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Max Rottenkolber
Personal blog · mr.gy/blogprogrammingsystems
Max Rottenkolber writes Max’s Blog, a personal blog at mr.gy about programming and systems. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this post, an intro to Erlangen, which is described as an attempt to bring Erlang/OTP features such as channels to Common Lisp. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Bonn, Remote, Contract Stack: Common Lisp, Web, C, Shell, ... Resume: http://mr.gy/resume.html http://mr.gy/software/ Contact: mailto:service@mr.gy I am looking for contract work, preferably for a Lisp company. Will not use Clojure again. I am open to all sorts of work but my strength is in design, implementation and documentation of custom software systems and tooling.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?”Submitted Soundlab: Lazy signal synthesis in Common Lisp as a story · 62 points
HN discussionI just read to the 10 minute guide to verify my fears: While some points are correct, the 10 minute guide doesn't teach you anything. Ihmo every (web-)designer should read at least a few essays from Jan Tschichold: http://www.modernism101.com/tschichold_form_of_the_book.php And I say that as a typography enthusiastic software engineer. The thing about typography is, when you do it right, it pretty much doesn't leave…
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on “Practical Typography”Submitted When marketers try to have me clean up their mess, I try to bill them as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI have to note that A4 (what goes in a standard printer) is just a shitty format for documents. There is no way to get a proper layout done, you basically need two columns to use a reasonable amount of space with regards to font size and text body layout, which leads to other problems. There is a very good reason you don't see any A4 books. A5 works OK for book layouts but still is too wide actually... A5 booklet pr…
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on “Paper sizes”Submitted Vendoring with Quicklisp, Make, Git, and Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am still happily speaking HTTP/1.0 [1] :) [1] http://mr.gy/software/httpd0/
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on “HTTP/1.1 just got a major update”Submitted Experimental Meta-Programming for Lua as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHow to write a toy Lisp to C compiler: http://mr.gy/software/microlisp/
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on “Little Lisp interpreter”Submitted HTTPD0, simple programmable HTTP/1.0 server unafraid of traffic as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> In conclusion, allocating memory is expensive, regardless how it is done. :) My experience goes contrary to that statement. How allocation is done makes all the difference. Between what the language implementations memory model is good or bad at, and what allocations/usage patterns the CPU is good or bad at, there are worlds of possibilities and trade-offs. Especially the “increased allocation equals decreased per…
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on “How to speed up the Rust compiler”Submitted Continuous Integration for Snabb Switch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome: http://mr.gy/
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on “Why I like Common Lisp”Submitted Blogopy. Use your scanner to blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am doing it in Common Lisp, I haven't released it yet but if you drop me an email to max on mr.gy I can let you know when I progress and also tell you about how I designed my system if you like. To summarize: Come up with a model for documents (e.g. datastructure, what is it made up of, how is it represented). Then think about how to input a document (makes a big difference, I made a markdown like language) and ho…
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on “Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python”Location: Bonn, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Common Lisp, Unix, Web, ... Rêsumé: http://mr.gy/software https://github.com/eugeneia Email: service@mr.gy I am an experienced consultant always looking for new customers. I do anything software related: architecture, design, implementation, QA, documentation, ... The work I deliver is of extremely high quality (I invite you to reassure yourse…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)”See http://mr.gy/maintenance/mpc (self-plug). A friendly fork of Drew Crampsie's Smug¹. MPC is a monadic parser combinators library. It provides a toolbox of predefined parsers, facilities for error handling and parses arrays, streams and lists. [1] https://github.com/drewc/smug
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on “Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008)”I've been a bit interested in this, basically an attempt to bring some of the nice things of the Erlang/OTP platform to CL: http://mr.gy/blog/erlangen-intro.html
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on “Channels in Common Lisp”Location: Bonn, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Common Lisp, Unix, Web, ... Résumé: http://mr.gy/software https://github.com/eugeneia Email: service@mr.gy I am an experienced consultant always looking for new customers. I do anything software related: architecture, design, implementation, QA, documentation, ... I specialize in grassroots software projects / uncharted territory. I would pref…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)”SEEKING WORK - Remote or around Bonn/Germany http://mr.gy http://inters.co I am an experienced consultant always looking for new customers. I do anything software related: architecture, design, implementation, QA, documentation, ... I specialize in grassroots software projects / uncharted territory. I would prefer to work with Lisp or Erlang but will happily use any other programming language too. Note: DO NOT send…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015)”Author here. Right now there is no real tutorial, but SOUNDLAB is quite usable as is. To get a grip of it, read one more multiple of: http://mr.gy/software/soundlab/lazy-signal-combinators.pdf http://mr.gy/software/soundlab/example.lisp http://mr.gy/software/soundlab/demo.pdf Alternatively, just dive into the source. It's written in a VERY simple way.
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on “Soundlab: Lazy signal synthesis in Common Lisp”See the manual: http://mr.gy/software/httpd0/manual.html
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on “HTTPD0, simple programmable HTTP/1.0 server unafraid of traffic”