Dan's Musings

Discovering Jpalardy's Like Slime, for Vim was a revelation to me.

Introduction I have recently tried the AI harness Pi .

The Lisp Curse is, briefly, that Lisp is so powerful and expressive that it makes it easy to write code without collaborating with others and just write it yourself.

In an insulting, ironic blow to the neats, the scruffies created an AI that much prefers to write anything but Lisp.

Goodbye, Clojure After ~7 years, I was done with Clojure.

Introduction I asked this question on the Lisp Discord recently: I keep wanting to use generic methods and the CLOS, but I've heard bad things about its speed.

Introduction I decided to write this usage report from a thread on the Telegram Common Lisp channel: Alive is a VS Code plugin that aims to make it easy to develop Common Lisp from that editor.

This post is an updated answer to an older post.

Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results Introduction My name is Dan Haskin and I conducted the Common Lisp Community Survey 2024.

Someone asked about building data structures with examples in Common Lisp on the Lisp Discord.

The Environment Section Easily one of my favorite sections of the Common Lisp HyperSpec (CLHS) is the Environment section.

Introduction I have this weird hobby of trying to get good unix tools to run natively on Windows.

Summary I keep a journal using my Android device (though I can still edit on my computer, most journaling is done on my phone).

The following is taken from a slack message I sent to my coworkers.

Motivation This article details a method for sharing screenshots and files easily even if the only way to post them is via text.

I recently wrote a three part post series entitled "Which Programming Language Should I choose?".

I am a DevOps Engineer.

My chief hobby is collecting hobbies.

In November of 2021 My coworker showed me ZSH and Oh My ZSH at a new job.

This post is the last in a series of posts about programming languages.

This article is part of a multi-part series about programming languages.

The question is ubiquitous, relevant, and gets highly opinionated answers.

I have recently blogged about how I went self-hosted with my git repositories.

2023-05-07T09:41:14-0600 Introduction This article presents a procedure for how to release a Common Lisp application starting from nothing within an hour.

2023-05-06T09:14:17 I was reading a now deleted thread from Hacker News about how a certain individual who had contributed a great deal to modern computing had expressed morally alarming opinions and/or done some horrible act on the internet.

I have often observed that the race between corporate code and code written by hobbyists and volunteers is like the race between the Tortoise and the Hare.

I recently learned that Barnes and Noble is doing well again.

I have become interested in the git email workflow.

ChatGPT is Confused about Common Lisp The following is a transcript of a "conversation" I had with ChatGPT last week about Common Lisp.

2022-12-26T12:29:58-0600 Slack should not replace email, but it sort of has.

Started writing this 2022-12-13T17:22:02-0700 2022: Healing from the Pandemic As I look on this last year, I have decided it was one of healing.

Started writing this 2022-12-13T08:46:50-0700 Overview Writing Ansible for infrastructure (i.e. using it instead of Terraform, not using it instead of Puppet) feels dirty.

2022-11-29T12:57:50-0700 Overview I use tmux on Linux and ConEMU on Windows.

2022-11-11T08:01:33-0700 I am typing this right now in I-can-see-my-breath weather outside with glare on the screen coming from the brilliant morning sun.

This month, my posts are focusing on my productivity tools.

This month, my posts are focusing on my productivity tools.

How I Do The Pomodoro Technique, Part One: To-Do Today This month, my posts are focusing on my productivity tools.

I started working out of SourceHut after GitHub used everyone's code to train an AI that flagrantly violates copyright right and left.

This month, my posts are focusing on my productivity tools.

What's a guy to blog about on Haloween when it's a programming blog?

I am a firm believer that code should be written at a width of 80 characters.

The byte order mark is a terrible wrench that can gum up the gears.

I wanted to put a few comments down about what people should understand about my switching from Emacs to Vim.

Some folks have asked me about my Common Lisp set-up.

I recently read mfiano's blog post about Common Lisp.

2022-09-26T07:07:28-0600 Compiled languages are getting more important since Moore's law has stalled.

Pretty much every package format on the planet -- pip, rpm, debian, what have you -- is built upon some form of archive format and or some form of compression format.

I'm 35 years old.