I updated my post "Do I need a Lisp Machine comeback?". I have added the new information I've found with chatting with folks on lisp IRC channels.

https://far.chickenkiller.com/computing/do-i-need-a-lisp-machine-comeback/

Seems like I was looking for was "residential style development" or something. Dunno yet what does it mean. But for sure I am digging something out of grave!

#Lisp #REPL s are these unique beasts, clean windows into the raw interactivity of the languages and a mold to build it from. They are text-only-ish, though. Which is not always optimal. In my new piece, I look at the state of art in #CommonLisp implementation REPLs and their customizabity, and try to advocate for using them still.

Customizing Lisp REPLs: https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html

Essential LISP by John Anderson et al., published in 1987, was an introductory Lisp book based on research on how beginners learn Lisp.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21180323M/Essential_LISP

For code examples it used a subset of features available in most dialects of the time. Where the book differs it goes with Common Lisp with adaptation notes for other dialects, including Interlisp.

#lispyGopherClimate #lambdaMOO #virtualReality #programming #software
https://archives.anonradio.net/202508130000_screwtape.mp3 0UTC Wed / Boston 8pm Tue

Talking to @me , who programmed and hosts a popular sushi restaurant in virtual reality.

https://jlamothe.net/

This is the fourth of a series of interviews, following @vidak's permacomputer, @jeremy_list's Habitat and @kasper's Swooprace. Using Mashey's #unix scale, Paradise sushi is a minor success.

As well as #MUD, #commonLisp #CLIM #gamedev on #itchio.

For those of you have been programming for more than a decade, what programming languages, ecosystems, technologies do you wish you had spent more time with?

For me, it would be: #C, #Perl, #OpenZFS, #TLA+, #ErlangOTP .

(I have spent some time with #commonlisp, #clojure, #java, #rakulang so these are not listed.)

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/mcclim-grid-map-editor/

in which I write a "map editor" that's just the McCLIM formatting-table macro like it says on the back of the box.

(Dynamically resizing rows and columns of) symbols for now, I'll do images (named by the symbols) later.

#commonLisp #mcclim #gamedev #devlog #lispGames

I also briefly describe c. 2005 LAN parties in the context of WC3 being where I first heard the words "map editor" decades before I knew about computers.

Lem news: new webview frontend and nightly AppImage builds for Linux x86-64

https://github.com/lem-project/lem/releases

Feedback on my course I got yesterday :]

> [The employees that we train in Common Lisp] said they can understand you very well, and that your approach is gentle.
>
> **They said you do a better job of teaching than Peter Seibel**.

ebbzry, CEO of VedaInc, August 2025 on Discord. O_o

BTW I'm working on the data structures chapter right now.

https://github.com/vindarel/common-lisp-course-in-videos/

https://www.udemy.com/course/common-lisp-programming/?couponCode=BUSYCODERS2025

#gamedev #devlog

The story (and writing of)

cl-unicode-chicken-sudoku

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/cl-unicode-chicken-sudoku/

I'll improve the webpage sudoku formatting after the interview with Larian coming up in an hour ( https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio )

Article is back-of-a-cereal-box #commonLisp #programming #sudoku #fun

https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/blob/main/Time/beats.1s.lisp
nice! #lisp #commonlisp

[1/2] In #CommonLisp, SBCL accepts directory pathname components which are subpaths and not names:

(make-pathname :directory '(:absolute "tmp" "foo/bar")) returns #P"/tmp/foo/bar/".

On CCL, the same form yields #P"/tmp/foo\\/bar/" which of course results in errors in a lot of contexts because "/" is not a valid character in filenames.

#CommonLisp #peertube #LIVE talking to @kasper about his #lispgames #gamejam cl- #opengl cl- #sdl2 podracer game #gamedev .

Sorry about all the sharpsigns. Also, I have no idea what chat I should try and look at.

https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA

#embeddableCommonLisp's #ffi (*not* libffi) #commonLisp #Cxx #programming example - taking base64 encoding C++ function/namespace from @jeremy_list 's secure scuttlebutt implementation, and using it for extremely portable common lisp rather than nonportable haikuos C++. A straightforward but technical indicative example.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/cxx-embeddable-common-lisp-habitat/

Though! My one seems to get half the out bytes wrong x_x Edit: I forgot three cdrs, now works 100%.

Anyway, the #ecl #example is working.

@awkravchuk hey, I'm going to talk to @kasper about #commonLisp #indie #gameDev (w/ #opengl iirc) at 8pm NZT tomorrow which I believe to be between between 8am and 12pm Sunday morning in much of Europe.

Kasper mentioned they would like to co-guest with you if you would like that (at admittedly short notice).

I think I missed a big announcement by you at some point previously as well. Would you like to visit / check in (in a one hour jitsi call #peertube #live #fedi)

#ecl #commonLisp #openbsd #port - a #Cxx #programming openbsd port (i.e. #ports #bsd #Makefile ). Discussion of #OS ports and the role of underlying operating systems in lisp, and a little about embedding embeddable common lisp in C++ and embedding C++ in embeddable common lisp.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/cxx-ecl-openbsd-port/

#lisp CIEL news: we have a new Docker image thanks to @ themarcelor:

https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL?tab=readme-ov-file#docker

Build it, and you can run scripts with CIEL's batteries.

Next step would be you start Slime / your editor with a CIEL core image.

#lisp Did you try sending emails in #commonlisp ? At first I didn't know how to use cl-smtp and I relied on Sendgrid's API. It's a good, maintained library, with no quick getting-started snippet. Here it is.

https://dev.to/vindarel/send-emails-with-common-lisp-smtp-gmail-sendgrid-mailgun-4aac

We mention trivial-imap too, that manages pop3 and IMAP folders, and even has a function to search emails.