---
title: "Link clearance #2"
summary: "Emacs, SVG, video encodings, ACME, and Common Lisp. Also, use RSS (we have one too)"
date: 2025-09-01T12:00:00-07:00
categories: ["Link clearance"]
---

- https://dmitrykandalov.com/liveplugin \
  This is from a while ago. Make your Intellij work more like Emacs. Sort of. I think Emacs die hard fans would stone me for saying this. Whatever.

- https://chao-tic.github.io/blog/2018/12/25/tls \
  How does C11/C++11 `thread_local` work?

- https://jakearchibald.com/scratch/alphavid/ (older incarnation from 2009) \
  https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/ \
  HN submission for Lottie reminded me of Firefox's famous animating-SVG-with-CSS-transform trick, leading to a few searches, ending here.

- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/tristan-washing-machine/ \
  Another one on the journey. `<video>` foreign element in SVG sounds pretty cool.
  Broken in latest Firefox. Not sure if it's a removed feature, or the source video just no longer exists (I guess the latter because the mp4 file doesn't seem to resolve).

- https://tumult.com/hype/
  Alternative to After Effects? Found in the said HN comments.

- https://navysbir.us/n25_1/N251-024.htm#qa \
  Found this while looking for a self-hosted, ACME-capable certificate authority. For installing one root cert (preferably with Name Constraint) and can get all homelab devices to use TLS. Without having to deal with things going in the CT.
  Anyways. Apparently US Navy has this public website for their purchasing programs?

- https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml/ \
  Use QML for UI, Common Lisp for scripting (in place of writing javascript inside QML files).
  Seems to provide interop between javascript and cl? Doesn't seem to be a replacement for C++ modules; no way to interact with the QXxx C++ classes.

- https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/ \
  RSS rise up!
  Not very interesting, but perhaps a good thing to have on hand to send to people just dipping their toes in. Or people who heard RSS, want to try, but doesn't know.