Shufei 🧸 @Shufei@mastodon.sdf.org

@Shufei I think I'll probably have it work like:

If you `examine` the island while knowing the lemons are there (say from hearing a rumor), you will permanently reveal them and can then `collect` them.

(that's probably how a LOT of the world's skillchecks will work: learn information, use it to unlock new information, use that to unlock interaction)

@Shufei Someone calls out selling veggies at the farmers market, but WHY are they calling out, WHO are they calling out to. WHO reacts? The world is /so dense with information/ and we throw so muhc of it out in favor of more important things like feeling anxious about what our coworker has said.

We don't have to do that. I want there to be a space where folk are encouraged to not do that

@Shufei I haven't figured out how to say this in a way that doesn't sound conceited, but honestly part of what I want to do with a MUD is let people see the world around them the way I see the world, the real world, around me. Look at that sand in the gutter. No one must have swept here in a while. The sand is glittery. There must be some mineral in the dirt here. What else can we learn from looking at the dirt? Are the bricks here the same color as the dirt, or are the imported?

@Shufei Well, some candy is made in the Green Delta out of beets and other sugar-rich veggies, but most are made by confectioners who live in Gnalens, the biggest city in the New World, who flavour it with those exotic fruits (like bananas) and ship it back.

They're mostly hard candies wrapped in wax canvases, and distributed by a variety of commercial enterprises. Cloudbound Trading Company, who also operates the "airline" is known for serving sassafras candies on flights

MUD Milestone:

Two people were (briefly) talking to each other while I wasn't even logged in.

Quick video of #StumpWM - the #Emacs of window managers, written in and extendible in #CommonLisp .

Demo shows off (very quickly) a few custom commands (live wallpapers, various searches, picture-in-picture).

#lisp
@lisp
stumpwm2020-demo.mp4

@Shufei For me it's because I can more easily expand or compress the code in my head as I need to

(add1 7) could be read as 8 or (+ 7 1)

And because so much if kept as an argument being passed, it's more easy for me to do that in my head for more complex lines: with Python I can read it and say "Ahh yes, this does this sort of operation" but with LISPs I can say "Ah yes, assuming these inputs, this WILL return these outputs."

@Shufei I did!

Play the demo at https://grapevine.haus/games/Teraum/play

View the engine source at

https://gitlab.com/emsenn/racket-mud

I personally like single-letter variable and function names and I like that with (let) it's pretty easy for me to rename stuff at scope so I can write the code that looks closer to the way I want.

(a l L and e were defined before this)

(let ([c cond][? hash-has-key?][-> string->symbol][h hash-ref])
(c [(? a l) (let ([d (-> (h a l))]) (c [(? L e) (move-thing-function)]))][else (fail-move)]))

that's /awful/ for others to read but I quite like it

are you an internet user? do you feel like a giant noob in terms of security habits, practices and software? would you like to make your communications a bit more difficult to barge into, perhaps protect some files specially well?

i'm offering free practical infosec guides for newbies, not very technical stuff that can be used day-to-day along with an assesment of what you might need.

I'm desperately looking to help out, so seriously, hit me up if you're interested.

Testing testing testing, 1, 2, 3...
This time abduco + dvtm as a tmux alternative.

just downloaded the Commodore 64 "Bruce Lee" SID (music) file, grabbed the game's "Door opening" sound from it, saved it as a wav with Sidplay2, converted it to an MP3 with Audacity, copied it to my phone, and set it as my phone's default notification sound. I'm so proud of myself right now. 😅
#nerdalert #c64

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@Shufei @salixlucida
Just the 1982 Krause-Mischler Standard Catalog of World Coins. (It's the last volume before the SCWC was broken up into century volumes.) There are of course more specialized references, but this was the easiest one to check.

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

and here's the tracklist:

The Peanut Butter Company - Flight of the Psychedelic Bumble Bee
The 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberation
Omaha - Moby Grape
Gloria - Them
Rice Is Nice - The Lemon Pipers
The Youngbloods - Reason To Believe
Walk Away Renée - The Left Banke
Ticket to Ride - Vanilla Fudge
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Sit With The Guru
I Like My Toys - The Idle Race
You Don't Have To Be So Nice - The Lovin' Spoonful