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Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet. My name is Chris. How do you do?

I wrote a thesis back in 2008 about evolutionary computation. You can read it here: A Time Series Classifier.

I write lots of code. I really like Lisp. I also really like Clojure and ClojureScript. I like Ruby but not as much. I like C. I can tolerate C++ (it's gotten a lot better over the last decade or two.) C# isn't too bad either. I've used various others as well.

Limbic.fi

I'm currently working on a new toy project in Common Lisp, limbic.fi, which will provide a unified toolset for a blockchain post-cloud. It's very early right now but I'll keep adding to it. (FYI, the site is broken in Firefox at the moment, but works in literally anything else, I'll fix that at some point, but I'm focused on other stuff currently.)

I've got the beginnings of it's web UI source code up on github here.

A lot of the Common Lisp code I've got laying around that's defi-related was made to support Limbic.fi in some fashion.

Common Lisp

I really like Lisp. I've got some open source out there for you to play with.

sigma is my rather large kitchen sink library. It's kind of old now and there's a lot of better alternatives for some of what it does, but that wasn't so much true back when I started with it in 2004, and some of the stuff is only there still I think. It's got a TDD suite, various basic control macros, hash table helpers, numeric helpers and functions, some randomness helpers, sequence helpers, string helpers, time series helpers, and some random other stuff.
livermore is my thesis code somewhat reworked.
bzbz is a super-tiny web toolkit, most notably including a very simple S-expression interface to HTML.
cl-ipfs-cluster is a thin wrapper around the IPFS Cluster API in Common Lisp.
cl-cryptonator-api is a start a thin wrapper around Cryptonator's API in Common Lisp.
cl-zapper-fi is a simple library I'm working on now to interact with zapper.fi.
cl-ipfs-cluster is the start of a library to control IPFS clusters.

Clojure

I really like Lisp but good luck getting a normal coding job doing it. But Clojure is a pretty good lisp and actually getting popular over the last half-decade or so, so I've been doing that professionally for quite a while now, and I like it quite a bit in general.

clojure-rosenbrock is just a tiny and simple library providing the Rosenbrock function.
clojure-mersenne-twister is a wrapper around MersenneTwister from the Apoache Commons, I needed a better PRNG for one of my Clojure projects so I used this.
web3clj was me starting to make a more clojure-friendly wrapper for web3j. I've mostly stopped working on it though since I'm taking limbic.fi in a slightly different direction now than what I thought I was.
gin is a library of additional generally useful generators using test.check but I haven't messed with it much in a while. It was mostly originally made to compliment my tonic library.
tonic is a library of generally useful schemata using Prismatic Schema. Since moving over to spec I haven't done much with it though.

Rust

I'm just starting to play with Rust. At the moment all I'm really doing is experimenting with it.

rust-programming-videos are a learning series of videos and the associated code, I'm slowly adding to those as I go along. I think Rust might be a really good language to teach some important concepts that only really exist in some other more difficult langauges.
rust-zapper-fi is the beginnings of a Rust wrapper around Zapper.fi's API.
the-sapphire-star is the beginnings of a semi-realistic interstellar game/simulation.

Unreal Engine and C++

I've been playing on and off with trying to code various video game projects as I get interested in them. The only one that's recent that's out there to mess with is Realm of Forms a 3D playground for teaching Lua. I haven't touched it in a while at this point but I hope to pick it up later.

Ruby

A long time ago I used to really like Ruby. I still think it's a pretty nice little language for it's proper domain but I haven't done much in it in several years.

ruby-btce: A few years back there was a crypto CEX called BTC-e. It didn't end too well. But at the time I had made a somewhat popular Ruby gem for it.

Emacs

I spend too much of my life staring at Emacs. If you do too, you might find my Emacs config inspiring. Or not. It's pretty messy honestly.

Talks

I used to give a lot of tech talks. It's pretty rare these days.

November 8, 2017: Big Data in the Cloud.
May 8, 2017: JRuby and the JVM.
March 21, 2017: Powderkeg, a library to make working with Apache Spark in Clojure a lot more enjoyable.
October 27, 2016: Clojure at Climate.
September 20, 2016: The Clojure Pedestal Web Application Framework.
September 12, 2016: Conses in Ruby: So Much More Than Lists.
June 2, 20216: Introducing Thinking Bicycle.
May 17, 2016: ClojureScript Reagent Tutorial.
March 14, 2016: Ruby and π.
December 3, 2015: The Pixie Programming Language, which I was interested in at the time, which sadly seems to have died completely.