I’ve been using org-mode capture templates for years and I’ve always wished I had something like that for the whole system. I took advantage of the holiday break to build Remember, a little reminders application with Spotlight-like UX. It’s available on Gumroad and you can pay what you want for it (inlcuding $0!) at the moment so I hope you’ll give it a go! Although the app isn’t Open Source, it source code is available on GitHub.

GitHub Actions are going to become generally-available next week so I created an action for installing Racket. You can find it on the marketplace. Here’s what a minimal CI configuration for a Racket package might look like:

I just open sourced one of the very first Racket code bases I’ve worked on. The project is called nemea and it’s a tiny, privacy-preserving, website analytics tracker. It doesn’t do anything fancy, but it does enough for my needs and, possibly, yours too so check it out!

Another Racket thing! redis-rkt is a new Redis client for Racket that I’ve been working on these past few weeks. Compared to the existing redis and rackdis packages, it: is fully documented, is safer due to strict use of contracts, is faster, supports more commands and its API tries to be idiomatic, rather than being just a thin wrapper around Redis commands. Check it out!

I made a new Racket thing today! chief is a port of a subset of foreman‘s functionality to Racket. It lets you run sets of processes together based on a Procfile. If that sounds useful to you, do check it out!

Generators in Python One of the nice things about Python is that it comes with in-built support for “generators”, functions that can suspend themselves and be resumed in the middle of processing. Here’s a generator that produces the fibonacci series: 1 2 3 4 5 6 def fib(): x = 0 y = 1 while True: y, x = x + y, y yield x A generator is instantiated every time you call the fib function.

I had originally shared a version of this post with a small, private mailing list, but then I figured there’d be no harm in sharing it with a larger audience so here it is. My girlfriend and I recently launched matchacha.ro, a small e-commerce site selling Japanese green tea here in Romania (the site defaults to Romanian, but you can change the language by scrolling to the bottom – we don’t ship outside of Romania, though, sorry!

I just released the first version of deta, a Racket library for mapping between database tables and structs. A bit like Elixir’s Ecto.

You can install it from the package server with:

raco pkg install deta

Check it out!

I just released the first version of sentry, a Racket library that lets you capture exceptions using the Sentry API.

Yesterday, I bought an icon pack containing over 3,000 (!) SVG files and macOS utterly failed me when I tried to search the unarchived folder.

So I did what any self-respecting Racketeer would do. I used this as an excuse to play around with Racket’s built-in GUI library!