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Thu 23 Jul 2026 emacs I have hundreds of README.org files.

Mon 27 Apr 2026 scheme I'm building a new web site in Scheme for BALISP, the Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Users Group.

Tue 17 Mar 2026 artificial-intelligence, linux, rust I recently upgraded my System76 laptop to Pop!

Tue 16 Dec 2025 artificial-intelligence, embedded, smart-watch Pebble watches are back!

Thu 11 Dec 2025 android, artificial-intelligence, scheme Ever since I worked on the Android project nearly twenty years ago, I've wanted to write mobile apps in Scheme.

Thu 27 Nov 2025 emacs When editing text, WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get, is the way to go — if you can get it.

Sat 8 Mar 2025 command-line, miscellaneous Early in my career as a software engineer, I worked at a large database company.

Tue 11 Feb 2025 artificial-intelligence, emacs Xenodium's excellent chatgpt-shell package makes it easy to use ChatGPT and other LLMs from Emacs.

Sat 7 Sep 2024 programming-tools I was tracking down a bug in a big open-source project — let's call it Project Foo — and wanted to know exactly which commit had introduced the bug.

Wed 21 Aug 2024 programming-tools Have you ever accidentally committed a change to Git?

Mon 27 May 2024 command-line, miscellaneous, scheme I left graduate school decades ago, but I still love to read academic papers.

Fri 15 Mar 2024 emacs My tenth-grade Latin teacher sometimes became frustrated with a classmate who couldn't keep his attention on the text.

Sun 10 Mar 2024 emacs, programming-tools Long compilations, long LLM training sessions, and other slow processes are facts of life for many software engineers.

Weather Dashboard displayed on M5Paper Mon 10 Jul 2023 embedded, scheme Today's computers are amazing, but sometimes I miss what it was like to write code when I started.

Laconic watch face for Bangle.js 2 Thu 15 Dec 2022 embedded, scheme, smart-watch I would love to run Scheme code on my watch, and I'm getting closer.

The Stomachion, rendered using NanoVG-REPL Fri 18 Nov 2022 scheme Last year, I tried an experiment.

ICFP 2022 logo Fri 11 Nov 2022 scheme I had the honor to be co-chair, with Andy Keep, of this year's Scheme Workshop, held as part of ICFP 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Tue 26 Jul 2022 ergonomics, scheme I started my computing journey on a TRS-80 Model I, whose screen had sixty-four columns of characters in sixteen rows.

Mon 13 Dec 2021 linux, scheme Software engineering is a game of concentration.

Tue 12 Jan 2021 scheme Sometimes, I know that there's something that I should be doing, and I just don't do it.

Mon 21 Sep 2020 emacs The W3C's Markup Validation Service is an invaluable tool for anyone who writes HTML.

Thu 30 Apr 2020 emacs I used to be one of those people who insisted that email messages should be pure text, with no markup at all.

ICFP 2019 logo, based on the Ampelmännchen Wed 30 Oct 2019 scheme When working on software projects, it's easy to forget that one's collaborators are real people, not just disembodied voices somewhere in cyberspace.

Monet's garden at Giverny Mon 8 Apr 2019 scheme As long as the roots are not severed, all is well.

Wed 6 Feb 2019 scheme The Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Users Group meets a few times every year to discuss computer science, design, human-computer interaction, complex systems development, programming languages, compiler optimization, cryptography, computer…

Tue 22 Jan 2019 talks I remember being thrilled at having an 8-bit, 1.774MHz Z80 processor and 16K of RAM.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 miscellaneous One of the first dynamic pages I wrote for my web site was a countdown calendar.

Sat 19 Jan 2019 scheme, talks My favorite dialect of Lisp, Scheme, first appeared in 1975.

Wed 9 Jan 2019 miscellaneous My mother has a wall map that is covered with push pins marking the many countries she has visited.