How meta. To maintain my progress on my new year's resolution, I have written some code (*gasp!*) – yes, that counts as writing. And what does that code do? Why, it makes me more efficient at highly hyperlinked blogging: it is a certain amount of fairly trivial and mildly tedious elisp, which allows the easy insertion of markdown markup to create links to various authoritative sources of information about Lisp. Well, OK, to the Hyperspec and the MOP dictionary, but as an implementor that's all I really need, right? So, now I can talk about compute-effective-method or make-method-lambda and my eager readers can be taken to the relevant documentation at the speed of thought.

Questions that arose during the process:

• why are all the fake packages in hyperspec.el created with (make-vector 67 0)?
• has anyone in the 23 years since AMOP was published ever been glad that the MOP standardizes the extract-lambda-list and extract-specializer-names functions? (Fun fact: SBCL also has extract-parameters and extract-required-parameters functions, unexported and unused.)