<p>Ben Simon has a post up on his blog describing how <a href="http://www.blogbyben.com/2018/04/a-little-scheme-setup-and-development.html">he set up a scheme development environment on his Galaxy S9 Android phone</a>. It was also an especially timely post as I had been eyeing a Mac Quadra with a Symbolics Lisp Machine extension card on eBay. As if we needed another reminder just how powerful current phones have become!</p>

<p>I <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/05/smartphones-computers-need-regular-patching/">recently</a> blogged about Google and Samsung starting to offer regular security patches for their Android devices.</p>

<p>Last night I did something I was adamant I wasn’t going to do, namely rooting my Android phone and installing CyanogenMod on it. Normally I don’t like messing with (smart)phones - they’re tools in the pipe wrench sense to me, they should hopefully not require much in the way of care & feeding apart from charging and the odd app or OS update. Of course, the odd OS update is can already be a problem as no official updates have been available for this phone (a Motorola…