So! Mostly I phosted an example of Shinmera's tooter, the official mastodon CL package (activitypub client 2 server). I also tarred up a bunch of dependencies including my own eve-quine. tooter is based on Weitz' DRAKMA for requests and so has lots of deps. I think deps.tar can be used like this: tar xvf deps.tar mkdir ~/common-lisp ecl <<EOF (require :asdf) (let ((files (directory #p"deps/"))) (loop initially (uiop:chdir #p"~/common-lisp/") for tgz in files do (uiop:run-program (format nil "tar xzvf ~a" (namestring tgz))))) EOF And then you could $ ecl -load do-tooter.lisp which you can also find in my gopherhole.