detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207

Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559

New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951

Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025

A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197

Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069

A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886

A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343

A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612

Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.

past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm

Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they’re easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372

Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973

Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456

Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316

First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835

Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964

Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545

An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I like it. You could optionally segment these lists somehow. It reminds me of how Mastodon instances represent a community of sorts. e.g. weare.txt

I’m not leaving twtxt, but I’ll also point out my Mastodon URL: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dbucklin

If you want to experience an almost empty social network, you can check out https://mastodon.sdf.org.