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I still haven't started to improve cli roms so they can recover after usage, but I'll have to tackle this sooner or later. At the moment, it sounds like so much of a bore in comparison to doing graphics programming, problems for another day, F5 reload 'til then.

https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#DecemberAdventure


#DecemberAdventure Day 2: Got links working. These first few days will be re-writing stuff I had working before on the old Hootscript2, but I'm changing some of the game script syntax and making it work with the RetroV-based DOM renderer.

(And yes, I changed my mind - I see everybody else posting updates here and I wanna join in the fun. The full details and the actual Hiss editor are on the website, linked above.)


And so it begins! December Adventure 2023. Thanks to @eli_oat for the whole concept - it's exactly the structure I want and need for my project to keep it slow and steady.

Follow along at:

http://ratfactor.com/hiss/log

I don't plan to spam the timelines - maybe just a couple updates when I get stuff working? So feel free to just refresh that page as often as you like. My static site can take it. ๐Ÿ˜›

And check out the #DecemberAdventure tag for others!


I've been scratching my head about how to handle terminal roms(like linters and generators), and until now I thought to pause execution until a connection from the rom was made, but that had some issues. Instead, I figured that I could transfer the connections of the closing menu onto the newly spawned rom, this seems to solve that!
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#DecemberAdventure


Going to give #DecemberAdventure a try, likely focused on #uxn tinkering in uxntal instead of on the emulator side of things.
http://wastingmoves.com/december_adventure_2023.html


Starting my first #DecemberAdventure this year.
I'll be coding daily on my small virtual stack machine inspired by #uxn.
Hopefully I'll have made a basic text editor by the end of the month!
https://git.sr.ht/~louismerlin/december-adventure


Starting today is #DecemberAdventure , an idea to work a little each day in December (and write a log of each day) on exploratory programming projects

https://eli.li/2022/12/9/december-adventure

There are a number of people on Mastodon participating and can be found via #DecemberAdventure


A new landing page for #DecemberAdventure 2023

https://eli.li/december-adventure

If you're participating and putting a log online, you can let Eli know and they will link to participants' logs

> The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in December.


I've been meaning to have the menu rom complete before the month starts, but alas. So this morning I've added arrow controls to help with selecting the right thing from the menu's list, and I've added A button and Enter key to send the selection to Porporo. I think this month will be a lot of this, working on something from within the system, and partly fixing the little friction that I encounter along the way.
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#DecemberAdventure


Starting up my #decemberadventure thread here.
Day 1: playing w/ unxtal getting input and making visuals. Today I got a line drawing longer w/ each STDIN from Orca, which is a lot further than I expected on day 1, but I'll take it.
Also logging here: https://tendigits.space/site/december_adventure_2023.html


I may be making a potentially bad choice right before the #DecemberAdventure

https://interlisp.org


Lurking around the cool corners of Fedi, I recently learned about #DecemberAdventure. https://eli.li/december-adventure

I'm gonna skip Advent of Code this year and instead commit to spending at least a few minutes every day next month working on my now-abandoned Morse code game for #uxn.


DEC 26

The #DecemberAdventure has slowed down a bit. Between ~24 hours of power outage and holiday fun (movies, Chinese food, video games, etc) I haven't spent any time with my computer. I probably won't be spending much time with it for a few days yet, so, for now, a rest bit.

This has been a really fun experience though! I'm excited to revisit it, and things like it in the future!

A few big shout outs and thanks:

- @Sandra for clear-eyed words of encouragement
- @neauoire for making it "real"
- @ratfactor for putting the shape of the thing in my head with assembly nights!
- @llimllib for setting a bar to keep up with on the Advent of Computing side of the world!


DEC 22

No #DecemberAdventure this evening. Instead Iโ€™m gonna play some Zelda, Minish Cap.

Tomorrow, more racket though!


DEC 20

Last night I waded into the water of sql -- I've got a serious soft spot for sql, especially in sqlite. Next to javascript it is probably the language I've spent the most time with (look, I had some dark time with php in there, too, but I'm ignoring those times...and there was a lot of inline sql there, too ๐Ÿ˜†).

I like that sql is unabashedly imperative, but also hides some intriguing vector capabilities under there somewhere if you know the right corners to snoop in.

Today's #DecemberAdventure brought me back to coffeescript -- I was looking for easy ways to do literate programming (nothing makes it as easy as @crc's retroforth, though...that includes literate haskell...glare glare glare). It was nice to see that coffeescript2 includes a lot of nice language features from javascript.


DEC 19

Today's #DecemberAdventure was actually me writing some cursed javascript for work...sort of re-inventing the wheel to display a bunch of disparate data from a couple different places in 1 place.


DEC 18

No #DecemberAdventure today -- spent the day running around with kids and doing Chanukah things instead. Do have a toy that makes GameBoy dev pretty darn tootin' enticing.

I've been meaning to experiment with Arduino game dev., too -- maybe my first project will be to get #uxn or something up and running for either device?


DEC 17

I pretty much spent all day playing with the kids today. No regrets, but this did impact the #DecemberAdventure. Now that they're asleep I'll probably spend a bit of time fiddling or reading with some computer stuffs.


DEC 16

Back at it! #DecemberAdventure reborn ... and still a baby thing.

Spent a bit of time working on a script to make writing blog posts easier, and did a very little bit of code golf for tiny code christmas thing. I am remarkably terrible at anything that requires visuals/pixels.

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure


DEC 15

The #DecemberAdventure has revealed thatโ€ฆI hate computers a little?

But in all seriousness today was another day filled with tedious data analysis at work so I felt sorta burned out at the end of it all. I did think a wee bit about application architecture for two separate projects, one a very theoretical one Iโ€™ve been noodling on and one an early stage app that @hisaac is working on.

If I can muster some more concentration I would like to crack into some functional programming stuff. Mocking birds and what not.


DEC 14

I think I've fallen off the #DecemberAdventure wagon ya'll -- I did write code today, but it was all for work and I don't have the juice to write other code I don't think.

...that said...data analysis is fun and I wish the tools I was using made it easier to get data out so that I could use the tools I wanna use.


DEC 13

#DecemberAdventure invited me to do a lot of thinking today --

- thinking about the future of computing
- thinking about combinatorial logic ๐Ÿ˜†

I haven't picked up another project. I need to do that this evening or first thing tomorrow because I'm pushing two days of sort of nebulous reaching log entries :oh_no:

I'd like to do something with array programming but, to be totally honest, do know what to do with it other than math for math's own sake, and that isn't really my jam. Perhaps it is time to return to the Pokรฉdex?

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure


DEC 12

Today's #DecemberAdventure was low key -- not much code written, but I pulled together some (very, extraordinarily) rough wireframes for an app I've long fantasized about.

I used the wireframes as a touchstone for a conversation with my friend @hisaac to see if the app was feasible.

Consensus is that it is achievable, but not like a breeze to make.

I'm not certain about next steps on this app idea. I'll continue to noodle on it and do some more research, but not certain if I want to dive (back?) into the world of app dev after escaping it's jaws (professionally speaking).


DEC 10

I didn't want to eat up too much of my weekend at the computer, so kept this installment of the #DecemberAdventure short and sweet!

- last night I wrote a teeny tiny blog post about the whole thing
- today I refactored the project I started in lil to be a bit more focused

The refactored project doesn't try to be a general purpose cataloguing utility anymore, instead it focuses only on link logging. This was an easier bite to chew.

I've completed the core functionality minus some protections (like handling errors from wget) and will be wrapping it all in a cli interface next! After that I may see about moving it all to Decker to add a UI ๐Ÿคท maybe.

OH! Last night I also added to ideas.txt for other things to do. I remain excited.

https://eli.li/2022/12/9/december-adventure


DEC 09

After making my post for DEC 08, I ended up poking at a bunch of elisp into the wee hours of the morning. My goal was to put together a major mode for lil.

I got somewhere, but not where I wanted to be...but also...lil works really well in acme, so I think I'm gonna stick with that for now :blobpeek:

Today brought a bit more elisp hackery, but also more proving out what I'm trying to do in lil. I remain smitten with the weird little language. I'm especially excited at the idea of its captain-planet-esq ability to combine features from functional and array programming systems.

What will the weekend hold for #DecemberAdventure!?

https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/about/
https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure


DEC 08

I kept exploring lil during today's #DecemberAdventure. I had a quick email exchange with John, the person behind lil, and also started work on a minimal major-mode to write lil in emacs <<insert HMS Pinafore joke here>>.

I'm loosely basing the emacs stuff off of @d6's excellent uxntal-mode...but my plans are a lot less ambitious than everything uxntal-mode does.

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure
https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/about/

I'm also realizing I haven't written a blog post about this December Adventure thing ๐Ÿ˜›lease_no: -- maybe this weekend I'll do that!


DEC 07

For today's #DecemberAdventure I stepped away from parenthesis and picked up lil, the language at the heart of decker.

https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html
https://beyondloom.com/decker

I've raved about lil and decker in the past...but...ya'll, I'm still purdy darn smitten.

I sketched the basics of a little data driven application that I hope to build using lil. At first it'll be a cli application, but it may bloom into a full decker GUI one day.

Using lil, I'm going to focus on digging into the language features that are inspired by vector programming. Lil seems like a solid way to get deeper into vector programming, without plumbing the more esoteric depths of apl or bqn's digraphs (yeah yeah, I know about k, too, but :blob_dizzy_face: )

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure
https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/about/


DEC 06

Today's #DecemberAdventure was kind of a rest day. Work was wicked busy, and honestly not over yet.

I poked a bit on the inspector function, and hope to do a little bit more this evening, time permitting.

I don't want to walk away from the Pokรฉdex project, but I am also noodling on starting another project...time will tell!

Over the last 6 days I've also locked in my emacs config ๐Ÿคท

https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/about/



DEC 04

I had to wake up early to sneak in some $WORK time this morning. After wrapping that up the kids were still asleep so I dipped into the #DecemberAdventure a bit earlier than I've been doing! I like early morning programming a lot.

Not tons of progress today, but lots of exploring and playing with different tools for recursion. I've sorted out how to get at what I need manually. My next step is to figure out how to do it in a generic enough way that it works for any of the data shapes I'll be tackling...namely without relying toooooo heavily on car/cdr, and friends.

After yesterday's update I also spent a bit of time trying to reimplement what I've done so far in racket in chibi and chicken #scheme. I didn't get heaps far with either and threw out both attempts. I'm gonna keep on keeping on with #racket for now.

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure
https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/about/


DEC 03

Today's #DecemberAdventure has been a really 2 steps forward, 1 step back kinda affair.

No gigantic leap in progress today, I'm still wrestling with how to plumb data through this thing, but getting closer!

I set up a test project to explore how to get at nested hash table data within a hash table.

https://git.tilde.institute/elioat/december-2022/tree/src/tmp.rkt

I *think* the ticket is to unquote the nested data...but I haven't sorted out how to do that conditionally, yet, since the data isn't always a quoted hash table.

In that test project there are 2 functions, inspector1 and inspector2, 1 works more or less as expected, 2 is supposed to test if a value is a hash table, but it always seems to return false.

Feedback, ideas, and insights are more than welcome :ohgod_ohfuck:


DEC 02

Spent my #DecemberAdventure time playing with hash tables.

Nothing pretty to show yet, but already getting closer 1 little function at a time.

https://elioat.tilde.institute/december_adventure


"in lieu of doing the advent of code i aim to do a little bit of programming every day in december"

inspired by @eli_oat and @neauoire and with encouragement, ideas, and code from @m455 i'm having (well, attempting) a #DecemberAdventure

here is a journal of my progress:
https://orbital.rodeo/~mike/20221201-december-adventure/

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