robert Smith.
Video demo of cl-notebook by lnaimathi. By the same author: [T]he primary endeavor of every programmer is twofold: To understand, and to be understood, which ( Read more... ) -
CL news
Crane is a new Common Lisp ORM by Fernando Borretti. "Crane doesn't drink the ORM Kool Aid: You won't spend a single minute struggling with an interface that claims to be 'simple' yet forces you into a limited vision of how databases should work."
Mark Fedurin surveys ASDF system version strings in the wild. The cartoon at the end is great ( Read more... ) -
Common Lisp bits
The Internet Archive has a giant tarball of old Lucid stuff, a 3.6GB download. Here's a file index, 1MB. The dump includes:- An Energize demo video from djw, made in 1993. The /r/programming comments have some additional context, especially ohmantics remarks on the compiler technology behind it.
- Code for Lucid Emacs
- Code for Lucid Common Lisp (I think ( Read more... )