Chaotic Blog of Artyom Bologov

Read on the website: Can you Lisp without being strapped in to the Torment Nexus Machine?

Read on the website: Browsers don’t have to be huge, but they have to be usable.

Read on the website: Codeberg Pages moved to a new back-end (git-pages.)

Read on the website: I updated my website menu to be prettier on mobile, and I did not sacrifice accessibility and noJS folks!

Read on the website: I dedicated this July to not using my laptop (and definitely not watching YouTube!)

Read on the website: I have decided to go low-tech with my life lately.

Read on the website: So I was considering starting a wiki.

Read on the website: It turns out, Armenian has at least one stenography system.

Read on the website: Internet learned to speak gibberish that doesn’t always coincide with literary text.

Read on the website: We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating.

Read on the website: There’s a bunch of guiding principles I follow when blogging to ensure what I do is kind to others.

Read on the website: GESS (ГЕСС) is a Soviet / Russian standard for stenography (fast handwriting.)

Read on the website: Atlas Engineer was a perfect Open Source Lispy team to work in.

Read on the website: Binary Lambda Calculus is a really alluring idea.

Read on the website: Kaktovik numerals are a surprisingly good counting system.

Read on the its own page: We all love READMEs.

Read on the website: Package-inferred systems follow a useful one-file-per-package convention structure.

Read on the website: Markdown seems to have taken root.

Read on the website: HTML is flexible and was shaped by generations of web practitioners.

Read on the website: There are narrow screen CSS problems I often email people because of.

Read on the website: Boredom and idleness are a necessary part of life and censoring and ennervating over them is not fine.

Read on the website: This was a hard year, filled with Lisp hacking, ed(1) editing and meta-programming, escapist writing, and heavy feeling.

Read on the website: Submodules give you the flexibility to fetch the dependencies, or not.

Read on the website: The concept of text editing word is inflexible and outdated.

Read on the website: Ed is customizable, actually.

Read on the website: There’s data encoding in Lambda Calculus.

Read on the website: ed(1) is a versatile programming system.

Read on the website: Not all environments have Lisp-aware structural editing.

Read on the website: Threading macros make Lisp-family languages much more readable.

Read on the website: Text is a universal medium.

Read on the website: I am an ed(1) fan.

Read on the website: Lisp REPLs are a good tool, but some consider it too rigid.

Read on the website: Just stop artificially restricting yourself to bad software.

Read on the website: Plaintext emails are slowly becoming an artifact of the past.

Read on the website: Being stupid is a stigma.

Read on the website: Logical pathnames are both a useful and obscure feature of Common Lisp.

Read on the website: We keep losing context and computation when running programs.

Read on the website: Algorithms are all the rage in tech.

Read on the website: Any programming system needs a ways to aggregate values.

Read on the website: As GUI complexity grows, transparency plummets.

Read on the website: Designing programming languages is hard.

Read on the website: Embrace ugly code.

Read on the website: Tarot is nice.

Read on the website: LLMs and Vibe Coding are there.

Read on the website: Lambda Calculus is a simple computation model that's easy to port to any language with functions.

Read on the website: With great generic functions comes great responsibility of making them readable and maintainable.

Read on the website: or just use CSS lol.

Read on the website: I hate JS.

Read on the website: Tarot is a nice thing, but most websites about it are a pain to use.

Read on the website: Indentation styles are a hot topic in every language.