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2026-05-10 08:29:09 GMT

#lisp job: Berlin, remote. https://rulemapping.jobs.personio.com/job/2625990?language=en
> You develop and extend Logos, our platform for complex legal and regulatory processes that has been running in production for over 20 years – in Common Lisp (SBCL), with a REPL-centric workflow and modern tooling (ASDF, SLIME/SLY)
#commonlisp

2025-10-18 00:09:59 GMT

🪧 I am giving the last touch to a new video chapter on #lisp data structures: lists, cons cells, arrays, hash-tables…
What is something you wished you knew earlier? Thanks!
https://www.udemy.com/course/common-lisp-programming/?couponCode=MASTOFRIENDS2025
https://github.com/vindarel/common-lisp-course-in-videos/
#commonlisp

2025-05-26 16:27:36 GMT

Did you know that Hacker News now runs on top of SBCL? Since Sept. 2024 at least.
explanations: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/
#lisp #commonlisp #hackernews

2025-05-24 14:16:10 GMT

Progress for many-to-many fields in a #commonlisp DB admin dashboard,
using the feature-full select2 component.
#lisp
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/114/563/227/950/577/222/original/92ad769c685dd37f.png

2025-05-20 16:04:33 GMT

#lisp job: STK is hiring
http://stk-hamburg.com/eng.html
#hamburg or remote?
as seen in the European Lisp Symposium 2025
they build an ERP in #commonlisp as seen in https://european-lisp-symposium.org/static/2018/lt2.pdf

2025-05-19 10:37:47 GMT

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@nprofile…v3wp oh, those beginners that rant about something you made for free. I hate it. However you can redirect him to me! I'll advertise https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/ and try to get some $$$ from him :D

2025-05-15 18:56:36 GMT

Just sold a #lisp binary to a client. It builds on Debian, it runs on Debian. So simple. Bye bye #Python and your bugs at deploy time.
(related to https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/running-my-4th-lisp-script-in-production/ : I just use a #commonlisp script for my client needs, and someone wanted it. It uploads products data to an online store.)

2025-05-15 09:24:39 GMT

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@nprofile…8f02 Hello, I started taking notes to follow "how to design CL software": https://github.com/LispCookbook/cl-cookbook/issues/582
(thanks for your support on the Cookbook)

2025-05-11 20:08:47 GMT

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@nprofile…3flu There's curiously the same (lack of) feature on the Community Spec… which is open-source.
https://github.com/fonol/cl-community-spec/

2025-05-08 23:19:16 GMT

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@nprofile…2sk2 correct and thanks, edited the post. Buuut… I knew there would be a "smarter" way, the more scientist-y way is using lisp-stat's data-frame. We get row and column direct manipulation, and easy overview of the data.
Its head, tail and print-data functions print as a legible table,
Its describe function is nicely informative.

2025-05-06 18:10:17 GMT

Just handled CSV files from #lisp with fun and success to help friends, added a library and examples to CIEL:
http://ciel-lang.org/#/libraries?id=csv
https://dev.to/vindarel/read-csv-files-in-common-lisp-cl-csv-data-table-3c9n
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-05-04 20:57:35 GMT

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@nprofile…9n6n The author didn't do his research. He's a bit dishonest too: the Caveman library he's using has such getting-started examples on its README. The other libs he uses have good to excellent documentation too: Djula templates, Mito ORM.
If one googled, one would find some blog posts, some videos… and even community resources.
There are also false good ideas in the article body. See https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1kecgml/a_simple_common_lisp_web_app/mqkkrhj/

2025-04-25 10:27:09 GMT

You don't loose hours of time thanks to the #CommonLisp debugger: a usecase by Joe Marshall http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/lisp-debugger-wins.html
> I wrote a little Lisp program to [gather statistics from GitHub PRs]. It's taking a long time because it has to make a lot of API calls to GitHub and the calls are rate limited. After about half an hour, I got an unexpected error […]
(and my related demo of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM)
#lisp #debugging #programming

2025-04-22 15:40:29 GMT

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@nprofile…2ezd The most fun (interactive) with Emacs is Common Lisp + Slime :)
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/emacs-ide.html
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/debugging.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM

2025-04-16 15:47:01 GMT

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@nprofile…2sk2 @nprofile…u4c6 Imagine if we connected the REPL to a running remote CL image O_o
It could also serve for a CL online tutorial 🤔

2025-04-16 11:23:39 GMT

This gives a very very #emacs -y experience in the browser: https://lisperator.net/blog/slip-a-lisp-system-in-your-browser/
> This is a #Lisp implementation (#CommonLisp wannabe, but oh well, we're still far from that) that runs in a #JavaScript VM.
Very much inspired by Common Lisp and Emacs/SLIME.
There's a "crazy clock demo" that runs in a canvas window.
Impressing.

2025-04-11 11:55:02 GMT

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@nprofile…n5w5 Yo no uso la JVM pero recogí feedback:
https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1025e4 mentions ABCL
good words for LW and its Java interface: https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/yq2t4r/why_buy_lispworks/ivmoexy/ (I thought I had more… still digging)

2025-04-11 10:08:52 GMT

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@nprofile…n5w5 Ola, tambien ABCL and LispWorks for the JVM ;)

2025-04-11 10:06:59 GMT

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@nprofile…xy93 You can find here 2 interviews of small teams using CL. One "secretly", one in a great open-source product:
"questions to Alex Nygren of Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack"
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/
"Arnold Noronha of Screenshotbot: from Facebook and Java to Common Lisp."
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-screenshotbot/
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-04-11 10:04:26 GMT

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@nprofile…xy93 Personally, as a solo developer, I use CL more and more in my stack, ditching Python the more I can. I wrote about it: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/running-my-4th-lisp-script-in-production/
Instead of extending a Python software I write independent modules in CL. It works well for standalone scripts too (read a DB, process data, send everything to a FTP, to a web service, by email…) It's such a joy.
On Discord, we see some are in big tech©, wrote their personal tool in CL and now it's part of the team's stack.
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-04-11 09:57:21 GMT

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@nprofile…xy93 We gather example companies that we find here: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ Mind you it's nothing official. There are job offers sometimes on reddit, but also on the two LinkedIn groups, sometimes on Twitter alone, and sometimes you get a direct message (happened).
There are many in the quantum space, such as HLR labs. reddit's /u/stylewarning works for it. They released the impressive Coalton and even contribute to SBCL.
HLR, Ravenpack and Keepit are probably still hiring.

2025-04-06 23:17:44 GMT

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@nprofile…ptgu Hi, I made them before this resource but I have a couple videos on web dev in Lisp: https://www.youtube.com/@vindarel
for instance "How to create a web project": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_noB1sI_e8 (part 1 and 2)
"How to call a REST API": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtwcBh1QLg
and don't miss this debugging tip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM

2025-04-01 11:34:52 GMT

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@nprofile…yzx8 In Common Lisp, instant startup, batteries included:
🌈 http://ciel-lang.org/ (still beta)
You can run a script from the terminal, and develop super interactively, like any CL project. Once your program grows and you need more libraries, just build a binary.

2025-03-30 16:20:24 GMT

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@nprofile…5vy0 EMACS:
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
love them^^

2025-03-24 21:30:07 GMT

I agree with those posts: a review of the Touretzky #lisp book: https://killianarts.online/en/articles/common-lisp-a-gentle-introduction-to-symbolic-computation/ and a recommendation for HTMX, for example in Django: https://killianarts.online/en/articles/how-to-use-the-grug-stack-to-build-a-hypermedia-driven-application/
Thanks to Killian Arts for sponsoring me on GH sponsors 👍
https://killianarts.online/en/
> Bold and engaging website experiences that sell you and your vision.

2025-03-21 19:35:45 GMT

Lem demo: integration of the Common Lisp inspector with a game engine 🎆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HGqY4RDAMk
(more with jfaz on Discord!)
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-03-19 11:08:01 GMT

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@nprofile…rs4v READ reads source code! Not strings. It returns an s-expression. So yes, symbols.
It doesn't evaluate the code yet.
(read)
(1+ 2) ;; input
(1+ 2) ;; return value
(eval *)
;; 3
Hence the REPL:
(loop (print (eval (read))))
(1+ 1) ;; input
2 (1+ 2) ;; result + my next input
3
To read a *string*, see READ-LINE.
https://cl-community-spec.github.io/pages/read_002dline.html

2025-03-13 19:35:00 GMT

My 10 yo nephew preferred Dino over Discord :) So, Dino it is!
He told me "It works super well! It is better than Discord!" "😍" "With Discord I had connection issues" (but I guess he was lost in the interface)
I am now tied to #xmpp, thanks @nprofile…f4mz ;)
#dino

2025-03-13 13:04:52 GMT

Web apps in Lisp how-to: flash messages 📸
https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/building-blocks/flash-messages/index.html
#lisp #commonlisp #webdev

2025-03-12 12:19:48 GMT

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@nprofile…klck A current HyperCard system: https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html
And today material for Lisp: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl ;)

2025-03-08 10:32:48 GMT

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@nprofile…6r8y Lem has a (deprecated) Electron interface (https://github.com/lem-project/lem-electron), and an (active) browser-based multi-user interface (Rooms https://github.com/lem-cloud/lem-rooms-client),
and Nyxt is coming to Electron.
They seem to converge!

2025-03-07 11:59:23 GMT

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@nprofile…rs4v Use M-p and M-n for previous/next input (slime-repl-previous-input). I suggest keeping the up-arrow to edit multiline inputs.
Use M-r for a history search.
more: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/emacs-ide.html
otherwise do like
(define-key slime-repl-mode-map (kbd "key") 'command)

2025-03-04 14:47:05 GMT

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@nprofile…2sk2 What about https://codeberg.org/kilianmh/openapi-generator ? I see "openapi" I share.
maybe also https://github.com/cxxxr/apispec and https://github.com/dnaeon/cl-jingle which includes an OpenAPI and Swagger UI demo.
(links on awesome-cl)

2025-03-04 14:44:42 GMT

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@nprofile…dpcr That is so true. I'm happy and terribly frustrated.
But hey I use more and more CL in the job! (the main app is still Python, but the scripts and little services are more and more CL)

2025-03-03 23:47:45 GMT

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@nprofile…rs4v And just start with SBCL!

2025-03-03 23:47:11 GMT

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@nprofile…rs4v You actually have the choice in editors, see: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html Emacs is great but special, Atom/Pulsar has a very good Common Lisp plugin, based on SLIME. VSCode is getting good, but you'll miss out on some (interactive) features.
There are more options.
Doom Emacs allows you to easily enable SLIME. Portacle (see link) is a pre-configured Emacs for CL.
Happy lisping!

2025-03-02 13:05:15 GMT

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@nprofile…g86r This gets you a SBCL with Quicklisp on Windows in 3 clicks: https://github.com/pascalcombier/plain-common-lisp/ (seen on awesome-cl)
easily add HTTPS for Quicklisp: https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https/
or setup another package manager: Qlot (uses HTTPS), ocicl.
As said before, use "first" etc for "car".

2025-02-22 02:23:50 GMT

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@nprofile…8f02 Hello, what about sponsoring the work on an existing project? The Cookbook isn't done. I plan to add more chapters, write more on web development, enhance the website and the PDF, and maintain it.
(Thanks if you already bought it or donated ;)

2025-02-18 13:38:01 GMT

🔖 🪐 What happened in #commonlisp land in the last two years?
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-lisp-2023-2024-in-review/#about-lem-and-rooms-pair-programming-environment
#lisp

2025-02-05 13:38:55 GMT

#lisp E. Fukamachi stopped his GitHub sponsors account, for good reasons:
> I’ve recently resolved my financial challenges after switching jobs.
Then a few extra bucks go to @nprofile…v3wp and @nprofile…k8y2.
https://github.com/sponsors/cxxxr
https://github.com/sponsors/Shinmera
Both rely on sponsoring for their income.
ps: I saw worthwhile developers on Patreon but I feel that the platform takes too many fees :S
#commonlisp #opensource

2025-02-05 11:30:32 GMT

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@nprofile…29fa Other links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplog
https://getpoplog.github.io/
https://github.com/GetPoplog
https://github.com/hebisch/poplog

2025-02-05 11:21:45 GMT

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@nprofile…8vnl interesting thanks. As answered by others there have been activity in 2020 until today: https://poplogarchive.getpoplog.org/freepoplog.html & https://github.com/hebisch/poplog (last commit last month)

2025-02-05 08:45:24 GMT

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@nprofile…gny6 et pourtant… HackerNews tourne maintenant sur SBCL. Quand tu cherches un billet d'avion, y'a du Lisp (ITA Software). Quand tu te ballades dans le métro londonien, lisboete ou dans d'autres capitales, y'a du Lisp (SISCOG). De grosses industries utilisent des "provers", en Lisp (ACL). L'informatique quantique? Probablement Lisp.
Plus proche de nous, pgloader (de Python à CL), Screenshotbot (open-source), PlanisWare (cocorico), Grammatech… et moi :p
awesome-lisp-companies

2025-02-05 08:37:56 GMT

what a find. So it's a CL implementation, and more? But not actively developed? Information hard to find, some links on https://openpoplog.sourceforge.net/ redirect to the University of Birmingham home page.

2025-02-01 17:07:36 GMT

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A side effect: rclone connects to a lot of backends (Dropbox Amazon S3 Google Drive iCloud Proton Drive etc) so one can edit files on them from #Emacs.

2025-02-01 17:01:01 GMT

#emacs' tramp is slow. #rclone mount is a fast alternative.
mount a remote FS from your VPS:
rclone mount --daemon /remote/ ./local
and access it flawlessly from Emacs, the terminal or any other editor (hello #lem).
Tramp itself has a rclone backend.
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/
https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Using-FUSE_002dbased-methods

2025-01-31 19:49:11 GMT

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> why can't HN code be made available on GitHub?
> Much of the HN codebase consists of anti-abuse measures that would stop working if people knew about them. Unfortunately.
[dang, 2019]
#lisp

2025-01-31 19:47:44 GMT

🔥 🚀 #hackernews now runs on #SBCL
> I've been working on an implementation of Arc in SBCL which is much faster and also will easily let HN run on multiple cores. It's been in the works for years, mainly because I rarely find time to work on it, but it's all pretty close to done.
[dang, 2022]
> The production website of HN now runs on top of SBCL (I've got the confirmation from one of the moderators). It uses Clarc, an Arc implementation in CL.
[/u/lispm, 2025/01/31]
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-01-30 22:30:59 GMT

#clojure VS #commonlisp ? I collect feedback from lispers, here's a new one about the compilers, errors and warnings (or lack thereof): https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1025e4#cls-compiler (with screenshots!)
#lisp

2025-01-23 22:27:05 GMT

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@nprofile…u55a If you really need to type math equations, you can switch into infix mode for it: https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix

2025-01-21 19:04:00 GMT

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@nprofile…uykf Nothing good and easy IMO: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/#gui except web views: https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/building-blocks/web-views/index.html

2025-01-20 11:24:51 GMT

#Lem news: Lem's subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/lem/
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-01-18 18:17:18 GMT

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@nprofile…v6s7 Indeed. There is so much history. Look at this infographics: "Most popular programming languages 1965-2023": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLsaumwpco
Lisp is there since the beginning. Rank 3 in 1973… still rank 4 still in 1989… it's out of the top 10 in 1995.

2025-01-18 00:49:23 GMT

🔥 😎 "lisp" is on fire on Tiobe index 2025, positioned before a LOT of more "modern" and trendy languages. It's also gaining 2 ranks since 2020.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Of course, whatever "lisp" means on Tiobe is open to interpretation… it doesn't mean much but we can brag about it.
I *knew* Lisp was in good shape :)
#lisp #tiobe_index

2025-01-17 17:09:42 GMT

CIEL news: I added `partial` and `rcurry`, `juxt`, `defcached` (memoization), `filter` and re-ordered the doc.
http://ciel-lang.org/#/language-extensions
These functions come from Serapeum, Alexadria, function-cache.
CIEL is #commonlisp batteries included, for comfortable development and fast #scripting. Still alpha. #lisp

2025-01-17 01:45:27 GMT

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@nprofile…hr2s Simply use C-left, previous-buffer? I think I reproduce.

2025-01-17 01:27:00 GMT

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@nprofile…se9r thanks a lot!
Did you by chance try (and improve) https://github.com/jasom/nyaml or https://github.com/mabragor/cl-yaclyaml ? (pure CL libs) I feel they should work more smoothly.

2025-01-15 17:10:57 GMT

🎥 🧑‍🎓 I just finished my first #commonlisp mentoring visio call with Ari. If there is demand, I can provide the offer ;)
We settled on 40 USD an hour.
#lisp

2025-01-13 18:45:09 GMT

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@nprofile…lcak yay, streaming.
re the init files: with `(apropos "init-file")` I found (ql-impl-util::init-file-name) which has a list by implementation. I suppose there is no better?

2025-01-09 13:37:55 GMT

🚀 🌐 💻 New resource to learn web development in #commonlisp:
https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/index.html
Routes, templates, log in, building…
Everything I wish I knew earlier.
#lisp

2025-01-06 02:16:01 GMT

TIL Lem has M-x lisp-organize-imports that removes unused imports from the package definition. Pretty good.
https://lem-project.github.io/usage/common_lisp/#remove-unused-imports
https://github.com/lem-project/lem/blob/main/extensions/lisp-mode/ext/organize-imports.lisp
#lisp #commonlisp

2025-01-03 16:50:04 GMT

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@nprofile…de2h I feel you. See https://github.com/lisp-maintainers/defclass-std for a shortcut:
(define-print-object Foo)
=> prints all slots by defaults.
You could use caching/seriazilation:
- https://github.com/html/clache (I use it)
- and https://github.com/skypher/cl-store
allow to store CLOS objects (any objects) to files.

2024-12-31 10:31:11 GMT

Do you also dream of a DB admin dashboard and what do you need in it? https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/towards-a-database-admin-dashboard-for-common-lisp/ (WIP)
#lisp #commonlisp

2024-12-30 14:39:13 GMT

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@nprofile…de2h This also could help? https://github.com/kanru/cl-isolated

2024-12-22 00:09:48 GMT

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@nprofile…cv4p The difficulty is getting there, making all the little choices at the beginning, the optional real-life little gotchas of deployment.
For help see:
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html
also scripting with batteries included: http://ciel-lang.org/#/scripting CIEL comes as a binary that includes a web stack. It's alpha though.

2024-12-22 00:09:00 GMT

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@nprofile…cv4p It could be Common Lisp: once you build a binary, you can send it on your server (build on an OS deploy on the same OS, with SBCL the glibc version matters). You are free to organize the web app however you want, it can be a single file.
The binary contains everything: web server and static assets, as well as the implementations's debugger, compiler… so live reloads are possible and natural.
The difficulty is… [cont]

2024-12-21 11:18:18 GMT

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@nprofile…khr2 I suggest downloads with Nicotine+ (p2p, person to person) and buying records or tracks on Bandcamp.
https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/

2024-12-11 19:25:57 GMT

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@nprofile…lyhh Oh indeed WebUI seems to be doing what CLOG does. So we can ignore this feature set from it IMO and only use its capacity to open a browser window, and use it with CLOG, or any other classical web stack. With CLOG: websocket interactive stuff. Without it: clicking links and adding bits of JS.
BTW CLOG's open-browser is just "xdg-open URL:PORT". CLOG Frame would open it in webview.h, and we can open it with WebUI:
(webui-show w "http://127.0.0.1:8080")
Tell us when you test more!

2024-12-11 18:23:13 GMT

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@nprofile…lyhh You mean WebUI compared to Webview / CLOG Frame? One difference is the renderer. Webview = WebKit on Gtk and Cocoa, Edge WebView2 on Window$. WebUI: we can choose a browser (or default to any existing one).
The devil is in the details so I'll bet there are many more differences. Experience will tell.
I see an open issue about which it is not possible to have multiple windows with Webview. It's possible with WebUI.

2024-12-10 14:00:35 GMT

How do you ship desktop apps in #lisp ? Web views are an easy way nowadays: I present Electron, WebUI, Webview.h through CLOG Frame.
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/three-web-views-for-common-lisp--cross-platform-guis/
#commonlisp #common_lisp

2024-12-04 11:18:23 GMT

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@nprofile…vkav In Common Lisp it's possible with reader macros. In https://edicl.github.io/cl-interpol/#regular they use the #?/…/ syntax.
#?/ a\ a /
instead of
" a\\ a "

2024-12-03 13:41:52 GMT

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@nprofile…cecp FYI you also have info in the Cookbook:
- building binaries with Deploy https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html#with-deploy---ship-foreign-libraries-dependencies
(helps with dynamic libraries)
- deploying web apps: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html#deployment (Systemd and gotchas, connecting to a remote image)

2024-12-03 12:38:24 GMT

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@nprofile…s5e3 Watching. Note that the terms ask to not publish your puzzle input.

2024-11-22 12:57:53 GMT

Print your data in tables: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/cl-ansi-term--print-tables-with-style-and-other-script-utilities/
- normal tables
- "vertical", reversed tables: headers are in the first column
- filter keys
- for lists, hash-tables, plists…
- style with colors
other utilities for clean script outputs: banners, ordered lists, center text…
#lisp #commonlisp

2024-11-20 17:01:59 GMT

Lem editor news: M-x legit-status now shows the list of stashes.
We can view them (as diff), stash our changes, pop and drop the stash at point.
#lisp #commonlisp

2024-11-09 18:46:00 GMT

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@npub14f6…f6uk A beautiful, precious and timeless post.
I should pin it on every Lisp resource I have a hand on!

2024-09-03 18:16:52 GMT

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today's other change in CIEL enables TAB-completion of files (after a bracket, not always) and of binaries found on the PATH (after a "!" that says shell-passthrough). Handy!
TIL: (uiop:getenv-absolute-directories "PATH") returns a list of directories. How handy. Contributed to the Cookbook. I learned it by following Shinmera.
#lisp

2024-09-03 13:02:26 GMT

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the "!" shell pass-through works in Slime, but we don't handle visual commands yet, they fail. Next step: contribute the handling of visual commands to the Clesh library (the one that makes "!" work in Slime with a readtable).

2024-09-03 11:52:40 GMT

CIEL repl fix: try running visual programs like
!env FOO=BAR sudo -i htop
or !vim or more, it works©
Previously, it opened a new terminal window. At the time I wasn't aware of how to run visual commands with uiop:run-program, but found it by chance (and documented it in the Cookbook of course https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/os.html#running-interactive-and-visual-commands-htop).
todo: we don't know that "emacs -nw" is a visual command. Use !emacsclient for now.
#lisp #commonlisp

2024-08-31 12:32:10 GMT

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@npub1ay2…yhap no %edit calls to $EDITOR, by using the small magic-ed: https://github.com/sanel/magic-ed
1. call $EDITOR, 2. load the lisp file on exit.

2024-08-25 22:52:44 GMT

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@npub1x5e…s786 Thanks for the notes. I still wish Wikemacs was more under the lights: https://wikemacs.org/

2024-08-25 10:38:37 GMT

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@npub1agu…mnja I'd go with a hidden form parameter… or whatever is the simplest (thus excluding the session, possibly not yet required).

2024-08-10 23:45:56 GMT

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@npub179t…alcr This is actually scary, Alexander. Get well soon, send us news when you can!

2024-07-29 19:49:14 GMT

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@npub18s7…gq9a Hello, your article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093719

2024-07-27 23:32:05 GMT

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@npub1q37…k2ta As you're mentioning Sphinx, here's the contrib for CL projects: https://sphinxcontrib-cldomain.russellsim.org/ (just started using it, it works fine)

2024-07-18 11:29:18 GMT

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@npub1pq3…rp4u True! It's an unstable Common Lisp with poor efficiency, poor interactivity, poor debugging, poor structural editing, poor meta-programming, poor functional programming, no compile-time computing, no core images.

2024-07-13 22:09:46 GMT

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@npub1dtw…85ra Well done!

2024-07-13 20:20:44 GMT

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@npub1e6z…pqv7 Sure: start small, iterate, you-don't-need-macros-yet, and read the resources I contribute to ;)
Cookbook, awesome-cl, lisp-journey, my Udemy course ;)
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/

2024-07-09 18:00:27 GMT

#lem editor news: the git plugin now shows deleted files.
Minor UI improvements to show items count.
by jfaz1: a new contributor picked up my code after me, hurray!
https://github.com/lem-project/lem/pull/1420

2024-07-08 21:38:35 GMT

Pretty sure #udemy's subtitles generation system is learning from my content 🚀
Before, "Common Lisp in production" was all about "communist prediction", "macros" was "cruise people", C-c C-k was "the conspiracy control key" , C-c C-c was "controversy", "I'll show you from Oslo" instead of "from Emacs and Slime", and so on, and so on.
It now writes "Common Lisp Object System" correctly in capitalized form O_o
My accent can't be *so* better that I pronounce capital letters.
#lisp #commonlisp

2024-05-16 16:38:28 GMT

I tried a new somewhat popular #Python library, with features in #lisp territory. Not a success. Thought it was a good case study on Python VS CL.
https://dev.to/vindarel/python-vs-common-lisp-applied-print-log-and-icecream-2h12
WDYT?
#commonlisp

2023-08-24 18:47:57 GMT

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 yes… that's one of the little things I would expect in a batteries-included CL: http://ciel-lang.org/#/libraries?id=numerical-and-scientific (pre-beta looking for more usage)

2023-08-10 12:26:22 GMT

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1jz4…d2ua I recall there is a business opportunity to add M1 support. Some people are ready to back it (to what extent?). See a lisp-pro mail exchange somewhere, see with the CL Foundation.

2023-08-07 16:11:50 GMT

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Starts well, can't recommend the 2nd one though, he's more fighting with CL (assoc, plists, :test equal) than writing the client. Let's see how it goes, that could be great.
Seeing him calling ql:quickload instead of a C-c C-c is frustrating too :p