fosskers's Blog

fosskers's Avatar Image
Haskell -> Rust -> Lisps
a month ago
I'll be out of town without a computer until the end of May. ...more

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 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

3 months ago
Permissible states: ...more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 months 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

8 months ago
How to encrypt your hard drive on archlinux https: ...more
#archlinux

8 months ago
guix folks: ...more
#guix

8 months ago
Where's the line between Science Fiction and prophesy? ...more

8 months ago
I am calling the Faur done for now. ...more
#aura #archlinux

8 months ago
The number of AUR packages that reference the term "Python": ...more

8 months ago
My guix home configuration for now: ...more
#guix

8 months ago
I have a working guix Home! ...more
#guix

8 months 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

8 months ago
If you like dune , check this out, just released: ...more
#dune

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

8 months ago
Another question about guix home: ...more
#guix

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

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

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

8 months ago
What's your shell ? ...more
#shell

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

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

9 months ago
I just released `1. ...more
#commonlisp

9 months ago
New blog post: ...more

9 months ago
Name for an averaging function: ...more

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

9 months ago
Add this to your `rustfmt. ...more
#rust

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

9 months ago
Cute ``` (defpackage abcl-test (: ...more
#commonlisp #abcl

9 months ago
Currently reading the ABCL manual: ...more
#commonlisp

9 months 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

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

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

9 months ago
Can we get SSL support into Woo? ...more
#commonlisp

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

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

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

9 months ago
For whoever controls the domain at https: ...more
#lisp

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

9 months ago
Now it's _my_ turn to post to Mastodon using Tooter. ...more

9 months ago
fennel survey: ...more
#fennel

9 months ago
How much lisp and c are in emacs ? ...more
#lisp #c #emacs

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

10 months ago
What are some good tech irc channels to check out? ...more
#irc

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

10 months 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