An alternative frontend for LessWrong 2.0, with a focus on speed and usability.
This is the bare minimum to get the server running. To set up a full Common Lisp development environment, see here
Install sbcl
and lmdb
from apt or using your favorite method.
e.g. sudo apt install sbcl liblmdb0
Install quicklisp
curl -O https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp --eval '(quicklisp-quickstart:install)' --eval '(ql:add-to-init-file)' --eval '(exit)'
Clone required git repositories to the quicklisp local-projects
directory. (You can also use symlinks if you want to put them elsewhere.)
cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects
git clone https://github.com/kronusaturn/liblmdb.git
git clone https://github.com/kronusaturn/lmdb.git
git clone https://github.com/kronusaturn/plump.git
git clone https://github.com/kronusaturn/lw2-viewer.git
Start the server
cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects/lw2-viewer
sbcl --eval '(ql:quickload :lw2-viewer)' --eval '(hunchentoot:start (make-instance (quote hunchentoot:easy-acceptor) :port 4242 :document-root "./www/"))'
Open http://localhost:4242
in your browser
Similar to above, but:
sbcl
and lmdb
are available from MacPorts.
Make sure to run system updates, using an outdated OS version can cause installation errors.
As Mac OS does not support sparse files, the system will create an empty 16 GB file on startup.
If you want to reduce disk space usage, before starting the server, copy config-example.lisp to config.lisp and change the line (defparameter *lmdb-mapsize* (expt 2 34))
to, for example, (defparameter *lmdb-mapsize* (expt 2 28))
You will need to set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable to the location where liblmdb.dylib
is installed, for example export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib/