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I designed a 3D-printed case for my Minimal Phone MP01: I wanted to protect the phone's keyboard while it is in my pocket, so it has a sliding cover like a calculator: I keep the cover in my pocket so that people don't notice I have it, because it is unus…

I would like to introduce my single header libraries.

I was in Japan in January and bought a bunch of stuff from Book Off/Hard Off (which I highly recommend; Hard off is your dream place).

I recently delivered a talk, Driving code with data, at Handmade Cities D.C.

This is going to be a brief post in case someone else also ran into this issue and wanted a head-start on it.

This is a challenge to create a personal computing system which is: Simple.

I virtually attended Handmade Seattle 2024, where Mason Remaley presented "It's Not About the API" (link eventually), which discussed Vulkan.

I created Bunny Semiconductor (Itch.io, source code) for the Free-Software Purism Game Jam 2024.

This article details how to debug the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 CPUs using hardware interfaces.

See the forum post here.

Update (2024-04-11): I have finished the Dactyl.

I wrote to Ryan Fluery after reading some of his articles on software.

I have been working on a voxel-based game for the last several months.

It has been a while since I talked about my dynamic environment work mentioned in this post inspired by this post.

I started my morning off with Alan Kay's talk Programming and Scaling.

I have been hard at work on my dynamic environment based on Tiny C Compiler.

News It has been nearly a month since my last post, and there have been some interesting developments.

In my last article I wrote about integrated development environments.

I spend a lot of time thinking about development tools.

Cakelisp is now developed here.

It has been a while since I felt the need to add features and make some more significant changes to Cakelisp.

In order to effectively write applications that communicate via sockets, there were some realizations I needed to make that weren't explicitly told to me by any of the documentation I read.

I have been migrating all of my code from GitHub to my self-hosted Gitea instance.

I have several projects written in Cakelisp that I have been chipping away at.

My linker in development was crashing on free.

I'm writing a linker.

I have invested a significant amount of time in building Cakelisp for several reasons, but I think the main one was easier access and better integration of code generation.

In the late 1950's, Lisp was invented, which used the S-expression syntax style.

Update: See the good discussion on Hacker News and Reddit /r/programming.

I started working on Cakelisp a little more than a year ago.

I recently released File Helper, a file organization application I wrote using Cakelisp.

It is convenient to only have a single executable file when distributing an application for several reasons: It's no longer required to put the executable in a .zip etc. archive with the necessary loose files/directories The user cannot break your applica…

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Demo Here is the showcase video.

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I was quite annoyed by the top comment on this thread being "just use printf".

Update: See feedback on /r/gamedev and /r/gameenginedevs.

I wanted to write this to share what things tripped me up and what I thought about the experience of porting Cakelisp to Windows.

Update: See /r/gamedev and /r/gamedesign commentary on this article.

Epic Games acquired RAD Game Tools recently, which is another event in the worrying trend of an increasingly centralized game industry.

This is going to be a quick post to explain a simple mistake that caused me a couple hours of confusion.

Update: See the Hacker News thread, /r/programming, /r/ProgrammingLanguages, /r/gamedev, and /r/lisp posts for discussions on this article and Cakelisp.

The entire setup is available here.

What have I been up to?

My work on the AI Director in Magic: Legends An article (Archive.org backup) is up now which has a high-level overview of the AI Director in Magic: Legends.