lottia notes

(Shout-out to fellow wrangler Aes from whom I learned of sandbox-exec.)

My day job involves too much LLM usage, and I’m quite happy not bringing that home.

I am very tired so I will get away with as much quoting myself as possible.

I recently saw and liked Judy2k’s “Using fortune to reinforce habits” — building effective habits is an under-appreciated part of learning any discipline.

Here’s a video of the TextMode Designer in use, fixing the control order of a dialog used in the ADC, and one of designing a new dialog.

Busy working on the ADC lately, but I just happened upon this kind-of-follow-up to the non-intrusive vtable.

This was written up while working on Ava BASIC’s IDE, the Amateur Development Client (ADC). macOS 🔗 ↩ We set .allow_high_dpi = true when creating the window with SDL, which does the right thing on macOS.

Last night in bed, I realised we’d encountered a scenario at work during the day where something happened so fluidly in jujutsu that it’d make a good case story!

I finally got bothered to try jujutsu.

const Control = union(enum) { button: *Controls.Button, menubar: *Controls.Menubar, menu: *Controls.Menu, menu_item: *Controls.MenuItem, editor: *Controls.Editor, fn generation(self: Control) usize { return switch (self) {

Just a little note to say that I’ve published VyxOS, my Nix configuration.

Raw log from my notes re: Time travel follows.

The typical hypothetical “who are you coding for” example meant to shock you into writing better code is “yourself in six months”, but it turns out four is completely adequate to get lost.

edit: A lot of the following doesn’t apply any more, though it’s all been very helpful in learning.

First up: I’ve never done more than toy with Elixir before, and never with Nix or Rust, so this “simply stuff Nix, Elixir and Rust into a magic hat” trick was guaranteed to be at least a little bit Fun™.

Have it your way.

I’m writing a little hardware I²C clock stretcher (I²C, oh!

I realized I was in error in not using Nix, and have been addressing that.

This is straight from my journal, so it starts without warning.

It occurred to me while writing up § Requirements in the README for some1 gateware that getting the whole beginner’s open-source FPGA toolchain set up can be a serious stumbling block, as I imagine it probably was for me once.