Jul 29, 2022
Did I miss the discussion of Robin Sloan's new protocol proposal?
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Jul 27, 2022
I've been working on a note-taking program
To be precise, I've been migrating my existing 10+ year old note-taking workflows out of terminal and unix tools into a more integrated and hopefully more accessible environment.
Not released yet, but here's a demo. (5 minutes; mirror)
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Jul 2, 2022
Exporting files created by lines.love to markdown+SVG
This is a feature that doesn't have to be bundled with the main app.
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Jun 26, 2022
Notes for a new note-taking app in my existing note-taking system, augmented with basic line drawings.
Extremely jank, but still oh so much better than not having pictures at all.
(List based on these notes by Yoshiki Schmitz)
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Jun 14, 2022
Call me Kartik. I have a way of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I become intolerable to my family--then, I account it high time to write some more tests as soon as I can.
20 new tests, 700 LoC, 33% LoC now devoted to tests.
Feeling much better 🙏 Now bracing to find out what I broke today.
Experiment: two ways of drawing polygons.
In the first, I have more control over the vertices and can make irregular polygons. The second is more expressive for making regular polygons, and just looks cooler.
Before:
After:
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Jun 9, 2022
This is a first: I ran a profiler to see where my app was feeling sluggish -- and the sluggishness disappeared! Magic profiler!
Turns out it was disabling LuaJIT. So I've now (temporarily? permanently?) disabled LuaJIT in lines.love
Maybe this kind of text processing isn't CPU intensive enough that a JIT can help? I have no idea which way is up anymore.
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Jun 8, 2022
An engaging couple of days of reading. Things I've been exchanging lots of little messages about with across different circles:
- https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/056 and https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138
- https://cristobal.space/writing/folk
- https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1511028728381734912
- https://maggieappleton.com/block-data and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHblHPLoKKE
- https://twitter.com/jackrusher/status/1533772528023478272 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCnnJXMi8KE and https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks (regretfully not trying at the moment)
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Jun 6, 2022
This is the best content. I am here for this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31637910#31641916
And no, it's not random or trolling.
"Follow for surreal gamedev. I'm making a Lovecraftian text editor called Tentacle Typer."
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May 31, 2022
Gravity simulation for the kids
https://gist.github.com/akkartik/001dcd31aa0e042df0b0a0408f99d742
It's amazing how short the core of Newton's law of gravity is:
theta = angle(sun.x,sun.y, sat.x, sat.y) dist = distance(sun.x,sun.y, sat.x,sat.y) accelx = K*cos(theta)/dist/dist accely = K*sin(theta)/dist/dist velx = velx + dt*accelx vely = vely + dt*accely posx = posx + velx posy = posy + vely plot(posx,posy)
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