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2025

05

Music review: Down - NOLA (1995)

Novel review: Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues (1987)

Music review: diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral (1993)

Novel review: S.M. Stirling - Under the Yoke (1989)

04

Music review: Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (2004)

Ogg Vorbis cover art embedding: Tcl vs Common Lisp

In MY Common Lisp

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

Movie review: Ford v Ferrari (2019)

Music review: Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)

Music review: Dark Tranquility - Skydancer (1993)

03

Music review: Darkthrone - Goatlord (1996)

Music review: Danzig - Danzig II - Lucifuge (1990)

Music review: Crowbar - Crowbar (1993)

Speeding up cljqalbum

Pruning Portage package config files

Music review: Comus - First Utterance (1971)

Movie review: Idiocracy (2006)

A Common Lisp jq replacement

Music review: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)

02

Music review: Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée (1995)

Music questions challenge

What are five of your favorite albums?

What are five of your favorite songs?

Favorite instrument(s)?

What song or album are you currently listening to?

Do you listen to the radio? If so, how often?

How often do you listen to music?

How often do you discover music? And how do you discover music?

What's a song or album that you enjoy that you wish had more recognition?

What's your favorite song of all time?

Has your taste in music evolved over the years?

Music review: 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo) - 勝訴ストリップ (Shōso Strip) (2000)

Linux pipe(2) vs ring buffer

Novel review: Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)

Music review: Black Flag - My War (1984)

01

Music review: Belkètre - Ambre Zuèrkl Vuorhdrévarvtre (1996)

Cooking recipe: bœuf bourguignon

Most memorable extreme music screaming

Music review: Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (2006)

Novel review: Terry Pratchett - Mort (1987)

Novel review: Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves (2000)

PDF to CBZ for e-reader

Music review: Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (1996)

Video game review: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2019)

Dotfiles management

2024

12

Novel Review: Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem (2008)

GNU parallel out, pararun in

Advent of Code 2024: retrospective

Advent of Code 2024: Day 01

11

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GC

Initial C weenie stance

Insights and updated views

Music review: Thee Maldoror Kollective - New Era Viral Order (Dogma Slaughterhouse and the Children of Anaemia) (2002)

Novel review: Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! (1989) & Men at Arms (1993)

Smuggling files under Google's nose

First blood: nested zips

Second skirmish: file signature doctoring

Final setback and victory

Emacs: separate minibuffer history for a command

Music review: Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb (2001)

CL iterate's COLLECT performance notice

10

Music review: Burzum - Det som engang var (1993)

QoL addition to Common Lisp :start/:end

Closures in Tcl

What kind of closures

Music review: Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art (1998)

git secret filter

Personal additions

09

Music review: Samael - Eternal (1999)

Movie review: The Crow (1994)

Bourne shell stdio trivia

while read loops and interactive commands

Default stream buffering

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Novel review: S.M. Stirling - Under the Yoke (1989) (novel review)

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