In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was a little … [Read more]
Why We’re Not In A Startup Bubble
Normally, when I read something on the Internet, I have one of three reactions: "This guy is so wrong he's not worth acknowledging." "This guy is stating the obvious so he's not worth acknowledging." "This guy is so right there's nothing to … [Read more]
Sleeping Too Much and Fighting With Emacs and ASDF
So it has been a while since I wrote something useful. I have either an excuse or an explanation, (depending on how you value excuses). Two weekends ago, I got sick and, long story short, I got better but I had to sleep a lot to do it. Ergo, no … [Read more]
Lisp is Great Because It’s An Ordinary Language
Kenny Tilton just wrote a great article that I think cuts through a lot of the clutter that gets spoken about Lisp. Among the great quotes in the article, he says: "The first reason you should be using Lisp is a non-reason, an answer to an … [Read more]
That’s One New Year’s Resolution That’s Resolved
Something very delightful on a Friday afternoon: Go ahead, try it, it's fun! (If I'm not #1 when you click it's YOUR fault for not linking to me more often! :) ) That was one of my New Year's Resolutions that's now resolved (be the #1 … [Read more]
Public Beta Open For “Ultimate N00b SLIME/Emacs Cheat Sheet”
On this Valentine's Day, give the gift people really want - complex key chords! In other news, I've got fans! Well, at least one anyway. A lot of the feedback I've received on this site so far has been from experienced Lispers who appreciate my … [Read more]
Now With 70% More RSS!
When I looked at my stats, I saw that very few people appeared to be coming from RSS. I know that RSS readers are hard to track down (that's why Feedburner sold for $100 million), so I just used Google Reader as a proxy. There were about 6 people per … [Read more]
Tooting My Own Horn
After spending a (very) long time on the Reference for the SLIME/Lisp/Emacs Screencast and getting lots of good reviews of it, I've taken a little pause from writing to actually do some coding! A few months ago, I started going through Practical … [Read more]
Reference for the SLIME/Lisp/Emacs Screencast
Following up on my transcript/review of the UCW "Hello World" screencast, here is my review of Marco Barringer's SLIME movie. (Description, 150MB .mov, Torrent, watch online). This screencast was more difficult to annotate because: It was … [Read more]
What Happens When You Oversleep During Polyphasic Sleep?
YOU GET SO GROGGY IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FUNCTION!!! Three times this week, my daytime circustances have prevented me from taking enough naps (just 1 or 2 each of those days) between my core daytime hours of 7am to 10pm. Not having napped … [Read more]