With the extensive usage of tools like Slack, Confluence, and Google Docs, we—especially leaders—struggle to be articulate. In school, we were all taught to start writing by forming bullet lists, building our arguments, adding more background, and finishing our text by summarizing everything. Although this strategy...

Todd Libby recently posted about the need for conference organizers to support those of us who don’t want to drink. As someone who has been sober for 13+ years now, I agree whole heartedly with this sentiment. Sometimes it is difficult for people who don’t regularly think about this to know how to have actionable...

While SLIME is most of the time able to indent Common Lisp correctly, it will sometimes trip on custom forms. Let us see how we can customize indentation. In the process of writing my PostgreSQL client in Common Lisp, I wrote a READ-MESSAGE-CASE macro which reads a message from a stream and execute code depending on...

Despite my saying I was too lazy to get into Bash scripting I actually moved away from Batch and rewrote the script I use to build and deploy this website: #!/bin/bash workDir="/path/to/working/directory" hugoDir="/path/to/working/directory/hugo" publicDir="/path/to/working/directory/public" checkFail() { if [ $?...