Best Projects

Austral: Austral is a systems programming language with linear types and capability-based security.
cmacro: A macro system for C.
crane: An ORM for Common Lisp.
hashcards: A plain text-based spaced repetition system.
interim: Low-level Lisp with compile-time memory management.

Active Projects

Common Lisp website: I built a website to promote Common Lisp, including a gallery of Lisp success stories, a wiki, and a tutorial.
epoch: A self-hosted personal journal app.
hashcards: A plain text-based spaced repetition system.

Past Projects

airloom: A reverse literate programming tool: it takes code and documentation and weaves them together. Language-agnostic and markup-agnostic.
ansi-spec: A project to parse the TeX sources of the draft ANSI Common Lisp specification.
antimer: A wiki in Common Lisp.
appkit-without-xcode: Experiments in building macOS apps using Objective-C and AppKit, without Xcode.
arachne: A web crawling framework in Common Lisp, inspired by Scrapy.
asdf-linguist: A collection of extensions to ASDF, the de-facto build system for Common Lisp.
astro-eog581: Astronomical calculations for The Epiphany of Gliese 581.
Austral: Austral is a systems programming language with linear types and capability-based security.
avatar-api: Retrieve avatar metadata from social media services.
cartesian: A personal exocortex.
ceramic: Electron for Common Lisp.
cl-base58: An implementation of Bitcoin’s base58 encoding and decoding.
cl-libyaml: Low-level libyaml bindings for Common Lisp.
cl-pass: Password hashing and verification with reasonable, secure defaults.
cl-virtualbox: A tiny library to control VirtualBox via the vboxmanage command.
cl-yaml: Common Lisp yaml parser built on top of cl-libyaml.
clack-errors: A clone of better_errors for Clack.
claude-plays-anchorhead: An experiment in letting an LLM play an interactive fiction game.
clos-fixtures: Test fixtures for CLOS classes.
cmacro: A macro system for C.
codex: A documentation system for Common Lisp built on top of CommonDoc.
common-doc: A framework for representing and manipulating documents.
common-doc-plump: Translates a Plump DOM into a CommonDoc document and back
common-html: An HTML target for CommonDoc.
concordia: A document preparation system built in Standard ML.
corona: A DSL for defining virtual machines in Common Lisp. Essentially a lightweight clone of Vagrant.
crane: An ORM for Common Lisp.
docparser: Library to extract documentation from Common Lisp systems by injecting into the macroexpansion process.
eco: A fast and designer-friendly template engine, inspired by the syntax of eRuby.
electron-tools: A Common Lisp library for working with Electron.
find-port: A Common Lisp library to programmatically find open ports.
fsrs: An implementation of the FSRS algorithm in 100 lines of Rust.
git-file-history: Library to retrieve a file’s commit history in Git.
hermetic: An authentication library for Clack web applications.
interim: Low-level Lisp with compile-time memory management.
koboexport: A tiny Rust app to export clippings from the Kobo’s SQLite database.
l0: Lisp with linear types.
lass-flexbox: Flexbox macros for Lass.
lcm: System configuration management in Common Lisp.
liblmdb: Low-level bindings for LMDB.
lime: High-level client for SLIME’s swank protocol.
lmdb: High-levels LMDB bindings for Common Lisp.
lucerne: Common Lisp web framework built on top of Clack.
magma: Extensions to the C programming language built with cmacro.
markedit: A Markdown editor built with Ceramic.
mkinvoice: A small CLI app to generate beautiful PDF invoices from TOML data.
mlunit: Unit testing framework for Standard ML.
MNT: Simple molecular devices built with NanoEngineer.
NeuriteTracer: An old experiment in computer vision: using OpenCV to trace the contours of neurites in electron micrographs of human brain tissue.
pandocl: A document converter built on CommonDoc, similar to Pandoc.
parenml: An S-expression markup language for CommonDoc.
parse-front-matter: Jekyll-style front matter parser for Common Lisp.
parsimony: Parser combinators for Standard ML.
path-parse: Parser of the PATH environment variable.
postmaster: High-level library for sending and retrieving emails in Common Lisp.
postmaster-mock: Test classes for Postmaster.
remote-dom: A library to remotely-control the browser DOM from Common Lisp.
remote-js: Run JavaScript in the browser from Common Lisp.
rock: An asset bundler for Common Lisp.
scriba: A markup language with Scribe syntax for CommonDoc.
sm2: An implementation of the SM-2 algorithm from SuperMemo. For my own elucidation.
sml-sqlite3: SQLite bindings for MLton.
swank-protocol: Low-level client for the SLIME wire protocol.
swiftui-without-xcode: Experiments in building macOS apps using Swift and SwiftUI, without Xcode.
terminal-keypress: Library to read terminal keypress events.
terminal-size: Library to query the size of a terminal window.
texgen: Common Lisp DSL for generating TeX.
tfc: A tiny compiler for a monomorphic typed Forth.
thorn: CommonDoc extension for inserting special characters.
trello-json: Common Lisp parser and simplifier for Trello JSON exports.
trivial-build: A tiny library to compile a Common Lisp system into an executable.
trivial-compress: Utility library to compress a directory.
trivial-download: A tiny library to simplify downloading files over HTTP.
trivial-exe: A Common Lisp library for working with executables.
trivial-extract: Utility for extracting .tar, .tar.gz and .zip files.
trivial-open-browser: Portable library to open the system’s web browser to a URL.
trivial-ssh: A wrapper around cl-libssh2, which itself is a binding to the libssh2 library.
trivial-ws: Simple WebSockets for Common Lisp.
vertex: A markup language with TeX syntax for CommonDoc.
wax: TeX-like markup language experiment.
wax: An experiment in building a TeX-like markup language.
which: The which command in Common Lisp.
zetanom: A small, self-hosted diet-tracking app.