Made a little Fractran ruleset compiler, still working on making the output nicer, but compiling rewriting to stack languages is a piece of cake.
https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/c75030488a264dd9aa7d030030047e928c24418a

@jaredj @vidak after a few initial hiccups due to user error (and a lingering issue that stops some people from following me that I don't have the technical skill or mental bandwidth to figure out), I'm mostly happily settled into my self-hosted #GoToSocial instance. I'm enjoying scanning the #emacs hashtag weekly with my mastoden.el code for combining the timelines from multiple servers, I'm slowly building the habit of posting little status updates and thoughts, and I like the glimpses I get into other people's thoughts. My limitations at this point are more non-technical than technical. :) There's probably a better thing out there, but that's okay, there's still enough for me to learn from and figure out even with what I've got.

This time, I bought a dead nugg! My strong suspicion is the BIOS chip in this one has gone faulty. Luckily, one person still sells replacement flash chips. It will be a fun (and tough) soldering exercise.

you know, i feel like i've got enough wisdom to keep quiet when i really want to say 'i told you so'

we owe it to ourselves to ditch using mastodon as a project. honestly the fediverse ended up following the pareto principle because of mastodon. and then mastodon itself within mastodon dot social.

where is the federated, horizontal system we were promised? how is it acceptable to have one instance to rule them all?

very little of mastodon as a piece of software is praiseworthy, with its complete lack of modularity, and its wasteful use of people's computing resources.

the man himself refuses to listen to the community, and runs the show as if he is inseperable from the project.

I love MP3 players. I love the fact they have a sole function.

Who here remembers Bluecurve icons from Fedora core or Red Hat
#Linux ? So adorable 🥰

#StarTrek

I don't usually rewatch tech videos, but because it's just that good I'm in the middle of rewatching @gutbomb's video about the low end OG Power Macintosh, the 6100, with lots of background and speed upgrades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1h33fUfcE. He produced almost all the music in the video too!

if you view in-browser pixel art and run macOS on a retina display, you may or may not have noticed that Safari doesn't render pixel-perfect images. by default, it anti-aliases every image which turns razor sharp pixel art into mashed potatoes

save the following code in a text file like 'sharp-pixels.css':

body > img:only-of-type, .mw-mmv-image img {
image-rendering: crisp-edges !important;
}

and then go to Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Style Sheet -> Other...
and select the css file you just created.

voila. sharp pixel art whenever you view a png.

huge thank you to @gingerbeardman for the code

#macOS

bad idea: write a virus to infect the DOS-stub of 32bit windows EXEs, but all it does besides spreading is changing them to print "This Program requires Microshaft Winblowz."

The #harelang mailing list is quite active recently, some breaking changes being proposed (have to scroll past the 'build failure' and 'build success' reports):

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare-dev?page=2

I like the idea of such a minimal language that uses a smaller simpler compiler (QBE) rather than LLVM (LLVM is quite bloated and unstable these days).

Looking forward to the 1.0 version of Hare in the distant future!

State of Clojure 2024 Results

https://clojure.org/news/2024/12/02/state-of-clojure-2024

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://clojure.org/news/2024/12/02/state-of-clojure-2024

#clojure #programming

Gizznugget

If not #React then what? @slightlyoff has some (damned good) ideas:
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

#frameworkism #performance