Christine Lemmer-Webber
Some of the bigger questions come around whether I want to make this a primitive. Eg, a question of whether we'd be serializing even foundational datastructures like promises. Do we also want to capture all the messages-queued-for-delivery?
It seems like we'd want to say "yes", though that seems possibly difficult. I need to think more carefully about it...
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Eventually I'll need to implement "Safe Serialization Under Mutual Suspicion" so game worlds written in Spritely Goblins can persist to disk http://erights.org/data/serial/jhu-paper/
Still seems like the cleanest route I've seen.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
the internet of souls
doctorow
Apple removes Hong Kong protest app https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/apple-removes-hong-kong-protes.html
Christine Lemmer-Webber
good moin moin
mntmn
Reform 2 trackball and battery PCBs are here. now just missing the trackball sensor flex PCB that is made by OSHpark
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Guix reduces bootstrap seed by 50% https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/
Go Guix and Mes! Go bootstrappability!
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
Really interesting random research today.
GNU Mes
https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
That took me to bootstrappable builds:
http://bootstrappable.org/
Really interesting.
cc @Shamar
D Dino
so i mentioned working on a library for working with activitypub servers a few days ago and writing it has been going well so i figured i’d share what it is and where it’s at.
the library is called (tentatively) “activitysearch” and it operates around the model of a single actor. an actor has an associated database (pouchdb) where it stores any data it downloads about the actor — but it need’s that actor’s permission to get the necessary creds. it is not a tool for checking out other people on the fediverse. it is a tool for working with your own data.
the data it downloads is then indexed so you can make queries against it without hitting the network, queries like, “who am i following whose instance has disappeared?” or “where’s that toot i fav’d about crows?” i have a rudimentary text-search algorithm i use to build a search index but it’s not really professional-grade like lucene, just something useful enough for general purposes.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@mala @masterofthetiger That sounds like it would be helpful!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@masterofthetiger Probably Racket, the Spritely tooling I'm building, occasionally Guile and Guix, GNU/Linux stuff, Emacs, etc.
And yes I was planning on using https://obsproject.com/ which is what @mala just said. It's packaged in Guix!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@mala That's totally valid!
I think if I did it, it would be more like: "Here's something I think you should use, and which I mostly already want to show off how you can use! Or here's how you can see my workflow live!"
In which case I probably would have things at a point where I was fairly confident *what* I was going to do and *how* I was going to do it before I jumped into it.
Danny O'B
Joint Statement on the GNU Project: http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Should I be doing live coding streams?
It would probably be boring, unless I set up most of the scaffolding for a gamedev session, in which case it might be fun for people to see.
Or, if I do demonstrations of libraries / tech once they're ready for demonstration.
People have requested it in the past. Seeing @mala post about doing so made me think about it again https://mastodon.social/@mala/102906717933674682
Danny O'B
I am going to vacationarily livestream RIGHT NOW! The usual blunderings in #lisp, #guix, #guile, and digital rights gossip, this time from my back garden in San Francisco. Watch at https://codetherapy.space/
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@benhamill It's definitely some very visible maintainers.
แทกโนมันซี
the Autumn Lisp Game Jam is coming up! starting the 10th of October and running to the 20th: https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2019
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Also we're approx $100/mo away from the terminal based space shooter now. Nice! https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
That program will actually be a demo of how interesting Spritely Goblins can be to use in even just pre-distributed programs. I know how to build it... would be fun to show it off if we can make it.
And of course, this is all working towards the distributed social game stuff I'm planning to build. The infrastructure is coming together.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Also we're approx $100/mo away from the terminal based space shooter now. Nice! https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
That program will actually be a demo of how interesting Spritely Goblins can be to use in even just pre-distributed programs. I know how to build it... would be fun to show it off if we can make it.
And of course, this is all working towards the distributed social game stuff I'm planning to build. The infrastructure is coming together.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
If all goes well, a new release of #Spritely Goblins will be out this week, this one with (same-process) inter-vat communication and a revamp of promises.
If all continues to go well, in the next month I should have a demo of distributed programming across machines in the same system.
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