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Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme

jjba23 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:28:35 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/maak.el

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607858

Points: 20

# Comments: 4

New comment by jjba23 in "Quest for eternal dock on Wayland – lambdock (C and GTK4 and Lisp Guile Scheme)"

jjba23 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:48:04 +0000

Thanks for your comment! I think indeed a lot of people underestimate Guile's performance, power and expressiveness.

Quest for eternal dock on Wayland – lambdock (C and GTK4 and Lisp Guile Scheme)

jjba23 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:18:10 +0000

Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-linux/quest-for-eternal-dock/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476653

Points: 34

# Comments: 3

New comment by jjba23 in "Ask HN: How to tune Emacs config for portability: Linux, macOS and Windows?"

jjba23 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:19:02 +0000

Thanks for the comment

Ask HN: How to tune Emacs config for portability: Linux, macOS and Windows?

jjba23 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:56 +0000

I've been a GNU/Linux-only Emacs user for years, and most of my configuration has naturally evolved around that environment.

Now I may need to start using macOS and Windows as well, and I'm realizing that "Emacs is cross-platform" and "my Emacs configuration is cross-platform" are two rather different things.

I'm curious how people who maintain a substantial Emacs configuration approach this.

My config is fairly modular and tries to stay close to vanilla Emacs where possible, using things like Elpaca, Corfu, Vertico, Eglot, etc. The Linux setup is fast and works exactly the way I want, but I don't want to end up with a giant collection of OS-specific conditionals every time I move between machines.

This is my config by the way: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/heks-emacs

Some things I'm particularly wondering about:

- How do you handle filesystem paths and environment variables cleanly?

- Do you abstract OS-specific functionality, or simply use `system-type` / `executable-find` where necessary?

- How much do you rely on external Unix tools that aren't naturally available on Windows?

- What's the best strategy for subprocesses and shell integration?

- How do you handle fonts, GUI differences, clipboard behavior, notifications, and native window-system quirks? - Are there packages that you deliberately avoid because they make portability painful?

- Do you maintain one config everywhere, or have a small portable core with platform-specific modules?

- For Windows specifically, do you target native Emacs, WSL, MSYS2, or something else?

- For macOS, are there particular pitfalls around GUI Emacs, Homebrew, PATH handling, or system services?

I'm especially interested in lessons from people who have been maintaining the same Emacs configuration across multiple operating systems for years.

What abstractions or conventions ended up being worth it? What things did you initially think would be portable but turned out to be surprisingly OS-specific?

I'd also be interested in seeing examples of configuration architecture that make this manageable.

The goal isn't necessarily "make every feature work identically everywhere." I'd rather have a portable core with sensible degradation than turn the config into an enormous pile of conditionals.

What does a battle-tested cross-platform Emacs setup look like?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349796

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Lambdock – Wayland-native GTK4 dock with a live Lisp REPL

jjba23 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260628

Points: 44

# Comments: 1

Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot

jjba23 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-eglot-scala-kotlin/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990219

Points: 134

# Comments: 121

Show HN: GGG – Declarative SVG Badge Generation Using Guile Scheme and SXML

jjba23 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:59:23 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990178

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel

jjba23 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:50:11 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/modusregel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767834

Points: 55

# Comments: 0

Scriba: Structured Logging in Lisp (Guile Scheme)

jjba23 — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/scriba

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255937

Points: 31

# Comments: 0

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

jjba23 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:43:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945707

Points: 269

# Comments: 168

Olive CSS: Lisp powered vanilla CSS utility-class a la Tailwind

jjba23 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:50:21 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/olive-css

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869130

Points: 15

# Comments: 11

Repository Pattern with Hygienic Macros in Scheme – Lisp

jjba23 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/functional-repository-pattern-in-scheme-with-macros/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715681

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

New comment by jjba23 in "Relational Schema Migrations Powered by Lisp on DBs (Guile Scheme) + Seeding"

jjba23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:42:36 +0000

This [WIP] tool provides a declarative, transactional approach to managing your database state, ensures your relational schema and database is exactly as you decree, incrementally. Compatible with SQLite3, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Write your schema migrations and seeding easily, and in your native database dialect.

Relational Schema Migrations Powered by Lisp on DBs (Guile Scheme) + Seeding

jjba23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:42:36 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/mutastructura

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606902

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

Maak: The infinitely extensible command runner and automation à la Make

jjba23 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/maak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132731

Points: 25

# Comments: 0

YAML Schemas in Emacs with Eglot – just renewed blog too

jjba23 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/yaml-schemas-in-emacs-eglot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321472

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jjba23 in "Supreme Sexp System – SSS – A Lisp Machine Adventure"

jjba23 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:41:36 +0000

Seems like there's been quite some interest lately in my custom configurations and self-built OS with GNU Guix, Emacs, StumpWM and more, which works amazing, specially for devs, and is pretty much 100% configurable with Lisp :blessed: Many stars in just a couple days, maybe it inspires you to do great things, and free up your computing.

Supreme Sexp System – SSS – A Lisp Machine Adventure

jjba23 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:41:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jjba23/sss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41933856

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Byggsteg – PoC simple fast deployable CI/CD system written in Guile Scheme

jjba23 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jjba23/byggsteg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676232

Points: 5

# Comments: 0