Crane is a new Common Lisp ORM by Fernando Borretti. "Crane doesn't drink the ORM Kool Aid: You won't spend a single minute struggling with an interface that claims to be 'simple' yet forces you into a limited vision of how databases should work."
Mark Fedurin surveys ASDF system version strings in the wild. The cartoon at the end is great.
From Rainer Joswig:
Why Lisp is Different (2007) and
30 years of Common Lisp (2014).
a-cl-logger is a Common Lisp logging library with node-logstash integration, support for swank presentations, context-sensitive logging, and more.