Build Your Own Lisp
A book all about building your own Lisp.
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968)
The document that introduced the graphical representations of control characters.
Astronomical Algorithms
PDF of a book I've long wanted to get my hands on!
What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor
Someone's love letter to how everything is a command in Emacs. I tried to sell this approach for Textual, especially when the idea of a command palette was first raised. Sadly it never came to pass.
I think it would still be an excellent idea.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
It's a Forth. It's a Lisp. It's lambda calculus. It looks like fun and also something I'd never actually really use.
hissp: It's Python with a Lissp.
Another Lisp in Python.
Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
"The Agile Manifesto paints an alluring picture of workplace democracy. The problem is, it’s almost always implemented in workplaces devoted to the bottom line, not to workers’ well-being. Sometimes those priorities align; the manifesto makes a strong case that businesses’ products can be strengthened by worker autonomy. But they’re just as likely to conflict, as when a project manager is caught between a promise to a client and the developers’ own priorities."
Pretty good article that covers many of the concerns I have with "Agile".
Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
One person's adventutes in functional programmming in Python.
Reversing Choplifter – Blondihacks
"The Apple II line of computers had an amazing run, from 1977 to 1993. In that time, hundreds of thousands of pieces of software were written for it, including many tens of thousands of games. Like any platform, however, the number of truly great games within that range is much smaller. If you ask any former (or current) Apple II user what the best five games on the platform are, there would be variation of course, but one game would be on everyone’s list: Choplifter."
Saved because I didn't play the Apple II version, but I loved it on the CBM64!
Homoiconic Python - MOHAMMED JAMAL
Those who don't learn Lisp are doomed to reinvent it. Actually, those who do learn list are also doomed to reinvent it too. Here someone sort of reinvents Lisp in Python.
How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch
An approach to explaining Python's asyncio by recreating it from scratch.
Common Lisp Quick Reference
A nicely-formatted quick reference document for Common Lisp.
PEP 692 – Using TypedDict for more precise **kwargs typing | peps.python.org
PEP for TypeDict and kwargs typing.
pylyzer: A fast static code analyzer & language server for Python
A Python language server written in Rust.
vygr/ChrysaLisp: Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
A Lisp-based operating system that can be run on many machines, and under the "main" OS.
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.
The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Survival of dBase
A history of dBase.
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto
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Okay, it's kinda useful actualy.
Automate the Litra Beam - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community
Possibly useful information if I want to do fun things with my new Litra Beam desk light. Could actually be a fun little thing to wrap in a Textual app.
anathema: A theme library for CLIM applications - Codeberg.org
Theme library for McCLIM applications.
Input: Fonts for Code
Tidy font to remember any time I get the itch to change my editor or terminal font.
Lem
A programmer's editor written in Common Lisp, written for Common Lisp, which aims to be a good Common Lisp IDE; but which also works as an IDE for other languages too.
Think Emacs in Common Lisp.
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language. I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, I showed how to write a semi-practical Scheme interpreter Java and in in Common Lisp). This time around the goal is to demonstrate, as concisely and simply as possible, what Alan Kay called "Maxwell's Equations of Software."
Git Query language
"GQL is a query language with a syntax very similar to SQL with a tiny engine to perform queries on .git files instance of database files, the engine executes the query on the fly without the need to create database files or convert .git files into any other format, note that all Keywords in GQL are case-insensitive similar to SQL."
My favourite Git commit
I've long disliked the approach some people take of writing one-word git commit messages. While this example might be a wee bit over the top, I'd much rather see this level of care over the craft.
A Tour of the Lisps
A pretty comprehensive tour of the main Lisps in play as of the end of 2023.
A Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux
Useful deep dive into all the issues relating to job control and how it affects a running process.
Common Lisp's BLOCK / RETURN-FROM and UNWIND-PROTECT
A nice description of how Common Lisp implements non-local flow control.
Running Open Genera 2.0 on Linux
A guide (that, as per the into, is now kind of old) to getting Open Genera running on GNU/Linux.