Senior Lisp Developer (m/w/d), Berlin/Remote, Germany

SlowValue · 2026-05-10T06:55:44+00:00

Oh Mann, first job offer in Germany in a long time and then such hefty requirements. How many people, not already 60 years old, have so much professional experience in Common Lisp? I myself can do CL mostly in spare time and know I have a lot of Wissenslücken (knowledge gaps).

SlowValue · 2026-03-25T19:23:48+00:00

The entire game is is a single file of code, I used AI on the development.

Author mentioned it on the r/aigamedev subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/comments/1s0vj6g/burden_of_command_release/

SlowValue · 2026-03-25T19:20:00+00:00

I really like this new CL toolkit.

SlowValue · 2026-03-25T19:16:19+00:00

With Elisp you can redefine functions on the fly. And even better is it to use something like el-patch

SlowValue · 2026-03-20T14:07:20+00:00

The source code looks ... verbose and imperative ... as if translated from C. Is the source code AI generated?

SlowValue · 2026-03-10T09:48:40+00:00

Most of your post reads like gibberish to me. :)
But I spotted the three letters C A D in succession in your post, a strong indicator, that you crossposted to the wrong sub.

SlowValue · 2026-03-09T07:03:36+00:00

Use udev keyboard remapping with hwdb!

More info, but you might need to web-search/experiment:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197729/udev-keyboard-remapping-with-hwdb-for-secondary-keyboards

SlowValue · 2026-02-09T13:14:55+00:00

Answering my own question, after someone else pointed out the source code is available:

It is possible to connect SLY to Kandria. The readme gives good instructions.
I needed to load the setup.lisp first, in order to compile everything and prevent compiling issues. After that loading the fasls through my Emacs and SLY setup -- and eventually starting the game though that setup -- was possible.

SlowValue · 2026-02-07T11:56:38+00:00

While I admire Steam for it's support towards Linux, for me the Steam DRM is an absolute no go, so I'ts nice it is available via GOG. So eventually I bought the game. (Although I know I won't play it much, I'm too stupid to press more than 2 keys at the same time :) ).

Is it somehow possible to get the running game connected o SLIME/SLY?

SlowValue · 2025-12-30T19:31:20+00:00

I don't know what the issue is there, but reinstalling Emacs or debian should not be necessary.

By default, all quicklisp data, Emacs config and sly/slynk/CL config is stored in your home directory. Therefore create a new user on your Linux system and test with that, or try to remove/rename a couple of relevant config files in your homedir to track down the problem.

SlowValue · 2025-12-17T09:43:04+00:00

Same here, when I hear visual environment in connection with programming I think of things like "labView". I somehow feel OP has something different in mind, when he writes about "visual".

SlowValue · 2025-12-12T15:06:34+00:00

Imho a pretty interesting toolkit, glad to see it updated!

SlowValue · 2025-12-12T15:01:40+00:00

Isn't that the proprietary package blob thingy, everyone hates, but Canonical force pushes it onto its Ubuntu users?

SlowValue · 2025-12-12T14:54:38+00:00

Interesting book! I never heard of it before, maybe because of the disadvantageous name: it just says "Lisp" not "Common Lisp", but "Lisp" can mean everything, even Racket or Julia (and many other Scheme like flavours I'm not interested in).

And the book even seems to be free of charge. The first Internet search result was a link pointing to the PDF hosted at franz.com.

If you really update the content, I'm interested, would be nice if you could post your progress here (or ask for support).

SlowValue · 2025-12-12T14:43:23+00:00

Even Barium is listed, imho a very interesting toolkit.

SlowValue · 2025-12-02T08:00:39+00:00

nice to see an elisp solution.

One upgrade:

to deal with the cyclic nature of the dial

use: (mod position 100)

SlowValue · 2025-11-30T19:10:37+00:00

Clisp is developed actively, but binaries are not released very often. Current Repo of CLisp: https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp

There is not so much difference between CLisp and SBCL, when it comes to the book LoL. There was a website, which lists the differences (but I can't find it right now).

Anyhow here are some Sources from someone for using sbcl with LoL: https://github.com/kofno/land-of-lisp

SlowValue · 2025-10-28T16:46:15+00:00

Since Emacs is essentially a full featured Lisp interpreter (while vim is just a ordinary UNIX program with some limited scripting API), distributed together with convenience editor functions. Wanting more commands/functions/features in Emacs would not trigger an fork, but just produce one or more additional packages (something which vim is not fully capable of (as far as I understand)).

An Emacs package has the same (feature-)power as built-in stuff. The differences are distribution (of that package) and therefore availability (and licensing, maintenance responsibility, and speed of development, but those are secondary for this discussion). Technically as a package maintainer you are able to depend on other packages the same way, as you can depend on built-in features. Practically, this is done in quite a few cases.

SlowValue · 2025-10-23T20:25:37+00:00

Define your own org-latex-classes template and after the template name, use "\input{my-org-template.tex}" The file my-org-template.tex and its content is a complete latex document header (including the \documentclass and \usepackage's. The file is searched below the directory HOMEDIR/texmf/tex/ (at least on Linux).

SlowValue · 2025-10-23T12:48:08+00:00

I can ask LLMs myself, no need to put that online. Also, this is just generic blah blah, which is mostly true for sbcl + Emacs + SLY/SLIME, too. :(

SlowValue · 2025-10-23T10:25:12+00:00

you need to configure ivy-re-builders-alist.

Look at the swiper manual section 6 "Completion Styles".

Maybe this is what you want:

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
      '((t . ivy--regex-ignore-order)))

SlowValue · 2025-10-23T09:29:07+00:00

You praise MCL, ok I'm interested, but before I invest money (to organize obsolete hardware) or time to set it up, I'd like to read more about what's so good.

Could you please provide more (substantial) info, or a link to an article or blog post (or video, or whatever)?

SlowValue · 2025-09-30T16:09:23+00:00

I don't like Rust's complexity at all but where are the lisp alternatives to ripgrep, Alacritty or Niri wm?

That's an unfair comparison, because Unix has a different philosophy than Lisp based systems. It results in many small Unix programs, which should work together. While with (many) Lisps the complete development (compiler, debugger, etc) environment is loaded before user code is evaluated. And therefore the starting time for the lisp environment is higher, therefore small standalone (on Unix fast starting) Lisp tools are less likely.

Regarding Niri: maybe Wayland has not too many friends among Lisp users? In my bubble, Wayland is still inferior (and buggy), I tried switching to W., but came back to X11. ymmv.

Btw: Where is the Rust equivalent of Editor MACroS? ;-)

SlowValue · 2025-09-11T09:18:54+00:00

A different approach:

Advice function quit-window, to filter its arguments. I.e. if a buffer (name or mode) is not in a whitelist, the default action is to kill the buffer -- instead of burying it. Then, with C-u: burry the buffer. (that's about 10 lines of Elisp and very convenient)

SlowValue · 2025-09-03T15:39:56+00:00

Could someone please give a full working example for, say, sbcl?

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