For this week’s #Caturday, I have an image that requires a bit of backstory…

Shortly after Emperor Maximilian I retained us as his caretakers (over 8 years ago), we would often return home from our travels to find a handful of pairs of socks scattered around the floor, typically taken from our son’s sock drawer (which was usually overflowing and therefore often left slightly open). We weren’t sure if it was Max (as he was not the only cat in the house) until the day we came home to find this:

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Pretty good! Had an apple, too. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ha! 😂

Board game for one person? Ironing. :‘-D

@david@daiwei.me Oh yeah, a full belly stops everything. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang it! You gotta have a chance again after sunset. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Sounds cool, I gotta take a look at it when my brain has some free capacity. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de A mate showed me a graph reaching 40°C… :-O It’s going to be hell on earth.

@prologic@twtxt.net Congrats! 🤘 That sounds disturbingly low-level to me, but I know that it’s no small feat.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @klaxzy@klaxzy.net @david@daiwei.me I’m in a similar boat, they pushed us to use it, then pushed us to keep our usage below a certain threshold (although they do allow certain “power users” go beyond the limit, LOL). I dragged my feet at first, but they finally broke my spirit about a month before the limits were put into place. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing more managing than coding lately, so I mostly just use it for creating JIRA tickets (I find it to be very good at producing “Agile artifacts”).

@prologic@twtxt.net Copyright infringement is still your best entertainment value.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also got up at 5 (I always do 😅) and went on a quick stroll around 6:30, but boy, that was chilly. So I said to myself: Screw that, I’ll try again later.

And now we’re at 32 °C. 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s “shaping” up to where I think I want it to go 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, sound impressive, I gotta try this. 👌

Next heat wave coming up?

Still a few days to go, luckily, and these models aren’t super accurate … we’ll see …

@david@daiwei.me Yes!

So, a hobby OS, just like Linux was for Linus?

Although this is really an exercise is self-hosting a lagnguage, then self-hosting the language to build a self-hosting OS. It’s all meta-circular.

I just taught the scc SLOC tool I use how to detect and recognize the Mu programming language. So it’s actually a bit worse than your estimate. It’s more like ~60/30 at the moment:

>>> mu = 1445
>>> asm = 2365
>>> T = mu + asm
>>> mu / T * 100
37.9265091863517
>>> asm / T * 100
62.07349081364829

@david@daiwei.me It’s somewhat expected to have a fair bit of Assembly (machine code) to get some of the bits you need going. But I think I can reduce this a bit. Let’s see…

Dunno if anyone will find this interesting… But some ~6 months or so ago I experimented briefly with creating a whole bootloader + kernel + userland – Basically an entire OS in the Mu programming language (which as you know I also designed and created) – 6 months later I’ve worked on it some more after spending the last week working on improvements to Mu itself, which is now able to compile itself with its own Mu implemented compiler and now have an os/arch backend called muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly “nucleus”, most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.

https://git.mills.io/prologic/muos

Bwahahahaha, wie geil! :‘-D Wenn Österreicher Hochdeutsch sprechen müssen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-l1wfIDXY

Gestern Abend den Austrian Kiwi entdeckt, ein Neuseeländer, der seit ein paar Jahren in Österreich lebt. Der hat ein paar absolut großartige Videos.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Type hints are just… so weird.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see! :-D So, how was your banana then?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ruff, the formatter/linter, yeah.

Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D

No wonder. I just made that up. 🤣

Why.

Python’s numeric types complex, float and int are not subtypes of each other, but to support common use cases, the type system contains a straightforward shortcut: when an argument is annotated as having type float, an argument of type int is acceptable; similar, for an argument annotated as having type complex, arguments of type float or int are acceptable.

https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/special-types.html#special-cases-for-float-and-complex

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you! It’s so annoying. Ruff, the formatter?

Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D

(Wieder so ’n „soll ich’s einfach lassen und lieber ’ne Banane essen“-Moment.)

Bonus points for this:

$ man ruff
No manual entry for ruff

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo tired of “fast-moving” software. ruff changed a ton of stuff and now all my code bases “need fixing”. Blah.

And SemVer is worth nothing if your 4 year old program with over 16’000 commits is still at “version 0.x”. Blah!

Everything is horrible.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! :-)

Got up at 5 to have a shower and air out the bathroom before the sun hits, went back to bed. Strolled with my mate for one and a half hours and now I’m absolutely done. At 8 the temps were pleasantly cool, but that didn’t last long.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

For the tags feed it would be cool to include the actual changelog entries

Did that now:

🥳

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear, Thunderbird became such garbage.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You know you could in theory use the Twtxt App and the Twtxt Feeds service as your “news reader” right? 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bingo!

Oh, yeah, newsboat is good. For this particular use case, I explicitly needed a graphical feed reader, though. 😅 I ended up using Thunderbird, which has its own interesting way of configuring/adding feeds:

https://movq.de/v/a3557e3dc9/vid-1784952576.mp4

Why are feeds categorized as “Mail”? What’s going on with that “Add” button on the left of the dialog? Why does the dialog indicate that there’s a folder called “list-files Recent Commits” which doesn’t really exist in the end? (Why does it take about 1-2 seconds to load 25 feed items?) And so on.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahh gotcha 👌

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com LOL 😂

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Login to https://feeds.twtxt.net/ with your Pod’s account. Re-create whatever you like. In the end I had to start over, there was too much mess. As you can no doubt imagine, the reason for revamping the feeds service was to thwart SPAM and Junk.

@prologic@twtxt.net sorry if I missed it somewhere… are Yarn feeds like slashdot no longer a thing?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Since you ask, it must be only the one in the title bar, but not the one below. :-( Let me suggest Newsboat to you: https://newsboat.org/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not sure, I very rarely see people wearing cowboy hats. They’re a great protection against the sun in my opinion. Even as a child, I always loved their looks, but I only wear them in summer for that particular reason. Unfortunately, they’re too cumbersome to carry around not on your head. And they don’t combine with bicycle helmets or head rests.

About one and a half decades ago, I made two hats myself. Sadly, they both turned out to be failures.

Haha, now that you mention the aliens, I cannot unsee them anymore. :-D