After saying I didn’t want to throw money at this problem, I threw money at it. I checked out some other VPS hosts and none of them offered anything substantially different than my host, at least not at the price I’m paying. So I paid to double the RAM for my server on […]

After sleeping on it, I think I’m going to switch hosts and try to keep going with SBCL and Hunchentoot.
If you’re reading this and you know of a VPS unmanaged web host that’s known to work well with SBCL, could you please comment and let me know what host you use, and what […]

In spite of my previous efforts I’ve still been getting memory exhaustion errors on my Lisp-driven website. (If you click this link, you’ll notice that the site is down. Read on.)
It’s not a lot of fun having to kill and restart SBCL every 2 days. So I decided to restart SBCL one […]

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 […]

I took a screenshot of my blog and went into Gimp and did Colors => Invert and thus a new blog layout was born. I also brought back the purple/green one. You can change it via the little skin-selector drop-down thing that’s hopefully showing up and working properly for everyone. Skin […]

“OK, what’s up with the cows?”, you might ask. Actually no one ever has asked. So I’m not saying.
I’m experimenting a bit with a new blog layout. It’s black text on white rather than my customary white text on black/grey. I drew the cow in the top right using Inkscape. […]

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 […]

For a long time my blog layout has been a bit screwy; it had a hard minimum width for the central column of the layout, which caused an annoying need for horizontal scrolling after you make your browser window small enough horizontally. Nothing in my CSS was causing this as far as I could […]