I think that I was just unsuccessful at convincing someone I was a real person and not a bot.
I frequently want to make web posts of a very nerdy variety (yes, nerdier than the stuff I post already). However, I know that most of my tumblr friends are probably not that interested in that type of thing. So I’ve decided to put it off in its own silo at ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com. It will auto import some of my other nerdy content from elsewhere and will be a reasonable place to keep up to date with that type of thing. So follow away if you’re into that type of thing.
Here’s my inaugural post announcing the launch of a new thing, Hairball!
After finishing the first draft of my book on the realtime web, I wanted to take a break and build something different. So I spun my wheels for about a week before deciding on a new project.
Then it hit me, “I should write an HTTP server and simple web framework… and I should write it using… wait for it… common lisp.”
It’s Hairball!
It supports long polling connections (suitable for ‘realtime’ web apps), it’s single threaded, scalable (perhaps), and fun to play with. I plan on getting it to a point where it’s suitable for production web development… if you’re the kind of guy who wants to do that in lisp.
For now, visit the official site and grab it from github.
After finishing the first draft of my book on the realtime web, I wanted to take a break and build something different. So I spun my wheels for about a week before deciding on a new project.
Emacs, Vim, and other editors have basic syntax highlighting and code navigation for an even broader set of formats despite the fact that they lag behind IDEs in features.
It takes a special kind of chutzpah to say that emacs has less features than... well... anything.
