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+
+# June 2018
+
+## 2018-06-06
+
+Rebooting this `.plan` after a long absence. Again.
+
+More work on switching to Linux.
+
+Switched to [pass](http://passwordstore.org) from 1Password so I can use it
+everywhere. 1Password has been pushing the cloud version pretty hard, so it's
+probably only a matter of time before they deprecate the real app. This was
+painful. I had to hack apart the `1password2pass.rb` file to handle my naming
+conventions, and of course the version of that script in the `pass` repo was out
+of date.
+
+Got `weechat` up and running. I can communicate again.
+
+Got `offlineimap` running, but didn't finish the syncing yet (I have a lot of
+mail).
+
+Tore Roswell out of my `lispindent` and `clhs` scripts so it just builds with
+vanilla SBCL now. So much easier and less brittle.
+
+Backlight support (specifically `xbacklight`) required editing `xorg.conf` as
+described in the Arch wiki. The backlight keys on the keyboard still don't
+work, but at least I can dim the screen.
+
+`xcape` remains busted in stumpwm for now. Will debug later.
+
+## 2018-06-07
+
+Getting VPN set up. Mostly used the network manager GUI to handle the settings.
+To disable saving of the password I had to click the silly little icon in the
+right of each password field.
+
+Got my `xrandr` bullshit mostly tamed, thanks to some Lisp code from katco.
+It's really nice to be able to script my window manager to add hotkeys with
+Common Lisp.
+
+## 2018-06-21
+
+More math review. I'm rusty.
+
+More homework from the Prolog class. This time it was the classic Family Tree
+style exercise. Wasn't too tough, even though my Prolog is *really* rusty.
+
+Still on OS X for personal stuff until the rest of the parts for my
+Linux/Windows machine arrive.
+
+## 2018-06-22
+
+Math review.
+
+## 2018-06-23
+
+Finished the Trains exercise for the Prolog class. It was harder than
+I expected — my Prolog skills definitely need work. But I guess that's what the
+class is for, right?
+
+# July 2018
+
+## 2018-07-03
+
+The quest to make my new Linux machine usable continues. Finally managed to
+build Weechat from source after screwing around in dependency hell for a while
+(apparently there's no `libgnutls30-dev` for Ubuntu 18.04?). Also managed to
+get the sound coming out the right ports after some dark incantation with
+`pactl`. Not using Gnome as a WM apparently means I'm going to be perpetually
+confused about how to configure anything on this damn machine, I guess.
+
+Catching up in the Prolog class. Thankfully tomorrow is a holiday so I can
+hopefully make some good progress there too.
+
+## 2018-07-04
+
+Managed to get Weechat to work with Unicode support. I had installed
+`libncursesw` and reran `cmake ..` but apparently that wasn't enough, I had to
+fully blow away the `build/` directory and redo the `cmake` from scratch to get
+it to link against `libncursesw` (rather than `libncurses`). What a shitshow.
+I really need to take a month off and write my own IRC client in CL.
+
+Looked into an SBCL bug, but it turns out the standard is just kind of
+ambiguous, and the current behavior is probably fine.
+
+## 2018-07-07
+
+Did the [Prolog modules tutorial][] for the Prolog class. This made me really
+appreciate Common Lisp's package system... the Prolog module system seems really
+crufty in comparison.
+
+Fixed a display issue for my blog, but I don't have Hugo set up on this machine
+yet, so it'll have to wait to be deployed.
+
+[Prolog modules tutorial]: http://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/tutorials/swiplmodtut.html
+
+## 2018-07-08
+
+Got mutt running on the new Linux machine. The quest to convert my dotfiles
+fully over to Linux continues.
+
+Got ABCL, ECL, SBCL, and CCL all installed and working on the Linux machine.
+I had originally installed SBCL (for bootstrapping a new build of it) and
+StumpWM through the package manager and forgotten about them. This meant I had
+a `/usr/share/common-lisp` laying around which was getting loaded for other
+installs too, which borked a few things. I had to remove the old packages, blow
+away `~/.cache/common-lisp`, and everything works now. ECL is still installed
+through the package manager, the rest aren't.
+
+Started getting my Lisp test infrastructure up and running on the Linux box.
+Previously I used [figlet][] and [lolcat][] to print nice headers during the
+test runs. I don't want to install Ruby on this machine if possible, so
+I looked for a replacement for lolcat and found [toilet][], which includes the
+functionality of both. Great! Had to download the figlet contrib fonts
+manually, which was annoying (Homebrew on OS X did it automatically, but the
+Ubuntu package doesn't). Toilet's rainbows aren't as nice as lolcat's, but the
+tradeoff of not needing ruby is worth it.
+
+Got Hugo installed on the Linux box and made a build of my site. I hope
+I didn't break anything. Made a couple of tweaks to fix a couple of issues
+I noticed in Firefox on Linux. Hand-compiled the LessCSS to avoid having to
+install NodeJS on the machine. Removed the timeago jQuery plugin -- the quest
+to exterminate all JS on my website continues.
+
+Wrote a blog post. Will post it tomorrow.
+
+Looked into why StumpWM's `remove` command is making the widths weird. Gotta
+dive in more when my mind is fresh.
+
+[figlet]: http://www.figlet.org/
+[lolcat]: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
+[toilet]: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
+## 2018-07-10
+
+Figured out why StumpWM wasn't noticing my timezone changes. I tracked it down
+to SBCL itself not noticing the timzeone changes — e.g. you can run
+`(get-decoded-time)`, change your timezone, and run `(get-decoded-time)` again
+and SBCL will still return the old timezone until you restart it. Eventually
+I narrowed this down to `get_timezone` in SBCL's
+[`time.c`](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/runtime/time.c), which
+uses `localtime_r`. The problem is that `localtime` and `localtime_r` don't
+check for a timezone change, you have to call `tzset` yourself, according to
+`man 3 localtime`. So the solution is to run `(cffi:foreign-funcall "tzset")`
+in your StumpWM process whenever you change your timezone.
+
+Watched the Prolog class presentation from a couple days ago. I'm still
+a little bit behind, gotta hopefully catch up this weekend.
+
+## 2018-07-14
+
+Got `notmuch` set up on the new box. Forgot how dang fast it is.
+
+## 2018-07-15
+
+Got `pass` sharing sanely on my phone and desktop.
+
+## 2018-07-16
+
+Installed the Arduino IDE on my desktop. The quest to switch fully to Linux
+continues.
+
+## 2018-07-18
+
+Started setting up my new Yubikeys. The process is... not friendly. I'm mostly
+following [this guide](https://www.palkeo.com/sys/perfect-password-manager.html).
+
+## 2018-07-19
+
+Finished setting up the Yubikeys. I think.
+
+There's still a few fiddly bits -- handling multiple different Yubikeys seems
+like it's gonna take a bit of scripting grease, and I don't think there's a way
+to time out the PIN on the Yubikey after a certain amount of inactivity.
+I think this should mostly be alright, since the only one I'll leave plugged in
+is the Nano: that's plugged into my desktop monitor that I use for a KVM, so
+whenever I switch the computers or turn off the monitor it'll lock. I think
+that's a good enough mix of practicality and security for what I need.
+
+## 2018-07-20
+
+Finally got around to fixing StumpWM's frame splitting/removing/balancing. Got
+a work-in-progress/proof-of-concept PR at https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/pull/481
+
+Debugged why my `scrot` keyboard shortcuts that work fine on Debian weren't
+working on my Ubuntu machine. It took a while because shell commands you run
+through StumpWM's key mappings have their output blackholed to god only knows
+where. Eventually I split the commands into a separate shell script and
+redirected all the output to a file (I should have done this much earlier),
+which let me see giblib complaining about the keyboard being busy. Once I found
+that error it led me to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86507 which
+shows a solution: add a `sleep 0.2` before the call to `scrot`. Jesus.
+
+## 2018-07-21
+
+Did some coding interview-style programming exercises. I'm rusty at this stuff.
+
+Started writing a blog post. It's turning out to be longer than I expected it
+would be. By now I should expect this.
+
+## 2018-07-23
+
+Cleaned up my Vim bundle folder. Removed a bunch of things I never use.
+
+Figured out how to do wildcard blocking in uBlock. Again. Here's for my future
+self: the uBlock rule should look like `##[class^="prefix-"]` or
+`##[class*="part"]`.
+
+I think I found a setting to eliminate the screen tearing I've been seeing in
+Ubuntu with my Radeon card. It was described
+[here](https://cubethethird.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/eliminate-screen-tearing-with-amd-gpu-on-ubuntu/).
+
+Got Inkscape installed in preparation for setting up my AxiDraw again this
+weekend. Used the PPA to install the latest version (0.92). EMSL recommends
+0.91, but apparently I can use the prerelease version on one file for the
+AxiDraw (`plot_utils.py`) and it should work okay. I went ahead and version
+controlled `.config/inkscape/extensions` this time for when I inevitably have to
+dick around with the source again — I learned my lesson last time.
+
+## 2018-07-25
+
+Got `stumpish` set up so I can poke at stumpwm from within scripts. Hacked my
+`pass` binary to pop up the copied message with `stumpish` so it's a little less
+opaque when I use the stumpwm shortcut to grab a pass.
+
+## 2018-07-28
+
+Finally got my VPN setup on the Linux machine. Had to disable IPv6 at the
+router because PIA doesn't support it, and leaving it enabled will leak my
+actual IP, and I wanted to use OpenVPN instead of PIA's custom app thing.
+Networking is a mess.
+
+Got Project 1999 set up on Linux. Fonts are a mess, but otherwise it's working
+fine. Had to add this to `~/.wine/user.reg` to get it to stop fucking up my
+gamma:
+
+ [Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver] 1269299093
+ "UseXVidMode"="N"
+
+# August 2018
+
+## 2018-08-10
+
+Tried to get Folding at Home working, but after about an hour of screwing around
+with GPU drivers on Linux I gave up. Sorry, I'd like to help, but I can't
+invest the time to debug a basic install process.
+
+Set up my own lightweight personal pastebin as outlined
+[here](https://pinafore.social/statuses/100475132430233694). The hardest part
+was getting a working `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` inside a bash script. I was using
+`xsel` which works at my main shell but wouldn't work at all from inside a bash
+script. I assume this has something to do with `$DISPLAY`, but then I tried
+`xclip` and it worked just fine, so fuck it. Clipboards on Linux are such
+a mess.
+
+## 2018-08-12
+
+Traveling. Trying to use my second Yubikey on my work machine, and of course
+it's a fucking mess because why would anyone ever possibly want to use more than
+ONE single smartcard in their life, right?
+
+The problem is that even though the secret keys for decrypting my `pass`
+archives are on this second Yubikey, GPG always wants me to insert the original
+Yubikey and pops up the "Please insert smartcard with serial number ..." dialog.
+Even after I run `gpg --card-status` to forcibly tell its dumb ass to notice the
+new card.
+
+I tried the usual "delete the secret key and reimport the pubkey, then run
+`--card-status` to make it notice" dance, but this time even *that* didn't work.
+I ended up having to delete some files by hand:
+https://donncha.is/2014/07/problems-using-an-openpgp-smartcard-for-ssh-with-gpg-agent/
+
+How is any normal person supposed to actually *use* this software?
+
+## 2018-08-13
+
+At the office, trying to get my Thinkpad set up again. Linux is a Journey.
+
+Had trouble getting the external monitor to work. Again. First attempt: used
+a USB-C to MiniDP dongle to a MiniDP to DP cable. It saw the correct
+resolution, but something in the dongle prevented it from calculating the
+correct timing, and the monitor wouldn't work.
+
+Second attempt: scavenged a raw USB-C to DP cable. This actually worked.
+
+Also had to scavenge a mouse. Took a while to find the not-bluetooth USB
+dongle. I checked in all the USB ports on the monitors but didn't see it, til
+a coworker pointed out the Apple keyboards also have a spare USB port and that's
+where it was.
+
+## 2018-08-20
+
+Back in Rochester, and GPG is being an asshole once again. Much the same
+problem as on 8/12 — I'm trying to switch back to my normal Yubikey. The
+problem:
+
+* I have two Yubikeys, A and B, which hold my GPG key K.
+* I normally use A.
+* I want to switch to using B.
+* GPG still thinks the private keys for K are stored only on A, even when I plug
+ in B.
+
+The solution is:
+
+1. Blow away the "keygrip" files in `~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d` corresponding
+ to the keys on the Yubikeys, but **not** other keygrip files. An easy way to
+ do this is something like `grep -rl shadowed-private-key ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ | xargs rm`.
+2. Run `gpg --card-status` so GPG will notice the missing keygrips and realize
+ they're on this *new* Yubikey.
+
+I should probably wrap this up into a script.
+
+## 2018-08-27
+
+Tad says I need some kind of "udev rule" for my Switch controller under Linux:
+
+ KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2009", MODE="0666"
+
+I don't know what this means, but I'm dumping it in here for later.
+
+Published http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/ after many
+plane rides and weekends.
+
+## 2018-08-30
+
+Another Ubuntu setup. Practice makes perfect I guess.
+
+Things I needed to `apt install` to get something usable:
+
+* `arandr`
+* `aspell-en`
+* `aspell-is`
+* `autoconf`
+* `build-essential`
+* `chromium-browser`
+* `cmake`
+* `curl`
+* `dunst`
+* `exfat-fuse`
+* `exfat-utils`
+* `fish`
+* `git`
+* `gnupg-agent`
+* `htop`
+* `hugo`
+* `inkscape`
+* `libx11-dev`
+* `mmv`
+* `msmtp`
+* `neomutt`
+* `neovim`
+* `network-manager-openvpn-gnome`
+* `notmuch`
+* `offlineimap`
+* `pcscd`
+* `python-neovim`
+* `python3-pip`
+* `restic`
+* `rlwrap`
+* `scdaemon`
+* `scrot`
+* `slock`
+* `texinfo`
+* `tmux`
+* `toilet`
+* `tree`
+* `vlc`
+* `w3m`
+* `wget`
+* `xautolock`
+* `xcape`
+* `xclip`
+
+Updated my dotfiles bootstrap script to include the new linux symlinks.
+
+Bootstrapping the system is still an uphill fight.
+
+
+## 2018-08-31
+
+Continuing bootstrapping.
+
+Installing Dropbox makes things a lot easier because I can easily sync little
+bits of state between computers. But the Dropbox site sure doesn't make it
+easy. To my future self: here's how to install Dropbox on Ubuntu:
+
+* Download the `.deb` file from their site.
+* `sudo dpkg -i thefile.deb`
+* `dropbox start -i`
+
+Important: **do not run the last command with sudo**, because if you do your
+entire installation will be totally fucked (`~/Dropbox` will be owned by root)
+and you'll have to start all over.
+
+Building Mercurial from source. Had to install `python-dev` first.
+
+As always, `hg-git` is fucking broken on install. Had to symlink
+`dulwich/dulwich` into the Mercurial directory, but it was still broken.
+[This](https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/issues/252/hg-47-error) is the
+problem. Mercurial's lack of a stable plugin API is why I no longer really
+maintain my hg plugins. It sucks. For now I'm just gonna downgrade Mercurial.
+
+# September 2018
+
+I quit my job at the end of August and spent September traveling and not
+thinking about computers.
+
+# October 2018
+
+I spent the first three weeks of October in SF at my new job, to onboard in
+meatspace before starting remote work.
+
+## 2018-10-22
+
+Continuing game jam work.
+
+## 2018-10-23
+
+More work on the Lisp Game Jam. I don't think my entry will be ready in time,
+but if nothing else at least I've accomplished a couple of things:
+
+* Done some actual testing of Mansion. I really need to come up with a more
+ stringy syntax, and also start thinking about how to define colors (just use
+ constants?).
+* Figured out how to use esrap. It's a little clumsy, but better than doing
+ everything by hand. I still like Smug better, I think, though it has its own
+ clumsiness.
+
+## 2018-10-28
+
+Finally got back to the electronics book. Learned about 555 timer chips.
+
+# November 2018
+
+## 2018-11-08
+
+Did a couple of Rosalind problems after work:
+
+* `cl-ppcre`'s `all-matches` only returns non-overlapping matches, not *all*
+ matches. Had to write my own. Dammit.
+* `~*` will skip over `format` arguments.
+* Drakma follows HTTP redirects by default, which is nice.
+* Uniprot is slow until you warm up their caches.
+
+## 2018-11-09
+
+Added some support for arbitrary data to CACL. After using `jq` and being
+miserable, I think it might be possible to do RPN JSON processing. (Re)learned how
+to use the CL pretty printer in the process, from the CLR book, so I can print
+hash tables much more nicely now.
+
+## 2018-11-10
+
+Changed the battery in my Thinkpad. Mostly straightforward, except that the
+original was missing some screws and one of the plastic tabs had broken off and
+was jamming things when I tried to reassemble it. Once I figured that out it
+went back together fine.
+
+Did some more Rosalind problems. One was trivial. Implemented
+`longest-monotonic-subsequence` for another, which was tricky.
+
+## 2018-11-11
+
+Got the backlight control working in my Thinkpad. Had to edit
+`/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf` to contain:
+
+ Section "Device"
+ Identifier "Intel Graphics"
+ Driver "intel"
+ Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
+ EndSection
+
+Then reboot, and `xbacklight` would finally work.
+
+Played some DCSS for the first time in a long while. Still fun.
+
+# December 2018
+
+## 2018-12-22
+
+Trying to debug why `ccl:*unprocessed-command-line-arguments*` isn't working.
+
+I can run CCL and connect to it with Vlime to jump around, which is great, but
+this particular problem is about command line argument processing so I had to
+figure out how to rebuild CCL to add some logging. Turns out you just
+`(rebuild-ccl)` in a running CCL to tell it to rebuild itself. I can even do
+that in the Vlime process, and then run the binary in another terminal. Cool.
+
+I eventually [tracked
+down](https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/177#issuecomment-449586557) why the
+command line arguments are wonky. No idea if this is a bug or intended
+behavior, but at last I understand what is happening now.
+
+Dusted off the old AxiDraw to make Christmas gift tags and cards for people.
+Fun! I've learned now to not try to switch pens and redraw over the old lines
+— switching pens moves things around enough that it won't work cleanly.
+
+## 2018-12-23
+
+Traveling.
+
+Refactored the split-sequence PR fork thing. Surprisingly tricky to get all its
+weird edge cases around number-of-elements-examined correct.
+
+Still getting used to this split keyboard. Finally starting to press the `b`
+key with the correct finger. The numbers and arrows and stuff are still
+a challenge.
+
+Cleaned up CACL to work with CCL and Adopt. Need to do some more work on the
+other CLI utils and write some docs for Adopt and then a blog post, I think.
+
+Tried to get Weechat up and running on this laptop so I can communicate with the
+world. Unfortunately there's no nice list of Weechat's dependencies anywhere
+because fuck me, and I'm an idiot and didn't log it in this plan file the last
+time I had to deal with this bullshit, so here we are:
+
+ sudo apt install cmake libncursesw5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev zlib1g-dev libgcrypt20-dev gnutls-bin ca-certificates aspell aspell-en aspell-is libgnutls28-dev
+ cd ~/src/weechat
+ mkdir -p build
+ cd build
+ cmake ..
+ make
+ sudo make install
+
+That `libgnutls28-dev` is important.
+
+Did another couple of Rosalind problems. They were pretty easy, but it was good
+to get back into the swing of things, and I came up with some nice utils that
+make them pretty clean.
+
+## 2018-12-24
+
+Fixed a bug in one of my Rosalind problems.
+
+Pinned `python-markdown` to version `2.6.11` in `d` because the last release is
+fucking broken (it double-escapes characters in codehilited blocks). They fixed
+it months ago but still haven't pushed a new release, so whatever, I'll just pin
+to one that seems to work. At least I can build my documentation again.
+
+## 2018-12-25
+
+Merry Christmas.
+
+Whipped up a CSV library because the existing ones are a little bonkers. Way
+less code and much faster. There are still a couple of features I need to think
+about but I think it's pretty solid already.
+
+## 2018-12-26
+
+Wrote unit tests for the CSV library and got them running on SBCL, CCL, and ECL.
+`cl-csv` doesn't let you use a string as the newline delimiter on CCL, fun. Had
+to install ECL on this laptop. Built it from source this time. It worked
+great.
+
+Got my pastebin access set up on this machine. Apparently I forgot to add this
+machine's public key to my main Linode box. Had to do it through Lish.
+
+Finally got around to installing LispWorks. The personal edition is janky as
+hell. Brain dump for next time:
+
+* The personal edition is 32-bit, so it will just Not Work™ out of the box.
+ Have to install 32-bit deps to get it to even run: `sudo apt install
+ libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386`.
+* The personal edition is an older version, which bundles ASDF 2, which can't
+ build shit any more.
+* Need to build ASDF 3 first by running `make` in the ASDF repo on the `release` branch.
+* Then in LispWorks run `(load "~/src/asdf/build/asdf.lisp") (provide "asdf")`.
+* Then you can run the Quicklisp bootstrap and everything works.
+* The personal edition won't run init files, you have to do it manually.
+* The personal edition can't run a non-GUI (jesus). I guess I'm not adding it
+ to my automated tests.
+
+What the hell, let's get Allegro running too. Allegro worked out of the box
+because I had already done the 32 bit bullshit for LispWorks, but it too is
+janky. At least Allegro provides a command line REPL in `alisp`. That's nice.
+
+Installed ABCL on this laptop to run tests there too. The installation process
+is just:
+
+* Download the `-bin` from the site. You don't also need to grab the contrib,
+ it's all bundled together.
+* Put the two JARs in `/usr/local/bin`.
+* Make a shell script to call `java -jar abcl.jar`.
+
+Renamed `trivial-ppm` to `cl-netpbm` since it's grown more functionality.
+
+## 2018-12-31
+
+Figured out how to get my external hard drives mounted on Ubuntu as a non-root
+user. Have to add a line like the following to `/etc/fstab`:
+
+ UUID=40098415-2c77-35dc-a3ed-4b286c7ed542 /media/sjl/external-drives/western-digital/ auto user,force,rw 0 0
+
+Get the UUID from `sudo blkid -sUUID`. Then you can just `mount
+/media/sjl/external-drives/western-digital`.
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[TOC]
-# June 2018
-
-## 2018-06-06
-
-Rebooting this `.plan` after a long absence. Again.
-
-More work on switching to Linux.
-
-Switched to [pass](http://passwordstore.org) from 1Password so I can use it
-everywhere. 1Password has been pushing the cloud version pretty hard, so it's
-probably only a matter of time before they deprecate the real app. This was
-painful. I had to hack apart the `1password2pass.rb` file to handle my naming
-conventions, and of course the version of that script in the `pass` repo was out
-of date.
-
-Got `weechat` up and running. I can communicate again.
-
-Got `offlineimap` running, but didn't finish the syncing yet (I have a lot of
-mail).
-
-Tore Roswell out of my `lispindent` and `clhs` scripts so it just builds with
-vanilla SBCL now. So much easier and less brittle.
-
-Backlight support (specifically `xbacklight`) required editing `xorg.conf` as
-described in the Arch wiki. The backlight keys on the keyboard still don't
-work, but at least I can dim the screen.
-
-`xcape` remains busted in stumpwm for now. Will debug later.
-
-## 2018-06-07
-
-Getting VPN set up. Mostly used the network manager GUI to handle the settings.
-To disable saving of the password I had to click the silly little icon in the
-right of each password field.
-
-Got my `xrandr` bullshit mostly tamed, thanks to some Lisp code from katco.
-It's really nice to be able to script my window manager to add hotkeys with
-Common Lisp.
-
-## 2018-06-21
-
-More math review. I'm rusty.
-
-More homework from the Prolog class. This time it was the classic Family Tree
-style exercise. Wasn't too tough, even though my Prolog is *really* rusty.
-
-Still on OS X for personal stuff until the rest of the parts for my
-Linux/Windows machine arrive.
-
-## 2018-06-22
-
-Math review.
-
-## 2018-06-23
-
-Finished the Trains exercise for the Prolog class. It was harder than
-I expected — my Prolog skills definitely need work. But I guess that's what the
-class is for, right?
-
-# July 2018
-
-## 2018-07-03
-
-The quest to make my new Linux machine usable continues. Finally managed to
-build Weechat from source after screwing around in dependency hell for a while
-(apparently there's no `libgnutls30-dev` for Ubuntu 18.04?). Also managed to
-get the sound coming out the right ports after some dark incantation with
-`pactl`. Not using Gnome as a WM apparently means I'm going to be perpetually
-confused about how to configure anything on this damn machine, I guess.
-
-Catching up in the Prolog class. Thankfully tomorrow is a holiday so I can
-hopefully make some good progress there too.
-
-## 2018-07-04
-
-Managed to get Weechat to work with Unicode support. I had installed
-`libncursesw` and reran `cmake ..` but apparently that wasn't enough, I had to
-fully blow away the `build/` directory and redo the `cmake` from scratch to get
-it to link against `libncursesw` (rather than `libncurses`). What a shitshow.
-I really need to take a month off and write my own IRC client in CL.
-
-Looked into an SBCL bug, but it turns out the standard is just kind of
-ambiguous, and the current behavior is probably fine.
-
-## 2018-07-07
-
-Did the [Prolog modules tutorial][] for the Prolog class. This made me really
-appreciate Common Lisp's package system... the Prolog module system seems really
-crufty in comparison.
-
-Fixed a display issue for my blog, but I don't have Hugo set up on this machine
-yet, so it'll have to wait to be deployed.
-
-[Prolog modules tutorial]: http://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/tutorials/swiplmodtut.html
-
-## 2018-07-08
-
-Got mutt running on the new Linux machine. The quest to convert my dotfiles
-fully over to Linux continues.
-
-Got ABCL, ECL, SBCL, and CCL all installed and working on the Linux machine.
-I had originally installed SBCL (for bootstrapping a new build of it) and
-StumpWM through the package manager and forgotten about them. This meant I had
-a `/usr/share/common-lisp` laying around which was getting loaded for other
-installs too, which borked a few things. I had to remove the old packages, blow
-away `~/.cache/common-lisp`, and everything works now. ECL is still installed
-through the package manager, the rest aren't.
-
-Started getting my Lisp test infrastructure up and running on the Linux box.
-Previously I used [figlet][] and [lolcat][] to print nice headers during the
-test runs. I don't want to install Ruby on this machine if possible, so
-I looked for a replacement for lolcat and found [toilet][], which includes the
-functionality of both. Great! Had to download the figlet contrib fonts
-manually, which was annoying (Homebrew on OS X did it automatically, but the
-Ubuntu package doesn't). Toilet's rainbows aren't as nice as lolcat's, but the
-tradeoff of not needing ruby is worth it.
-
-Got Hugo installed on the Linux box and made a build of my site. I hope
-I didn't break anything. Made a couple of tweaks to fix a couple of issues
-I noticed in Firefox on Linux. Hand-compiled the LessCSS to avoid having to
-install NodeJS on the machine. Removed the timeago jQuery plugin -- the quest
-to exterminate all JS on my website continues.
-
-Wrote a blog post. Will post it tomorrow.
-
-Looked into why StumpWM's `remove` command is making the widths weird. Gotta
-dive in more when my mind is fresh.
-
-[figlet]: http://www.figlet.org/
-[lolcat]: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
-[toilet]: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
-## 2018-07-10
-
-Figured out why StumpWM wasn't noticing my timezone changes. I tracked it down
-to SBCL itself not noticing the timzeone changes — e.g. you can run
-`(get-decoded-time)`, change your timezone, and run `(get-decoded-time)` again
-and SBCL will still return the old timezone until you restart it. Eventually
-I narrowed this down to `get_timezone` in SBCL's
-[`time.c`](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/runtime/time.c), which
-uses `localtime_r`. The problem is that `localtime` and `localtime_r` don't
-check for a timezone change, you have to call `tzset` yourself, according to
-`man 3 localtime`. So the solution is to run `(cffi:foreign-funcall "tzset")`
-in your StumpWM process whenever you change your timezone.
-
-Watched the Prolog class presentation from a couple days ago. I'm still
-a little bit behind, gotta hopefully catch up this weekend.
+# January 2018
-## 2018-07-14
-
-Got `notmuch` set up on the new box. Forgot how dang fast it is.
-
-## 2018-07-15
-
-Got `pass` sharing sanely on my phone and desktop.
-
-## 2018-07-16
-
-Installed the Arduino IDE on my desktop. The quest to switch fully to Linux
-continues.
-
-## 2018-07-18
-
-Started setting up my new Yubikeys. The process is... not friendly. I'm mostly
-following [this guide](https://www.palkeo.com/sys/perfect-password-manager.html).
-
-## 2018-07-19
-
-Finished setting up the Yubikeys. I think.
-
-There's still a few fiddly bits -- handling multiple different Yubikeys seems
-like it's gonna take a bit of scripting grease, and I don't think there's a way
-to time out the PIN on the Yubikey after a certain amount of inactivity.
-I think this should mostly be alright, since the only one I'll leave plugged in
-is the Nano: that's plugged into my desktop monitor that I use for a KVM, so
-whenever I switch the computers or turn off the monitor it'll lock. I think
-that's a good enough mix of practicality and security for what I need.
-
-## 2018-07-20
-
-Finally got around to fixing StumpWM's frame splitting/removing/balancing. Got
-a work-in-progress/proof-of-concept PR at https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/pull/481
-
-Debugged why my `scrot` keyboard shortcuts that work fine on Debian weren't
-working on my Ubuntu machine. It took a while because shell commands you run
-through StumpWM's key mappings have their output blackholed to god only knows
-where. Eventually I split the commands into a separate shell script and
-redirected all the output to a file (I should have done this much earlier),
-which let me see giblib complaining about the keyboard being busy. Once I found
-that error it led me to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86507 which
-shows a solution: add a `sleep 0.2` before the call to `scrot`. Jesus.
-
-## 2018-07-21
-
-Did some coding interview-style programming exercises. I'm rusty at this stuff.
-
-Started writing a blog post. It's turning out to be longer than I expected it
-would be. By now I should expect this.
-
-## 2018-07-23
-
-Cleaned up my Vim bundle folder. Removed a bunch of things I never use.
-
-Figured out how to do wildcard blocking in uBlock. Again. Here's for my future
-self: the uBlock rule should look like `##[class^="prefix-"]` or
-`##[class*="part"]`.
-
-I think I found a setting to eliminate the screen tearing I've been seeing in
-Ubuntu with my Radeon card. It was described
-[here](https://cubethethird.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/eliminate-screen-tearing-with-amd-gpu-on-ubuntu/).
-
-Got Inkscape installed in preparation for setting up my AxiDraw again this
-weekend. Used the PPA to install the latest version (0.92). EMSL recommends
-0.91, but apparently I can use the prerelease version on one file for the
-AxiDraw (`plot_utils.py`) and it should work okay. I went ahead and version
-controlled `.config/inkscape/extensions` this time for when I inevitably have to
-dick around with the source again — I learned my lesson last time.
-
-## 2018-07-25
+Happy new year!
-Got `stumpish` set up so I can poke at stumpwm from within scripts. Hacked my
-`pass` binary to pop up the copied message with `stumpish` so it's a little less
-opaque when I use the stumpwm shortcut to grab a pass.
-
-## 2018-07-28
-
-Finally got my VPN setup on the Linux machine. Had to disable IPv6 at the
-router because PIA doesn't support it, and leaving it enabled will leak my
-actual IP, and I wanted to use OpenVPN instead of PIA's custom app thing.
-Networking is a mess.
-
-Got Project 1999 set up on Linux. Fonts are a mess, but otherwise it's working
-fine. Had to add this to `~/.wine/user.reg` to get it to stop fucking up my
-gamma:
-
- [Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver] 1269299093
- "UseXVidMode"="N"
-
-# August 2018
-
-## 2018-08-10
-
-Tried to get Folding at Home working, but after about an hour of screwing around
-with GPU drivers on Linux I gave up. Sorry, I'd like to help, but I can't
-invest the time to debug a basic install process.
-
-Set up my own lightweight personal pastebin as outlined
-[here](https://pinafore.social/statuses/100475132430233694). The hardest part
-was getting a working `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` inside a bash script. I was using
-`xsel` which works at my main shell but wouldn't work at all from inside a bash
-script. I assume this has something to do with `$DISPLAY`, but then I tried
-`xclip` and it worked just fine, so fuck it. Clipboards on Linux are such
-a mess.
-
-## 2018-08-12
-
-Traveling. Trying to use my second Yubikey on my work machine, and of course
-it's a fucking mess because why would anyone ever possibly want to use more than
-ONE single smartcard in their life, right?
-
-The problem is that even though the secret keys for decrypting my `pass`
-archives are on this second Yubikey, GPG always wants me to insert the original
-Yubikey and pops up the "Please insert smartcard with serial number ..." dialog.
-Even after I run `gpg --card-status` to forcibly tell its dumb ass to notice the
-new card.
-
-I tried the usual "delete the secret key and reimport the pubkey, then run
-`--card-status` to make it notice" dance, but this time even *that* didn't work.
-I ended up having to delete some files by hand:
-https://donncha.is/2014/07/problems-using-an-openpgp-smartcard-for-ssh-with-gpg-agent/
-
-How is any normal person supposed to actually *use* this software?
-
-## 2018-08-13
-
-At the office, trying to get my Thinkpad set up again. Linux is a Journey.
-
-Had trouble getting the external monitor to work. Again. First attempt: used
-a USB-C to MiniDP dongle to a MiniDP to DP cable. It saw the correct
-resolution, but something in the dongle prevented it from calculating the
-correct timing, and the monitor wouldn't work.
-
-Second attempt: scavenged a raw USB-C to DP cable. This actually worked.
-
-Also had to scavenge a mouse. Took a while to find the not-bluetooth USB
-dongle. I checked in all the USB ports on the monitors but didn't see it, til
-a coworker pointed out the Apple keyboards also have a spare USB port and that's
-where it was.
-
-## 2018-08-20
-
-Back in Rochester, and GPG is being an asshole once again. Much the same
-problem as on 8/12 — I'm trying to switch back to my normal Yubikey. The
-problem:
+## 2019-01-01
-* I have two Yubikeys, A and B, which hold my GPG key K.
-* I normally use A.
-* I want to switch to using B.
-* GPG still thinks the private keys for K are stored only on A, even when I plug
- in B.
-
-The solution is:
-
-1. Blow away the "keygrip" files in `~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d` corresponding
- to the keys on the Yubikeys, but **not** other keygrip files. An easy way to
- do this is something like `grep -rl shadowed-private-key ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ | xargs rm`.
-2. Run `gpg --card-status` so GPG will notice the missing keygrips and realize
- they're on this *new* Yubikey.
-
-I should probably wrap this up into a script.
-
-## 2018-08-27
-
-Tad says I need some kind of "udev rule" for my Switch controller under Linux:
-
- KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2009", MODE="0666"
-
-I don't know what this means, but I'm dumping it in here for later.
-
-Published http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/ after many
-plane rides and weekends.
-
-## 2018-08-30
-
-Another Ubuntu setup. Practice makes perfect I guess.
-
-Things I needed to `apt install` to get something usable:
+Started poking around at Fern again. Need lots more thinking on this. Slow and
+steady wins the race.
-* `arandr`
-* `aspell-en`
-* `aspell-is`
-* `autoconf`
-* `build-essential`
-* `chromium-browser`
-* `cmake`
-* `curl`
-* `dunst`
-* `exfat-fuse`
-* `exfat-utils`
-* `fish`
-* `git`
-* `gnupg-agent`
-* `htop`
-* `hugo`
-* `inkscape`
-* `libx11-dev`
-* `mmv`
-* `msmtp`
-* `neomutt`
-* `neovim`
-* `network-manager-openvpn-gnome`
-* `notmuch`
-* `offlineimap`
-* `pcscd`
-* `python-neovim`
-* `python3-pip`
-* `restic`
-* `rlwrap`
-* `scdaemon`
-* `scrot`
-* `slock`
-* `texinfo`
-* `tmux`
-* `toilet`
-* `tree`
-* `vlc`
-* `w3m`
-* `wget`
-* `xautolock`
-* `xcape`
-* `xclip`
-
-Updated my dotfiles bootstrap script to include the new linux symlinks.
-
-Bootstrapping the system is still an uphill fight.
-
-
-## 2018-08-31
-
-Continuing bootstrapping.
-
-Installing Dropbox makes things a lot easier because I can easily sync little
-bits of state between computers. But the Dropbox site sure doesn't make it
-easy. To my future self: here's how to install Dropbox on Ubuntu:
-
-* Download the `.deb` file from their site.
-* `sudo dpkg -i thefile.deb`
-* `dropbox start -i`
-
-Important: **do not run the last command with sudo**, because if you do your
-entire installation will be totally fucked (`~/Dropbox` will be owned by root)
-and you'll have to start all over.
-
-Building Mercurial from source. Had to install `python-dev` first.
-
-As always, `hg-git` is fucking broken on install. Had to symlink
-`dulwich/dulwich` into the Mercurial directory, but it was still broken.
-[This](https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/issues/252/hg-47-error) is the
-problem. Mercurial's lack of a stable plugin API is why I no longer really
-maintain my hg plugins. It sucks. For now I'm just gonna downgrade Mercurial.
-
-# September 2018
-
-I quit my job at the end of August and spent September traveling and not
-thinking about computers.
-
-# October 2018
-
-I spent the first three weeks of October in SF at my new job, to onboard in
-meatspace before starting remote work.
-
-## 2018-10-22
-
-Continuing game jam work.
-
-## 2018-10-23
-
-More work on the Lisp Game Jam. I don't think my entry will be ready in time,
-but if nothing else at least I've accomplished a couple of things:
-
-* Done some actual testing of Mansion. I really need to come up with a more
- stringy syntax, and also start thinking about how to define colors (just use
- constants?).
-* Figured out how to use esrap. It's a little clumsy, but better than doing
- everything by hand. I still like Smug better, I think, though it has its own
- clumsiness.
-
-## 2018-10-28
-
-Finally got back to the electronics book. Learned about 555 timer chips.
-
-# November 2018
-
-## 2018-11-08
-
-Did a couple of Rosalind problems after work:
-
-* `cl-ppcre`'s `all-matches` only returns non-overlapping matches, not *all*
- matches. Had to write my own. Dammit.
-* `~*` will skip over `format` arguments.
-* Drakma follows HTTP redirects by default, which is nice.
-* Uniprot is slow until you warm up their caches.
-
-## 2018-11-09
+## 2019-01-02
-Added some support for arbitrary data to CACL. After using `jq` and being
-miserable, I think it might be possible to do RPN JSON processing. (Re)learned how
-to use the CL pretty printer in the process, from the CLR book, so I can print
-hash tables much more nicely now.
-
-## 2018-11-10
-
-Changed the battery in my Thinkpad. Mostly straightforward, except that the
-original was missing some screws and one of the plastic tabs had broken off and
-was jamming things when I tried to reassemble it. Once I figured that out it
-went back together fine.
-
-Did some more Rosalind problems. One was trivial. Implemented
-`longest-monotonic-subsequence` for another, which was tricky.
-
-## 2018-11-11
-
-Got the backlight control working in my Thinkpad. Had to edit
-`/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf` to contain:
-
- Section "Device"
- Identifier "Intel Graphics"
- Driver "intel"
- Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
- EndSection
-
-Then reboot, and `xbacklight` would finally work.
-
-Played some DCSS for the first time in a long while. Still fun.
-
-# December 2018
-
-## 2018-12-22
-
-Trying to debug why `ccl:*unprocessed-command-line-arguments*` isn't working.
-
-I can run CCL and connect to it with Vlime to jump around, which is great, but
-this particular problem is about command line argument processing so I had to
-figure out how to rebuild CCL to add some logging. Turns out you just
-`(rebuild-ccl)` in a running CCL to tell it to rebuild itself. I can even do
-that in the Vlime process, and then run the binary in another terminal. Cool.
-
-I eventually [tracked
-down](https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/177#issuecomment-449586557) why the
-command line arguments are wonky. No idea if this is a bug or intended
-behavior, but at last I understand what is happening now.
-
-Dusted off the old AxiDraw to make Christmas gift tags and cards for people.
-Fun! I've learned now to not try to switch pens and redraw over the old lines
-— switching pens moves things around enough that it won't work cleanly.
-
-## 2018-12-23
-
-Traveling.
-
-Refactored the split-sequence PR fork thing. Surprisingly tricky to get all its
-weird edge cases around number-of-elements-examined correct.
-
-Still getting used to this split keyboard. Finally starting to press the `b`
-key with the correct finger. The numbers and arrows and stuff are still
-a challenge.
-
-Cleaned up CACL to work with CCL and Adopt. Need to do some more work on the
-other CLI utils and write some docs for Adopt and then a blog post, I think.
-
-Tried to get Weechat up and running on this laptop so I can communicate with the
-world. Unfortunately there's no nice list of Weechat's dependencies anywhere
-because fuck me, and I'm an idiot and didn't log it in this plan file the last
-time I had to deal with this bullshit, so here we are:
-
- sudo apt install cmake libncursesw5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev zlib1g-dev libgcrypt20-dev gnutls-bin ca-certificates aspell aspell-en aspell-is libgnutls28-dev
- cd ~/src/weechat
- mkdir -p build
- cd build
- cmake ..
- make
- sudo make install
-
-That `libgnutls28-dev` is important.
-
-Did another couple of Rosalind problems. They were pretty easy, but it was good
-to get back into the swing of things, and I came up with some nice utils that
-make them pretty clean.
-
-## 2018-12-24
-
-Fixed a bug in one of my Rosalind problems.
-
-Pinned `python-markdown` to version `2.6.11` in `d` because the last release is
-fucking broken (it double-escapes characters in codehilited blocks). They fixed
-it months ago but still haven't pushed a new release, so whatever, I'll just pin
-to one that seems to work. At least I can build my documentation again.
-
-## 2018-12-25
-
-Merry Christmas.
-
-Whipped up a CSV library because the existing ones are a little bonkers. Way
-less code and much faster. There are still a couple of features I need to think
-about but I think it's pretty solid already.
-
-## 2018-12-26
-
-Wrote unit tests for the CSV library and got them running on SBCL, CCL, and ECL.
-`cl-csv` doesn't let you use a string as the newline delimiter on CCL, fun. Had
-to install ECL on this laptop. Built it from source this time. It worked
-great.
-
-Got my pastebin access set up on this machine. Apparently I forgot to add this
-machine's public key to my main Linode box. Had to do it through Lish.
-
-Finally got around to installing LispWorks. The personal edition is janky as
-hell. Brain dump for next time:
-
-* The personal edition is 32-bit, so it will just Not Work™ out of the box.
- Have to install 32-bit deps to get it to even run: `sudo apt install
- libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386`.
-* The personal edition is an older version, which bundles ASDF 2, which can't
- build shit any more.
-* Need to build ASDF 3 first by running `make` in the ASDF repo on the `release` branch.
-* Then in LispWorks run `(load "~/src/asdf/build/asdf.lisp") (provide "asdf")`.
-* Then you can run the Quicklisp bootstrap and everything works.
-* The personal edition won't run init files, you have to do it manually.
-* The personal edition can't run a non-GUI (jesus). I guess I'm not adding it
- to my automated tests.
-
-What the hell, let's get Allegro running too. Allegro worked out of the box
-because I had already done the 32 bit bullshit for LispWorks, but it too is
-janky. At least Allegro provides a command line REPL in `alisp`. That's nice.
-
-Installed ABCL on this laptop to run tests there too. The installation process
-is just:
-
-* Download the `-bin` from the site. You don't also need to grab the contrib,
- it's all bundled together.
-* Put the two JARs in `/usr/local/bin`.
-* Make a shell script to call `java -jar abcl.jar`.
-
-Renamed `trivial-ppm` to `cl-netpbm` since it's grown more functionality.
-
-## 2018-12-31
-
-Figured out how to get my external hard drives mounted on Ubuntu as a non-root
-user. Have to add a line like the following to `/etc/fstab`:
-
- UUID=40098415-2c77-35dc-a3ed-4b286c7ed542 /media/sjl/external-drives/western-digital/ auto user,force,rw 0 0
-
-Get the UUID from `sudo blkid -sUUID`. Then you can just `mount
-/media/sjl/external-drives/western-digital`.
+Had trouble booting my Ubuntu partition, it took forever and tossed me at a root
+prompt with "You are in Emergency Mode". Turns out the line I added to
+`/etc/fstab` broke things when the external drive isn't plugged in. Need to
+figure out how to fix that.