Links, Mind Maps and a Sketchbook
This is a space where I store information that is more persistent than blog posts: demos, previews, unfinished and work-in-progress ideas, sketches and more.
Recent news
- 2026-10-26 New post Heavenly delights of hashing numbers under EQUALP
- This is a long read about a terribly niche topic. I'm happy with how it came. It describes the new hashing technique incorporated by ECL. The post is also an engineering lesson leading the reader from the problem formulation, through better understanding, to the implementation details.
- 2026-10-23 Website rewrite
- Like the previous version, it is a static website. Unlike the previous version this site is a snapshot of published content from a live dynamic counterpart that runs locally.
Talks and videos
I have been invited to the European Lisp Symposium to give talks three times. This year (2026) I had an honor to deliver two keynotes.
- McCLIM - ten years later ELS 2026, Keynote #1 (video),
- Web Embeddable Common Lisp ELS 2026, Keynote #2 (video),
- On ECL, the Embeddable Common Lisp ELS 2020, Keynote (video).
And a few other videos:
- Lightning Talk: Proxy Generic Functions (2024)
- McCLIM Gadget demo (2018)
- McCLIM demo (St Nicolas Day present) (2018)
Where to find me?
Fediverse, Codeberg, Patreon, Fossil, Email.
Links
In no particular order with varying importance and quality. Some lead to my projects, some to other people work.
- ECL homepage
- McCLIM homepage
- Websites of the two main FOSS projects that I'm working on.
- European Lisp Symposium
- An annual gathering of Lisp affectionados. Each year it takes place in a different European city.
- common-lisp.net
- Long-running Common Lisp hosting for projects. Provides docker images with many implementations.
- Common Lisp Metaspec
- Common Lisp Nova Spec
- Two variantions of the ANSI Common Lisp standard built from TeX sources.
- l1sp.org
- L1sp.org is a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation.
- The Decoherence Trap by Kristen Maevyn
- Very insightful essay about decoherence with amazing typography and metaphors. It is a compelling argument against agentic coding.
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig
- One of my favourite essays. A must-read for aspiring hackers.
- Malleable Systems Collective
- Great forum that I consistently fail to find time to contribute to!
- Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig
- Two very important books if you want to learn Common Lisp.
- Teach, Don't tell by Steve Losh
- A post about writing technical documentation and why it matters.
- Hundred Rabbits
- An artist collective that documents low-tech solutions. A trove of treasures.
- Tymoon NET
- TyNET is a provider of many public Common Lisp services, notably IRC logs and code paste.