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!

I just released the first version of marionette (named after the protocol it implements), a Racket library that lets you remotely control the Firefox web browser. Think “puppeteer”, but for Firefox.

Like Alex Harsányi, I've been looking for a good, free-as-in-beer, alternative to Travis CI. For now, I've settled on GitHub Actions because using them is straightforward and because I saves me from creating yet another account with some other company.

After hacking the matrix.org website today, the attacker opened a series of GitHub issues mentioning the flaws he discovered. In one of those issues, he mentions that “complete compromise could have been avoided if developers were prohibited from using [SSH agent forwarding].”

One of the distinguishing features of Racket's built-in web-server is that it supports the use of continuations in a web context. This is a feature I've only ever seen in Smalltalk's Seaside before, though Racket's version is more powerful.

It turns out that when you delete your Google accounts, Google unsubscribes you from any (public and private) Google Groups you're a member of. I found out about this only because my inbox traffic these past couple of days felt unusually light so I went and looked at racket-users and, lo and behold, there were a bunch of new posts I hadn't received.

I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn't too hard to do.

A couple of days ago, I released north, a database schema migration tool written in Racket. It currently supports PostgreSQL and SQLite, but new adapters are extremely easy to add and my main reason for building it was because I wanted not only a CLI utility but also programmatic access to do migrations from Racket. I'm going to make that last part easy for everyone with the next release after I clean up some of the internals and write more docs.

Today marks the first public release of forms, a Racket library for web form validation. Racket's formlets module from the standard library already does something similar, but, unfortunately, it lacks any facilities for easily showing validation errors to end users which is a big part of what I want from this kind of library. Another nice thing about this new library is it'll be able to validate things other than forms – like JSON – soon!