Software project for this winter: can I hack the #jank compiler to compile #clojure onto the #postscarcitysoftware back end? If I could, then I wouldn't have to rewrite any of my own projects of the past decade to Post Scarcity.

And a key part of the Post Scarcity project was that you were […]

@petealexharris Uh-huh. I really want, in #postscarcitysoftware, for users to be able to type in any form of writing known to humanity, or at least to Unicode. I want it to Just Work™.

For this reason, as well as because I want to know exactly how many bits I have to allocate to each character […]

I've started my development log for May. It's really mostly about tooling -- specifically, editors and debuggers.

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#lisp

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-05-05-Post-Scarcity-state-of-play-May-2026/

I'm getting stack frames corrupted (or else I'm hitting the wrong stack frames) and I can't see why. My brain is far too messed up to deal with this level of shit just now!

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#thejoyofsoftwareengineering

My monster, she lives.

It has to be admitted, she can't do very much yet.

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It's a week since my last #postscarcitysoftware entry. The version of eval/apply copied from `0.0.6` still doesn't compile, let alone work. There are reasons. I've been ill — my brain really is fucked — and I've had urgent outdoor work.

There is progress. I am cleaning up bits of old cruft as I […]

There's a Common #Lisp cryptography library called 'Ironclad'. I'm going to need cryptography for #postscarcitysoftware authentication, but Post Scarcity #lisp is going to be a lot more like #clojure than like CL, so I wondered whether anyone had ported Ironclad to Clojure.

What I found instead […]

In other news, I'm now posting my #postscarcitysoftware development log on my blog, in case anyone is interested. Which, if you're sane, you won't be.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-04-20-Post-Scarcity-state-of-play-April-2026/

I did ten hours on #postscarcitysoftware yesterday, and then slept a bit, and then woke up with an intention to rapid prototype a '#lisp structure editor in the browser' idea I've been thinking on for a while. I did about five hours on that, and it's looking […]

[Original post on mastodon.scot]

Well,. the good news this morning is that i found a stupid bug in `cdr` which, once you've seen it, you can't unsee, so the seventh #postscarcitysoftware #lisp prototype is now completing initialisation and entering the REPL.

The bad news is that there's an unterminating recursion in (I think) […]

[Madness]

As I emerge uncertainly from another sustained period of #madness, I realise (again) that I largely use the #postscarcitysoftware project as self-prescribed anti-suicide therapy. It's sufficiently hard that it has my foggy brain working at full stretch, and sufficiently huge that […]

My monster, it not only compiles, it now runs!

It doesn't actually do anything useful, yet, but...

I made the change which @prozacchiwawa suggested to the Makefile, which definitely helped...

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OK, folks, I've written yet another incomprehensible essay on the intricacies of implementing a software environment for the hardware of the deep future.

Read this only if you're incurably geeky, and, ideally, interested in #lisp.

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I've written another essay about my mad #postscarcitysoftware #lisp system.

"We don't need to know, or have known, these people to build on their work. We don't have to, and cannot in detail, fully understand their work. There is simply too much of it, its complexity would overwhelm us.

We […]