The editor can launch a new shell now:

https://movq.de/v/6ec68b50dd/los86-edit-shell.mp4

Trivial to implement but super useful. It allows for simple but meaningful dev cycles: Edit source code, run/test it, back to editor. That’s what I do in the video.

(The Brainfuck program is silly, but I got nothing else at the moment.)

The I/O cache is also getting better. All that back and forth doesn’t hit the disk at all, once cached.

This whole thing is much more fun and interesting when you run it from a real floppy disk. It’s a 5.25” floppy in the video (so it’s actually floppy 😅). Disk seek times can be catastrophic and you don’t notice any of this on modern disks.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Being able to render user avatars is certainly nice. 😃 I’m always happy to see more twtxt/Yarn clients!

@prologic@twtxt.net lol 😅

@arne@uplegger.eu Ach wie schön. :-) BF1942 hab’ ich schon ewig nicht mehr gesehen. Meine mich zu erinnern, dass das im Multiplayer ein bisschen wonky war, kam nicht an Größen wie UT oder Q3 ran. Aber es war lustig mit all den Fahrzeugen, Flugzeugen, Schiffen. 😅

@doesnmppsflt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Hmmm, the only time jenny requests something from twtxt.net is when you use the fetch context feature. jenny doesn’t interpret those long IDs as valid twt hashes, though, and won’t try to fetch them from Yarn. 🤔

Can you still reproduce this bug?

@kat Oh, nice. I didn’t get the chance yet to actually see and use one of those in real life, but they look very interesting. If my current laptop ever breaks down, I hope that framework will still be around. 😅

@arne@uplegger.eu Meine letzte LAN ist deutlich über 15 Jahre her. Die letzte richtige mit vielen Leuten und so tollen Sachen wie „wir schleppen mal Tower-PC und Röhrenmonitor im Zug quer durch Deutschland“ ist sicher 20 Jahre her. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ve never written any substantial Brainfuck code myself. It’s super fascinating, though. The programs from https://brainfuck.org/ are very short and yet they do a lot. I don’t know how long numwarp.b would be if I wrote it in Python. 🤯

@doesnmppsflt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Not sure which bug you’re referring to. 🤔 (Did I forget?)

Those long IDs like (#113797927355322708) are simply part of that feed. Looks like the author just dumps ActivityPub IDs into twtxt. I think this used to work in the past, but the corresponding spec (https://twtxt.dev/exts/hash-tag.html) has been deprecated and jenny doesn’t support – actually, jenny never supported that.

jenny can only group threads by exactly one criterium (because it writes a Message-ID into the mail file) and that’s the regular twt hash. So, anything else, like people doing “#CoolTopic”, isn’t possible.

@prologic@twtxt.net Fine by me. I don’t see/remember a valid reason for just doing @. Was there ever a reason to do that? 🤔

Not a witch, I’m just programmed that way. 😂

My OS has a Brainfuck interpreter now and this counts as a programming language, right? We’re feature complete now. 😂

https://movq.de/v/1335167b35/vid4.mp4

@bender@twtxt.net That’s the way! 😂

I just used screego to help a family member with their Windows PC. Flawless experience! 💚

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You would love the recent changes in Google Chat. Emojis are animated now. 🥴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Not bad, I got over 1000. (And I expected more as well.) It felt great to just create a folder called “vacation2024” and move them all in there, done. 😏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Earplugs are great, too! Feels like they block out more noise than NC headphones.

I automatically take off the headphones when I’m half asleep. I don’t even notice it. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net Those are in-ear, right? 🤔

(I was wondering why you’re still awake. Then I realized it’s already morning where you live … 😅)

@prologic@twtxt.net Some 10 year old Bose QuietComfort 25. They’re great, but you have to replace the ear cushions every 4 years or so.

I’ve made it a habit to always put on my noise cancelling headphones when going to bed (without music). It’s pure heaven. 😂 Silence and darkness. I fall asleep within minutes. 😂 Good night. 😴

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah, that sounds familiar. 😅😩 Reminds me of that comic: https://movq.de/v/1e2bcf790f/logout.jpg Stay strong 💪

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh dear, get well soon. 🤒

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org pam_happy_hour is my favorite. Gotta roll this out at work. :-)

Yes, that commit fixes it. (Wow, building Vim from source is a heavy process. 😳)

And that was the first time Vim ever crashed on me:

Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: preserving files...
Vim: Finished.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I was using Ctrl+P to scroll through the completion list. 🤔 Reproducible. Ctrl+N still works.

Hopefully fixed by this: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8d0bb6dc9f2e5d94ebb59671d592c1b7fa325ca6

“2025” doesn’t look right. That looks like a date which is absurdly far into the future. Like 2199 or something.

@kat @bender@twtxt.net We’ve used pgloader at work to migrate an old legacy application from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Their website says it also works with SQLite. 🤔

… and then there’s SVED from SvarDOS at 6035 bytes. Oh, dear!

Good thing is, SVED is free software:

https://github.com/SvarDOS/core/tree/master/sved/trunk

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The west. Nasty wind is always coming from the bloody west. (My apartment is facing the west and so I get to enjoy all the storms. 😂)

Good weather/wind comes from the east. (Which makes all the planes approach from the west again and so I get to enjoy their noise. 😂😂)

@bender@twtxt.net Maybe, I don’t want to risk anything, though, and I can’t get this video out of my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 😅 (My main machine runs on an SSD, the HDDs are just for additional data like my software archive, music, …)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net What are we looking at here? Are those requests per second? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat Thanks. 😅 Fingers crossed.

In the process of temporarily removing and securing all my hard disks. They’ll be turning this building into a construction site for the next weeks/months. Lots of heavy drilling and hammering. Not sure what this means for spinning disks and I’d rather be on the safe side. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s the script, if you’re interested: https://www.uninformativ.de/git/bin-pub/file/mcalc.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Right, there is some hope left for Python docs because of the type hints. 😃 (I still don’t use them, because, ugh. 🤦)

To quote GLaDOS: Yesterday I saw a deer!

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… aaaaaaand I had the first bug in my toy OS that was caused by caching. 😂 Bloody caching. (It only triggered in error conditions, but still.)

@kat Yeah, Java itself is somewhat “controversial”, I guess. 😅 But I’ve always found their documentation to be very pleasent to work with, at least that of the standard library.

@kat Okay, horrible cookie popup aside, would you say this is easier to read? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/List.html#method.summary 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, robots.txt or ai.txt are not worth the effort. I have them, but they get ignored. Just now, I saw a stupid AI bot hitting one of my blog posts like crazy. Not just once, but hundreds of times, over and over. 🤦🙄

For some reason, I was using calc all this time. I mean, it’s good, but I need to do base conversions (dec, hex, bin) very often and you have to type base(2) or base(16) in calc to do that. That’s exhausting after a while.

So I now replaced calc with a little Python script which always prints the results in dec/hex/bin, grouped in bytes (if the result is an integer). That’s what I need. It’s basically just a loop around Python’s exec().

$ mcalc 
> 123
         123        0x[7b]    0b[01111011]

> 1234
        1234        0x[04 d2]    0b[00000100 11010010]

> 0x7C00 + 0x3F + 512
       32319        0x[7e 3f]    0b[01111110 00111111]

> a = 10; b = 0x2b; c = 0b1100101
          10        0x[0a]    0b[00001010]

> a + b + 3 * c
         356        0x[01 64]    0b[00000001 01100100]

> 2**32 - 1
  4294967295        0x[ff ff ff ff]    0b[11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111]

> 4 * atan(1)
3.141592653589793

> cos(pi)
-1.0

@prologic@twtxt.net You might (not) enjoy this blog post: https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

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You could at least put a list of possible return values in there (always at the same location, please!), here’s a mockup:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, that’s not a photo, it’s a screenshot of Stellarium. I never managed to take actual photos of the sun in those two positions, I keep forgetting about it. 🥴

Moon and Venus were pretty close yesterday, but the photos didn’t turn out to be very good:

https://movq.de/v/b499494456/

(And Saturn was still faaaaar away.)

Noon in summer:

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And noon in winter:

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The difference never fails to make me go “whoa”. 😅

This evening, Saturn will show up right next to a crescent moon:

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Let’s see if I can catch that in a photo.

@eapl.me@eapl.me

Let’s work towards the future we want, not against the future we don’t want.

That would be nice.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅

The good thing is, I wouldn’t have to write an Ethernet driver, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol is a thing, but TCP/IP? Not sure if I want to do that. 😂 I could, of course, come up with my own thing …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww. 😍 Reminds me a bit of a gentoo penguin. 😅