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This is a smiling face. Does it look upside-down? If you look at it a few more times (say, a hundred), it probably won’t.

I started keying reverse smileys sometime in 1999 or 1998. Somebody annoyed me by putting a lot of closing parens on his/her smileys, so I decided to provide enough opening parenthesis to sustain a balanced smiley-using net. Actually, that isn’t what happened. But it makes me look like a philantropic idiot, so I tell people this story. The other version makes me look like a lazy-ass geek, but it’s the truth, after all.

What really happened was that I used a reverse smiley once in a joke, then noticed that they are much easier to type, and then the habit stuck. I just can’t stop.

Sorry for the inconvenience. If the reverse smileys annoy you, please ignore them.

Here’s some stuff I’ve been working on:

Common Lisp

• I do some administrative work for the SBCL project
  • Actual code: a gdbinit for SBCL
• I helped resurrect iterate from the CMU AI repository. Joerg Hoehle and Attila Lendvai are taking good care of it now.
• I wrote a UBF encoder/decoder for Common Lisp when I was bored. (see)
• I wrote Autobench to burn CPU cycles on this box.
• A VT100 screen scraper I wrote during my time at SILVER SERVER Gmbh was released as Open Source software.

See also my blog’s category Lisp

Non-Lisp hacks

• A gnome deskbar plugin for SSH-ing to hosts
• An SSH plugin for quicksilver.

Watch history unfold at my blog’s category Hacks.

Some Trivia

Born in 1982, connected to the TCP/IP network since 1996. Also known as asf@boinkor.net or antifuchs on IRC. Beware: I am using Reverse Smileys (aka left-handed smileys).

What is Andreas Fuchs doing right now?

To learn what I’m up to as it happens, read my weblog. Here’s a summary: I’m a student at the TU of Vienna, and I work as a consultant in lispy things. (Want me to solve problems for you? send me e-mail.) In my spare time, I enjoy hacking in Common Lisp, listening to music, listening to and reading and watching good stories.

asf on the web

• I Twitter. (Random fact: twitter is an irregular verb: twit - twut - twut.)
• I keep bookmarks in del.icio.us: antifuchs’ del.icio.us bookmarks
• I have a last.fm profile: antifuchs at last.fm
• Find out What google knows about me

If you want to know more, just ask me at asf@boinkor.net.

(If you were redirected here while looking for SBCL in Arch, my apologies. It has been turned off.)

This page describes the current state of the SBCL Git repository.

There is a gitweb presentation of the repostitory here: gitweb for SBCL.

You can clone a full copy of the SBCL repository with this command line: git clone git://git.boinkor.net/sbcl

Administrative details

The repository is synchronized with upstream CVS through the Sourceforge rsync service. This means that commit propagation will be delayed by up to ~1 hour. The archive contains all commits on all branches in SBCL’s past. A partially unpacked repository is 68MB in size. Typically, cloned repositories will be 47 or so MB in size.

Some useful commands

• To create a branch (off the current branch’s head revision) to which you can commit, use git branch your-branch-name HEAD
• To update your tree, use git pull
• To commit to your repository, use git commit

All the git commands have a switch —help.

I just moved this weblog over to baker.boinkor.net, my new and shiny machine in another co-location. It’s a nice AMD64 machine (HP DL145 g1) with a nice amount of RAM, but the best part of it is that there’s a management interface that allows me to power it up remotely. No more travelling to the colocation in order to powercycle it (which, I hope, won’t happen anyway since it’s new and shiny and it has actual warranty).

So. Woo yay.

Right, so I accidentally deleted the movabletype database directory and discovered that the backups I kept were:

• too old
• broken.

Damn it. Just spent 1 hour manually importing old entries from the HTML export. I'll set up an auto-export job now. (-:

The host on which this web site is running also provides a few services for the community of SBCL developers and users:

• Benchmarks of the current & of old versions of SBCL (a.k.a. boinkmarks): http://sbcl.boinkor.net/bench/
• The current SBCL manual and the current SBCL internals manual
• The SBCL git repository
• (outdated) the SBCL arch archive: SBCL in arch