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Hot-wiring the lisp machine

🞄 blogemacsrabbit hole 🞄 ~80 minutes read

Ripping the guts out of Emacs to build a static site generator that doesn't suck. No external dependencies, no string-templating garbage. Just a 40-year-old Lisp machine masquerading as a text editor, redlining a CPU core to beat modern web-dev at its own game. This is a story of stubborn engineering, a total refusal to compromise, and a slow, deliberate descent into madness.

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