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Babble, 2025-09-16 18:25 – drafting Moscow-semiotics-in-Fennel

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In another babble I talked about Moscow-school semiotics, and how it might describe more than just one of my paracosmic worlds, and am now thinking about what a world made from Moscow-school semiotics might look like. I’m not sure the literature itself is the best for laying out the structure of such a world, though, at least not in an easy-to-convert-into-code form. Nevertheless, it seems worth trying as a general concept.

Babble, 2025-09-15 09:19 – Properly installing Fennel on my Omnibook

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The last time I “installed Fennel”, it was just by “installing” TAB. This go around I’d like to more properly get it set up as accessible from my user’s shell, so I can use it like a proper interpreter across GnoponEmacs.

So I don’t forget, there’s this wonderful post from Andrey Listopadov about using Fennel in Emacs. I’ll be using that, the Fennel docs, and the documentation for fennel-mode to navigate through this process. My goal is to be able to use Fennel anywhere I might use another language with Org-babel, but skimming through Andrey’s blog post, I suspect I can do more than that.

Babble, 2025-09-11 08:55 – installing TAB on my Omnibook

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So for the past… month and a few days! I’ve been rebuilding my files, and my website.

This has generally felt good, in a lot of ways, and has been helping refamiliarize myself with computer use in general.

That means I’m feeling ready to start dabbling back into computer programming. A short term goal with that is getting the MUD engine that I wrote in Fennel running again.

Fennel is a computer programming language built on Lua, but uses LISP-style syntax and macros. (I appreciate that the website has a nice little REPL on the homepage.)