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10 days ago
I saw the announcement of emacs. ...more

18 days ago
After years upon years, Time II is finally out. ...more
#metal

22 days ago
Someone please invent a rust editor extension where I can mouse-over / hit a hot key and see, with coloured overlays, exactly where a certain variable goes out of scope and drops its ownership / borrow. ...more
#rust

24 days ago
I have just released `4. ...more
#archlinux

a month ago
I have released version `4. ...more
#archlinux

a month ago
I'd like to change the LICENSE of a well-used library of mine from MIT to MPL to help guarantee reciprocity. ...more

a month ago
Why we should care about Software Licenses and why Weak Copyleft is a great default: ...more

a month ago
I have recently released `4. ...more
#archlinux #aura #rust

2 months ago
Emacs APAC session starting now: ...more

2 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - The Conclusion Thank you to everyone here who followed along with the journey! ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

2 months ago
I have just released RC2 of Aura v4 for archlinux . ...more
#archlinux

2 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 47 - June 1 (25km) (This is the end of the journey, but come back tomorrow for final thoughts and statistics. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

2 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 46 - May 31 - (23km) The day of completion. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

2 months ago
I just added a new subsystem for `transducers` that enables support for Fset. ...more
#commonlisp

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 44 - May 29 (26km) I tossed and turned through the night, constructing the speech I’d dash upon Kokubunji the next day about how irresponsible they had been. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 43 - May 28 (34km) The first hurricane of the season was tearing past the bottom coast of Shikoku, and its effects were far-reaching enough that it poured most of the day today even here in the north. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 42 - May 27 (30km) One reason that the Bekkaku are Bekkaku is that some of them are quite out of the way. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 41 - May 26 (37km) Another record-setting day, but for temple count, not distance. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 40 - May 25 (37km) I slept well. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 39 - May 24 (28km) Normally from the narrow valley town I stayed in yesterday, you walk a bit further and turn off to the scale the mountain to Umpenji (66), the highest temple of the route. ...more
#japan #henro #buddhism

3 months ago
I have just put a little commonlisp app into "production". ...more
#commonlisp

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 38 - May 23 (27km) It was raining slightly as I stepped out of the hotel. ...more
#japan #henro #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 37 - May 22 (35km) The fix held and I was packed up and gone by 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 36 - May 21 (27km) A male nurse named Aoyama-san was staying at Bekku as well, and we walked together this morning until the foot of the mountain. ...more
#japan #henro #buddhism

3 months ago
I just released an updated `aura-git` package to the AUR that targets `4. ...more
#archlinux

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 34 - May 19 (35km) I spent the day with a guy from Montreal named JC. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 33 - May 18 (31km) I’ve stayed at a Toyoko Inn perhaps 25 times in my life, and they all follow the same recipe. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 32 - May 17 (23km) I spent today in the City of Matsuyama. ...more
#japan #henro #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 31 - May 16 (30km) The wind was fierce today, blowing directly into my path whichever angle I faced. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 30 - May 15 (44km) I killed it again today. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
I have release Aura's RC1. ...more
#archlinux

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 29 - May 14 (26km) I was told the morning devotion would start at 6: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
commonlisp Equality ```lisp (defstruct foo a) (defparameter *a* (make-foo : ...more
#commonlisp

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 28 - May 13 (26km) It was still raining this morning but the route demands progress. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 27 - May 12 (28km) A day of rain. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 26 - May 11 (38km) Today I had to reach Bekkaku 6 before it closed, so I was gone by 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 25 - May 10 I took today off. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 24 - May 9 (33km) The murder van from last night rolled slowly by again at 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 23 - May 8 (47km) Today I got a glimpse of my limits. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 22 - May 7 (26km) The path to the cape and back up is varied. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 21 - May 6 (25km) It was another night in the tent, and the surfers had warned me it was supposed to rain overnight. ...more
#japan #henro #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 20 - May 5 (23km) It was a straightforward day. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 19 - May 4 (32km) Last night I caught a monster spider hanging out on the hut wall near my tent, but this morning she was no where to be seen. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 18 After what I wrote last night, the owners of the inn called me into the house and fed me a bit more, which they weren’t at all obligated to do. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 17 I didn’t sleep well and was already walking by 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 16 It was truly raining right from the get-go this morning, and I was angry about it. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

3 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 15 As long as my tent is under a roof I can sleep without the fly on. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Does anyone here have their locale set to esperanto ? ...more
#esperanto

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 14 The rain waited until I got to Dainichiji (28) but it hasn’t stopped since then. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 13 Thanks to my day off yesterday I felt fresh and kept a great pace. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 12 A full rest day to see how much my blister heals. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Another banger album from Akira the Don: ...more

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 11 I was up before 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
I've released Beta 4 of Aura. ...more
#archlinux

4 months ago
The fastest way to sort a list is not to. ...more

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 10 There was no Tsunami to wash me away during the night, but the inside of my tent was still a bit damp when I awoke. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 9 I slept well. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Uh oh a script kiddie is trying to flood my website with connections. ...more

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 8 I was on the road by 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 7 Wide awake at 4: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
I have released [Beta v3](https: ...more
#archlinux

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 6 I wasn’t eaten by the ghosts of lost children during the night. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 5 “You’re telling me these people have completed the route over 100 times? ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 4 A strong wind had blown overnight and the air was cool so close to the river. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 3 I set off at around 5: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 2 The ceaseless bombardment from mosquitos and the cement floor of the bell tower meant I didn’t manage much sleep. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 1 I couldn’t sleep until past midnight. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Henro Thoughts: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
The real cost of going on the Henro Pilrimage. ...more

4 months ago
Henro Pilgrimage - Day 0 Apparently the Japanese word for “Leech” is “Hiru”, which happens to overlap with the word for “afternoon”. ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
The trip I was on was the [Shikoku Temple Pilgrimage](https: ...more
#henro #japan #buddhism

4 months ago
Access to the Faur has been restored for aura 4. ...more
#aura

4 months ago
I'm back from my trip and have a burning urge to write commonlisp . ...more
#commonlisp

6 months ago
I'll be out of town without a computer until the end of May. ...more

6 months ago
I have released Beta 2 of the new Aura, which restores handling of `checkdepends`. ...more
#archlinux

7 months ago
I just transferred my website hosting from heroku to linode . ...more
#heroku #linode

7 months ago
I have fixed the linking breakage in Aura due to the recent update of the underlying `libalpm`: ...more

7 months ago
Just released `0. ...more
#rust

7 months ago
The universe is a tree. ...more

7 months ago
New article, "Proven Complexity and Technology Choice". ...more

7 months ago
If you like Final Fantasy and/or music, the Virtual Video Game Orchestra just released its long-await rendition of the FF7 Opening "Bombing Mission". ...more
#finalfantasy

7 months ago
Permissible states: ...more

7 months ago
22 degrees in Tokyo in February. ...more

8 months ago
New commonlisp library: ...more
#commonlisp

8 months ago
Time for another programming puzzle! ...more

8 months ago
I've overhauled the README for the `transducers` library. ...more
#commonlisp

8 months ago
Be careful about how you spawn threads in rust This ```rust tokio: ...more
#rust

8 months ago
The most backwards compatible haskell library that I maintain (streaming-bytestring). ...more
#haskell

8 months ago
New article about my 2023 "tour of the lisp languages". ...more
#lisp #commonlisp #clojure #fennel #emacslisp #guile #scheme

8 months ago
Announcing my newest commonlisp library, `filepaths`. ...more
#commonlisp

8 months ago
Went to the Shibuya lisp meetup tonight and had a great time. ...more
#lisp #commonlisp

8 months ago
I have a new commonlisp library in the works. ...more
#commonlisp

9 months ago
Friendly reminder that [Sly stickers](http: ...more
#Stickers #commonlisp

9 months ago
`sly-overlay` was just merged into MELPA: ...more
#commonlisp

9 months ago
When you take a overnight international flight with a layover in between. ...more

9 months ago
Hey commonlisp folks, I put together a Sly extension that enables evaluation overlays for CL in the spirit of CIDER and EROS. ...more
#commonlisp

9 months ago
It's now possible to read and write JSON data with `transducers`: ...more
#emacslisp #transducers #emacs

10 months ago
You're welcome: ...more
#zelda #lofi

10 months ago
Just finished reading [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](http: ...more

10 months ago
Transducers for emacslisp are now available on Melpa! ...more
#emacslisp

10 months ago
Bought a bicycle for the first time in 10+ years! ...more
#bicycle

a year ago
Turns out `read-symbol-shorthands` are actually quite cool and usable. ...more
#emacs #emacslisp

a year ago
So I'm testing the new parallel compilation in rust 's nightly compiler, but I'm not noticing any difference in either debug mode or release mode. ...more
#rust

a year ago
How to encrypt your hard drive on archlinux https: ...more
#archlinux

a year ago
guix folks: ...more
#guix

a year ago
Where's the line between Science Fiction and prophesy? ...more

a year ago
I am calling the Faur done for now. ...more
#aura #archlinux

a year ago
The number of AUR packages that reference the term "Python": ...more

a year ago
My guix home configuration for now: ...more
#guix

a year ago
I have a working guix Home! ...more
#guix

a year ago
For the record, my previous confusion regarding guix `home` was due to my usage of `container`, which obviously (in hindsight) jails off everything from the rest of the system. ...more
#guix

a year ago
If you like dune , check this out, just released: ...more
#dune

a year ago
I've released 1. ...more
#emacslisp #commonlisp #fennel #clojure #scheme #emacs #lisp #transducers

a year ago
Another question about guix home: ...more
#guix

a year ago
Anyone using guix `home` on a foreign distro? ...more
#guix

a year ago
In guix (as a package manager), I've found that you can specify package lists in a `manifest. ...more
#guix

a year ago
`guix search` results have a bloody *relevance score*! ...more
#guix

a year ago
What's your shell ? ...more
#shell

a year ago
Is there truly no generalized way to iterate over an emacslisp `hash-table` than `maphash`? ...more
#emacslisp

a year ago
How should a web server handle SSL/TLS? ...more

a year ago
I just released `1. ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
New blog post: ...more

a year ago
Name for an averaging function: ...more

a year ago
If you have `ecl` installed and a moment to spare, could you try: ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Add this to your `rustfmt. ...more
#rust

a year ago
So, it turns out that ABCL doesn't support resuming from arbitrary stack frames, but it _does_ support restarts in general. ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Cute ``` (defpackage abcl-test (: ...more
#commonlisp #abcl

a year ago
Currently reading the ABCL manual: ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Turns out that by pre-serializing the JSON data for every possible package the user could request, I was able to double my server's throughput: ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
CCL and Clasp don't follow symlinked projects in `~/common-lisp/` 🤔 commonlisp ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Does Emacs not have an Inspector for Elisp like CL and Clojure? ...more

a year ago
Can we get SSL support into Woo? ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Is there a way to use SSL with Clack/Woo, or otherwise a server that supports SSL out of the box? ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Today I learned that ABCL supports neither TCO nor `labels`-based TCO. ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
Did you know `setf` is a macro? ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
For whoever controls the domain at https: ...more
#lisp

a year ago
emacs release anti-news 😆 A (comedic) changelog from the perspective of downgrading. ...more
#emacs

a year ago
Now it's _my_ turn to post to Mastodon using Tooter. ...more

a year ago
fennel survey: ...more
#fennel

a year ago
How much lisp and c are in emacs ? ...more
#lisp #c #emacs

a year ago
I released a new commonlisp library `fn-macro` which exposes a `fn` macro for writing lambda-shorthands. ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
What are some good tech irc channels to check out? ...more
#irc

a year ago
Why is this commonlisp macro not becoming visible to the REPL? ...more
#commonlisp

a year ago
I've moved my account to the emacs instance. ...more
#emacs

2 years ago
I really want to catch emacsconf 🤔 https: ...more
#emacsconf

2 years ago
Things are a bit quieter on this instance : ...more

2 years ago
Made an account over here too, just in case! ...more