My origami website server kept hitting a limit on “privvmpages”, which is a cap (by the VPS) on some aspect of system memory. SBCL died with some interesting notes about heap exhaustion. I already had to hack SBCL even to get it to start on my server. And now this. I’m running […]

I made an RSS 2.0 feed for my origami gallery the other day. Thanks to CL-WHO this is trivial. Here’s the complete code:
;; RSS
(defun rss ()
(cl-who:with-html-output-to-string (s nil :prologue “<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”ISO-8859-1\” ?>”)
(:rss :version “2.0″ :|xmlns:atom| “http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”
(:channel […]

My Common Lisp-powered origami photoblog is still up and running smoothly so far. (I posted more models, go look, shameless plugs and so on and so forth.) No major problems to report in the past couple weeks.
One huge benefit (in my opinion) of a site run on Common Lisp is the way you […]

My origami gallery / photo blog.
I won’t call it finished, since I plan to keep working on it and the code needs a major cleanup. But hey, it’s up and running and it displays photos, so it has fulfilled its purpose. It’s all Common Lisp top to bottom, too. (Aside from […]

I bought two more domains today in preparation for a new site I’m making. I realized today that I own six domain names, and none of them really serve any purpose. How many domains do you need to own before they take away your nerd card and give you the platinum nerd card […]

Tiger by Hideo Komatsu (folded by me, obviously):

Another from Robert Lang’s Origami Insects 2; I folded this one last night.

Yesterday (and a bit of today) I folded this:

From Robert Lang’s Origami Insects 2. I think the name of this creature is spelled wrong in the book. Is it Eupatorus Gracilicornis or Eupatorus Gracilicornus? Likely I’ll never know. Some photos of what a real one looks like…

I’ve been trying off-and-on to make an origami Cactuar for a long time. I spent a few hours on it each day this week and finally came up with something half-respectable. I’m proud of it, it’s approximately the second original model I’ve ever made. Maybe I should post a crease pattern.

I’m to the point where I can make just about anything if I have diagrams for it, and I can make a lot of things given a crease pattern and a lot of time. But when it comes to making up my own stuff, I still without exception fail horribly. There are two […]