walking without stopping, except to look at the river and the surrounding countryside

I realize that my long-abandoned Now page dates back from August 2021…

Live coding tricks for CHICKEN Scheme. #scheme

/me is listening to “Group Four” by Massive Attack

Rust is coming to the R’s world: air, arf, ark, and jarl to name a few. #rstats

Veil: A Neovim GUI built for efficiency, not for cool. Native macOS, Metal rendering, instant startup. #vim

Just a few days ago I upgraded to the main branch of nvim-treesitter (because reasons), and it is now archived. See also nvim-treesitter Was Archived. Here’s What You Actually Need to Do.#vim

Before I forget again, if you stumble upon an error with “libzmq.h” not found (installed via Homebrew) while trying to install common-lisp-jupyter, this may help. #lisp

The Seine is green!

As a Lisp programmer, it’s not surprising that it’s a little slower. The number of person-years that have gone into C compilers to optimize idiomatic C code makes the development effort behind SBCL, the most popular open-source Lisp compiler, look like a rounding error. — Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark