Every now and then I bust out a Lisp interpreter and poke at it for a few hours, and think about how much less software would suck if it had gotten popular instead of C. Lisp may be the most beautiful written language of any kind, and as an industry we’re stuck in a loop constantly trying to reinvent it, badly.

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 15, 2021, 21:19

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 15, 2021, 21:19

Feb 15, 2021, 21:19

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

John Lennon - Imagine, in the version pulled from the book Data-Oriented Programming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRRbuWuUbQ

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 07, 2021, 13:54

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 07, 2021, 13:54

Feb 07, 2021, 13:54

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

Hey, #functionalcafe users! Looks like the server migration has been successful!

I still have to tune some little details, pgbouncer for example, so there can be other minor hiccup in the service.

As always, you can contact me if you notice anything weird.

Thanks.

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 04, 2021, 08:27

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Feb 04, 2021, 08:27

Feb 04, 2021, 08:27

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

Hello fellow #functionalcafe users.

In case you've missed the administration announcement, I need to migrate the actual instance to another server.

It will take part of the weekend (6-7/2) and the instance will not be available.

Thanks for your patience.

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Jan 19, 2021, 20:30

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**newsbot** @newsbot@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2021, 20:30

Jan 19, 2021, 20:30

newsbot @newsbot@mastodon.social

Fennel 0.8.0 released

https://lists.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel/%3C878s8px0sl.fsf%40whirlwind%3E
#newsbot

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Jan 19, 2021, 07:52

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**Muto** @MutoShack@functional.cafe · Jan 19, 2021, 07:52

Jan 19, 2021, 07:52

Muto @MutoShack@functional.cafe

Just finished a full #Emacs #rmail article today (something I wanted to write since I first created the blog)!

I finally feel like I've given rmail enough attention.

http://muto.ca/b/19-Rmail.html

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Jan 09, 2021, 18:44

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Jan 09, 2021, 18:44

Jan 09, 2021, 18:44

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

Hello #functionalcafe,
Thanks to https://upptime.js.org/ now functional.cafe has its own status page at https://status.functional.cafe where you can see if the main site has any problem and keep updated with the resolutions.

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Jan 05, 2021, 18:12

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**Sam Schlinkert** @schlink@octodon.social · Jan 05, 2021, 18:12

Jan 05, 2021, 18:12

Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

> BookWyrm is a social network for reading, reviewing, and talking about books. BookWyrm is ad-free, anti-corporate, open-source, and federated.

https://www.bookwyrm.social/

h/t @darius @darius

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Jan 05, 2021, 18:39

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**Michał "phoe" Herda** @phoe@functional.cafe · Jan 05, 2021, 18:39

Jan 05, 2021, 18:39

Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

The video is now live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqQq2Hwt5o

Thanks for the chat!

Show thread

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Jan 05, 2021, 11:59

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**Lulu** @erkin@functional.cafe · Jan 05, 2021, 11:59

Jan 05, 2021, 11:59

Lulu @erkin@functional.cafe

I woke up early, got bored, hyperfocused and wrote a graphical utility for calculating bidding values of hands for #skat in one sitting. Only a bit over 500 lines of #Racket. Give it a try here: https://github.com/erkin/skat-bidder

f55768534277f59a.png

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Dec 26, 2020, 10:42

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**ioanna** @ioa@functional.cafe · Dec 26, 2020, 10:42

Dec 26, 2020, 10:42

ioanna @ioa@functional.cafe

ELS2021 online is announced and the call for papers is out. Looking forward to it!! 🤩

https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2021/

#lisp @lisp @commonlisp @scheme
@clojure
@racket

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Apr 11, 2019, 05:16

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**dansup** @dansup@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2019, 05:16

Apr 11, 2019, 05:16

dansup @dansup@mastodon.social

Pixelfed will be a year old in a few days.

I'm a high school dropout that has never taken any CS or computer classes.

Web development is just a hobby of mine, I work in the auto industry.

I'm so proud of this project, I never would have imagined that I could make something like this.

Thank you for helping me realize credentialism isn't so important as you think. ❤️

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Dec 06, 2020, 18:07

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**Michał "phoe" Herda** @phoe@functional.cafe · Dec 06, 2020, 18:07

Dec 06, 2020, 18:07

Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

Kandria, a 2D hack&slash platformer written in Common Lisp, is now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261430/Kandria/

#Lisp #CommonLisp #GameDev

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Dec 01, 2020, 10:30

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Dec 01, 2020, 10:30

Dec 01, 2020, 10:30

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

I'm slowly migrate myself to https://p.functional.cafe, the new Pleroma instance of #functionalcafe, just to understand how hard it is to self-migrate.

A self-migration means the old statuses from Mastodon will be lost.

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 30, 2020, 12:23

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 30, 2020, 12:23

Nov 30, 2020, 12:23

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

Does anybody use a curved monitor for work? I was wondering if it can be convenient having a single big curved monitor instead of two smaller ones. Maybe one 34" ultrawide instead of two 24" flat...

#askmastadon

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 29, 2020, 18:55

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 29, 2020, 18:55

Nov 29, 2020, 18:55

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

#functionalcafe
Hi guys,

Sorry for the unannounced downtime, I updated the instance with the last changes of #glitch (the Mastodon fork we are using).

Thanks for your patience.

**Marco Dalla Stella** · Nov 28, 2020, 13:34

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**Minoru** @minoru@functional.cafe · Nov 28, 2020, 13:34

Nov 28, 2020, 13:34

Minoru @minoru@functional.cafe

Are you a #Ruby programmer and/or know a bit about Mastodon's export? The instance I'm on, functional.cafe, plans to move to #Pleroma, but the only migration tool doesn't support #Mastodon 3.0 :( We're running Glitch v3.2.0+glitch.

Here's the issue: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/migrator/-/issues/8

@mdallastella is the instance admin, he'll probably be able to answer further questions.

Can anyone help?

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 27, 2020, 11:13

**Marco Dalla Stella** @mdallastella@functional.cafe · Nov 27, 2020, 11:13

Nov 27, 2020, 11:13

Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

Hello #functionalcafe people. It's been a while since we voted to migrate this instance to #Pleroma.

Unfortunately, at the moment, we have some issues to migrate the statuses: the only migration tool (https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/migrator) doesn't work with our version of Mastodon. If any #Ruby programmer has time/will to give a hand, it's welcome.

Another possibility is that I set up the new Pleroma instance on a subdomain and slowly every user can migrate their data at their own pace... Of course, I'm open to suggestions.