screwlisp

I definitely agree that advanced stream processing is another great and traditional lisp / scheme topic.
I suppose the common-lisp-knowledge here is that # is common lisp's only default dispatch-macro-character and hence M is a dispatch macro, and it is being used in the function position, and then as you say the docs say
The notation
(#MFUNCTION ...) is an abbreviation for (MAP-FN T #'FUNCTION ...)
in https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/rtoy/cl-series/-/wikis/Series-User's-Guide#mapping

2026-09-14 20:43:24 GMT

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The meta irony of this toot is bewildering me
@npub1lym…fqe3 [@Krita](https://mastodon.art/@Krita )

2026-09-14 20:33:47 GMT

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Did you know that @npub1jxd…txs3 was a common lisp program, but it switched to scheme, apparently because the original developers didn't appear to know about lisp's arrays but found out about tinyscheme's arrays.
(Actually, I heard a version of the story that they just genuinely thought lists were more appropriate (however not performant in context), but the project changed to SIOD and then tinyscheme in the first years anyway).
[@Krita](https://mastodon.art/@Krita )

2026-09-14 19:47:47 GMT

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Japanese Jesus is kind of like an anime maud dib prequel that is better than the actual prequels.

2026-09-06 20:10:22 GMT

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Oh I didn't, but I think you are facing left as per stage directions. I was enjoying people variously interpreting your question.

2026-09-04 00:29:36 GMT

@npub1vwe…l865 [@da_667](https://infosec.exchange/@da_667 )
Because sewage is politically palatable tracking data...?

2026-08-30 07:52:38 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate very haphazard Sunday-morning-in-Europe #peertube #live weekly #technology #podcast
@npub19ed…u2s0 #lisp and possibly @npub1tkc…5xzj we are going to meet up in #lambdaMOO and on the livestream and talk about lisp and retrocomputing and modern computing.
https://toobnix.org/w/g2AftRUaBvEVGfJYMY1MHr
Please do chime in on the moo if you are so inclined.
and [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) !
Computer origins, #xlisp, #z80, #formalMethods ..! #bookstodon #neuromancer #godelEscherBAch
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2026-08-29 10:47:29 GMT

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I'm pretty sure I got this from you, s/only fans/patreon/g

2026-08-29 10:45:33 GMT

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3 megabyte gif and 1 megabyte gif and 300k png. It is tempting to drop everything else and dedicate the remainder of my life to write a 16 color palette gif optimizer.

2026-08-29 10:43:46 GMT

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as you were then

2026-08-29 10:42:33 GMT

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are you refering to the fact that in my poking-patreons-paywall article there is a typo where I have confused Daniel Bobrow and David Barstow into Daniel Barstow that I did not correct in https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/secret-exclusive-git ?

2026-08-28 05:57:35 GMT

Did anyone notice all well known search engines going from bad to could-not-be-more-wrong-and-irrelevant? I just noticed this week. Was there a particular explanation? Like, the name of an author, title and date don't find a book at this point.

2026-08-26 06:38:13 GMT

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I think what happens is that the million people who all think hundreds of live people ain't no big thing all give the same hundred people with tens of thousands of live watchers as examples of what-usual-streamers-are-like.

2026-08-26 05:47:14 GMT

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Alright, I did it. https://www.patreon.com/screwlisp/posts/lisp-delete-vr-167712443?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
I think it could happen that we will find some lisp users there, like we found that Japanese ISLISP enthusiast on the medium that time.

2026-08-26 04:43:23 GMT

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But to be clear we are actually absolutely great as we are, clearly.

2026-08-26 04:43:01 GMT

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If you know a streamer who "gets hundreds of live participants ez", you know someone really famous (examples are when people more modernly conventionally famous than, well, tbh Kent Pitman, like Daniel Stenberg or some of European friends, do see significantly higher itinerant one-episode spikes).
So, I do think I am going to try rattling medium and Patreon for these huge numbers of additional interested people, even though every time I try engaging with something like Medium I'm annoyed.

2026-08-26 04:40:00 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate #meta
Soo. Today Ramin refered to our small and tightknit community. In my opinion, a hundred people listening and more than maybe one in five regularly actively participating in the show specifically as such is a lot, and another fifty downloads in the day afterwards (I suppose, incompatible time zones between the Americas and Europe (and east Asia/Australia/NZ) - this is actually a lot of people for a live weekly show.

2026-08-20 20:08:49 GMT

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Yes, yes! Next start tagging with #unix_surrealism !
@npub1zfy…8xdp

2026-08-16 10:21:33 GMT

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Spooky action at a distance then.

2026-08-16 10:20:25 GMT

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Even better than that, it's like you can even characterise what has already happened cogently

2026-08-16 10:19:04 GMT

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> Human lives are cheaper than bullets, it's back to swords...
Though I think I read this unironically in the news, that missiles weren't getting enough bang for their buck in... Outcomes...

2026-08-12 09:31:09 GMT

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Wait I thought cum was latin for "with"

2026-08-11 23:39:34 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #live at 0UTC Wednesday (20 minutes from right now.).
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
- #climateCrisis finally entering public dialog as oil investors kill thousands of Europeans and Americans, vowing "This is just the beginning".
- Notable historical (financial) successes of #perceptrons and #facebook's new #LLM #ai is *not* a small language model #SLM - we need #lisp #thoughtLeadership
- #lambdaMOO ! Notes on running https://github.com/wrog/lambdamoo #MUD
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2026-08-07 05:10:36 GMT

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Oops! I really thought some of those looked like Mastodon/etc screenshots. Sorry for starting rumors and thanks for the correction.
@npub1lym…fqe3 @npub16ys…sjae

2026-08-07 02:55:49 GMT

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did you see people on the Mastodon trying to convince @npub16ys…sjae that he is a robot. Do you have the exquisite corpse you shared together at hand still? #art https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai

2026-08-05 09:21:22 GMT

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Pragmatically I suggest:
sudo apt install acl2
acl2
:doc stobj-tour

2026-08-05 09:19:47 GMT

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So if you are going to perform io (which you would use a monad for), in acl2 a stobj performs this service because its restrictions make this admissable.

2026-08-05 09:18:29 GMT

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Yes, I was being informal in my formal methods.
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )
Originally, there was a special von Neumann bottleneck state object named state (it's still there). My understanding is this sort-of merged with lisp structs. It's worth noting that acl2 is older than ansi cl, and nqthm is from about 1972.
defstruct in lisp generates a bunch of utility functions by default, but is not exactly the same as defstobj either.

2026-08-05 08:46:21 GMT

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So there isn't a thunk (maybe a macro?). There isn't state - I can't have side-effects in acl2 - except for stobjs, which are deliberately similar to common lisp's structs. So the only notion of a memory structure also carries with it restrictive syntax to make any/all stobjs (~structs) von Neumann bottlenecks. This also makes them suitable for e.g. file io.

2026-08-05 05:31:12 GMT

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Ah, should probably have content warned that.

2026-08-05 05:28:03 GMT

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Clearly common lisp does not enforce singlethreadedness in the way acl2 does; however if you use the acl2 code, this will happen incidentally. Translating stobjs to setf and structs, and loop to loop$, lambda to lambda$, apply to apply$, [] format to fmt aren't broad-spectrum automatable because there are differences, but can generally be macroed in a particular project I think.

2026-08-05 05:26:02 GMT

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A lisp struct:
CLIM-USER> (defstruct (words (:conc-name wr-))
(words-seen () :type t))
WORDS
CLIM-USER> (defun add-word
(words word)
(values
words
(setf (wr-words-seen words)
(append
(wr-words-seen words)
(list word)))))
ADD-WORD
CLIM-USER> #S(words)
#S(WORDS :WORDS-SEEN NIL)
CLIM-USER> (add-word * 'hello)
#S(WORDS :WORDS-SEEN (HELLO))
(HELLO)
CLIM-USER> (add-word * 'world)
#S(WORDS :WORDS-SEEN (HELLO WORLD))
(HELLO WORLD)

2026-08-05 05:13:53 GMT

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Whence we can see:
$ cert.pl ./stobj.lisp
$ acl2
ACL2 !>(include-book "stobj")
<...>
ACL2 !>(add-word words "hello")
(<words> ("hello"))
ACL2 !>(add-word words "world")
(<words> ("hello" "world"))
acl2 describes stobjs as taking the draconian approach that stobjs are so syntactically restricted that it is unambiguous that there is only ever one state. In practice, any access to a stobj must return that stobj (i.e. with mv ~ values).

2026-08-05 05:11:04 GMT

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I think I said they were von Neumann bottlenecks *like* monads. If we consider this stobj.lisp :
(in-package "ACL2")
(defstobj words
(words-seen :type t :initially ()))
(defun add-word
(words word)
(declare (xargs :stobjs (words)))
(let ((words
(if (true-listp (words-seen words))
(update-words-seen
(append
(words-seen words)
(list word))
words)
words)))
(mv
words
(words-seen words))))

2026-08-05 01:18:57 GMT

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i.e. somewhat covered by saying "it's not threadsafe".
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )
* There *is* acl2(r) - a variant of acl2 with a theory of real numbers, though formally dealing with real numbers is this whole big thing - similar to how there is acl2(p) concerning formal proofs and parallelism.
However I basically meant / prefer to some extent theories of a rational approximation of a dft.

2026-08-05 01:18:32 GMT

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structs that are also monads and suggested that you would basically just change STOBJ to STRUCT between acl2 and common lisp.
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )
rightly pointed out that this is technically wrong, because a monad (and a generalized von neuman state single threaded object) are extremely restrictive about what is allowed to happen / said to have happened computationally. So the common lisp program would need to enforce a compatable control flow around modifying the struct itself separately.

2026-08-05 01:16:23 GMT

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In the show's afterwords [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) and I talked briefly about how and whether a #firstOrderLogic #dft #fourier transform program in #acl2 is a #commonLisp (high performance) fourier transform computer program, to which I say the answer is yes with two caveats:
- First, I picked a bad example because acl2 only has rational numbers (as of 2024, including common lisp single and double floats), however this complicates the meaning of fft / approximation.
Secondly, I explained stobjs as lisp

2026-08-04 23:54:51 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate well I suppose we better be live (every week, Tuesday night in the Americas, 0UTC Wednesdays)
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
I am going to relax by unilaterally holding court on Andrzej Bielecki's monotaph, Models of Neurons and Perceptrons 2018.
-and #lisp and trusting #mathematics
Plastic, NZ and the #climateCrisis
Chat in #lambdaMOO if you care to!
To quote the police summary of my last week "stood alone blocking a teenage gang street conflict for like half an hour".
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2026-07-28 23:53:24 GMT

Join us for a real non-episode today #live on the #lispyGopherClimate 0UTC Wednesday Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas on anonradio.net powered b y @npub1q3e…l84l ! Every week since 2022 #lisp #podcast .
I missed my #zine release deadline today. But we can hang out and talk in #lambdaMOO anyway! https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
Consider looking at this great picture of #fungi by @npub1h6t…vlxk https://mastodon.social/@MarioEijkemans/116998991407136120 !
#understone #gamedev @npub1tw9…za5q new release.
Sharpsign low energy.
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2026-07-20 23:02:48 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate #emacs #FSF some possibility @npub16r9…k35r (note the new fediversal #snac account) will join us on the show tomorrow!
Remember it is every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas being 0UTC Wednesday, or 25 hours from this toot. (Every week since 2022.).
live - https://anonradio.net/
#RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 ( [@screwtape_channel](https://toobnix.org/c/screwtape_channel/videos ) ). #peertube #lisp
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2026-07-20 05:06:31 GMT

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I think many people would like the clarification that this was about anticolonial what-is-sometimes-called reverse racism as opposed to support of Nazism.
Edit: Though I understand that me clarifying this is fundamentally the problem you cite.
@npub1dqw…h4lu

2026-07-20 04:59:20 GMT

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I guess I'm not allowed to agree with you agreeing with me that the segue into keeping the aspidistras flying is very likeable again. Is there no way I can spirit you back into the show?
@npub1dqw…h4lu

2026-07-20 04:51:39 GMT

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I think the phrasing is mirrored in e.g. Through The Looking Glass anyway. In this particular case I really like how the verse continues.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am
nothing.
@npub1dqw…h4lu

2026-07-20 04:02:39 GMT

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I was going to say something else but when attempting to double check my biblical ken on Wikipedia it came to my attention that none of Wikipedia's disambiguation pages about a mirror, darkly or variations thereof reference the bible. I guess it does bear personal study.

2026-07-16 20:20:28 GMT

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This kitty Odysseus is incredible. I would say why but I would just be describing the image above everyone has just looked at.

2026-07-14 09:44:30 GMT

@npub1tw9…za5q Not really here nor there but I had to look at comint.el which was written by Olin Shivers.

2026-07-10 08:16:40 GMT

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Great! Way ahead of me now. We will get to issue 0 eventually now I don't have the Mastodon down excuse and you and also hairylarry wrote that game.
@npub1vq4…wkq3 [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) did either of you come up with anything? Your ai-to-antiai-trajectory Ramin? @npub1gnu…0jmx can I betray my lisp theme and share some of your writing.

2026-07-10 07:14:43 GMT

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Don't internalize the system!

2026-07-08 07:36:59 GMT

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This gave me the crazy thought: we should just add an option to link libecl in emacs. I'm not sure if it is possible to promote embeddable common lisp's LGPLv2.1 to emacs' GPLv3 (and McCLIM - GPLv2?).
Then, suddenly we have these poppupable mix-and-matched c/c++/cl/elisp e.g. table with commands on sensitive inferiors in orgmode at a very primitive level. What the relation with swank would be I don't know.
@npub1urw…lh52

2026-07-08 02:59:51 GMT

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jd if you have a thought.
@npub1yna…cu6l

2026-07-08 02:52:08 GMT

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I have to think for a bit about how I want to convey matching e.g. a lisp source block to a presentation-type of (e.g. a string or number) in the table that has been popped up.
With embeddable common lisp having transparent support for nowebbing in C or C++ source blocks, you could attach common lisp or C or C++ (or elisp via swank which is also what McCLIM uses) source blocks to types to click on in the table.
</spam>
@npub1urw…lh52

2026-07-08 02:44:54 GMT

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This combines and exposes both of two disparate skeins of lisp user interface together being emacs orgmode and the (loosely) descendent of lispmachine zmacs dynamicwindows which were significantly different developments.
https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/org-mcclim
@npub1urw…lh52

2026-07-08 02:43:36 GMT

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I'm arguing that it would be nice to have this as a trivially available thing to run on an orgmode table when available.
A key feature is that it is possible to attach code blocks to clicking on elements, and the lisp code that runs is chosen by the clim presentation-type of thing being clicked on ; this would be attractive to use
#+CALL: clim-choose-from(table=my-table)
@npub1urw…lh52 #lisp #emacs #orgmode #McCLIM
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2026-07-08 02:24:56 GMT

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In another but equally @npub1urw…lh52 direction, orgmode tables and McCLIM tables (clim 2 spec ; the ultimate product of the lispmachine dynamicwindows research/commercial history) seem complementarily different.
CLIM naturally pops up a gui window of a table, where clicking on table contents picks and runs commands (~ source blocks) based on the type of the thing clicked on.
This is a useage orgmode does not obviously have. Albeit, for people already running common lisp as well.

2026-07-08 02:19:54 GMT

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If I recall, you at some point mentioned contributing specific extension features of orgmode. I have been thinking about it/you I just swamped myself a bit otherwise.
Embeddable common lisp is lisp as a C++/C library. I think this is a good target for special treatment rather than writing a normal / unflagged lisp source block with a lot of embeddable common lisp internals visible. The useage supports putting C/C++ in lisp, vice versa, and interleaving source.
@npub1urw…lh52

2026-06-30 23:52:14 GMT

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Much to the wonderful yduJ's chagrin I'm sure I am going to lead with @npub159r…j6m6 noted show inhabitant and lambdaMOOer scheme data scientist's bangin tunes for a moment. https://sdf.org/~pizzapal/wip_20260630.ogg
@npub1tw9…za5q [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )

2026-06-30 23:45:35 GMT

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#liveChat as always in #lambdaMOO #virtualReality !
tt++
#server moo lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape
#lispGames #understone #release doing very well! @npub1tw9…za5q
https://mdhughes.itch.io/understone
[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )

2026-06-30 23:44:04 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate #live every week since 2022 Tuesday Night in the Americas! #technology #podcast #lisp
#climate #haiku by [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116809734391826924
#climateCrisis becomes mainstream as thousands of normal people start dying in Europe and North America
Briefly, the USA's #AI embargo.
Current & upcoming document drops:
https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement and https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf
Putting together #zine for next week - send/give/link me writing! https://itch.io/jam/zine
+ [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )
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2026-06-23 23:26:43 GMT

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Livechat as always in the indomitable lisp community #VR #lambdaMOO ! (We are often graced by [@nosrednayduj](https://hachyderm.io/@nosrednayduj ) https://olum.org/yduj/recipe/ in person, not to brag) https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
I suggest:
co guest
@join mdh
[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) @npub1tw9…za5q

2026-06-23 23:23:40 GMT

#lispyGopherClimate https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 #live #lisp #tech #podcast #weekly since 2022 at 0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas).
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#climateCrisis #haiku by [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) whom has also told me not to ruin the dramatic tension by just saying what (if?) historically significant announcement he may or may not have this episode.
Starting a lisp #zine ! See https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/zine/devlog/1560799/ansi-cl-clim-20-spec-zine-jam-instruction-copypasta . Also: https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/shizamuran-sudokus
@npub1tw9…za5q #underStone #gamedev https://mdhughes.itch.io/understone
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2026-06-23 11:11:24 GMT

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#plan9 is the grownup #unix
@npub1gnu…0jmx

2026-06-17 22:00:52 GMT

[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) I find public hosting intransigent, but I had the following concept for a fun gopher show weekly activity.
Do some kind of weekly zine for the show episode, which is a lisp application that reads from standard input, but treats standard input and standard output as being separated gopher [tcp] requests. Then, the weekly lispygophershow gopher zines are downloadable lisp applications of this form.

2026-06-07 07:49:01 GMT

It's Sunday morning in Europe! #archive 8UTC Sunday as always #lispyGopherClimate #podcast since 2022.
https://toobnix.org/w/pU6zu95YDdyGKqsxxRf3Vg #peertube live
#RSS (recent times) https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
@npub1euc…fkvk 's Quality Without A Name toot #AI
As much as I can remember about the #lisp community #architecture and Christopher Alexander https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf https://alexandria.common-lisp.dev/
My NicCLIM #IDE demo and the #DL book I am #writing - loose bibliography and sketch of chapters
#AI #softwareEngineering
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2026-06-01 02:31:55 GMT

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Ah, yeah, I guess Doug Merritt cautioned me that Perceptrons was quite dry and mathematical. I will throw Fodor into my reading list this month anyway.
@npub1tw9…za5q

2026-06-01 01:56:10 GMT

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Well see you would be interesting to juxtapose though possibly separated in time. Do you happen to be available to remember things about the 90s on Sunday-morning-in-europe (Sunday dinnertime in Japan) some week soon?
We were planning to re/read Perceptrons first - which is one of my tasks in support of my draft-a-book-on-deep-learning-in-June plan but I have not done it yet - but there is a lot to talk about regardless.
@npub1tw9…za5q

2026-06-01 01:43:06 GMT

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I have been trying to find someone at Canterbury university who remembers seeing Mashey in the 90s in my attempt to get him on the show to talk about 90s microcomputer benchmark standardising efforts (since he didn't like my original small-is-beautiful-but-fifty-years-later-and-lisp-this-time idea ..). Now I am wondering if your backhanded praise of [his] work on C++ in the 80s would help my cause.
@npub1tw9…za5q

2026-05-31 22:47:08 GMT

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I would say anyone encountering that article would come away with incorrect beliefs about #lisp and the entire history of #computing. The introduction should say something like:
In the beginning, John McCarthy, the father of AI, created lisp in contrast to Fortran. Lisp's centrality to computing led to an explosion of incompatible variations. One was the lambda papers, which defined scheme. The lisp community resolved their differences via an ANSI standard process, ANSI common lisp.

2026-05-31 10:26:38 GMT

#lisp #commonLisp I would say the lisp #wikipedia page has been vandalised to not mention ANSI standardisation until the last paragraph of the history subheading. #ANSI
Then, halfway through there is a one-line section:
Standardized dialects [edit]
Lisp has officially standardized dialects: R6RS Scheme, R7RS Scheme, IEEE Scheme,[60] ANSI Common Lisp and ISO ISLISP.
This is a significant departure from the former page. Also, calling it now sloppy sloppy sloppy slop

2026-05-21 03:25:57 GMT

-ware.
#humor

2026-05-18 23:46:51 GMT

In about 24 hours from this toot
@npub1ums…7ra6
https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/
https://github.com/oantolin/embark
will be on the Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #lispyGopherClimate on anonradio (archive still https://toobnix.org/a/screwtape/videos ) to talk about
#emacs #embark <edit>
- actually, I am not a user (yet) but I am interested in other #lisp community takes on embark's #DWIM plementation (well known in #interlisp https://interlisp.org/software/using-medley/#getting-started for example). Exploring the minibuffer theme viz @npub1hll…0fjp last week.
Thoughts plea
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2026-05-17 11:41:54 GMT

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I had an idea for a few projects I will look into contributing to org. Particularly, my usual common lisp compiler is lisp-as-a-C-or-C++-library which would benefit from explicitly different treatment to most lisp compilers, and explicit support for the common lisp interface manager.
Admittedly, both my ideas are just @npub1urw…lh52 s' keynote and regular European lisp symposium talks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHjIqlITmE
Will see what I think about bugs.

2026-05-17 07:15:35 GMT

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This week at 8UTC Sunday (40 minutes..) we have another #software #mastodon titan, @npub1yna…cu6l #developer of #orgmode !
#peertube #livestream : https://toobnix.org/w/2Z7id1MZQ6C2GTo4XjvuX1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgmode http://orgmode.org/ is comparably famous to last week's Mastodon #curl's @npub1cm0…enqe ( https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo ).
The first thing anyone sees on #git is its README.org support for Ihor's orgmode. The #lisp community's Ihor's #emacs #orgmode.
+ @npub1c5q…5345 1 year org user!
#lispyGopherClimate
boost for visib
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2026-05-16 00:48:12 GMT

@npub1yna…cu6l #interview on the #lispyGopherClimate Sunday-Morning-in-Europe
So please #AMA in this thread, where "me" in this case is Ihor and "anything" is "questions about orgmode <dev>"
Tuesday-night-in-Americas was Charlie Holland (KMP, Ramin, mdh, sacha, ..) on "emacs minibuffer style" incremental completing read and lisp https://toobnix.org/w/imfwummHKcycJoujnGVjgy
Last week was bagder of Curl (feat KMP, Ramin, the moo crowd) https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo
#lisp #dev #softwareEngineering #emacs #orgmode #pleaseBoost
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2026-05-15 01:40:27 GMT

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in a hundred years the only languages people will still care about are lisp and ada, right.
@npub1ums…7ra6 @npub1vlc…mzqq

2026-05-12 02:30:22 GMT

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Well, the taste is much less bitter, though if you read the link, not having any discernable grounds, it is oddly thick. And while not coffee-shakes-inducing, I did have a medium range more head-spinning-feeling experience. The smoothness makes it easy to drink a whole bottle without really thinking about it.
@npub1tw9…za5q

2026-05-12 02:28:15 GMT

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I was just remarking that its effect doesn't feel like drinking too-much-more-conventional-coffee.
@npub1tw9…za5q

2026-05-12 00:03:17 GMT

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what I have to say as I polish off this bottle of cold brewed coffee is it really makes your head spin about half an hour into your cups.

2026-05-11 23:49:53 GMT

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So people do say Americano? I wonder how this was a blindspot for me. I thought there was "coffee" and "long black".

2026-05-11 23:37:52 GMT

#coffee #itch_io #devlog
Considering coffee #recipes a critical and a #TheLispCommunity historically centric daily-relevant #dev topic.
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp/devlog/1521148/secret-coffee-recipe-for-dev-in-which-i-learned-something-about-bottles
@npub1tw9…za5q
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2026-05-09 00:38:21 GMT

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Thanks for this note, I am thinking about how to relate your experiences with subsequent generations to the Curl interview tomorrow https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116541210939949273
[@rusty__shackleford](https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford )

2026-05-08 23:00:37 GMT

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something I remember hearing from @npub1gnu…0jmx recently was that typical senior programmers in their 40s now - I guess a generation after him and before me - had mostly never been associated with a successful project. I wonder if these were phases of Doctorow's enshittification. First there were techie nerds. The next generation of those techie nerds had their careers drained of value. The generation after that (right now), having careers at all is the value recently drained.

2026-05-07 11:43:48 GMT

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Though, all of what you said are basically the subject of popular standards or formal specifications.
I would add graphics / rich interfaces to that http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/index.html
I guess crypto is openssl,
mathematics ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima
lisp has a few de facto standards, bordeaux-threads, trivial-garbage ..
I do not see these special cases as the same as extremely dense external module glueseage.
Though I know my opinion here is boutique!
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@khinsen](https://scholar.social/@khinsen )

2026-05-07 10:07:18 GMT

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I wonder if [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@khinsen](https://scholar.social/@khinsen ) have any thoughts on scripting, schemes and elisp viz your lua thoughts.
Recently, and I guess unpopularly, I want to view lisp as what I think Liskov coined to be a very high level implementation language (as an untenable idea), a high level language that has so many resources in it that you will not generally want "libraries".
Though embeddable common lisp is my usual compiler, so.
@npub1f7r…6d93 @npub19r2…cahj @npub103y…pnkq [@eeide](https://scholar.social/@eeide ) @npub1j9u…0szu @npub1wva…3etp

2026-04-16 08:22:59 GMT

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My interpretation of mdhughes' point is that it is a failure to say, hey, try my program. And then it turns out you have to define what the program will do yourself in /etc/my.conf, or worse "there's an api! (which you could write a different, useful program with)".
In rms' paper presenting emacs, his emacs had the explicit goal of providing an off-ramp out from secretarial work into authoring original emacs lisp programs. So his intent was to fail secretaries per se.

2026-04-08 20:30:34 GMT

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E.g. one cited study was
Langer A et al., Technology in Society, 2025 [17]
surveying 37 children aged 6-10, finding children performed at or below chance, significantly below adults at detecting AI (who perform at chance) for generated pictures.
If children were good at detecting manipulative content, you would expect them to find Ronald McDonald telling them how many calories are in their locally sourced ground meat mixture sinister, wouldn't you?

2026-04-08 20:22:46 GMT

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The article thinks that the reason is that AI generated content has been groomed to look heavily edited and overproduced, and overproduced content seems more professional (hypothetically they must have some professional editing software or something) to explain the general results of AI being ranked 'better' than human content.

2026-04-08 20:20:33 GMT

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Yes, I agree. I think it is likely to say people on the Mastodon, and our ouevre especially might be the subpopulation "good at" recognizing AI, and also be the minority who are revulsed.
But in a meta-study of thousands of normal people - students, professionals, workaday, .. - the majority can't tell better than chance, but rank AI content as being better.
In particular, children on average were seen to be more likely to think AI content is human and attractive than human content.

2026-04-08 07:21:34 GMT

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Historically, a message from a stranger was reliably done by a human whatever their motive. But now messages from strangers (such as essays submitted by students, social media posts, or medical reports) could as well be a GPT.
So, community is much more important than it used to be I think.
#LLM

2026-03-27 01:19:42 GMT

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Did you see that now-famous rust article by the chief rust promoter at the rust foundation, that is this formulation over and over again:
I am going to invest in rust and make billions of dollars because rust is great
- quote, "every smart businessman"
I am going to retrain in rust because it is super the best decision for my career.
- quote, "every smart programmer"
I am going to have my product rewritten in rust because it is best
- quote, "every smart product owner"

2026-03-22 22:13:40 GMT

If I want to encode
1, 2, 3, 4, ..
"bit-adjacently" like
1 3 2 6 4 5 7 15 11 9 8 10 14 12 13 29 ..
What is the name for doing this?
#mathstodon

2026-02-23 20:04:00 GMT

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antihero doesn't mean Cool Hero. The terminator sent back in time was captured and reprogrammed after hunting and killing countless humans. This is the definition of objectionable.
On the other hand, he functionally protected humanity's key revolutionary figure, John Conor with a paradoxically fatherly and self-sacrificing tinge.
The plot premise does not allow choosing to just make skynet actually-just-good-somehow. LLMs as such are not good.
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2025-12-31 04:01:51 GMT

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you were missed today! Did you have any thoughts about generational divides in computing?
[@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman )

2025-12-30 23:49:56 GMT

Alright I better actually make the #lispyGopherClimate https://communitymedia.video/w/khYLxfJchsANRyB8tckwpn
Joined by [@kentpitman](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman ) - talking about generational divisions in computing ( #lisp ?), and I think the difficulties with getting paid for software in an open source world.
#pitman_errors progress report too? #python #programming sharpsign crosspollination
Loosely apropos my 2026 plan for us all to make reuseable #commonLisp condition fragments on #itchio for a year https://screwlisp.small-web.org/momentary/my-cl-2025-and-2026/
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2025-12-17 22:51:57 GMT

I'm going to try #librewolf instead of mozilla.

2025-10-23 02:33:55 GMT

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Amen's tagged me in response to his friend on the topic of whether someone had taught programming using the fediverse / the mastodon as the medium.
I then had the idea that Mastodon threads of toots containing code could be a computer program, which I guess you are relating to Forth of which the closest I got to it was reading Let Over Lambda.
Then, someone could start adding their own fork of someone else's computer program toots by replying at the point they wish to diverge.

2025-10-23 02:16:48 GMT

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I take your point that having done very little, it appears that I have done very little.

2025-10-22 20:42:49 GMT

#pedagogy #programming
Mastodon Threads As Computer Programs, along the style lines of the structure and interpretation of computer programs. @npub1gnu…0jmx @npub17lx…475e @npub1fny…lkuy

2025-10-06 20:35:28 GMT

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sorry for punting the question. In your experience, is there any meaning to people nefariously stealing games from you?
From my perspective if someone got some authentic lisp knowledge from me, and started distributing it, I could basically take a holiday. Maybe misrepresenting authorship of code could be actively bad.
@npub1ekj…wjxt @npub1nwt…n7m0