Author: Chapman

hi internet

Got a new laptop! Pretty awesome ThinkPenguin machine: Penguin International GNU/Linux Notebook running Trisquel 5.5. It has a solid-state hard-drive and boots faster than any computer I’ve had before. The BIOS bit goes by so quickly I had to scour the internet for the right keys to press to get to the setup screen (spoiler: F2 will get you there. F12 will let you choose the boot media on-the-fly). The Eee PC was just a little too small to comfortably compute on and is now being wiped (sterilize your hard-drives) before moving to a new home.

I installed Emacs and am slowly getting used to working in that editor. I wasn’t really sure about where to go after finishing the in-editor tutorial so I got a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions to dig a little deeper.

Quicklisp did a great job of getting slime up-and-running in Emacs but I haven’t got any of the other packages to install correctly. It would be awesome if Common Lisp had something like Python’s virtual environment and pip…maybe quicklisp will start to fill that void?

have a great week!

hi internet

I’ve been running around downtown Austin in the rain listening to some great talks at SXSW interactive this weekend. My iPhone Notes app has been filling up with a bunch of interesting new podcasts, websites, tutorials, projects, etc. that I’ll be checking out once the frenzy is over and reporting back on here.

Here’s a non-SXSWi tutorial that I need to read on Vala / GNOME development.

More SXSWi tomorrow and Tuesday! The weather finally cleared up to boot so maybe I can get over to the ScreenBurn Arcade without getting soaked.

have a great week!

hi internet

I don’t remember the context for stumbling on this blog post but it got me to searching for the GNOME HIG, which I should read sometime.

Extra work activities are probably going to be even slower this week with SXSW Interactive hitting town. I’ve never been to anything SXSW related before so it’s exciting! And kind of overwhelming…some veterans from last year are going to give me some pro tips to get me through it. I’ll have to let you know how it goes.

have a great week!