Introducing ncm2-vlime
I have written a Common Lisp completion source for NCM2, built upon Vlime. It provides asynchronous Common Lisp completion and should work in both Vim and Neovim, depending on how well NCM2 and Vlime themselves work.
Implementing MsgPack.rkt, part 3
In the previous article we have seen how to pack an object, this time we will see how to unpack it again on the receiving end.
Implementing MsgPack.rkt, part 2
In this part of the series I want to go into how to pack data to bytes in MessagePack. We will see how to dynamically dispatch on type and how to pack a selection of particular types.
Implementing MsgPack.rkt, part 1
When I originally set out to write MsgPack.rkt, a Racket implementation of the MessagePack protocol, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around where to begin. I had no experience in writing a serialisation library, and reading the source code of existing implementations only revealed the what, but not the why. This is why I'm starting this short mini-series of blog posts to provide a commentary on my implementation. I hope that it will serve other people who are looking for a starting point to their own implementations.
De-Bootsrapping the workshop, part 1
The first major step in phasing out the bloat that is Bootstrap from my website is done. None of the layout depends on any Bootstrap classes and markup. Instead, the layout is built from scratch using the new Flexbox and Grid features.
A pure HTML & CSS menubar
In the process of de-Bootstrapping the workshop I have to replace whole components provided by Bootstrap with my own constructs. The menu bar is one of the larger components I use, it's fairly complex and requires a lot of non-semantic markup to get working. In this blog post I will describe step by step how I built mine, which requires less markup and does not rely on Javascript. You can try the demo to see what we are going for (please resize your window to see the responsiveness).
Neovim channel for GNU Guix
I have set up a channel for GNU Guix to build Neovim. This channel serves as an experimental staging ground for porting Neovim (and perhaps other related projects in the future) to the Guix functional package manager. When the packages are deemed stable and correct enough they will be submitted to Guix proper.
Introducing Quicklisp.nvim
One of the new features of Neovim is its ability to write plugins in any programming language, provided that there is a plugin host available. I have wanted to play around with the Common Lisp host for a while, and I like for something useful to come out of it in the end, so I created Quicklisp.nvim, a plugin which allows users to manage Common Lisp libraries from inside Neovim.
A new static site generator
Over two years already without rewriting the workshop? I have to rectify this, with the greatest rewrite yet! I have abandoned Pelican because I constantly had to adjust things manually after the build process, and even then there were parts of the website that weren't working. This put me off from blogging, since after each post I would have to stitch everything back together by hand. Seeing that no static site generator would be able to meet my needs I decided to instead write my own in Scheme.
Goodbye macOS, hello GNU/Linux
I knew this day would come eventually, so here we are: I moved from macOS to GNU/Linux as my operating system. It has been a couple of months since then and I have settled in pretty comfortably; some things are better some things are worse, and some things are just plain different.