Juan @reidrac@mastodon.sdf.org

Hi, I'm Juan 👋

I was looking for a Masto instance I could trust and I thought SDF (in operation since 1987) is the type of commitment I like 👍

(also have an account in SDF-EU, although I haven't used it much so far)

I've been hosting my own email and web since 2003, so what I'm looking for is more the community aspect of SDF/tildeverse.

I do retro-gamedev (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64), and other types of "dev" in #Scala, #Python, #C, #Z80, and #Go.

#introduction

Well, that's not nice. Careful, you may have stamps at home that may not be good to use after Jan 2023

https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

Playing a bit more

TBH, it works really well. My only complaint currently is that the syntax highlighting of Scala 3 is very flaky.

Not even tree-sitter gets is 100% right, which is a bit a of a pain.

As Odersky said: it will get there, is just matter of time.

🤞

I only could get to the end, but it was very interesting.

The main issue with Odersky's talks is that he's always teasing with stuff that I'd love *now* but we will have to wait a long time to have it in production 😂

(also he said he's happy with VS Code and *metals* --- I won't use VSC, but yay metals!)

At the end this something that confirms what I've been feeling about software that needs to track dependencies constantly, or it will stop working.

Basically: I don't want to spend that much time maintaining such a project, *specially* if it is feature complete.

Because of that I'm not too excited about starting a Scala project on my free time. I don't have the time/energy for such a commitment right now.

This morning wrote a post on Gemini re: SpaceBeans and the Akka licensing mess.

gemini://capsule.usebox.net/gemlog/20221004-akka-and-the-future-of-spacebeans.gmi

TL;DR: that's the end of the road for SpaceBeans as it is now. May do a rewrite using fs2, but it is likely I will just close the project and more on.

Not a big deal, there are lots of good Gemini servers and I don't think anybody is using this server other than myself anyway.

The keynote starts at 7pm BST; not sure if I can attend (virtually). Family obligations 🤷

So we played a bit more of Hand of Fate. After 30 minutes we had to load a saved game because we got to an unwinnable state 😂

Vic flushed the potion cauldron too soon and we didn't have more lucky horseshoes 🤷

Sneaky install of Facebook app as part of an Android update 🤨

Uninstalled.

Is anyone else here attending #ScalaCon2022 online?

(I know, what are the chances of anyone doing #Scala on Masto 😂 )

Fixed! This engine is complicated 😅

The warning signs on the 4th stage may not be accounted for the garbage collector if they are destroyed when aren't visible; which means sprites will be reduced slowly.

I have a memory leak 🤔

We are enjoying the game, with a guide. The puzzles are very obtuse I'm afraid 😨

Lol!

This game flied over my head back in the day. I remember the magazines ravin about it. Westwood and the graphics, looks like it was by the time of Lands of Lore

Lol the voices

Last night I wrote the code for 4th stage boss in Hyperdrive (#Amstrad CPC).

#gamedev

That laptop is not my main machine, so I can keep it and see how it goes (e.g. will upgrade neovim, check the nonguix channel, things like that).

Also I have doubts on what will happen when I upgrade Debian. I can't risk those things.

I could get more involved and package WezTerm, but I want this to save me time, not the other way around 😂

And finally: why not supporting uninstalling guix itself? I can do the manual steps manually as root, but if the installation is nicely automated... I guess it doesn't matter. But that has a bit of a smell, IMHO.

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