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I find it useful while working in Python, JavaScript or C to have Emacs show me the location of code errors. For Python there is Pylint and for JavaScript one can use JSHint and a few others. And of course with C there was the original lint, but today the compilers themselves generate quite good warnings. These linters are easily integrated with Emacs via Flycheck, which highlights errors in the code. Finding that they produce too many errors when fed Scheme code, I decided to make my own linter, r6lint.

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Earlier this year I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 to have as an AArch64 development machine. The fastest way to get familiar with an instruction set is to write a disassembler for it and I’ve made one for 64-bit ARM in R6RS Scheme as part of the machine-code project. The instruction set is called ARM A64, instructions are always 32 bits wide and they have a neat structure which is pretty fast to decode in software.

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Recently a friend lent me the book Start With Why by Simon Sinek. It made a lot of sense to me and made me look at my own projects in a new light. The Industria libraries is a set of libraries for R6RS Scheme that do, well, quite a few different things. There’s cryptography, compression, a few network protocols, various things, but also an assembler and a few disassemblers. It has many things, but it doesn’t truly have a “why”.

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I had already been programming for twenty years before I started my current project at Ericsson. During my time in the project I’ve come to really appreciate a few things that were new to me, like Continuous Integration (CI) and automated testing. I recently setup CI for Zabavno on GitHub with a new test case generator and immediately found bugs.

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