https://stevelosh.com/Steve Losh's blog.en-usCopyright 2020, Steve Loshsteve@stevelosh.com (Steve Losh)Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:03:23 GMTCommon Lisphttps://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.htmlhttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2022/08/depending-in-common-lisp/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2022/08/depending-in-common-lisp/Using the CLOS Dependent Maintenance ProtocolFri, 26 Aug 2022 15:15:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/Somewhere between tiny shell scripts and full projects.Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:10:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/How and why you can and should learn this old language.Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:50:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/Part 2 in a series of short posts about fun Common Lisp Macros.Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/05/fun-with-macros-gathering/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/05/fun-with-macros-gathering/Part 1 in a series of short posts about fun Common Lisp Macros.Mon, 21 May 2018 16:05:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-menus/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-menus/Let's add some polish.Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:20:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-debugging-infrastructure/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-debugging-infrastructure/What's happening inside this computer?Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:40:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-disassembly/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-disassembly/What's in a ROM?Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:15:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-sound/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-sound/Let's add a buzzer.Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:30:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-input/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-input/Let's add a keypad.Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-graphics/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-graphics/Let's draw some pixels.Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-cpu/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-cpu/Let's write an emulator.Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:45:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/10/iterate-timing/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/10/iterate-timing/How long is this loop?Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:50:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/09/iterate-averaging/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/09/iterate-averaging/Don't loop, iterate!Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:45:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/playing-with-syntax/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/playing-with-syntax/Lisp lets you evolve your language.Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:15:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/lisp-jam-postmortem/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/lisp-jam-postmortem/Porting a game from Clojure to Common Lisp.Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:45:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/06/symbolic-computation/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/06/symbolic-computation/Symbols, REPLs, and Quoting — Oh My!Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:30:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/06/diamond-square/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/06/diamond-square/Improving on Midpoint Displacement.Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:35:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/03/recursive-midpoint-displacement/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/03/recursive-midpoint-displacement/A cleaner version.Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:45:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/02/midpoint-displacement/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/02/midpoint-displacement/A first step toward growing worlds with computers.Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:45:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/12/ludum-dare-34/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/12/ludum-dare-34/I made a "game"!Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:30:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/12/permutation-patterns/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/12/permutation-patterns/A short introduction.Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/beat-the-data/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/beat-the-data/Round two of the Bob Ross Twitch chat analysis.Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:10:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/happy-little-words/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/happy-little-words/Analyzing the Bob Ross Twitch chat.Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:43:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/07/nat-geo-mc5350/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/07/nat-geo-mc5350/Almost perfect weekend travel and DSLR kit bag.Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:35:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/07/nat-geo-a2540/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/07/nat-geo-a2540/A great little shoulder bag for holding a DSLR kit.Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:42:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/Documentation MattersTue, 03 Sep 2013 10:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/The path to enlightenment is long and arduous.Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:16:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/Down the rabbit hole we go!Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/caves-of-clojure-07-1/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/caves-of-clojure-07-1/Region mapping.Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:50:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/Emulating a legendary keyboard.Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/Sparrow's dead? Why not try Mutt?Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:30:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-06/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-06/Real combat and messages.Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:50:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-interlude-1/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-interlude-1/Black magic.Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:06:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-05/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-05/Fungus and more.Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-04/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-04/A player!Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:42:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-4/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-4/Refactoring.Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:02:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-3/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-3/Scrolling.Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:25:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-2/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-2/World smoothing.Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:04:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-1/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-1/World generation.Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:37:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-02/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-02/Dealing with state.Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:26:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/Getting a Roguelike up and running.Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/Our culture is one of pain and suffering.Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins/It's pretty much black magic.Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:13:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/06/django-advice/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/06/django-advice/Some useful things I've learned.Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:30:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/05/paper-free/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/05/paper-free/It feels like the future!Thu, 26 May 2011 13:44:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/I'm sorry I ever left.Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:15:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercurial-queues/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercurial-queues/MQ is git's index on steroids.Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/06/mercurial-workflows-translation-branches/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/06/mercurial-workflows-translation-branches/Uncommon but useful.Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:15:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/05/mercurial-workflows-stable-default/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/05/mercurial-workflows-stable-default/Part 2 of several.Mon, 17 May 2010 18:27:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/04/a-faster-feed-apart/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/04/a-faster-feed-apart/Rethinking A Feed Apart’s backend.Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:55:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/mercurial-workflows-branch-as-needed/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/mercurial-workflows-branch-as-needed/Part 1 of several.Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:00:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/It’s big, but my monitor isn’t running out of ink.Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:05:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/the-real-difference-between-mercurial-and-git/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/the-real-difference-between-mercurial-and-git/It’s not their features.Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:56:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/moving-from-django-to-hyde/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/moving-from-django-to-hyde/Another year, another rewrite.Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:14:00 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/With illustrations and comparisons to git.Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:27:12 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-contribute-to-mercurial/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-contribute-to-mercurial/Ten minutes of setup will make it easier.Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:09:44 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/05/what-i-hate-about-mercurial/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/05/what-i-hate-about-mercurial/Hg, I love you, but sometimes you bring me down.Fri, 29 May 2009 19:51:05 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/03/candy-colored-terminal/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/03/candy-colored-terminal/Better colors for the OS X Terminal.Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:26:28 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/03/mercurial-bash-prompts/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/03/mercurial-bash-prompts/Always know where you are.Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:34:55 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/02/how-and-why-i-dj/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/02/how-and-why-i-dj/I like playing music for dancers.Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:53:44 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/deploying-site-fabric-and-mercurial/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/deploying-site-fabric-and-mercurial/Trimming typing.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:51:09 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/going-open-source/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/going-open-source/Why I’m making the code to this website public.Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:08:56 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/site-redesign/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/01/site-redesign/Yeah, I know. Again.Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:58:23 GMThttps://stevelosh.com/blog/2008/02/microsoft-entourage-applescript-frustration/https://stevelosh.com/blog/2008/02/microsoft-entourage-applescript-frustration/This is ridiculous.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:25:45 GMT