Iām actually using Emacs and messing with both the C++ and JSON from the FOSS game Cataclysm DDA while compiling and hacking around. Iām also working on integrating AI with llama.cpp into Emacs. Iāve never been able to break into the whole IDE space effectively. I can easily mess with VSC and other easy stalkerware options, but when I actually watch my internet logs, I refuse to accept that kind of traffic and connections as normal.
ā¦I understood none of those words.
emacs is keyboard shortcuts turned into computer is magic
Emacs is a Text Editor mostly used for coding. It has a very steep learning curve, pretty hard to master but very powerful
C++ is a programming language
FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software
Cataclysm DDA (Dark Days Ahead( is a video game, and because itās FOSS you can modify it (programming) if you know what youāre doing.
Llama.CPO is a C++ library providing ChatGPT like features to a program. In this case Emacs.
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. Basically text editors but optimized for coding, like Emacs.
VSC stands for Visual Studio Code, which is another IDE owned by Microsoft. Hence the complaints against their internet logs. Microsoft collect too much data with VSC.
If youād like a spyware free alternative, you can try vs codium: https://vscodium.com
I have tried it, but had trouble when every project and example relies on stuff that only works with the m$ version. Emacs is the exact opposite with real people sharing in a free and open public commons.
You can connect VSCodium to the VSCode marketplace and then have access to all of the same plugins that VSCode has. The only thing that doesnāt work properly is .NET becauseā¦ Microsoft.
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Red over 12 books this year. The goal was 12 by the END of the year.
Iāve rad maybe 5 in the previous decade. Feels good man.
Congrats! Started a book yesterday. First in a couple of years. Not great writing, but now, 48 pages in, i feel like i need to finish it.
Google TGBC and see it thereās one near you. Its mainly an Aus thing but there are some in the US.
We spent the whole day cleaning my elderly momās plant-filled patio. Pressure-washed, repotted, and pruned everything. Even got the little cherub fountain working.
I read āpatioā as āpianoā. I was like āDaaaaaaamn! How bad does it have to get for vegitation to start growing???ā
I got 2 bags of sparkly, brightly-colored art batts (wool, silk, and angelina) at a fiber festival at the beginning of June, and I just finished spinning all of them today (it doesnāt take months to do, but I cut my finger in mid-June and had to take a break from fiber arts for a while). Now the singles need to rest, then I can ply them, then theyāll be yarn! And then I can knit something very happy with them and maybe have it done in time for winter.
I would like to see that whole machine some time. That looks fascinating.
Itās a Schacht Flatiron; Schacht is, I believe, the largest American spinning wheel manufacturer. https://schachtspindle.com/products/flatiron-spinning-wheel?variant=45418176250151 I really like it. My first wheel was a Majacraft Pioneer (NZ made).
It was a while back but I released an extension for Cinnamon, Linux Mintās desktop environment, that lets you change the opacity of any window on the screen: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/extensions/view/101
More recently, Iām working on importing bus stops in my country to OpenStreetMap but thatās not done yet.
Wow nice I will actually use that, thanks!
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Well, I managed to join a hispanic choir at a Portuguese church and I must say weāre having a blast, language barriers notwithstanding. I am of neither ethnicity but I just play violin so it doesnāt matter. And man, latino hymns rock!
Of course I donāt understand a thing the priest is saying. This week I thought hang on, Iāll just run Google Translate as heās speaking. But I think thereās a problem. It could be heās speaking Spanish with a thick Portuguese accent and it wasnāt coming out right? Unless he was actually saying:
ā¦And sushi are big carts of yesterday and today as farms catalyzed for purposes. He is not saying about Jesusā¦
i fixed an old mod i published on steam years ago.
i randomly got a ping on a workshop item for tabletop simulator that i hadnāt touched in aaages. in 2019, someone in my friend group had the idea to replicate the TechDif āTwo of these people are lyingā format, so i hacked together writeable and shuffleable note cards we could use to play online. a week or so ago i got a ping on that item, it was someone asking if they could ask me a question (never ask to ask, kids). this made me realize that it had hundreds of downloads, which made me a bit self-conscious about the code. looking at the other comments, i found some years old feature requests which i stayed up all night implementing.
the most interesting part (or gross, depending on your pov) was the request to make a card read-only. thereās no way to mark a text entry box as read-only, but i found out that they are only interactable on one side. so i added a toggle that rotates the text box so the back side faces up, and sets the scale to -1 which mirrors the whole thing.
I misread this as āthe least interesting thingā and was going to say I successfully woke up today, but actually interesting? Hmm. Cooked some amaranth leaves yesterday, from my garden. The whole plant is edible, leaves are sort of spinach or chard flavor. Itās an ancient cultivated plant, the bees love the purple flowers it has right now and the seeds can be eaten as grain, people bake with it.
Been on a break for a bit, but before that we got a Tektronix 535A oscilloscope from the 1950s-60s up and running (with the exception of a gain issue with the vertical amplifier, havenāt quite figured out the cause yet), and did some work on reverse-engineering and emulating the analog filters of the MOS 8580 SID on an FPGA (still heavily WIP, havenāt gotten around to a rewrite yet so itās still really jank, college is a bitch).
Started grafting and propagating fruit trees of all types. Now have fresh fruit from Memorial day until Thanksgiving, and gave dozens of trees away. It is is way easier, and way cheaper to do than you would think. Started out with flagging tape, a utility knife, (although a cheap pocket knife would work) and some waterproof wood glue. Recently added some Parafilm for bud grafting. This is the Youtube video that got me started.
Finished installing a 3.5" lift on my truck - it goes in for an alignment Tuesday, and then itāll be ready to drive!
This has freed me to start working on my car again - I had pulled the transmission to replace the clutch, upgrade the synchros, and install a limited-slip front differential. Thatās going back in, and I also installed upgraded coilovers. Probably have at least a few more weekends of work there to get the car back on the road, but Iām super excited to have two working vehicles on the horizon. The car has been down since around Christmas.
I stopped using smartphone in the bedroom and started reading much more as the result.
Itās been two and a half months, but Iām almost done creating a board game from scratch. Itās like Risk, but Cat themed, and featuring a massive deck of cards.
Next up, gotta start work on the prototype before I can invite some people over to play and hopefully learn if this game actually works as a concept, needs some rule tweaks, or is utterly confusing and broken.