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Re: 9 Awesome SSH Tricks

parkerklocke — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:14:31 -0000

Thank you so much for ssh-reagent. Setting up github key forwarding again and feeling the pain. But at least I have this little gem to help with reconnect problems.

Re: Running in VR | tychoish

anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:18:38 -0000

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Interesting and informative blog. Good job!

Re: Running in VR | tychoish

anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:58:34 -0000

https://cannabismo.org/product/obama-kush/
Well written article and it’s very interesting.

Re: Programming in the Common Lisp Ecosystem

cji — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 22:06:03 -0000

Check out cl-remiyaml: https://nanako.mooo.com/fossil/cl-remiyaml/dir?ci=tip (and be prepared to confront fossil, a strange little version control system based on SQLite... Or maybe it made its way to Quicklisp)

In general - yeah, there are a bunch of high-quality libraries, but with the community orders of magnitude smaller than that of Python or JS, the "batteries included" feeling just isn't there. CIEL helps a little, as does awesome-cl on Github, but if you're serious about coding in CL, you need a practical "way out" to get things you'll inevitably miss. There's a project that allows calling Python from CL, or with ParenScript you might tap into Node ecosystem. Or, and this is going to be strange, with swank:eval-in-emacs you can use Emacs Lisp libraries... Why? Because even Elisp, of all languages, has orders of magnitude bigger stdlib (since it includes a full editor...) and the library ecosystem (through MELPA and Straight). Alternatively, be prepared to fork some $700-$1200 and buy LispWorks... Though that's gonna be hobbyist-non-commercial license, but at least without expiration date.

Re: Running in VR | tychoish

anonymous — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:29:43 -0000

https://cannabismo.org/htfse-guide/
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Re: tychoish, open source futurism

hey — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:26:00 -0000

like the site.

Re: Programming in the Common Lisp Ecosystem

gwangjinkim — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:50:59 -0000

yaml - there is https://github.com/eudoxia0/cl-yaml

Re: Against Testify | tychoish

Yawar Amin — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:54:30 -0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/go...

Re: Common Gotchas | tychoish

johnwcowan — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 17:17:34 -0000

I think your alist is `(("a" . t) ("b" . nil)). If the values aren't literals, prefix them with commas.

Re: Methods of Adoption

David — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:23:25 -0000

Nicely put.
It would be great to be able to use CL to build things.
looks interesting, It uses a WASM CPython (I think) to run Python code. It interoperates with Javascript libs, but some of that is a little complex at the moment.

I wonder if CL could do something like this to let CL happen in a browser....?
I think someone has done a limited version

Re: The Emacs Daemon GTK Bug, A Parable

Adam — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 12:16:53 -0000

Yes, on the timescale of this bug (11 years and counting) it is - unfortunately the resulting thread on the emacs-devel mailing list about this seemed less than encouraging.

Re: The Emacs Daemon GTK Bug, A Parable

tychoish — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 08:49:49 -0000

Hah, yeah I guess 11 months isn't that recent, though for a long time the most recent updates were many years old, so I guess it's an improvement.

Re: The Emacs Daemon GTK Bug, A Parable

Adam — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:12:11 -0000

Recent, as in 11 months ago, or did I miss some comments?

It would be great if this could finally be fixed.

I wonder how widespread libX11 1.7.0 is by now. Debian stable has 1.7.2, so that bodes well, I'd say.

Re: My Code Review Comments

Grey Barkans — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:29:55 -0000

As my role gravitates towards review more and more, I have found myself revisiting this post and nodding my head with each point.

> Push yourself and others to be able to get very small pieces of code reviewed at a time

One question I have here is: do you typically push towards multiple PRs, or do you revisit the same PR multiple times? I understand there's a time and place for both, more or less wondering what is typical.

As a corollary to most of these points, does it follow that the first step in reviewing a PR is to try and digest it as a whole and decompose it into different aspects/components?

Thanks Sam

- Grey

Re: Better Company | tychoish

Techmo — Fri, 14 May 2021 11:40:07 -0000

Thank you very much for your excellent post! `company` works for me except in `mu4e`'s email address composition. When I start typing an address that should be auto-completed I get this message:

`Company: backend company-capf error "Symbol’s function definition is void: start" with args (prefix)`

I've googled a bit and can't find anything. Any idea what this might be about? I first load `company-mode` and then `mu4e` which, by default, should complete email addresses.

Re: Learning Common Lisp Again

tychoish — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:17:56 -0000

Yeah, and to be fair, I don't quite consider myself fluent yet either, but I can... sort of feel like I might be some day?

I had a couple of projects over the summer that I'd been working on:

- writing an app that was a collection of links/references to recipes that used less than equal numbers of egg whites and egg yokes so that people can find novel combinations of things to cook. I'm not much of a web programmer, so I've sort of seen it as an interesting thing to do to learn some of these web technologies (in addition to being useful.) It's also the case, perhaps that it'd be a nifty thing to build and run with a librarian friend of mine (given the potential for both community contribution of recipes and also monetization via affiliate links.) To be fair I haven't done this.
- I've been playing around with the idea of building a publication system for book-length texts built ontop of the cl-docutils package, and I think it'd be cool to be able to produce print-ready LaTeX/memoir-style PDFs as well as ebooks and the like. build systems are fun, and for reasons that I don't think are defnesible, I've mostly been working on writing a cl-docutils output to texinfo, but it's a big undertaking, and I've spent the fall actually writing a book rather than working on this.

Re: Learning Common Lisp Again

Samantha Atkins — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:19:39 -0000

I very much agree with much of the desirability to do more interesting integrative work, particularly of our personal stack in Common Lisp. It has been on my own to be done list for quite some time. Unfortunately the list often gets put off for whatever the current paid gig needs to be a bit better or an active startup idea needs to get some MVP out the door.

In my own long career I have been fluent in Fortrant, APL, C, Objective C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, Python, javascript and know too much about Common Lisp to be happy that I don't consider myself fluent yet. But personally I don't feel fluent in a language, that is able to think fluidly and creatively in the much of the fullness of what the language offers, until I have worked fulltime and nearly exclusively in it for at least a year. It is hard for me to get there otherwise.

Anyway, perhaps we could collaborate on some projects down the road.

Re: Better Company | tychoish

tychoish — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 11:01:35 -0000

I agree with your assessment. I think in time most modes/services will settle on capf-based backends, which will both have the effect of making things work better with less setup (good) and making company itself less relevant (probably also ok). at least for the moment leaving the legacy backend in is probably ok.

Re: Better Company | tychoish

verdammelt — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:55:14 -0000

Your post has prompted me to investigate my own setup for company. I have found that `company-elisp` may no longer be needed as emacs-lisp-mode now sets up a function in the completion-at-point-functions hook which is used by company-capf.

Re: A Common Failure · tychoish

agam_b — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:55:53 -0000

Might like `iterate`, available either as a standalone lib on Quicklisp, or as part of other suites (e.g. `rutils`)

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Re: A Common Failure · tychoish

tychoish — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:29:13 -0000

Though turning up compiler safety in sbcl will get it, so that's def an option.

Re: A Common Failure · tychoish

Andrew Krawchuk — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:16:59 -0000

Yeah, no problem.
It would've been nice though, CLOS would certainly benefit from some type-based compiler optimizations.

Re: A Common Failure · tychoish

tychoish — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:52:07 -0000

I think in retrospect I was misreading the following from the 2.0.0 notes:

> enhancement: malformed type specifiers and occurrences of deprecated types in :TYPE initargs of DEFCLASS and DEFINE-CONDITION slot specifications are detected and result in compile-time errors and warnings respectively.

I'm also thinking that I remembered "enhancements: more thorough compile-time type checking of various initforms (defclass, &key, defstruct)." from 1.5.9, and https://lispcookbook.github...

I'll update the text of this later today. Thanks for the catch!

Re: Common Lisp and Logging

tychoish — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:19:31 -0000

sweet! That'd be great.

I'd be into get cl-grip into this list too!