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(You may want to read part one if you have not already done so.)

This is the first post in the quest for a better understanding of how SBCL and its FFI (foreign function interface) mechanism allows it to dynamically load any qualifying library and then be able to wrap it and call it. This is an extremely powerful feature that pretty much every modern LISP has and it [...]

Time to stop running form the internals of CFFI/UFFI and SBCL. I think I just chose the red pill!

“package ‘CLC’ not found” I recently upgraded a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu to 9.10 and after all was said and done my existing LISP environment had broken. To cut a long and irritating story short, I found myself faced with an error in the debugger, the crux of which was: “package ‘CLC’ not found” during [...]

I found this today, and all I can say is I like it even more!! I know that it is supposed to be a keyboard-driven thing but just nudging the mouse around makes it easier to get your head around the rest of the system instead of just fighting to remember to shift the focus [...]

Having used ratpoison quite a bit in the past on days when I get sick and tired clicking and dragging this window out of the way of that window to make room for the other window, I found StumpWM, a tiling window manager. Amongst certain parts of the hacker community, these are gathering more and [...]

Why do I hate LISP so much? Because it makes me think so damned hard. I cannot remember who said that compared to most other languages used to solve problems, LISP is more akin to DNA that allows you to build a language to solve problems. Maybe it was me a second ago. I think [...]

Using CLSQL and MySQL with SBCL on OS X 10.5.8 with minimal head pains.

A simple pitfall to *avoid* when playing with the CL-WHO package and thus increase hacking pleasure…