Extension Languages
Found this old post by Jon Skinner on why SublimeText went with Python. If you're building an application, then your users will get much more out of it if you given them a plugin API. For Sublime…
To CIEL and beyond
There have been a lot of "modern" libraries within Common Lisp, but there isn't a coherent way to "look at" them together. So the impression of CL as this "frozen in time…
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“The Hajj trail” Well made online rpg!…
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The backstory of Marcel the shell…
Plotting diamonds
More Wolfram Mathematica fun, when my daughter wanted to make a "diamond shape" in "hot pink". Here's the "source of truth": And here's the rendering in Mathema…
Geometrick T-shirts
I had a T-shirt with a certain pattern that was fading out. I didn't know at the time that this had a name, and later learned it was a geometrical pattern that had certain interesting connections.…
Trains
In a bit of a grim co-incidence, soon after I wrote this earlier post, I find that in the space of a month, there have already been two people who were killed when hit by the Caltrain in Mountain View…
Inferior is Better
> Software that is better in principle comes with everything you need. Software that is inferior does not, and someone has to fill it in. They do it by building tools. > Every third-party “tool…
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Illuminating article about Chuck Moore and levels in Forth…
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A novel way to blog, using Curio…
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Car reflection, or … sinister robot.…
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An excellent HN comment (source) > Common Lisp and SmallTalk have rapid dev models by working in a running image, CLOG gives Common Lisp a foss visual IDE moving closer to its goal of marriage of…