Beginning move to @adam

The new #pokemontcgpocket set has a surprising amount of power creep for a game that used to be pretty good about balance. Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]

Fedi drama is exhausting and I try very hard to avoid it, but if even Kev is leaving then it's time to jump ship. I'm planning to move to a self-hosted glitch-soc instance in the next few days.

"monad" sounds like an insult and works pretty well as one. "Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him." "I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."

Another library frustration: is there a standard Make-like task runner tool for #node? 10 years ago Grunt and Gulp were standard for this, but they're horribly out of date now and not compatible with ES6 imports. There are tools in other languages, like go-task, but I can't find anything similar […]

It's 2025, and there's still no widely-used standardized RPC protocol for #websocket. I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead. What else is […]

A game idea I'd love to see made someday, or make myself if I had time for yet another project: a combination RTS and 4X game with a day/night cycle that switches it between turn-based and real-time. During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]

I'm proud to announce the project I've been working on for the last two years - Xee: a modern implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust. I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]

My main Linux desktop has started getting random crashes and "filesystem is read-only" errors. 😬 Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...

Against my better judgment, I bought Civ 7. And I'm enjoying it so far! The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great! I started […]

I don't get why people still use Express even though there are Koa, Fastify, Hono, and more.

A mystery I still haven't solved: Spartan Schema (https://github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema) is by far my most-starred GitHub project. A few weeks after I published it, it got over 400 stars in a few days!... somehow. The users who starred it didn't look […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Recently discovered the Preserves data language: https://preserves.dev This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]

Planning to do a more serious homelab setup soon, which I may use to host actual paid SaaS projects (once fiber internet is finally available here). I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]

FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types (pre-draft) https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/2277/fep-2277.md where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing #activitypub #fep

Won 6-0 in the online versus event yesterday with this deck. It doesn't even have a single clear combo or wincon; Greninja, Druddigon, and Tauros are just really good cards, and the deck has a lot of options. #pokemontcgpocket

It’s not often that Nintendo leans squarely on quality-of-life improvements for its generational system upgrades. Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.

Nintendo Switch 2, finally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE

I wish there was more work on the intersection of gossip protocols and recommender systems. if the recommender is running on the client and it can only see its local neighborhood in the network what markov random walk flavor things can you do?

Finally setting up a personal #matrix server that actually federates. But, except for various dev chatrooms on Gitter, I have no idea where to look for public Matrix rooms to join. Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?

My computer has a bug where it keeps showing me science fiction dates like Jan 9, 2025.

House owner: I'd like to break both of my legs. Architect: Say no more. #stairs #architecture #features

one of those "keep honking, I'm listening to" bumper stickers but it's e-ink and auto-updates with what's actually playing

Unfortunately I spent enough time lurking on Tumblr ~10 years ago that I completely understand this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWTw19_8r4 Excellent introduction to a very cool library. Clay separates the layout part of an immediate-mode GUI from the rendering. Yet another cool thing I need to find an excuse to use in a project... #c #IMGui

One of my NAS hard drives is dying and I can't figure out which. Third day straight of playing "which drive is making the awful grinding noise once every few hours?" 😬 When I take one of them out, the other never seems to make the noise...

Started playing Pokemon TCG Pocket and I'm pleasantly surprised, it's actually a pretty good game, even without spending any money. Does anyone else here play? Want to share friend codes? #pokemontcg #pokemontcgpocket #tcgpocket #pokemon

It turns out Nintendo doesn't get to decide when the Year of Luigi is.

Just rebooted my OpenSuSE Tumbleweed install after an update and got a black screen where KDE Plasma should have been. 😬 This is why I stopped using rolling release distros years ago. I should have learned my lesson from Arch... Already downloading Kubuntu 24.10, at least it supports Plasma […]

Guess what just arrived 😁 #brandonsanderson #stormlightarchive #windandtruth

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

Somehow I've managed to get a *third* cold in the past month. I have no idea how this keeps happening. 🤧

How to self-host Bluesky: https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q Of course, you can't self-host it. But this article is interesting because it provides a honest description of their stack written by someone who appears to be a true believer.

My Fediverse Advice: * Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em * If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this […]

Started playing Civilization VI a few days ago. I don't even remember buying it, maybe it was free on Steam a few years ago? I'm completely hooked now. How have I never played a Civ game before?

Working on Ludwig (yes, I'm still doing that!) has been a long cycle: Learn something cool and new about C++ ➡️ refactor everything ➡️ fix bugs for a month ➡️ it works the same as it did before, but is cooler I guess? ➡️ learn something new again ➡️ refactor again... After the most […]

./configure affirmations: -you have jobcontrol -your fifos are usable -your implementation is ok -your sockets are usable -you are normal

Just saw @carlnewton's Habitat project mentioned on HN. Seems very interesting; we need a wider variety of special-purpose networks like this in the Fediverse: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-network/