Read on the website: HTML is flexible and was shaped by generations of web practitioners. It has enough tricks up its sleeve to actually be nice to author. Here are some.
Read on the website: There are narrow screen CSS problems I often email people because of. These three fixes should be enough for most.
Read on the website: This was a hard year, filled with Lisp hacking, ed(1) editing and meta-programming, escapist writing, and heavy feeling. A good K-pop soundtrack tho.
Read on the website: Submodules give you the flexibility to fetch the dependencies, or not. And they enable more granular reproducible builds. Use submodules!
Read on the website: The concept of text editing word is inflexible and outdated. We need better.
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Read on the website: There’s data encoding in Lambda Calculus. But there are also algorithms. Recursive, usually. So let’s look at how recursion works when all you have is lambdas.
Read on the website: ed(1) is a versatile programming system. Yet no one talks about metaprogramming and algorithms in it. Now someone did, and that’s me!
Read on the website: Not all environments have Lisp-aware structural editing. Some are only line-oriented. How does one go about editing Lisp line-by-line?
Read on the website: ed is a stupid simple text editor. sed is a nice streaming text processing tool. Why would one even want to use ed for anything, let alone for text processing if there's sed?
Read on the website: Threading macros make Lisp-family languages much more readable. Other languages too, potentially! Except… other languages don’t have macros. How do we go about enabling threading “macros” there?
Read on the website: Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
Read on the website: I am an ed(1) fan. Naturally, I have a lot of scripts and implementations handy. Here are some.
Read on the website: Lisp REPLs are a good tool, but some consider it too rigid. Which leads to abundance of proxy REPLs. Except… you don’t need them!
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. Still, there’s a lot interesting things about plaintext emails. Including... plaintext-only formatting!
Read on the website: Being stupid is a stigma. But it's also a way of doing my job well or destroying the system the job perpetuates. Come be stupid with me!
Read on the website: Logical pathnames are both a useful and obscure feature of Common Lisp. Here I’m trying to figure them out.
Read on the website: We keep losing context and computation when running programs. But we don't have to. Let’s see how this lost compute can be avoided.
Read on the website: Algorithms are all the rage in tech. And yet, they are useless unless you use them as black boxes. Better disseminate explanations—they are much more understandable and reproducible.
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