social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

🪐 We've been on Mastodon for many years, but I'm gonna go ahead and post this old Xenia drawing anyways, in case any of our followers from Cohost are checking these tags

A drawing of Xenia the linux fox, who is walking along while carrying a trans-flag colored laptop. She has one hand in the air, as if waving someone away

okay waiiiiit a minute....hold on....
it's probably a bad idea to do this before learning like, basic programming but this is cool as hell

http://www.ulisp.com/

WASD? more like the classic AZNM!

You don't have this ... This is the Pecom 64, made in Serbia from 1985. It uses the very unusual RCA 1802 microprocessor. This is the only one known to be in North America.

A small black plastic home computer with a white plastic edge around it. It has grey full-travel.keys with white lettering on them

An edited Calvin and Hobbes strip

Dad: What joke would you like tonight? We can read everything except...

Calvin: Cow Tools?

Dad: No! No Cow Tools tonight! We've read that joke a million times!

Calvin: I want cow tools!

Dad: Look, you *know* how the joke goes. You've memorized the whole thing! It's the same joke ever day!

Calvin: I want cow tools!

The last panel is Calvin, Hobbes, and Dad in the cow tools comic. Dad looks bored and Calvin and Hobbes look very thoughtful.

uLisp now has a compiler, if you're on an ARM: http://www.ulisp.com/list?4W75

it's new with v4.6, but i don't know how specific it is. i expect a RISC-V version will be along in a bit

Announcing Spritely office hours! https://spritely.institute/news/announcing-spritely-office-hours.html

If you'd like to discuss or get help with Goblins, Hoot, or anything else in the Spritelyverse, this is a good chance to do so!

A cartoon goblin looking attentive, sitting on a picnic blanket and holding a notebook.

It's remarkable how much of social media, with very few exceptions, is still "Usenet, but siloed"

Check it out, Max Bernstein (@tekknolagi) and I have been playing with and putting together a small, 0-dependency cross-platform platform for GUIs. Standing on the shoulders of Fenster[1] and microUI[2], 2KLoC to get pixels on a screen on Linux, Windows or Mac. No SDL.

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/fenster-microui

[1] https://github.com/zserge/fenster

[2] https://github.com/rxi/microui

still thinking about the common lisp tamagotchi

apart from the simple common mini games of up-down, higher-lower, left-right, i want to include a little shop where you can buy foodstuffs and reskin your virtual pet.

bear in mind a lot of this rewrite in common lisp is to make preparation to port to ulisp so i can actually physically realise the lil game.

so i want to be able to fit everything onto a 16x2 LCD character screen. i do not imagine this will be difficult as the pet itself is a one-line emoticon.

@aartaka it's a tamagotchi written in common lisp, this time!

It's incredible how much time people dedicate to getting mad about D&D changes when you can just like homebrew stuff or find another damn system. It's not like a closed source video game or anything

@tonicfunk

please see sr.ht/~vidak/uwu.el for more (:

(that's the emacs version)

Commission offer

Would anyone be willing to accept payment to rebuild this web site for my open source project (just the main page, at least for now) to make it look better and better highlight the three main pieces of information that it contains (summary, link to web version and links to downloads)?

https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/

If so, how much do I need to pay?

@tonicfunk yeah it will have an inventory system and a lil chatbot function inside its shop function

worked some more on the common lisp tamagotchi this morning

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