Lisplog | End the War on Freedom

Blogging-in-2026-at-billstclair.com/journal

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:00:33 GMT

Still alive. Doing music as my next enedeavor, with the Knoxville Big Band, rehearsing on Thursday nights at 7pm in the Unitarian Universalist Church. Looking forward to playing my bone regularly again.

Still Alive

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:20:15 GMT

My blogging software is still working. After a year of no activity, the posting code still runs. Yowza!

Look, Ma! My Blogging Software still works

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:24:30 GMT

I haven't touched the #LispLog code that powers this blog in a long time, yet here it is, happily doing its job, letting me make a new post.

Long time no see

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:51:42 GMT

I spend my web time on social media these days, mostly my Pleroma instance, impeccable.social, and, since Elon Musk took over, Twitter. But Lisplog is still running on this web server, even though I haven't frobbed it in a long time. Cool.

I have finally resumed writing code, after a two-year hiatus. My brain finally got hungry again. Now working on Mammudeck, in Elm.

Lisplog Blog

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:40:48 GMT

I started using Lisplog for End the War on Freedom at the beginning of June. I have finally finished creating the templates and style sheet to begin blogging about it at Lisplog.org. Not much there yet, but it'll grow.

AES for Password Hashing

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:54:27 GMT

Following a G+ discussion with Nikodemus Siivola, in which he recommended using bcrypt instead of a hash function for encoding passwords, I updated Lisplog to use AES, since I didn't have bcrypt handy. AES doesn't have the tuning parameters to make encryption take longer, as bcrypt does, but I figure it's at least slower than a simple hash, so it should help.

I initially used a simple MD5 hash, copying the Drupal mechanism so that I could just copy my Drupal data. I have not yet updated this blog with the new code. Soon.

Lisplog Registration

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:23:44 GMT

I have added new user registration to Lisplog. There's a link to it from the comment submission page, and on the login dialog, which comes up if you go to the settings page, or try to add or edit a post. If you're registered and logged in, you can post comments without captcha or moderation, and you can edit and delete your own comments (doesn't apply to comments you've made between the Lisplog switch and now, since, due to a bug, those aren't tagged with your ownership).

If you forget your password, the login page now has a link for that.

I also added an RSS header link to the home page, so Firefox will show an orange Feed icon () in the address bar, as will Chrome, if you have the RSS Subscription Extension installed.

I now get email notification when a new account is registered or a new comment is posted. Should make me a little quicker on the ball at moderating comments.

There has still only been a single comment spam posted since I switched to Lisplog two weeks ago. I used to get 10 a day. Weird. The captcha is much simpler than it was before.

Comment Posting Fixed

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:02:24 GMT

I just discovered that pushing the "Submit" button on the comment editing page without entering your name, a comment, or the correct answer to the arithmetic question caused you to get a blank page, instead of a page showing you what you need to fix before you can successfully submit your comment. This may be part of the reason that I've received no comment spam since going live with Lisplog. Hopefully it will now be easier to submit comments. Unfortunately, it will now probably be easier for the comment spammers to submit comments.

It's Alive!

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:49:02 GMT

This is my first post created with my new blogging software Lisplog. Everything should be pretty much as it used to be, except for the new appearance, two columns instead of three, and it should respond faster, to regular access, Apache serving static files, and to comments, which have a new, hopefully easier, captcha mechanism.

If you had an account before, you should still have it, and that will still allow you to post comments without captcha or moderation. If you don't yet have an account, you can't get one right now, until I write that code, but you CAN post comments, which will appear after I moderate them.

Lisplog, FTW!