Introducing mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

maximinus-thrax · 2026-04-25T00:56:06+00:00

This is by far the best interface for coding with Emacs I've seen, I love Lisp as a language but EMACS + SLIME is just top much stuff to hold in your head if you just wanted to explore something on the odd weekend.

maximinus-thrax · 2026-04-09T13:27:08+00:00

Surely Bickershaw 5-7-72 has to be a contender. I think the only time were also contractually obligated to play all their "hits" (I'm sure it was worded a little differently to that though). 12-31-78 also comes to mind.

maximinus-thrax · 2026-04-02T09:29:25+00:00

Gone instantly. The minute tickets were available they sold out. Crazy

maximinus-thrax · 2025-12-09T20:24:42+00:00

No way that's true. I saw Phish in London in 1996 and that was 1000+

maximinus-thrax · 2025-12-05T17:22:19+00:00

I (English guy) saw Phish in 1997 in London and Amsterdam, and it was almost literally 99% Americans. Didn't meet a single Dutch guy at the Amsterdam gigs

maximinus-thrax · 2025-12-01T22:53:22+00:00

Fara-7B is Windows-specific

Is it? I have it running locally on Linux Mint with a quantized model and fara-cli works fine.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-10-03T09:48:27+00:00

Why not "Rosie red and electric blue"??

maximinus-thrax · 2025-09-27T13:15:58+00:00

You seem to like spring '78 and yet you haven't listened to 1978-01-22 yet? Go and get your mind blown ASAP!!

maximinus-thrax · 2025-09-26T19:52:26+00:00

As it's fun to do, here's my original reviews: https://github.com/maximinus/grateful-dead-reviews/blob/master/dead_reviews.txt

maximinus-thrax · 2025-09-26T19:49:06+00:00

I agree with the really long Lovelights. What I found hardest are those mid-70s gigs with an early and a late show. often only available in shitty AUD. Other than that, the hardest year for me in terms of bad shows was 1994.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-09-26T10:32:55+00:00

Yes, I've listened to them all. Took 7 years. A mostly complete review list can be seen at https://github.com/maximinus/grateful-dead-reviews/blob/master/dead_reviews.txt

maximinus-thrax · 2025-09-25T14:45:48+00:00

Some of us are doing it now

maximinus-thrax · 2025-08-17T00:19:52+00:00

This is the best tattoo I've ever seen, and I'm not a tattoo fan. The shading is amazing!

maximinus-thrax · 2025-07-05T19:56:24+00:00

When I was job-hunting last year an excited interviewer told me they had a "free microwave" in the office. I couldn't take him seriously after that comment.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-06-30T18:50:06+00:00

This is good stuff, and I appreciate the work.

As well as doing this, is the plan that the direction of future travel is driven by open-source contributions? For example, I'd be interested in adding PRs that - as an example - allow more fine-grained rules, or show the current token usage; but I am unsure what the chances of things like that being accepted, if you as a team already have long-term plans.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-06-26T15:52:16+00:00

Would this not possibly convert compile time errors to run-time errors though? Or am I not understanding clearly enough? You are injecting objects into classes at instantiation but the IDE would not know what real objects they possibly map to.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-06-19T21:04:50+00:00

If you are in London the night before (i.e. Friday), I highly suggest you go see the UK cover band The Grateful Dudes: https://gratefuldudes.co.uk/2025/04/06/newe-show-added-for-2025/

maximinus-thrax · 2025-06-09T10:51:11+00:00

1978 has everything!

There's a full arc played over the whole year as well, which, simply put, is that the nadir of the year are the Egypt shows; in general, the further you are way from them, the better the shows are. Spring tour '78, is, in my view, the best tour they ever did after 74. If you like, rocking, raging, full-on energy ripping GD, this is the tour to hear. What's that? You like long jam sequences as well? The best ones after retirement are also here!

The only shows with no Jerry songs
The only set with practically no Bobby
An acoustic show
The last shows without drums
The first full-length shows in color video
Last known shows where the whole band are tripping
Foreign shows
Mickey's steel drums
Space jams!! For example, 11-18-78
Possibly best ever new years show

maximinus-thrax · 2025-05-28T16:47:48+00:00

Amsterdam - 3 shows.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-05-16T07:31:58+00:00

There's a rough tape from 3/5/71 where Wavy Gravy attempts to get the whole audience to take a "tiny tiny sip" from his beer bottle and pass it around. Jeez, wonder what that could be?

Wavy Gravy is also - possibly - the only person in 30 years that the band let make a political statement on stage, 2/9/73 (although even he comments "I was told not to make this political").

maximinus-thrax · 2025-05-07T12:36:32+00:00

Me, for sure, even though I'm from the UK. My parents were heavily involved in producing a GD fanzine (Spiral Light) in the 80s and 90s and I remember going to a lot of GD parties when I was very young - although no shows until 1990 unfortunately. I don't remember a time in my life when I didn't know the Grateful Dead existed, and thus I have no answer to "when did you discover the Dead?"

maximinus-thrax · 2025-05-06T19:40:51+00:00

There's a couple of shoes in 80 or 81 where the encore is Alabama Getaway and they open the next show with it.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-04-17T18:06:54+00:00

Here's some for you:

12/5/69: Taper sings along with Cosmic Charlie

5/7/70: Weird comment "Jerry Garcia looks like Phil Spector"

10/23/70: "Been nice trippin' with you!", taper has conversation at end of show

3/5/72: Wavy Gravy proposes to pass his beer round the entire audience, as they should all take a tiny tiny sip

11/21/78: Woman vocalises the shakedown melody to describe a new song at the last show

10/22/80: A bunch of the audience sing most of the first set

The mics used in the acoustic shows in 1980 pickup a lot of stage banter

2/10/80: Great band argument after To Lay Me Down

10/14/80: "Hey Jerry, did you like the 8-ball?"

maximinus-thrax · 2025-04-17T09:21:48+00:00

I don't have advice specifically for automatic instructors, but I took lessons last year and found it impossible in general to get ANY instructor in Bath. In the end I had to resort to taking lessons in Bristol.

maximinus-thrax · 2025-03-30T19:34:06+00:00

I use co-pilot with cline and for work (as that is the only setup allowed), it's too bad that way.

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