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What makes a good album
Inspiration
Craftsmanship
Vision
Music review: Crystal Castles - II (2010)
Movie review: Gattaca (1997)
Anime review: Shingeki no Kyojin S1-S2 (2013-2017)
02
Anime review: WataMote (2013)
Movie review: Office Space (1990)
Novel review: Richard Preston - The Hot Zone (1995)
Anime review: Gun x Sword (2005)
Anime review: Dantalian no Shoka (2011)
Novel review: Frank Herbert - Hellstrom's Hive (1973)
Anime review: PaniPoni Dash! (2005)
01
Live migration of root disk with Linux
Video game review: Fallout New Vegas (2010)
Pros
Cons
Conclusion
Movie review: Brazil (1985)
2025
12
Music review: Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine (1978)
Memoizing wrapper for Tcl procs
Anime review: Ergo Proxy (2006)
Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp
Introduction and code
Benchmarks
Conclusion
11
Music review: Katatonia - Dance of December Souls (1993)
Function tracing in Common Lisp
Code golfing FizzBuzz in 88 bytes of C
Novel review: Alain Damasio - La Horde du Contrevent (2004)
Movie review: M (1931)
Music review: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
Movie review: Dark Water (2002)
10
Music review: Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)
Novel review: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic (1972)
Anime review: New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2025)
Movie review: Event Horizon (1997)
Novel review: Joe Abercrombie - The First Law (2006-2008)
Movie review: Stalker (1979)
09
Local Japanese culture festival haul
Music review: Gorguts - Obscura (1998)
Anime review: Katanagatari (2010)
Music review: Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (1986)
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Novel review: Stanisław Lem - Solaris (1961)
Music review: Godkiller - The End of the World (1998)
Anime review: Spriggan (1998)
Movie review: The Running Man (1987)
Music review: Burzum - Burzum (1992)
Movie review: A History of Violence (2005)
Anime review: Psycho-Pass (2012)
Movie review: Faust (1994)
Novel review: Jean-Philippe Jaworsky - Même pas mort (2013)
Music review: Acid Bath - Demos: 1993-1996 (2005)
Music review: Godflesh - Slavestate (1991)
Compilation speed of CL implementations
fio-crystaldiskbenchmark
07
Emacs htmlize as batch script
Why "spinml"
Music review: Foetus - Nail (1985)
Music review: Eyehategod - Dopesick (1996)
Music review: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
X11 record and replay
06
Local art fair
Novel review: Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow (1895)
Making of a 88x31 button
Movie review: HANA-BI (1997)
Music review: Dystopia - Human = Garbage (1994)
Music review: Dødheimsgard - 666 International (1999)
A bubblewrap wrapper
NAS setup logbook
Hardware
Topology and filesystem
Step by step
Omake 1: NFS
Omake 2: lf
A productive week-end update
05
Novel review: S.M. Stirling - The Stone Dogs (1990)
Small Pyrenees trip
The trip
A few photos
Addendum: unexpected comeback "presents"
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)
The novel
The ideas
04
Music review: Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (2004)
Ogg Vorbis cover art embedding: Tcl vs Common Lisp
In Tcl
In Common Lisp
In MY Common Lisp
Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs
How it's made
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)
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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
New stance
See also
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
My archives
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
In Tcl
Music review: Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art (1998)
git secret filter
My sfeed setup
Introduction
Sfeed praise
Personal additions
Why I like Tcl
Pros
Cons
Conclusion
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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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