06. November 2022

Loko Scheme 2022 Q4 Update

I released Loko Scheme 0.12.0 last month and forgot to blog about it. I’ve been busy starting my own consulting company so it just slipped my mind. There are two cool milestones with this release.

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09. June 2022

Cond-expand and #ifdef

In the C programming language you can ask the macro preprocessor to keep or remove part of a source file. This is done with #ifdef. The equivalent in Scheme is called cond-expand. R7RS Scheme has two different instances of cond-expand, while R6RS Scheme does not have it all. What does R6RS do instead, and is cond-expand a bad idea?

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05. February 2022

Valve Index in Infrared

I was visiting a friend over the new year and at one point we were playing around with his Leap Motion camera. I realized that the Valve Index uses infrared (IR) and should look cool in the camera.

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