Fragments

Or, the calls are coming from inside the house.

What follows is an opinion. Do not under any circumstances read it. Other opinions are available (but wrong).

There are two laws.

slog is a simple logging framework for Common Lisp based on the observation that conditions can represent log events.

Metatronic macros are a simple hack which makes it a little easier to write less unhygienic macros in Common Lisp.

I don’t understand how the UK got onto its current death march, or where that death march will end. Here are some ideas which are worth what you paid for them.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. — Alfred Whitehead

I’ve written two pattern matchers for Common Lisp:

• destructuring-match, or dsm, is a case-style construct which can match destructuring-bind-style lambda lists with a couple of extensions;
• spam, the simple pattern matcher, does not bind variables but lets you match based on assertions about, for instance, the contents of lists.

Both dsm and spam strive to be simple and correct.

Yet another description of macroexpansion in Common Lisp. There is nothing particuarly new here and it partly duplicates some previous articles: I just wanted to rescue the text.

Three days ago I pointed out that the UK government was lying about the influence of the war in Ukraine on UK retail energy prices. Now we have a better idea what that influence might actually be.