I retired in November of 2020, because my brain wasn't working. I sat in front of my computer, but nothing happened. Since I'm entirely reliant on my muse to write code, my mother had just died and left me some money, and my social security was enough to live on, I decided to retire. Two years later, my brain has come back, and I'm writing code every day. Elm code, for my Mammudeck web application, a Tweet-Deck like multi-column interface to the Mastodon Client API. I still execute arithmetic in my Emacs *scratch* buffer, but my Lisp addiction is currently in remission (he said, while typing i ..read more

The Kindelia Foundation is Victor Taelin's creation, supporting the HVM (High-order Virtual Machine) runtime, the Kind2 language built on top of it, and their ecosystem. HVM implements a new computing model, which provides massive parallelism, by default, without anything special for the programmer to do. It uses the inherent parallelizability of functional programs. I haven't yet played with it, but I forked the repositories on GitHub, just to hold on to them. HVM is written in Rust, though there's also a JS version, which hasn't been worked on since September. Twitter thread describing HVM ..read more

I haven't added a post here in a long time, nor have I frobbed the server that handles interactive use (the pages themselves are all static HTML, served by Apache). But I was able to log in today, and make this post. Yow! CCL rocks ..read more

"Micro-optimization is usually premature. Macro-optimization is essential." -- Bill St. Clair ..read more

An AngularJS user in the Fediverse asked me to sell Elm to him. This is my first attempt. I have never used AngularJS or any other JS framework besides jQuery, so I'm operating from a quick perusal of the Angular web site, making my comparisons mostly invalid. Caveats First off, you're going to miss a lot of Angular's features with Elm. Elm has a functional flavor to it, not the templatey feel of Angular. Your entire site, except for the initial HTML file that loads the elm-generated JS, is Elm. And Elm wants total control. With a couple of exceptions: You may load Elm into only a single D ..read more

This page explains my thinking of doing OAuth2 authorization for an Elm web frontend talking to a Mastodon API backend. The OAuth2 Authorization Code Grant Flow Dance OAuth2 has a number of authentication methods. For end users, using web apps, the Authorization Code Grant Flow is common. It lets the user authenticate with the service she's using, such that the client code never sees her userid or password, then the client code fetches a token it can use to authenticate API requests. If the user notices the client misbehaving, she can go to the service's web site, and remove permission for t ..read more

https://zapmeme.com is a meme maker written in Elm. It's open source, with a link at the bottom of the page. It uses <svg> to layout the meme, and converts to JPEG or PNG for saving. It stores meme and images (as data:// URLs) in your browser's localStorage database. They may be exported as JSON and imported into another browser ..read more

For April Fools Day, 2019, stackoverflow put fairy dust on every question page, and had a definite retro look. I saved the fairy dust, and the ASCII art HTML comment at lisplog.org/20190401. Also see Announcing the Stack Overflow Time Machine ..read more