miniblog.

I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics. It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.

https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans mentions the importance of layout and paragraphs for compile error messages. Perhaps tools should do line wrapping if the terminal is very wide? It's definitely more comfortable to read.

I write a lot of markdown, so I'm comfortable with the format, but *asterisks* for *italics* still seems strange to me. I mentally read it as bold, and some mailing list web frontends to the same thing.