The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to do a bit of creative coding every day in December and write about it. Goto: 2025, 2024, 2023.
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I wrote new file device tests to catch previously undefined behaviors highlighted by cancel who's working on a new release of Uxn32. The day just went by so damn fast. To celebrate a day of catching strange bugs, here's a funny picture of Chloe's biblically-accurate catclock.
Listening to: LONOWN,DJ Anemia - seamripper
I was doing some good progress on SunflowerBASIC this morning, until trying to take off my shoe, one of the pins that close the shoe snapped off. I put aside the computer and did some impromptu shoe hacking instead.
I've had this pair of Sou-Sou for nearly 15 years, I really want to keep wearing them. I walked to the Fjällräven store in town, they have a little in-store workshop to repair clothes. They gave me a couple of buttons(thanks guys!). I probably have the only pair of Sou-sou in the world with buttons now.
Listening to: Olexandr Ignatov - Journey
Today marks the third week into Decadv, and is the shortest day of the year, it has been fantastic to follow everyone's daily devlogs. It provided me the extra push I sometimes need to allow myself to just play, and I feel like this month has been nothing but marvelous pursuits. As for today, I've kept on researching logic gates emulation in Orca and figured I probably had all the pieces to implement Rule 90 at this point. Behold Sierpiński's triangle in Orca!
...Cu...uCu...................................................................... .xVoA6.yV0A5..................................................................... ..iVu...jV5...............2Kxj................................................... ............................o53Q................................................. ....................7.O.4.O4M.................................................... .......................M2..A0.................................................... ...............2Kiy....0Y0A0..................................................... .............9.2Gu0.......08T.1.11.1............................................. .........................u0X....................1................................ ...............................................1.1............................... ..............................................1...1.............................. .............................................1.1.1.1............................. ............................................1.......1............................ ...........................................1.1.....1.1........................... ..........................................1...1...1...1.......................... .........................................1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1......................... ........................................1...............1........................ .......................................1.1.............1.1....................... ......................................1...1...........1...1...................... .....................................1.1.1.1.........1.1.1.1..................... ....................................1.......1.......1.......1.................... ...................................1.1.....1.1.....1.1.....1.1................... ..................................1...1...1...1...1...1...1...1.................. .................................1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1................. .................................................................................
Listening to: 宇多田ヒカル - 光
A bit of #unix_surrealism fanart of Mec.
Listening to: HEALTH - Antidote
For a while now, I've been day-dreaming about writing an implementation of a line editor in Uxntal. I've started reading Software Tools and implementing some of the easier functions. I only had a few minutes so I didn't get very far, but I'm planning to chip away at this over the next couple of weeks.
Listening to: Miyagi - Kingdom
Playing with Oekaki. Siufiu, te riuto'disa foul, de fiu sisou sela! Modou rita mal, ou saufiu tali? fed.
Listening to: Covenant - Bullet
A violent storm tossed us around all night and kept us up, so I'm going kick back today and take it easy.
I did write a tiny bit of code after breakfast to fix a bug that has been nagging me for a while. Ever since I've decided to embrace macros in Uxntal, I never got around to reflect this change in all the tooling, and the optimizer has been complaining about tail-calls with macros eversince. For example, a macro name terminating a function fall, was read as a subroutine, so the optimizer was raising a warning. But, NO MORE!
Listening to: Gibran Alcocer - Idea 22
I got thoroughly soaked walking back through the downpour outside, once I had changed into comfy dry clothes and made some tea, I started poking at dzoe's raycaster project and it reminded me of Bellinitte's wonderful Pinhole.
So I started modernizing the code a bit, and added dynamic objects creation. I'd love to bring the primitives I've written for Moogle over to it. That would mean I can do away with the last program I still use that I made in C, and have all the tools I need for the Neauismetica entirely hosted on Uxn.
Listening to: Peryl & Vergil - Pale Grim
Picked up where Michael Schierl left off with the Uxn implementation of the CollapseOS runtime and made sure it all worked nicely with Drifloon(the tiny version of the self hosted Uxntal compiler). The current runtime binary is 2091 bytes large, looking at the code, it seems like I'll be able to bring it way down.
Listening to: MNLTH - Time
Spent the evening with Cancel bringing Uxn32 up to parity with the modern Varvara specification. The emulator was first completed two years ago when things were still coming together. Some notable changes that happened since 2023:
I've also added a flag to the uxn11 screen to accelerate full screen drawings projects, like in Oquonie and Polycat.
Listening to: PRIRODA - 8080
I was helping someone debug their emulator and noticed that there was a little undocumented behavior with the Mouse device. The old test program looked pretty but didn't help all that much, and so to get to the bottom of the issue we were seeing, I made a new test that more narrowly displays the values in each port of the device.
Listening to: O'Death - Lowtide
I wasn't around yesterday to work on anything, let alone write a devlog. Today, I was, but I had lots of little tasks to catch up so nothing really moved forward in any devlog-worthy sense. That being said, I did slip in a tiny improvement to SunflowerBASIC, I completed the implementation of MAKE, which exports the project as a uxn rom similarly to Flick, which makes BASIC the second game dev engine for Varvara?
Since I didn't have anything graphical to show today, and that I fell in love with Adel Faure's psychedelic pixel font, I've written our great event's name with it.
Listening to: Lustre - First Snow
I was given some really awful, but intense, pre-workout this morning and the jitteriness hasn't really left yet, I bounced between things all day.
I've improved SunflowerBASIC so that it handles theme files better, I added a 80 columns marker to Left to see how wide the paragraphs are at a glance, I spent some time setting up ScummVM, so Rek and I can play The Neverhood over the holidays. I also played with Spirographs and did some proof-reading for the Victoria-Sitka Logbook.
Listening to: Alcest - Flame Jumelle
I wrote some tests for Heol, fixed a little annoyance with macros in my text-editor navbar and completed another HPDA today. So it was time to make the next one.
Listening to: Ö - 2026 (feat. A. G. Cook)
Sim liut e tiud fem, au mide se rarou miuro, sise doulo e Blindness au José
Saramago lof. Melau so tilo faudau mi tam. Midi fe Ses rod tito
do fiuf. Ah! E fizzbuzz fe Heol do lir.
Siur Ret'Mediu!
(define fizzbuzz (lambda (n f b) (if (< n 50) (if (and (eq? f 3) (eq? b 5)) (and (print-ln 'FizzBuzz) (fizzbuzz (+ n 1) 1 1)) (if (eq? f 3) (and (print-ln 'Fizz) (fizzbuzz (+ n 1) 1 (+ b 1))) (if (eq? b 5) (and (print-ln 'Buzz) (fizzbuzz (+ n 1) (+ f 1) 1)) (and (print-ln n) (fizzbuzz (+ n 1) (+ f 1) (+ b 1)))))) ())))
Listening to: Ophelia Wilde - December
Made a Tic-Tac-Toe implementation in Orca, tried a few different designs too. I felt quite proud of it at the time, but then a minute later, vacuumbeef released a new banger!
Listening to: Raban - Paper Birds
Was out and about today, but I did get to do a few back n' forths with the design of Heol's print function. I wanted for it to be lispy, of course, but didn't want to fuss too much with the mess that is lisp printing functions, found a design I liked that could handle most of the generic cases I need a printing function for. So, that's it, that's all for today!
(define countdown (lambda (n) (if (< n 1) 'done (countdown (print (- n 1)))))) (countdown 10) ; 9876543210 (print 'hey) ; hey (print '(foo bar)) ; foo bar
Listening to: PaulWetz x Juli - Geile Zeit
Implemented a comfy little lisp called Heol that fits in a 2kb rom! It's designed to be usable with even the simpler emulators, like uxnmin.c and REPLs. Get it here. It's missing I/O still, something for tomorrow.
$ uxnmin heol.rom λ (define double (lambda (x) (+ x x))) λ (double 5) 10
Listening to: nelly furtado - all good things (gravagerz remix)
Finished the reader function for the Lisp I started yesterday. It's already capable of parsing and reducing some expressions, but I have yet to implement lambda and closure bindings, which I'll do tomorrow!
Listening to: Amelia Moore - See Through (Kaki & DEATH CODE Edit)
(eq? 16 16) -> #t (eq? 24 16) -> () (eq? (quote foo) (quote foo)) -> #t (not #t) -> () (not ()) -> #t (< 12 34) -> #t (< 16 8) -> () (and #t ()) -> () (or #t ()) -> #t (cons 12 34) -> (12 . 34) (cons 1 (cons 2 ())) -> (1 2) (pair? (quote (12 34))) -> #t (quote (+ 12 34)) -> (+ 12 34) (eval (quote (+ 12 34))) -> 46 (if () 123 456) -> 456 (let* (a 3) (b (* a a)) (+ a b)) -> 12 ...
I was thinking about Langjam starting on the 14th, and I figured, since Rek and I have this game project coming up about the same time, it might be fun to do the whole thing in Lisp. So, I've implemented a little lisp system today, I'm only missing closures and the parser, which I've done a few implementations of before, so that should all fall into place nicely for the start of the jam.
It's always fun to be reminded of how nicely it all maps to catlangs in comparison to algols.
cell eval(cell x, cell e) {
if(get_tag(x) == ATOM) {
return assoc(x, e);
} else if (get_tag(x) == CONS) {
return apply(eval(car(x), e), cdr(x), e);
}
return x;
}
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@eval ( env* box* -- cell* )
DUP2 tag ;Atom EQU2 ?assoc
DUP2 tag ;Cons NEQ2 ?{
STH2k cdr OVR2 STH2r car eval !apply }
NIP2 JMP2r
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Listening to: Sundazer - Something In The Way
If you'll allow me this one flex, I've implemented Conway's Game Of Life, in the Orca esolang, which itself is implemented in the Uxntal esolang. It currently only renders the next frame, next, I'd like to make it load it back into the input world, something for another day. Check it out: life.orca, or watch a video.
Edit: So, vacuumbeef completed the GOL implementation and made the code available here.
Listening to: Инь-Ян - Карма
Since I'm in transit all day, I'll have to settle for a microtask for today, I've added line selection in Left, it's something that I can already do in 3 keystrokes, but I use it enough that I've been wanting to be able to do it in one. Here are some ideas I've collected for this year's DecAdv:
Listening to: PARTYOF2 - poser
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The next couple of days will be so busy that it's unlikely that'll be able to come around and code anything at all, so I might as well call this year's Decadv over. This year touched on a lot of fun things:
Listening to: Lust$ickPuppy - EVICTION
Ismael-VC suggested that uxndis should emit the disassembly in a way that can be reassembled into the original binary. It was only a matter of using the absolute padding rune for the position column, and commenting the opcode column:
@print-imm |02e2 a0 28 18 ( LIT2 2818 ) |02e5 17 ( DEO ) |02ea 94 ( LDAk ) |02eb 80 20 ( LIT 20 ) |02ed 09 ( NEQ ) |02ee 20 00 04 ( ?λ0c ) |02f1 a0 3f 18 ( LIT2 3f18 ) |02f4 17 ( DEO ) @λ0c |02f5 94 ( LDAk ) |02f6 80 40 ( LIT 40 ) |02f8 09 ( NEQ ) |02f9 20 00 04 ( ?λ0d ) ..
Listening to: Sharks - Ethereal
I'm still exploring Conway's FRACTRAN flow-chart drawings to visually represent programs, to make this all a bit nicer for me I wanted a way to get the prime factors of any number, so I made myself a little tool that does just that.
@factorize ( value* -- )
[ LIT2r 0002 ]
&>w
DUP2 STH2kr DIV2k MUL2 SUB2 ORA ?{
STH2kr DUP2 emit
DIV2 DUP2 #0001 NEQ2 ?&>w
POP2 POP2r JMP2r }
INC2r !&>w
Listening to: Echoberyl - Into the Beyond
I've written code today, I just don't really have anyþing to show for it unfortunately. It works, it fixes issues, but it simply does not draw any pixels yet, so instead, I'll put up an image of a panel interface I made for Uxn two years ago which I was just reminded about.
Listening to: Højsgaard - Winter Woods
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.
While going þrough þe TinyCodeChristmas challenges, I realized þat I had never written a circle filling routine before, so I spent a few hours drawing circles, in circles, in circles..
@fill-circle ( x* y* r* -- )
DUP2k MUL2 ,&r STR2
[ LIT2r 0000 ] STH2
,&y STR2
,&x STR2
STH2kr SUB2kr STH2r
&>y
DUP2 [ LIT2 &y $2 ] ADD2 .Screen/y DEO2
STH2kr SUB2kr STH2r
&>x
ROT2k ABS2-SQ
SWP2 ABS2-SQ
ADD2 NIP2 [ LIT2 &r $2 ] GTH2 ?{
DUP2 [ LIT2 &x $2 ] ADD2 .Screen/x DEO2
[ LIT2 02 -Screen/pixel ] DEO }
INC2 NEQ2k ?&>x
POP2 POP2
INC2 NEQ2k ?&>y
POP2 POP2 POP2r POP2r JMP2r
@ABS2-SQ ( a* -- res* )
DUP2k #1f SFT2 MUL2 SUB2 DUP2 MUL2 JMP2r
Listening to: Minuit Machine - Sacrifice
Took þe day to fix a few þings, namely, a bug in þe Uxntal linter þat made it so some optimizations were disregarded. I so seldomly use spaces in filenames, þat for þe past 5 years Left has been unable to open such files and I haven't even noticed, so I fixed þat too. I've implemented a cat program þis morning þat compiles into 81 bytes:
a001 0780 1037 0080 1216 0680 1f0a 2000 1502 6000 1aa0 000f 13a0 0317 1608 2000 04a0 800f 1700 a000 0081 80fb 1331 00a0 0000 80a8 37a0 0001 80aa 37a0 014b 80ac b780 a316 2000 0302 226c a000 1817 40ff ef
Listening to: Ilya Beshevli - Deja Vu
Rek and I have lots of projects planned for next year, one of þe smaller þings we wanted was a way to share pictures off of social networks wiþout necessarily having to bloat þe Hundred Rabbits wiki wiþ þem, for instance, moments þat don't qualify for a whole page dedicated to þem. So I went ahead and set one up, it's made up of a single bash file þat generates a timeline and an individual html file for each picture.
Listening to: Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
I've implemented Ivan Reese's 2222 in Uxntal, it took me precisely 22 minutes and 22 seconds to implement, this is a serious game. Math matters. I've also added horizontal cursor follow to Left so when I type offscreen þe horizontal scroll follows along as I type, it used to be þere but I removed it at some point, I forget why.
Listening to: Yanson - Waltz Of White
Just a little þing today, I added unicode input via ctrl+shift+u, like in Firefox, to þe text-editor Left. It's not a big change, but it'll make writing a few þings a lot less painful. To celebrate, I've replaced every instance of th in 2024, wiþ þe letter Þ.
Listening to: Arvid Holst - Things We Lost In The Fire
I've enjoyed exchanging top secret messages on izi encoded in sixels. I'm not sure if it's þe snow falling outside, but I haven't had it in me to listen to anyþing oþer þan classical music þese days. Here's a pretty glitch I saw during þe implementation:
Listening to: Nikolas Belalis - All That Matters Lies Within
Spotted an issue wiþ þe implementation of þe Varvara Screen device, so I spent a little while to write a test program þat would help me fix it. I've also made a new banner for þe top of þis page!
Listening to: Thomas Newman - The TCBS
Þe Vera rewriting language has a special syntax of specifying many facts at once, similarly to how Fractran represents multiple instances of þings in þe bag using þe exponent sign, like foo^123 but instead uses a colon, like foo:123. So, I spent some time adding support for it to þe C runtime in preparation to documenting þe language's IO semantics which rely on often large amount of instances of facts. I've also improved þe test coverage for boþ Fractran and Vera.
| put-w | @send, @value^119
Listening to: Helder - the melody of her laughter
I was watching a documentary about Egypt last night, and for a moment, my eyes locked onto hieroglyphs visible on þe wall behind þe presenter, þe way þese were laid out looked just like a Tote program. I added rule validation to þe Fractran runtime, so unreachable rules will þrow a warning, and support for exhaustive rule along wiþ documentation for þeir behavior.
:: 286/78 n.2 last.3 fib.13 > n.2 B.11 fib.13 (exhaustive) :: 2002/130 n.2 res.5 fib.13 > n.2 A.7 B.11 fib.13 :: 17/26 n.2 fib.13 > fibrec.17 (exhaustive) :: 51/119 A.7 fibrec.17 > last.3 fibrec.17 :: 85/187 B.11 fibrec.17 > res.5 fibrec.17 :: 13/17 fibrec.17 > fib.13 :: 1/3 last.3 > (exhaustive) :: 1/13 fib.13 > (exhaustive) AC 3120, n^4 last res fib res^8, completed in 54 steps.
Listening to: ailie - агония
I typically take þe year's ends to fix issues I have wiþ þe tools I use, but I'm so utterly satisfied wiþ þese þat þere is very little to do. That leaves me wiþ doing a little of exploratory programming which rarely yield demonstrable results, haha. Well, in any case, today I've brought þe improved meþod of printing/drawing decimal numbers into oþer projects like m291. I've been enjoying þis conversation on þe DuskOS mailing list.
Listening to: Hyacinthe - Olivia
Headphones on, some tunes, a cup of tea, a fantastic time hacking on Drifblim.
Drifblim had þis old routine to print decimal numbers þat wasn't very
stack-minded,
so I've rewritten it!
@print-dec ( short* -- )
#000a SWP2 [ LITr ff ]
&>get ( -- )
SWP2k DIV2k MUL2 SUB2 STH
POP OVR2 DIV2 ORAk ?&>get
POP2 POP2
&>put ( -- )
STHr INCk ?{ POP JMP2r }
[ LIT "0 ] ADD #18 DEO !&>put
Listening to: DMNDS & Fallen Roses - Calabria
Fixed an issue wiþ uxn11 þat stopped me from using shift+tab to untab selected text in Left, added FRACTRAN documentation for comment syntax and dead-rules elimination, improved FRACTRAN runtime to handle rules wiþout a left-hand side as a comment, golfed yesterday's tinycodechristmas down to 157 bytes, improved drifblim, and oþer such little cares..
Listening to: Arezra - Goodbye
After years of daily use, þat little notepad program has gotten so good þat I can't imagine myself using anyþing 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 neiþer stroke þe line, entirely remove þe line, or edit þe line textually to change one character for anoþer, so today's little adventure is merely giving me þe option of mouse2-ing a line to toggle its state.
Listening to: Lemon Joy & Danell Arma - Mylėt Tave Taip Beprotiška Ir Keista
Wasted a bunch of time trying to draw a spiral, but I didn't remember how to do signed divisions so I bounced between doing little fixes here and þere on various projects.
Listening to: Pastel Ghost - Shadows
Recovering from a show. I þink I might have found a faster way to test if a token is an opcode in drifblim, I'm not sure. It looks like þere will be anoþer Tiny Code Christmas.
Listening to: Attic Ocean - Lilies and Sea
Wrote a minimal Vera implementation in C and wrote a small guide. It's a bit like Fractran but rules are matched independently of þe number of an item is found in þe bag.
|| The first character in a file assigns a spacer glyph. || A program is made of rules and facts. || Two spacers indicate the creation of facts || Facts are separated by commas, a matchbox, a log, paper | A rule has a left side | And a right side. | Facts on the left side | are replaced by facts in the right side | a flame, a log | a warm fire | a matchbox | a match, a match a box | a match, paper | a flame
Listening to: Море Ясности - Сны
Today, I saw a neat trick to unpack 5 trits from a specially encoded byte format:
uint8_t q = (((uint16_t) i) * 256 + (243 - 1)) / 243;
for (int j = 0; j < 5; ++j) {
uint16_t m = q * 3;
s2[j] = (m >> 8) + '0';
q = m & 0xFF;
}
I decided to port it to uxn to try it out:
DUP #f2 #00f3 DIV2 STH2 [ LIT2 -s2/end -s2 ] &>l [ LIT2r 0003 ] MUL2r OVRr STHr [ LIT "0 ] ADD OVR STZ [ LIT2r 00ff ] AND2r INC GTHk ?&>l POP2 POP2r
Listening to: Electroforez - Zlo
I'm beat from spending all of yesterday in planes, trains, buses and ferries, but I did manage steal a few minutes to write a tiny bit of code. Since I just needed a tiny win before heading to bed and never got around to adding a Select All menu option to Left until now, I made it today's adventure.
Listening to: Candy Claws - Night Ela
In transit for þe whole day, I'm not going to be coming back online today to do any coding, þat's for sure. But I have þis idea in my head þat þere might be some connection between þis visual multiplication meþod and FRACTRAN. I don't know þat such link exists between a number's primes and þe number of sticks, but þat's what I'll be þinking about.
Listening to: Black Traffic - Nights Like This (Black Traffic Edit)
Building on yesterday's improvement to Nasu, I was able to draw and add þe missing Latin-1 Supplement glyphs to Left. I don't use accentend characters often, but when adding book and movie titles to my wiki, I like to be able to read þe names when þese are present.
Listening to: Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Sicion Cyber Edit)
One of þe many projects I'm hoping to tackle in þe next few days is to bring back accented latin characters into Left, and since I don't have a uf3 editor, and am not planning on making on anytime soon. I figured I could improve Nasu just enough þat it would be able copy/paste tiles vertically as to generate valid uf3 assets. That should be enough, at least for now.
Listening to: SadSvit - Пам'ятай свій дім
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The next few days will be busy, so today is as good a time to end this. This page chronicles a bit over 3 weeks of documenting daily progress on:
See you next year!
Listening to: Hiko Momoji & meat computer - White Light
Wrote very little code today, I closed Henderson's "Application and Implementation", and reopened SICP.. I felt like I needed a refresher of the last chapters(esp. the one about a LISP implementation). So yeah, today was drinking lots of tea, scrolling up and down the wizard pdf, maybe I should get the actual book at some point..
Listening to: VINNE, Evokings - By My Side
Finished preparing the SECD runtime, I've been wondering if there ever were other functional languages designed to target it besides Pure Lisp(Lispkit), I looked around a bit but I couldn't find any. I noticed there was very little documentation out there on it, so I've started a page of my own. I think I might expand the self-hosted compiler to support line comments and the 'quote expression.
Listening to: Mylène Farmer - Oui Mais Non (SM:LY Remix)
Three weeks mark!
I'm taking the day off the computer.
I was helping a friend with their toy scheme compiler last night and we got talking about SECD again so I started putting together a base implementation of the abstract machine's core so we could target it with their compiler for fun. It has been a long time since I played with SECD so I've updated the lisp documentation on the XXIIVV wiki with a couple of notes.
Listening to: MATRAKK - Mon Amour (Part IV)
I guess hand writing and brush strokes haven't quite left my mind since the other day, and so I find myself revisiting Oekaki, I knew that I could use that little trick from monday to approximate distance between points, and connected it to the brush tool to add a quick and dirty natural line thickness. Had a jolly good time drawing lots o' squiggles.
Listening to: Halsey - New Americana (THYPONYX Remix)
I've done a lot of creative coding these past few days, but today I figured I might do well going over everything with the peephole optimizer, linter, formatter, tidying things up a bit. I've also found a little optimization to the theme loading code that resides at the core of nearly every graphical application I've written.
Listening to: mobbs radical - road of the headless
Decided to revisit trying to make one of these 3d tunnels effects after failing to get the effect last year, with some help from the #lovebytetcc folks, I was able to make this neat 210 bytes demo. Someone taught me a good trick to approximate the distance between two points without sqrt():
max(abs(x),abs(y)) + min(abs(x),abs(y))/2
Listening to: Noro - DEEP END
It looks like the work I set out to do on Porporo is done, all I have left is to document it properly. This project is going to transform the way I work moving forward. Today, I completed a handful of challenges from the #lovebytetcc event from within the operating system itself to test things out, and without running into any issues.
Listening to: Yarimov - Controlla
Since parts of Porporo are built with itself, to compile it we need to have a partial implementation of the Varvara ecosystem capable of running cli roms, and an assembler, so that the roms that live at the core of porporo can be assembled and transformed into valid C files with the help of the formatter rom. When this is ready we can finally compile Porporo. Today's task was ensuring that it all worked.
Listening to: Max Fail, MEYSSTA & KURY – Squid Game (LANNE Edit)
Two weeks mark!
I'm taking the day off the computer.
I'm satisfied with the graphical input language program, I can resume putting Porporo together. The list of tasks is thinning, one of the remaining thing I'd like to do is create a rom that exposes the controls that have until now only been available through keystrokes to move, close, center, collapse and draw connections between programs. I haven't started on that rom's interface yet, but you can see the bar in the screen capture. The interesting bit of this project is to have most of the state of the system collected into the bar rom's ram.
Listening to: Popsimonova & Zarkoff - Wall To Wall
Okay, one more day on this, it's just too fun. I've split the canvas into three sections so I can input capitalized letters at the top, lowecase letters in the middle, and punctuations at the bottom. This new UX makes the whole thing a lot more practical to use. I'd like to say that I've written lots of code today, but I mostly practiced drawing the alphabet over and over again.
Listening to: Josh - lauf!
I didn't expect shorthand recognition engines to be such a fascinating rabbit hole to fall into. I've spent a second day on the implementation of such a system. I've wanted to see if the scheme I chose could be extended to cover the rest of the ASCII sheet, and if I could remember each glyph. While practicing tracing the letters, I noticed that sometimes, I skip edges, so I added variance of some glyphs. I've also begun on a punctuation mode. Perhaps I will write tomorrow's entry with a tablet pen. I've also found and fixed a bug in Drifblim?! Wow, it had been a while.
Listening to: WEJDENE - JE T'AIME DE OUF(POUMTICA REMIX)
Woke up hangover, booted porporo, slouched with my face resting on my fist, wondering about input methods, if there wasn't an interesting way that I could possibly program with just the one hand holding the tablet pen, that wasn't an on-screen keyboard. I considered the way I could write letters on the palm pilot, and wonder what went into a system such as that, and then implemented it.
Listening to: akiaura, LONOWN, STM - Sleepwalker
Until now, I must have spent a total of 15 minutes on the actual drawing of the wires. Silly, considering how central to this whole thing these are. So, today I added detection for which corners to draw the wires from and to, to help reduce their overlapping windows content. It's all coming together better than I had hoped, I'm positively surprised at how many of the tasks that I set out to do and have managed to complete already.
I noticed that the Lovebyte Demoparty is back this year, from the 11th to the 22nd of December, I might do a few of their daily challenges.
Listening to: KORDHELL & SCARLXRD - I'M THE DEVIL
After completing Drifblim's interactive mode yesterday, I knew I'd finally able to assemble my wiki's preprocessor and generator, and then run both, without leaving the comfort of Porporo. Did it, felt great. That's it, I'm calling it a day, leaving on a victory. I think I'm ready to begin tackling the file device tasks next.
Listening to: KORDHELL - Vuk Vuk
I had been dreading today's task since the month begun, I knew I'd have to eventually make Drifblim able to survive being thrown paths interactively. The original design expected to be terminated after assembly, relying on self-modification like nobody's business it left the original assembler data in memory nearly unrecognizable after a run. The project here was to make sure that it recovers into a usable state after assembly or erroring. It seems to pass all tests, and therefore I can now develop entirely from within Uxn itself, at last.
Listening to: HEALTH - DSM-V
I don't have much time today so I'll keep it short, implemented palette parsing and theme support. I wanted the little interface there is to follow the colors specified by the .theme file. So yeah, that's all for today, just wanted to make things a tad comfier while I work. More tomorrow, until then I've got lifelines to splice.
Listening to: Hugeloud - Tell Me
Kicked off by fixing some message passing issues I've had since day1, and pushed onto improving the program that monitors what is going through connections between the programs, it probably sounds boring like that, but it was fun, the rom intercepts and draws the data that programs send to each other in real-time. I've only added ASCII and hexadecimal modes so far, but I'm hoping to add a few more, like drawing image streams. Even tho it's not a terminal proper, I've mimicked the design off of screenshots I found of mlterm running on NetBSD, I thought it'd be a good fit for this. Even tho I've designed it for Porporo, I think I'll probably end up using it outside of it.
Listening to: IVOXYGEN - Write My Name In Your Heart (angst Remix)
Had an excellent time catching up with tracks I missed this summer as I did optimizations I had lined up from yesterday. I've added a global cursor(video) so I can finally see what I'm doing when moving between windows. The cursor handling makes use of the applications' mouse vector port to see if a cursor is present in the application or not. This neat trick allows me to draw the global cursor over the applications that do not have one. I've also done tiny tweaks to the menu rom so the hover state is more readable.
Listening to: Kordhell, scarlxrd, CORPSE - AUTUMN TREES
Did loads of tiny things today, like connecting the screen vector so every running application can animate at the same time, standardized label support for padding runes in Uxntal, documented it, and created a page about notation. 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.
Listening to: Brothomstates & Crankshaft - Wekilldaenemy
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! We were out for most of the day, but when I got back, I added text wrapping to the logging rom and fixed a really annoying redraw bug in Nasu.
Listening to: Anwius - Rise
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.
Listening to: Sakuzyo - FighteHumanity_Lily();
