Notes of a technical nature
20. June 2020
Akku.scm is a language package manager for R6RS and R7RS Scheme. The software that powers the package index has been growing beyond the simple one-liner it was in the beginning and today I’ve finally pushed it to a public repository. I’ve also made preparations for hosting packages as tarballs directly in the archive.
16. May 2020
I recently wrote an article on my company’s blog. The gist of it is that we now have the technology to get real internetworking (that’s a word) on embedded devices.
If you’re making a connected device that runs an RTOS then you should have a look: Real Internet on an RTOS.
15. May 2020
While I was writing a manpage for Scheme’s quasiquote, something I saw surprised me and changed my understanding of quasiquote. It turns out that a new language, with semantics that are interesting to PLT enthusiasts, hides behind the innocent backtick character. Starting with R6RS Scheme, quasiquote became total magic.
02. March 2020
Loko Scheme is an R6RS Scheme compiler that runs on Linux and bare metal. To be useful on bare metal it needs device drivers. One of the more interesting device drivers is the virtio net driver, which paves the way for more virtio drivers.