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Nov 7, 2025 at 12:30
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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.

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Jul 4, 2026 at 09:47
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I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps. So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter. Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.
Jul 13, 2025 at 15:27
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One nice feature of cargo that I wasn't previously aware of: you don't need to do anything after updating your Cargo.toml. In npm, you need to remember to `npm i` after changing package.json. It's not declarative and the state can get out of sync.
Dec 30, 2024 at 07:18
I love how the CommonMark Spec has a test suite that's just a JSON array. It's really easy to test a library for compliance, and I've seen developers nerd-sniped into full compliance. https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/spec.json