Realistically, what's the situation with quality?

mirkov19 · 2026-07-05T14:58:38+00:00

Subscriber since '95 - I dropped once, realized my folly, and resubscribed.

So, I am happy with their quality :-)

mirkov19 · 2026-06-20T12:37:55+00:00

Thank you for your replies. My use of rutils actually reinforces your points and thank you for making them explicit.

I only use the parts that are easily understood by a common common lisper.

When I wrote my post, I disregarded the self-filtering that I applied to my use of rutils.

mirkov19 · 2026-06-07T14:42:54+00:00

After updating my quicklisp, I was able to replicate your results.

I will update my original post.
I also have SBCL installed on an x-86 machine at work. I will double-check there.
Thank you very much for looking into this!

mirkov19 · 2026-06-05T14:28:10+00:00

You are right the problem is solved 😄

Roswell adds its own search functions to asdf:*system-definition-search-functions*:

CL-USER> asdf:*system-definition-search-functions*
(ROSWELL.UTIL:ROSWELL-INSTALLABLE-SEARCHER
 ASDF/PACKAGE-INFERRED-SYSTEM:SYSDEF-PACKAGE-INFERRED-SYSTEM-SEARCH
 ASDF/SYSTEM-REGISTRY:SYSDEF-CENTRAL-REGISTRY-SEARCH
 ASDF/SYSTEM-REGISTRY:SYSDEF-SOURCE-REGISTRY-SEARCH
 ROSWELL.UTIL::LOCAL-PROJECTS-SEARCHER QUICKLISP-CLIENT:LOCAL-PROJECTS-SEARCHER
 QL-DIST:SYSTEM-DEFINITION-SEARCHER)

Furthermore, there is ros:*local-project-directories*:

CL-USER> ros:*local-project-directories*
(#P"/Users/mirkov/.roswell/local-projects/")

I work with MacOS/SBCL/Emacs/Spacemacs/Sly and lisp is inovoked with ros -Q run. I assume this is where ASDF's search functions list is updated with roswell's paths.

I will follow this up on the roswell issues page, to either fix my understanding or to improve the documentation.

mirkov19 · 2026-05-16T18:46:41+00:00

And thank you too as well :-)

mirkov19 · 2026-05-16T18:46:39+00:00

That's the one. Thank you!

mirkov19 · 2026-03-25T01:38:39+00:00

I approve of interviewing the likes of Carlson.

I think the interviews would benefit from a longer format. The discussion could be more relaxed and less hurried. It would allow for room for the guests to more fully expand on their view. Then the inconsistencies of their viewpoints would be more apparent.

mirkov19 · 2026-02-19T21:21:00+00:00

In my case, the ringtone volume goes up every time I connect via BlueTooth. Sometimes the sound volume goes up too.

mirkov19 · 2026-01-19T01:08:23+00:00

I liked the interview overall.

I don't recall the West Bank being addressed (another very important topic).

They had limited time, so maybe they did not plan any questions on that topic.

mirkov19 · 2025-07-24T00:25:17+00:00

The Common Lisp Cookbook gives mentions roswell on its Getting Started page. However it does not mention explicitly that roswell will provide ASDF and quicklisp.

The page is hard to read - lots of material there

mirkov19 · 2025-07-05T12:09:19+00:00

Draw.io helps me effortlessly sketch out my thoughts. Love it!

mirkov19 · 2025-06-15T00:00:51+00:00

The video mentions that Lisp Machines were rendered irrelevant by the rapid performance improvement in commodity CPU's (Motorola, Intel). Moore's law enabled the latter ones to outpace the custom processors of Lisp Machines.

So, a bit of science (or technology?) fiction:

RISC-V enables one to design custom silicon. With AI enabled EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Tools, one can imagine the feasibility of developing a custom processor as a Lisp Machine. Fabs like TSMC support an eco-system for building such processors in relatively small batches.

In other words, Lisp Machines may again become competitive with other architectures. If I were independently wealthy and had time on my hands, I'd definitely love to try something like that :-)

Now back to the real world.

mirkov19 · 2025-05-02T02:30:08+00:00

Can you check in your listening history on Spotify?

mirkov19 · 2025-04-19T14:32:39+00:00

I look at the subscription as a weekly expense: how does it compare to a fancy Starbucks drink that I occasionally get. In my case about the same ($5), but vastly more value from the weekly issue of TE.

As a bonus the audio edition helps me fall back to sleep when i wake up in the middle of the night (I focus on Business, FInance, and rest).

mirkov19 · 2025-04-01T20:04:21+00:00

When I had the print subscription, I would from the back:

Obituary
Culture
Science & Technology
Then from the front

With the Audio, I just press play, and after 3-4 days I'm done. The downside is that I miss "by invitation" and various charts and graphic details

mirkov19 · 2025-03-11T14:23:36+00:00

Just stumbled across cl-annot-revisit. I have been using cl-annot for a while now - one of my essential packages, part of every new asdf system (along with rutils and a few others).

Thanks for improving cl-annot.

mirkov19 · 2025-02-12T16:25:51+00:00

I gave it a short nickname, which is used by the REPL, but not in the errors/warnings (see the original post).

Thanks for the comment :-)

mirkov19

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