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- Querying a Relational Database with a Graph Query Language
- New blog post: semantic messages
- Git Repositories as RDF Graphs
- Fused Edges
- Three Independent Dimensions of Work on Engineered Artifacts
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A free demo for Kandria (written in CL) is now on Steam
I started using Common Lisp at work as a way to develop features more quickly in a Java Sprint Boot application.
- Scraping Webpages with SPARQL
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Datasets for education
For the last several months I have been using SPARQL Anything to triplify non-RDF and I've been blogging about it here. The post about Google Sheets might be a helpful intro. With SPARQL Anything you can triplify tabular and non-tabular data.
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Array programming language(s) for 3d-graphics?
I blogged about CEPL a while back (for vim users). You can use the approach in my blog post even if you don't have hardware acceleration.
netfarm
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SBCL, QuickLisp and Jenkins
/u/read-eval-print-loop and I wrote GitLab CI testing configs, though I don't know how much relates to Jenkins. The general recipe is that one starts with an environment with SBCL (and Clozure and any other implementations you want to test on), clones in extra libraries if necessary, and then loads a short file which then loads the test suite, runs it, and exits with an appropriate status code, which the CI (presumably Jenkins too?) uses to produce a status to report.
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[Question] Capitalism Made Me a Programmer; Need an Exit Strategy
Tests for the Netfarm suite and Minecraft mostly.
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Can you guarantee that a function has no bugs?
I threw TLA+ at a few fine-grained locking algorithms I wrote. Here is one such model. The actual implementation is more complex than the model, in particular because the real implementation of this code handles multiple concurrent resource requests, but they are "independent" enough that I can probably just prove a model with just one resource; and, as Lamport said once, the model code doesn't have to be particuarly well optimized, whereas if you are breaking locks, you probably have substantially optimized already.
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How do you use Lisp at work?
I work on a metacircular Common Lisp implementation, which makes for a very boring answer. In the next closest thing to a job, I use CL for just about the whole network stack, so really anything would be suitable. But I wouldn't dare throwing a new language into a workplace, and I am not sure how much they would appreciate it.
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Does everyone here manually specify the entire project's dependency tree in .asd files?
One very niche "counter-example" is a system where loading files causes side effects, which must occur in some order. This happens in the Netfarm object system implementation, where most of the bootstrapping steps occur in an early system definition and a late system definition. In this case it is not enough to compute the dependency tree; it is necessary to pick a very specific ordering for things to not break.
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How do you use utilities?
Alexandria, yes, anaphora, not anymore. I do have a fairly large utility package for decentralise2, but it mainly handles concurrency and debugging things.
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We can build a fast Internet island of our own, while the rest of the Internet slows and dies.
If it's not distributed under the Cooperative Software License, I don't want it dirtying up my CPU.
- Dendrobatinæ considered harmful (v0.1.0)
What are some alternatives?
alloy - A new user interface protocol and toolkit implementation
Second-Climacs - Version 2 of the Climacs text editor.
jak-project - Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series
qvm - The high-performance and featureful Quil simulator.
ergolib - A library designed to make programming in Common Lisp easier
screenshotbot-oss - A Screenshot Testing service to tie with your existing Android, iOS and Web screenshot tests
ok - An open-source interpreter for the K5 programming language.
typhoon - distributed system stress and load testing tool
doc - Flexible documentation generator for Common Lisp projects.
Co-dfns - High-performance, Reliable, and Parallel APL
mode-lambda - mode-lambda - sprite-based 2D graphics engine