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2024-09-08 21:10:36

Hey guys, I've moved to @npub10qe…9aes
Existing followers were migrated automatically.

2024-09-08 21:09:49

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@npub1x0t…nmue Thank you for providing this instance.

2024-09-06 21:58:49

I saw the announcement of emacs.ch shutting down, but this I don't understand.
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/092/847/802/154/957/original/7aa6316d61a67a31.png

2024-09-01 03:24:16

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@npub1fuh…3kut Real men force push to master.
Rather, there are times when it is absolutely necessary that you're able to do this, and it's annoying when company policy gets in the way of it.

2024-08-31 23:51:26

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@npub1mwg…lagv I used to believe it but no longer think it's the whole story. He admits as much in Deaths End through the survival and cooperation of many races.

2024-08-30 05:09:20

After years upon years, Time II is finally out.
https://wintersun.bandcamp.com/album/time-ii
#metal

2024-08-26 06:13:04

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.

2024-08-24 02:26:43

I have just released 4.0.4 of Aura.
https://github.com/fosskers/aura/releases/tag/v4.0.4
#archlinux

2024-08-19 22:27:40

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@npub1kj8…0urt Common Lisp.

2024-08-13 09:01:19

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@npub1v5r…as27 Isn't the point of finitism (in mathematics)?

2024-08-13 09:00:32

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Are you sure?

2024-08-13 08:59:11

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@npub1v5r…as27 Isn't u128 already more atoms than there are in the universe?

2024-08-11 23:34:33

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@npub1vla…mwtg Learning Rust and wanting the bindings to libalpm that were available.

2024-08-10 04:12:27

Why we should care about Software Licenses and why Weak Copyleft is a great default: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/package-licenses-contemplations-and-considerations/117922

2024-08-09 23:21:27

I have recently released 4.0 of Aura, a package manager for Arch Linux, in which I ported it from Haskell to Rust.
Thanks to everyone for their support over the years!
https://github.com/fosskers/aura/releases/tag/v4.0.0
#archlinux #aura #rust

2024-08-08 10:45:28

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@npub1032…8yqa でも触らないと

2024-08-05 22:55:05

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@npub1rqw…r3ud
(set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha-background 85)

2024-08-02 10:55:33

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Perhaps offer aliases?

2024-08-01 22:25:32

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@npub1032…8yqa You'll be fine.

2024-08-01 22:23:30

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Other than the slightly non-standard naming, I'm happy to see transducers!

2024-07-31 22:09:51

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@npub19cv…qnc3 You can archive things directly with dired in Emacs.

2024-07-29 22:48:08

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@npub19nl…wmrl Can you share the Github link?

2024-07-29 22:46:49

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@npub179t…alcr Thanks, just let me know when it's ready.

2024-07-28 22:19:06

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@npub19nl…wmrl Is there a way to view a sample? Or see a summary or something?

2024-07-27 22:24:49

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@npub19cv…qnc3 It was the first one I've been to. Just voice, but we discussed a few topics and did some screen shares. I enjoyed it overall.

2024-07-27 08:33:30

Emacs APAC session starting now: https://emacs-apac.github.io

2024-07-26 10:08:37

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@npub1hd0…cmnq And everyone who actually uses Haskell on Arch hates it and does everything to avoid having those packages installed.

2024-07-23 22:40:00

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Thanks for humouring the posting.

2024-07-23 12:20:27

Henro Pilgrimage - The Conclusion
Thank you to everyone here who followed along with the journey! It's surprising to me that not only is the 6-week pilgrimage over, but so is its 6-week recounting.
Overall, the route was 1265km and took 47 days to walk.
The full text of my final thoughts and statistics is available on my site:
https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog#orgcce0ab
#henro #japan #buddhism

2024-07-22 22:18:42

I have just released RC2 of Aura v4 for #archlinux .
Among other improvements, you can now build packages as root using the nobody user internally. This enables AUR package building on remote servers and within Docker containers.
https://github.com/fosskers/aura/releases/tag/v4.0.0-rc2
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura-git

2024-07-20 04:37:39

I just added a new subsystem for transducers that enables support for Fset.
https://github.com/fosskers/cl-transducers/releases/tag/v1.2.0
#commonlisp

2024-07-14 14:52:58

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@npub1y02…q5xc I'm glad you're enjoying them.

2024-07-08 21:34:11

I just released an updated aura-git package to the AUR that targets 4.0.0 RC1.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura-git
You can now install the newest Aura without having to mess around with Rust packages yourself!
#archlinux

2024-07-03 03:05:46

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@npub1g3j…2xqk Oh no...

2024-07-02 10:31:21

#commonlisp Equality
(defstruct foo
a)
(defparameter *a* (make-foo :a 1))
(defparameter *b* (make-foo :a 1))
(eq *a* *b*) ;; NIL
(eql *a* *b*) ;; NIL
(equal *a* *b*) ;; NIL
(equalp *a* *b*) ;; T

2024-06-24 10:51:41

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Embed that shit as hard and fast as you can. Port forward to freedom.

2024-04-04 04:28:16

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@npub1w66…rc58 You're the only one I watch.

2024-03-20 10:01:46

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@npub19cv…qnc3 I'm not using anything like nginx, my server backend handles HTTPS itself.

2024-03-20 08:40:29

I just transferred my website hosting from #heroku to #linode .
Advantages:
cheaper
full control over build cache
full control over release timing
better metrics
no more projects on Heroku (consolidation)
simpler project config
I can ssh in and do whatever I want
Disadvantages:
I have to manage TLS certs myself
https://www.fosskers.ca

2024-03-07 10:30:31

New article, "Proven Complexity and Technology Choice".
https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/proven-complexity

2024-03-05 22:26:00

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@npub19y8…wxgj
Where do we find the archived version?

2024-03-01 14:05:18

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1rs0…tqrn Is that a doctest lib I see there?

2024-02-28 23:31:46

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 A user! Fantastic! Let me know if you notice any issues.

2024-02-07 10:26:55

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 I'm coming around to the importance of mirrors.

2024-02-07 06:05:14

I've overhauled the README for the transducers library. Specifically, the API section now contains an example for every available function.
#commonlisp

2024-01-28 08:30:15

New article about my 2023 "tour of the #lisp languages".
https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/rounds-of-lisp
#commonlisp #clojure #fennel #emacslisp #guile #scheme

2024-01-27 11:54:32

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 God bless org-mode. I run the code blocks in the README to get the answers, which are also conveniently rendered, so there's less risk of "doc drift".

2024-01-27 10:25:37

Announcing my newest #commonlisp library, filepaths. It offers modern and consistent filepath (i.e. pathname) operations.
Codeberg
Github
Ultralisp

2024-01-25 14:24:19

Went to the Shibuya #lisp meetup tonight and had a great time. Met some of the big names in Japanese #commonlisp and they were all interesting people.

2024-01-19 05:03:21

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@npub19y8…wxgj @npub1uhx…6ca2
You mean parsing Lisp (Lua) objects from strings?

2024-01-19 00:16:23

How does quicklisp (the tool) decide whether to load a package from Quicklisp (the repository) or Ultralisp? Is it just based on date; whichever installation for that package that happens to be newer?
Either way, having a copy of a CL system in your local common-lisp/ folder seems to override that anyway. So pseudo-vendoring (at least to your common-lisp/) is a reasonable strategy if you really want control over versioning, etc.
cc @npub179t…alcr
#commonlisp

2024-01-06 20:37:54

@npub1w66…rc58 If you want some ergonomic streaming in your #fennel: https://git.sr.ht/~fosskers/transducers.fnl

2024-01-03 01:16:17

Hey #commonlisp folks, I put together a Sly extension that enables evaluation overlays for CL in the spirit of CIDER and EROS. Check it out!
https://git.sr.ht/~fosskers/sly-overlay

2023-12-01 13:23:22

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 Hot damn! Well, I'll love to come back to Scheme if the tooling were a bit better, and your nrepl server would go a long way there. I'm excited.

2023-12-01 12:36:48

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 Does that make geiser no longer necessary?

2023-11-30 20:56:34

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 Is this related to your nREPL work?

2023-11-27 05:16:15

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@npub19cv…qnc3 @npub14az…m7gz I've been using hledger for a few years. It's the basis of my entire personal finance system.

2023-11-26 03:06:10

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Scripting, org source blocks, etc. I implemented support for processing all the lines of a buffer (or even an unopened file), so it's now easy to non-exploding operations over the contents of large files.

2023-11-26 01:06:33

Transducers for #emacslisp are now available on Melpa!
https://melpa.org/#/transducers

2023-11-01 00:23:53

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Basically every city in Japan.

2023-10-21 06:13:07

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Keep us posted on Biff.

2023-09-29 13:06:22

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@npub19cv…qnc3 Honestly IRC isn't bad.

2023-09-24 02:36:50

My #guix home configuration for now: https://github.com/fosskers/dotfiles/blob/master/home-configuration.scm
This is guix bolted on top of Arch, not Guix System.

2023-09-23 00:17:01

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@npub19cv…qnc3 And this does actually occur (the "for free"ness).

2023-09-23 00:14:07

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@npub19cv…qnc3 What's the issue at the moment?

2023-09-22 12:09:14

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@npub19cv…qnc3 And so am I.
WIP: https://git.sr.ht/~fosskers/transducers-clj

2023-09-18 07:32:14

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 Sorry I haven't touched Scheme in a bit. If it has alists I'm assuming it's also part of the culture to use plists (Property Lists) of the form:
(:a 1 :b 2 :c 3)
These are common in CL and Elisp at least, and I've always found them simpler than alists. Here I've used keywords for keys, but they could be anything.

2023-09-18 05:40:42

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 Why not plists?

2023-09-15 01:32:52

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 This did the trick: https://git.sr.ht/~fosskers/transducers.el/commit/9edd7f76e51f58b231b4524c37c113c7a0d99817#transducers.el-4-15

2023-09-14 22:46:09

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Evil, but plausible.

2023-09-13 12:33:43

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 This is for my #emacslisp port of Transducers though. CL has with-hash-table-iterator which makes this easy, since I can drive the iteration myself and stop when I want, but I don't see an analog in Elisp.

2023-09-05 13:41:08

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1yp4…7d3l I chuckle a bit every time I see these ones.

2023-08-28 08:16:48

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 gcc12 is available, but it seems like ecl doesn't read the CC env var, and also: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/716

2023-08-28 07:42:42

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 This is what I'm running into: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/714

2023-08-28 07:35:30

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 There's either something up with ECL or something up with GCC, and I'd like to getting ECL running with clang but haven't had any luck yet.
I wouldn't mind outright replacing gcc with clang, but that's not an option on my distro, by the looks of it.
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/110/966/083/700/475/126/original/8057f46a16c6b47f.png

2023-08-28 07:30:09

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 So on Apple gcc is a hard alias to clang?

2023-08-23 23:35:11

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 I hope it stays casual and doesn't get too big.

2023-08-18 09:52:22

Did you know setf is a macro? Ever wondered what "place-based" setting like (setf (gethash k t ) v) is all about?
Check out how this is expanded in various #commonlisp implementations:
https://plaster.tymoon.eu/view/3926#

2023-08-15 00:19:49

For whoever controls the domain at https://lisp.org , the link to Stanford's announcement of John McCarthy's death is no longer an active link.
Checking the "whois", the domain registrant is listed as "Association of Lisp Users" and appears to be someone in Italy?
#lisp

2023-08-09 09:13:20

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 I was kindly redirected there today after a wave of questions about symbols and namespaces 😆

2023-08-07 09:22:25

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Heh yeah, I had both accounts for quite a while. Today I decided to consolidate.

2023-08-07 03:27:48

I've moved my account to the #emacs instance. Sorry for any confusion, followers!