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Hi HN, I am a Systems Developer who has to do a little web development (a single page dashboard to visualise and modify application state). I only have experience with desktop GUI development (GTK & Dear ImGUI), meaning…

I have been using Emacs for about 10 years and am getting tired of its idiosyncrasies and performance hiccups. I tried a bunch of alternative editors with scripting support (most recent being TextAdept) but none of them…

Have there been any documents published (similar to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines) that deal with Tiling UIs/WMs as opposed to free-form UIs? Is there a list of best practices for Tiling UIs?

Languages like Lua are often used for embedded scripting to enable faster turn-around time. Ironically, most of these languages do not support a proper Lisp/Smalltalk-style REPL-driven development that can actually help…

I have written compilers and interpreters before, but I find it hard to understand how Common Lisp compilers work – what with their readtables and read macros and normal macros. It's hard to figure out how the…

If one wants to play with LLMs locally, it is very difficult to find out what one's existing hardware can do – partly because most existing documentation either uses the maximal amount of cloud compute, or is written by…

I recently tried using Lisp (CL and Racket) again after college, and ran into a problem that doesn't really seems to find any mention in books and evangelising blogs. All style guides seem to agree that in Lisp, all…