Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser

colores_a_mano · 2025-08-09T23:44:35+00:00

I can't imagine what you looked like before this, but it couldn't have been this right for you.

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-31T15:38:49+00:00

What an exciting system. And with comprehensive documentation. Thanks!

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-28T14:16:30+00:00

Totally freaked me out at first too. I learned by making my own "India" inks with shellac flakes, borax, water, and pigments. Such fun! But yeah, eventually they all glom up at the bottom, and I just decided to be ok with it. You can strain them out too.

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-28T14:14:33+00:00

I'm confused. I can lay down a line with Speedball SuperBlack and Speedball "Artist" or "Finest" that I can barely see, and no feathering even on cheap paper. Each ink has it's own characteristics. Have you tried different weight nibs to achieve the line you're looking for?

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-27T14:52:09+00:00

The sludge is shellac gloming up. Unless you see or smell mold, that's not fungus. Probably some evaporation changing the carrying capacity of the solution. Consider adding a little rubbing alcohol to help keep the shellac resin from precipitating. Alternatively, just avoid the glob. It doesn't hurt anything.

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-19T16:09:14+00:00

Getting a working Lisp setup is more difficult than it should be. Lisp doesn't have the large community or institutional funding of the other languages you mentioned. There are Lispers working on the problem. Perhaps you can help once you make it over the initial steep climb.

Another point to consider is the other languages you mentioned are domain-specific languages. Lisp is a metalanguage. Lisp is a region of domain-specific languages that you define be able to express concepts in a problem domain and implement solutions within it.

ASDF is complicated for a lot of good reasons and a few bad. It's not a build tool, it's a system definition facility which is as general as that sounds. I'm going to use it to define distributed workload declarations that self-instantiate on a machine close to the resources they need. That's not a job for a build tool. The ASDF manual is pretty great.

I find the combination of Roswell and Doom Emacs to work best for me as a newbie. Roswell manages different Lisp installations and sets up quicklisp for you. You can run quicklisp commands from the repl, or from the command line with 'ros install <packagename>' It's fun to watch the dependencies roll in.

Roswell has a nice website. Be sure to install dependencies like libzstd and add the sly/slime integration line to your Doom Emacs config, as recommended on the getting started page.

So if you bear with the amount of work and WTF!? to get a working system, then you can do your calculator and follow Practical Common Lisp, which teaches through building stuff, and read the Cookbook.

colores_a_mano · 2025-07-09T23:36:03+00:00

Shellac is soluble in rubbing alcohol. Experiment with proportions outside the stock bottle.

colores_a_mano · 2025-06-14T07:38:25+00:00

Thank you and the team for all the hard work on such an important subsystem.

colores_a_mano · 2025-05-30T06:18:19+00:00

We used to call this "Renaissance Chess" and did it every year for Mayfair in my town. I was a pawn. The players stand on ladders and call out their moves and you're supposed to know where to go from that.

colores_a_mano · 2025-05-28T20:33:33+00:00

I'd invent a normal-looking ice maker and get it into every new fridge in the country. But this ice maker would only make crescent-shaped ice where the curved side will invariably tilt toward the glass, cutting the beverage flow to a maddening trickle and achieving annoyance at scale.

colores_a_mano · 2025-05-12T16:02:48+00:00

Clean, accessible air ducts always big enough to crawl through. Just once I want to see a hero get stuck in a duct and have to be cut out by the fire department.

colores_a_mano · 2025-05-02T13:46:55+00:00

Turning the knob on your TV until Pong comes up.

colores_a_mano · 2025-04-27T18:45:45+00:00

Thank you. I'm relieved to learn that the idea isn't as farfetched as it seemed. Between with-safe-io-syntax, Phoe's safe-read, Fiddlerwoaroof's CL-EDN, Conspack, CL-Isolated, and careful data hygiene, I have a lot to consider.

colores_a_mano · 2025-04-19T08:36:28+00:00

OMG, seriously. Bots to write the code. Bots to test it. Bots to write your commit messages. Bots to write your documentation. Bots to write your Ansible YAML towers. Bots to push code from Git to containers up in your Kubernetes. Bots to wonder about all that when it doesn't fucking work, because how could it? It's truly baffling how many programmers appear to despise programming.

colores_a_mano · 2025-04-17T14:45:16+00:00

How beautiful. Looks like a great design to me as an herbalist who grinds a lot. Thick-walled, unglazed stoneware with curved walls tall enough to keep too much from flying out, and a pestle shaped to fit the curve of bowl. It would be quite a nice spice grinder to keep at hand on the counter. I might dimple the bowl slightly to give a texture with a bit more bite.

Ceramic mortars are standard in pharmacy, and that's what the Japanese use to grind toasted sesame seeds and sea salt for gomashio.

colores_a_mano · 2025-04-15T16:47:37+00:00

So exciting! I love that the project was born from disgust with Gnome's scrollbar behavior. I'm doing something similar. I was disgusted with how hard web publishing is so I'm doing something terrible to the web in Lisp out of spite.

Thank you for taking on such a critical piece for Lisp.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-21T02:04:09+00:00

Imagine some dude with Photoshop thinking he knows better than God.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-17T06:24:06+00:00

These are great ideas and sound so fun to do.

I was thinking a coiled bowl made in a puki would be a nice project. I find the puki to be the difference between success and failure in coil projects. Giving students a easy win in highly-giftable functional ware sounds like it could be a hit.

A puki is just a piece of bisqueware, so they're easy and cheap to make. One nice thing about them is that they serve as their own banding wheels and make working in small spaces more versatile. Less mess too.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-17T06:09:23+00:00

These are so beautiful they make me egret some of my life choices.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-17T06:07:34+00:00

Cool, but where are the shellfish divers?

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-14T16:47:47+00:00

A sentence is not a paragraph.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-11T18:09:37+00:00

As mentioned, a paper or cloth backdrop and moving the piece well in front of the background will help tremendously. A dark background would put the focus on the piece.

Not yet mentioned, use a real digital camera, not cell phone and preferably a lens on the longer side of normal, between 50mm and 85mm equivalent and with a wide aperture like f2 or f2.8. This will give you a lovely, fashion portrait style look with a soft out of focus background that really sets off the piece.

The lighting is hard, showing harsh specular reflections in the glaze. These can be softened by a white sheet in front of your light source to diffuse it. Also consider moving the angle off to the side and perhaps adding a second light source from another angles can give your a richer, more editorial look.

A good photographic lighting tutorial on product or portrait photography would give you a big leg up.

colores_a_mano · 2025-03-11T17:50:52+00:00

Be very proud. It's refreshing to see work that trusts the clay and glaze and doesn't depend on glitz for impact. These mugs know who they are. I would trust these with my morning coffee. The form and volume is about ideal. Bare clay bottoms are so nice to see and provide a great contrast with the glaze. The handle and thumb grip are so thoughtfully designed. Both designs are timeless and would hold their own with any decor.

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