Erik L. Arneson
I run the Regolith Desktop Environment on my laptop, which I love because it provides a convenient GNOME wrapper and interface for the i3 tiling window manager. Regolith relies on a program called ilia for application launching, and sometimes ilia gets caught in some kind of CPU-churning state...
Fabrizio Schiavi
A new PragmataPro and PragmataPro Variable update includes important fixes: ► OpenType feature ss15 Tags uses language keywords only; to apply Reversed background to text enclosed in [ ] use OT feature ss20 ► Nerd fonts included are updated to version 3.0 and improved for Mono versions too. ►...
Erik L. Arneson
Well-known Emacs package creator Protesilaos Stavrou interviewed me for his video podcast series, “Prot Asks.” We talked about a wide variety of topics, from Emacs to podcasting to Portland to public transit. I thought it was a great time, and perhaps you will like it, too! You can read and...
David Vázquez
If you are a novice Lisp programmer and you are confused about the difference between systems and packages, I recommend you to read the Packages, systems, modules, libraries - WTF? before you continue. Introduction The most common way that people use packages nowadays is by adding a...
David Vázquez
Hello everybody, It has been a long time before my last post. Many things happened: I had a great time in ECL2013, I wrote a code generator for JSCL, exams in the university… and suffering the heat at home in Spain, of course. These days, at work, I am migrating our old SQL Server to PostgreSQL....
David Vázquez
I am just back from a few days of holidays and have seen how active JSCL is! It is really exciting. This rising is due to abeaumont probably. I stopped working, but he came up with an idea I liked. It is, why don’t integrate JSCL into Conkeror? We would end up with a Lisp programmable browser…...
David Vázquez
I have learnt a new trick these days. Did you know that you can declare an argument as a special variable? Quoting Hyperspec: Each required parameter is specified by a parameter variable var. var is bound as a lexical variable unless it is declared special. It seems to work also for optional...
David Vázquez
UPDATE 22 Nov 2014: The project was renamed to JSCL and now is hosted at http://github.com/davazp/jscl. You can also try the live demo. Raimon Grau and I have been working on a simple Lisp to Javascript compiler, in order to better understand how to bootstrap it. Now we got it. It compiles...