It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra I’ve been an Emacs fanatic for over 20 years. I’ve built and maintained some of the most popular Emacs packages, contr...

It’s been a couple of months since the last neocaml release, and the reason is simple — for a while there I was genuinely out of ideas. Back when I shipped 0.6 I declared (again!) that I was done w...

Regular readers know I have a soft spot for AsciiDoc – I’ve written about it more than once, and it’s the markup behind the documentation of most of my bigger OSS projects (CIDER, nREPL, Projectile...

Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs. That post focused on Port itself, but writing it left me with the itch to do a follow-up on the bigger picture, because the socket REPL /...

I think I’ll take my REPL neat My parens black and my bed at three CIDER’s too sweet for me… – Bozier Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs. Today I’m following it up wi...

For ages I’ve had “add prepl support to CIDER” sitting somewhere in the back of my head. CIDER is built firmly around nREPL, but prepl ships with Clojure itself, and the appeal of dropping the exte...

I promised I’d take a break from building Tree-sitter major modes, and I meant it. So what better way to relax than to build… color themes? Yeah, I know. My idea of chilling is weird, but I genuine...

I’m pretty much done with the focused development push on neocaml – it’s reached a point where I’m genuinely happy using it daily and the remaining work is mostly incremental polish. So naturally, ...

When I released neocaml 0.1 last month, I thought I was more or less done with the (main) features for the foreseeable future. The original scope was deliberately small — a couple of Tree-sitter-po...

The keyboard is the most important tool for a programmer. Choose wisely. I’m a keyboard nerd. I’ve owned several great keyboards over the years, starting with the legendary Das Keyboard 3 Ultimat...