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Comment · 1 month ago
I like what the other commenter said: "org-mode for muggles" XD - pretty cool project nonetheless!
Comment · 1 month ago
wow... I was not aware of this. Brain hurts from trying to process commodore building a phone lol. Will def take a look. I specially like the fact that it has messaging apps in it.
Comment · 1 month ago
that's not a bad idea, thanks! I'll take a look at it
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Comment · 5 months ago
If I was new to programming, I would stick to just scheme for a while. I've been doing this for 20+ years professionally. Right now I'm treating claude as my junior engs, and I carefully review what it builds. If you treat them as your E3/E4 engs and you play the role of a TL *AND* assuming you know what you want to build, then things can move pretty fast.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've been forcing myself to stay within the CHICKEN ecosystem for the past 6 months. So far, the whole ecosystem moves really slow, but CHICKEN is such a good design that adding/rolling your own library for whatever you need is so simple. I ended up creating a bunch of eggs (CHICKEN libs) and even rolling my own web framework with its own ORM and background job processing that I rolled out to prod (1000+ users for the past 6 months or so, not a huge demo but it proved that it can scale/be good enough for my projects).

Best of all, is that the syntax grammar is so simple, that a simple CLAUDE.md + a few review agents lets me move super fast using AI. I spend most of my time anchoring on the design/plan and let AI write the implementation for most of the code.

Comment · 6 months ago
It's just a PITA to contribute, compared to platforms with wider adoption like github/gitlab.
Comment · 6 months ago
I really like forgejo, but for OSS it's a complete no-no unless they want to manage PRs by email. Maintaining a forgejo instance and allowing anyone to join is a recipe for headaches. Until forgejo figures out the federation aspect (allow to send PRs from other forgejo instances, or some other distributed way), it will be hard for OSS to adopt them and keep the collaboration aspect.
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Comment · 9 months ago
* A kart data analysis & video synchronizer, that helps you actually understand the ton of data that data loggers like Mychron and UniGo generate https://kartinsightspro.app - written in CHICKEN scheme with tons of FFI bindings

* Schematra https://schematra.com/ - a web "framework" written in CHICKEN scheme

* Lots of (unpublished, but will try to do so soon) eggs that spawned from building schematra & KartInsightsPro

  * llm.scm (inspired by ruby's llm gem)

  * imgui.scm

  * aws.scm (support for core AWS services like SSM, S3, other APIs)

  * umami.scm
You get the idea. I started playing with CHICKEN to scratch the itch of building something in Scheme and I couldn't stop. Using ast-grep as a skill in claude code makes it a lot easier to edit code as well.

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