Þree weeks into #DecemberAdventure, þe timing of it all has been outstanding. I had a daunting pile of þings I've been meaning to fix, delve into or document. And in just a few days, I've been able to get þrough most of it, learning countless new þings along þe way!

It's been great to follow along wiþ everyone's daily logs, alþough, þis year, many are working on stuff which just fly way above my head.

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

I haven't shared my #DecemberAdventure logs on here in a while.

After years of daily use, that little notepad program has gotten so good that I can't imagine myself ever using anything else, yet while it fits tightly into my workflow, I still occasionally find minor annoyances. Lately, I find myself wanting to check items as completed, but I don't want to neither stroke the line, entirely remove the line, or edit the line textually to change one character for another, so today's little adventure is merely giving me the option of mouse2-ing a line to toggle its state.

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

After a conversation on the #nova channel, here's the core of a scalable text editor without any caching (because cache invalidation is one of the hard problems of programming)

https://forum.nova-lang.net/viewtopic.php?t=16

Line wrap and click to reposition cursor in 60 lines.

#DecemberAdventure

Day 5 of #DecemberAdventure . Instead of waiting until after work, I made my attempt at Tic Tac Toe in the morning while fresh

https://disast.rs/adventure/2024.html#Day%205

light day for #DecemberAdventure ! I solve non-explosive tuple reversal in modal:
https://disast.rs/adventure/2024.html#Day%204

now that I am getting my hands around rewriting, I'm wondering about what to do next!

I don't really do much coding, but my version of #DecemberAdventure is to tidy up some stuff that's built up through the year, and to tackle a small project that's not digital at all.

So, for this year, I re-made the navigation on my website — https://helveticablanc.com — which was originally inspired by @neauoire's site. I'm particularly happy with the artwork archive navigation.

The other project is I'm going to make a bunch of little sculptures for my altar. I'll share any I'm really happy with later this month!

Happy adventuring!

Kicking off day one [1] of #DecemberAdventure by re-housing my norns for portability. Now it's in an old junky box, but I can grab it and my laptop to work through the norns scripting studies [2] anywhere (especially if it'll work with a powerbank.

1. https://tendigits.space/site/december_adventure_2024
2. https://monome.org/docs/norns/studies/

I think I've wrangled all the adventure logs that I know of so far for this year's #DecemberAdventure -- thanks so much to everyone who's sent me a link!

Honestly, my favorite part of this is keeping up with everyone's logs.

https://eli.li/december-adventure

Oatmeal - December Adventure

The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every

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Got a little journal section for December Adventure. Hoping to work on LVERA as well as using it to power an idea I've had for ages.

https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/december-adventure-2024.html

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Did you participate in the #DecemberAdventure this year?

I'm gonna write up a retrospective on my blog of this year's adventure -- I'm not 100% certain how I'm gonna use them, but, I'd love to collect some quotes from folks about their thoughts of it -- nothing fancy, nothing wicked long, just a couple sentences.

If you are interested in providing that sort of thing either do so as a reply to this thread, DM me, or email me by magically figuring out my email (it is on my website) https://eli.li/about

Oatmeal - About Me

Hello! I’m Eli, he/him, eli_oat most places online. This is my website. You’ll find a hodgepodge of all kinds of stuff here ranging from rambling

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As the #DecemberAdventure continues to wind down, I did an update on the last few days.

https://eli.li/december-adventure-2023

Happy adventuring ya'll!

Oatmeal - December adventure, 2023

I’ll also be logging stuff on mastodon. I kicked things off by noodling with Decker. My goal was to get more acquainted with building and wiring up

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For the last few days of the #DecemberAdventure I've been pretty quiet, but I've actually written the most code!

It isn't pretty, and it isn't even particularly useful, but I've continued to work on my silly little JavaScript game framework thing for making little sketches.

https://eli.li/_assets/bin/game-frame/

Don't collect the bike. It breaks everything...

Instead of a #DecemberAdventure today, here are some photos I took at the very foggy beach.

I also took a gigantic nap with the dog.

https://eli.li/2023/12/25/2023-12-25-16-34-16

https://eli.li/2023/12/25/2023-12-25-16-32-46

Oatmeal | 📸 Photo

Foggy Christmas adventuring

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So far today I’ve done no substantial computering other than writing this #DecemberAdventure update. I spent most of the morning toodling around Portland on the cargo bike with a kiddo. We did the entire back cove, most of our neighborhood, a bit of the peninsula, and checked out a new playground -- it was fun (thought wicked chilly).

This evening I’m hoping to make either General Tso’s tofu (’tis the season) or dumplings, depending on what is in our cabinets.

I also got a package from a friend in Japan! He sent me a Japanese copy of Final Fantasy Tactics for the Gameboy Advance. I am wholly unequipped to play such a thing, but you bet your thumbs I’ll try!

For today’s #DecemberAdventure I did two things:

- I sewed a pink snake per my kid’s request
- I pulled together a basic IRC bot

I used to sew a lot before having kids; as an undergrad I actually TA’d for a bunch of animation and puppetry courses that involved a lot of sewing and practical sort of hand-making. I did a bit during the pandemic lock downs out of necessity, but not much. I’ve been staring at all my sewing stuff for years, though, and wanting to get back into the habit of making freaky little guys.

The IRC bot was inspired by some conversations I had on fedi: I’m wondering if it could serve as a good playground for making little narrative games, where, rather than having to build an engine and physics and and and on and on I plop some new interactive commands into an existing bot. I chose IRC because it is easy as pie (see what I did there?), but I could imagine migrating to something else one day.

Day 21 of the #DecemberAdventure --

Solstice! Today I hung out with friends, ran errands, made a big dinner, and generally chilled.

I’m sitting down now for the first time of the day at a screen.

Over the course of this adventure I’ve been reflecting on how what I always want to build is a game and how I hardly ever do it. I have countless (almost literally) starts at it, and hundreds and hundreds of ideas for games, but, when I sit down to do it I generally get eaten by technical hurdles that, paired with limited time, are a bit too steep to scale.

But on the inverse side of things, if I sit down to bang out a web app (what I do for work) I can almost literally do it with my eyes closed. The thing is, I have little to no interest in doing that in my spare time.

No real ask, or next step, just sharing this observation about myself that, is itself, not really new, but, remains true for me.

Quick part two for today’s #DecemberAdventure, day 19 part 2:

Everyone should go read the source code for @ratfactor's hiss — it is so legible, and stylish — not as in “cool,” (I mean, it is) but it has a style and is consistent. I adore that.

I think I could implement hiss’ parser using lil, but I think updating Decker cards dynamically is beyond my capabilities…and potentially Decker’s abilities. I’m gonna keep noodling, though.

http://ratfactor.com/hiss/hiss.html

http://eli.li/da-2023

Oatmeal - December adventure, 2023

I’ll also be logging stuff on mastodon. I kicked things off by noodling with Decker. My goal was to get more acquainted with building and wiring up

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Day 19, #DecemberAdventure

I don’t usually like to do computer things in the morning — I try to preserve that time for reading. This morning, though, I woke up with an idea, so reached for Decker first thing.

I wake up between 4 and 5 AM to feed the cats and dog.

After they’ve finished eating there is almost always a strange and quiet moment where the cats sit right next to each other in the dawning light, and look out a particular window on to the street below.

The dog flops back to sleep, either under a desk or a bed.

Exploring my idea (to see if I could support @ratfactor's hiss stuff from within Decker) brought me to Decker’s pre-built module for visual novels!?

The kids are up now. The bustle of a day awaits! ONWARD ADVENTURERS!

#DecemberAdventure day 22

Success! I was able to edit and save my log with the typewriter 🙌​

Did the coding on the train, 7 hours to go, but I think I'll continue tomorrow.

Next up, making the code smaller and faster, and handling errors better.

https://git.sr.ht/~louismerlin/december-adventure

#DecemberAdventure day 19:

Leaving the rendering logic for now, I'm trying my hand at making a UI for the first time. First little step: an icon that shows which camera mode you're in ("first person" or "orbit")

https://ghettobastler.com/december_adventure_2023.html

Day 18 of the #DecemberAdventure wowowow!

It is so much fun reading all of the other adventure logs! Though, to be honest, I’m not sure how ya’ll keep at it! Especially on work days, after work I’m so wiped out I don’t have much mental power to apply to adventuring.

Shout outs to ya’ll!

I explored Decker’s contraptions today. They’re a way to make re-usable, custom widgets.

I also revisited my game thing today.

I think I’ve made an error in how player state is handled. I haven’t totally sorted out what is going on yet. Like I said, I’m wiped, but, will try to figure that out soon.

https://eli.li/december-adventure-2023

Oatmeal - December adventure, 2023

I’ll also be logging stuff on mastodon. I kicked things off by noodling with Decker. My goal was to get more acquainted with building and wiring up

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#DecemberAdventure updates!

I let myself become very waylaid by scheme this weekend.

I created a scheme page in my wiki, and I captured a few useful bits of scheme code on the forget me nots page.

Later today or tomorrow I’m determined to return to Decker and lil to get my weird game prototype into a shareable state by the end of the month.

https://eli.li/scheme

https://eli.li/forget-me-not

Oatmeal - Scheme

A friend recently asked me why I like scheme so much. After a bit of thought, I landed on this as an answer – My straight sauce answer here is so

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No adventure log for yesterday's #DecemberAdventure -- I went to bed early 🍻

Today, I walked to the local library. There, I revisited the game in Decker for a bit — mostly I drew a silly map for it. Afterwards I started roughing in the bones of a game system in scheme.

Not much to show for it, yet, but I do always love re-visiting scheme. My brain isn’t in scheme-mode at the moment, so things that I think should be easy are proving mind bending, which is fun.

https://eli.li/december-adventure

Oatmeal - December Adventure

The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every

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For today's #DecemberAdventure I took a hiatus from Decker. Instead, I dove into @Sandra's brev. I also explored her cst, that turns s-expressions into graphviz diagrams.

I’m not sure if I’ll pursue this, but I was noodling on making a little text-based toy where the object of the game is to create graphviz maps of some space you are exploring — like a traveling cartographer game?

I also continue to read The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

https://idiomdrottning.org/brev

https://idiomdrottning.org/cst

I didn’t write a #DecemberAdventure update for day 12 because I was knee deep in potatoes making latkes.

I'm getting back into the swing of things after 2 days away from Decker. Today, Day 13, I added logic to the enemy in the combat system of my little game.

It is really boring, so I wanna tune it a bit, and maybe make it something other than just an “attack” or “rest” button. All the pieces are in place to start exploring different ways to handle these sorts of encounters, though!

I remain completely smitten with Decker and lil. Especially lil. It is a very pleasant programming system.

Tonight I’m going to read more of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, too!

https://eli.li/december-adventure

Oatmeal - December Adventure

The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every

^eli.li