Cl-gopher is a Common Lisp library that implements the server and client sides of the Gopher protocol, as well as a sample text client. An easy to understand and well designed example of using CLOS.

https://github.com/knusbaum/cl-gopher

#Lisp #REPL s are these unique beasts, clean windows into the raw interactivity of the languages and a mold to build it from. They are text-only-ish, though. Which is not always optimal. In my new piece, I look at the state of art in #CommonLisp implementation REPLs and their customizabity, and try to advocate for using them still.

Customizing Lisp REPLs: https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html

An actively-maintained-implementation, long-term-stable-specification programming language

#lispyGopherClimate #lambdaMOO #virtualReality #programming #software
https://archives.anonradio.net/202508130000_screwtape.mp3 0UTC Wed / Boston 8pm Tue

Talking to @me , who programmed and hosts a popular sushi restaurant in virtual reality.

https://jlamothe.net/

This is the fourth of a series of interviews, following @vidak's permacomputer, @jeremy_list's Habitat and @kasper's Swooprace. Using Mashey's #unix scale, Paradise sushi is a minor success.

As well as #MUD, #commonLisp #CLIM #gamedev on #itchio.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/mcclim-grid-map-editor/

in which I write a "map editor" that's just the McCLIM formatting-table macro like it says on the back of the box.

(Dynamically resizing rows and columns of) symbols for now, I'll do images (named by the symbols) later.

#commonLisp #mcclim #gamedev #devlog #lispGames

I also briefly describe c. 2005 LAN parties in the context of WC3 being where I first heard the words "map editor" decades before I knew about computers.

Feedback on my course I got yesterday :]

> [The employees that we train in Common Lisp] said they can understand you very well, and that your approach is gentle.
>
> **They said you do a better job of teaching than Peter Seibel**.

ebbzry, CEO of VedaInc, August 2025 on Discord. O_o

BTW I'm working on the data structures chapter right now.

https://github.com/vindarel/common-lisp-course-in-videos/

https://www.udemy.com/course/common-lisp-programming/?couponCode=BUSYCODERS2025

Lem editor news: I made that the M-x commands we call are persisted on disk across sessions, so when we restart Lem the latest commands we used are listed at the top of the completion window.

settings: lem-project.github.io/usage/usage/#call-commands-by-name

Took me 5 hours, just so you know ;)

https://github.com/lem-project/lem/pull/1855

I also added this guide on how to use the history feature of Lem: lem-project.github.io/usage/configuration/#commands-with-persistent-history

#embeddableCommonLisp's #ffi (*not* libffi) #commonLisp #Cxx #programming example - taking base64 encoding C++ function/namespace from @jeremy_list 's secure scuttlebutt implementation, and using it for extremely portable common lisp rather than nonportable haikuos C++. A straightforward but technical indicative example.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/cxx-embeddable-common-lisp-habitat/

Though! My one seems to get half the out bytes wrong x_x Edit: I forgot three cdrs, now works 100%.

Anyway, the #ecl #example is working.

@awkravchuk hey, I'm going to talk to @kasper about #commonLisp #indie #gameDev (w/ #opengl iirc) at 8pm NZT tomorrow which I believe to be between between 8am and 12pm Sunday morning in much of Europe.

Kasper mentioned they would like to co-guest with you if you would like that (at admittedly short notice).

I think I missed a big announcement by you at some point previously as well. Would you like to visit / check in (in a one hour jitsi call #peertube #live #fedi)

#ecl #commonLisp #openbsd #port - a #Cxx #programming openbsd port (i.e. #ports #bsd #Makefile ). Discussion of #OS ports and the role of underlying operating systems in lisp, and a little about embedding embeddable common lisp in C++ and embedding C++ in embeddable common lisp.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/cxx-ecl-openbsd-port/

#lisp CIEL news: we have a new Docker image thanks to @ themarcelor:

https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL?tab=readme-ov-file#docker

Build it, and you can run scripts with CIEL's batteries.

Next step would be you start Slime / your editor with a CIEL core image.

#lisp Did you try sending emails in #commonlisp ? At first I didn't know how to use cl-smtp and I relied on Sendgrid's API. It's a good, maintained library, with no quick getting-started snippet. Here it is.

https://dev.to/vindarel/send-emails-with-common-lisp-smtp-gmail-sendgrid-mailgun-4aac

We mention trivial-imap too, that manages pop3 and IMAP folders, and even has a function to search emails.

#spatial #programming #commonLisp #leonardoCalculus

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-organisms-2/

New organisms-2 knowledgebase,starting out with local spatial walking at @mdhughes https://mdhughes.tech/ recommendation that fast access to local neighbors is fundamental.

I.e. I don't want to check every organism in the world to check who is standing next to me. Well, I put that in a knowledgebase in my organisms-2 #KRF here.

Seems to work, pulls in 8 connected and 24 connected neighbors rightly.

#sbcl #commonLisp #slime #emacs #programming .

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/sbcl-slime-eval-lisp-and-die/

I think some people do either end up not using slime, or not using sbcl’s ext:save-lisp-and-die to save and resume their universe lisp image core when they are using slime. When you should use both.

This article covers that.

Installing lisp for beginners.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/installing-lisp-etc/

So much computing is predicated on having this or a conscious alternative decision to it. Here is my attempt to help beginners get this far. What do you think?