Michał "phoe" Herda

Hey - welcome to my homepage. I post my Lisp libraries here, along with short explanations what they do.

Some non-Lisp things are also listed at the bottom.

I have a blog on Movim where I post Lisp-related stuff.

Books

• The Common Lisp Condition System (Apress, 2020) - a book describing in detail the theory, practice, and implications of the Common Lisp condition system.
• The Common Lisp Condition System GitHub repository - a Git repository that includes:
  • source code for the book,
  • source code for the Portable Condition System,
  • online Appendix E: Discussing the Common Lisp Condition System,
  • online Appendix F: Hyperlinking the Common Lisp Condition System.
• Programming Algorithms in Lisp by Vsevolod Domkin (Apress, 2021) - a book I did technical review for.

Articles

A full list of these is also available on GitHub.

• STATIC-LET, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love LOAD-TIME-VALUE

Talks

• [PL] Programowanie Interaktywne - a livecoding session in Polish showing the basics of interactive programming, inspecting, and debugging with multiple threads in play.
• [PL] Debugger-Oriented Programming - a livecoding session in Polish showing the techniques for interactive programming where we barely leave the debugger.
• Immutable Conversations: Common Lisp - a talk showing general the basics of Common Lisp control flow, interactive programming, and live debugging.
• Control Flow in Common Lisp, aka Why Lisp Doesn't Need To Throw Exceptions - Online Lisp Meeting #11 (slides)
• Integrating independent condition systems - Online Lisp Meeting #1
• Common Lisp UltraSpec - European Lisp Symposium 2017

Online Lisp Meeting videos

Here is a playlist with all Online Lisp Meeting videos that I had the pleasure of hosting.

Larger libraries

These libraries are either large enough on their own or designed to grow at some point in time.

• PROTEST - a Common Lisp protocol and test case manager
• Wordnet - a maintained fork of Mark Nahabedian's CL Wordnet interface
• Lisp Koans - a Common Lisp learning resource which I've helped rewrite
• Spell - a spellchecker in portable Common Lisp, my collaboration with Robert Strandh
• SKIPPY-RENDERER - a renderer for SKIPPY GIF-parsing library
• Portable Condition System - a portable Common Lisp condition system
• Damn Fast Priority Queue - a heap-based priority queue whose first and foremost priority is speed
• Binding Arrows - an implementation of threading macros based on binding anonymous variables
• Cafe Latte - an implementation of Common Lisp dynamic variables, control flow operators, and condition system in plain Java
• CL-LZMA - FFI LZMA compressor/decompressor
• ASD-GENERATOR - automatically generates ASD files based on the contents of the project directory
• Pseudonyms - package nicknames implemented via reader macros
• SAFE-READ - a variant of the Lisp reader secured against common dangers
• UltraSpec data - WIP data for Common Lisp UltraSpec
• Gateway - a WIP roleplaying client and server
• gateway (old) - old Gateway repository to be cleaned up
• CL-FURCADIA - A library of utilities for the MMOSG Furcadia
• FOX5 - Library for reading, editing and saving Furcadia FOX5 files
• FOX5-WEB - a trivial web frontend for FOX5
• Raptor Launcher - A WIP custom character launcher for the MMOSG Furcadia
• CCLDoc - personal WIP fork of CCLDoc, prepared for UltraSpec work
• CCL-COMPAT - compatibility toolkit for running CCLDOC outside CCL
• phoe-toolbox - my personal toolbox of small Lisp functions
• amb - an implementation of John McCarthy's ambiguous operator in portable Common Lisp
• with-branching - an implementation of macroexpand-time branching in portable Common Lisp
• In Nomine - a utility for creating, accessing, and managing custom namespaces in Common Lisp

Smaller libraries

Very small utilities may go into PHOE-TOOLBOX or into their own separate "smaller" library; the choice is arbitary and depends mostly on my taste when answering the questions, "would it be better if this was imported by importing all of PHOE-TOOLBOX or by importing a separate, smaller system?," and, "does this solve a general enough case to mandate inclusion in a utility library?"

• TRIVIAL-PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES - portability library for package-local nicknames
• TRIVIAL-CUSTOM-DEBUGGER - allows to set any function as the standard Lisp debugger
• TRIVIAL-METHOD-COMBINATIONS - portability library for accessing method combination objects
• EXTERNAL-SYMBOL-NOT-FOUND - allows to detect conditions signaled due to trying to accessing symbols that are not external in a given package
• DESTRUCTURING-BIND-STAR - DESTRUCTURING-BIND with its own condition type specially for destructuring errors
• EVERBLOCKING-STREAM - a simple Gray stream that never returns a character
• LIST-NAMED-CLASS - a mechanism for naming Lisp classes via lists of symbols
• LOREM-IPSUM - simple Lorem Ipsum generator in portable Common Lisp
• MAZE-GENERATOR - a simple maze generator in portable Common Lisp with generous code comments written in Polish, meant as an example of Lisp coding style.
• QUICKLISP-QUACKLOAD - a system that adds duck typing to the Quicklisp client.
• StRiNg-PoKeMoNiZe - forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

Artstuffs

• Common Lisp: The Elusive Language - a series of logotypes for Common Lisp implementations.
• Arbiter - a short story in the universum of Neuroshima. Written by Michał Herda, edited by Nathan O'Donovan.
• The Y Combinator Codex - a 420mm x 2400mm calligraphy piece depicting the Y combinator.

Boardgamestuffs

• Neuroshima Hex - Mephisto - a big, wormy boardgame expansion for Neuroshima Hex.
• Neuroshima Hex - Hell Hounds - a WIP howling, woofing boardgame expansion for Neuroshima Hex.

Fan websites

• phoe.exposed - a fan website by Jean-Philippe Paradis.

Contacting me

• Mail: my nickname at Disroot
• Fediverse
• IRC: phoe at Libera
• GitHub
• GitLab
• SoundCloud