Rest in peace, brave Ferdinand. A teacher of resilience, a master of tricks, and a loyal friend to all.
"Ferdy was the coolest guy, cat or not." --- a friend
Adopted from HSSV in 2011. They do wonderful work.
Sid Kasivajhula
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New Emacs extension: Mindstream.
It offers lightweight, stream-of-consciousness versioning for any writing task, from code to blog posts. It removes the hurdles to starting and the anxiety of losing work. Give it a try!
https://countvajhula.com/2025/07/28/introducing-mindstream-for-emacs/
A great blog post covering a subtle yet significant technical challenge in #langdev: balancing the convenience of variable bindings with the constraints of their logical dependencies. A thoughtful read for anyone interested in #qi #racket #lisp #plt @racketlang
https://trustica.cz/en/blog/2025/07/17/tree-versus-dag-bindings/
RacketRacket meet-up Sunday 29 June, Coffee & More Cafe, Sunnyvale, CA. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racket-and-friends-tickets-1409432042179
#racket #lisp #scheme #functionalprogramming #haskell #rhombus
#racket #lisp #scheme #functionalprogramming #haskell #rhombus
Announcing Qi 5: Flowing with Lists
Qi is an embeddable language for easily expressing flow-oriented computations in your programs. And now, you can use it seamlessly with list operations.
Learn about the release at https://racket.discourse.group/t/announcing-qi-5-flowing-with-lists/3545
Announcing Qi 5: Flowing with Lists
Announcing Qi 5: Flowing with Lists Qi is an embeddable language for easily expressing flow-oriented computations in your programs. And now, you can use it seamlessly with list operations. Friends, It gives me great pleasure to announce that, after a year of work, Qi 5 is out in the wild! Upgrade now via: raco pkg update qi This is the "Snow Leopard" of Qi releases --- that is, few flashy new features, but lots of improvements under the hood. The biggest change is in the architecture of t...
Qi 5 is out! https://racket.discourse.group/t/announcing-qi-5-flowing-with-lists/3545 #racket #lisp #programming
Announcing Qi 5: Flowing with Lists
Announcing Qi 5: Flowing with Lists Qi is an embeddable language for easily expressing flow-oriented computations in your programs. And now, you can use it seamlessly with list operations. Friends, It gives me great pleasure to announce that, after a year of work, Qi 5 is out in the wild! Upgrade now via: raco pkg update qi This is the "Snow Leopard" of Qi releases --- that is, few flashy new features, but lots of improvements under the hood. The biggest change is in the architecture of t...
Qi 5 release party 🎉
January 17, 2025 18:00 UTC
Qi 5 Release Party
Hey all, After a year of work, Qi is nearing a new release. Please join us for the release party on 2025-01-17T18:00:00Z (UTC) (i.e. Friday two weeks from today)! Read on for more details. Qi allows you to embed expressive flow-oriented computations into any Racket #lang (including Racket itself). The upcoming Qi 5 release includes lots of improvements, from allowing seamless use of Qi flows in standard list operations like map, filter and foldl, to extending Qi's deforestation to custom list ...
[blog] "#langs that Fit in Your Head" - make good programming languages by composing small ones.
https://countvajhula.com/2024/12/09/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/
A Multi-Language-Oriented Macro System by Michael Ballantyne at the (fourteenth RacketCon) is now available on the Racket YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/KHxZ3mT9BSo
Michael Ballantyne: A Multi Language Oriented Macro System
Celebrating 40 years of magic
with Hal Abelson & Gerald Sussman
at the (fourteenth RacketCon)
October 5-6, 2024,University of Washington
Featuring Lisp legend Gregor Kiczales