@iris_meredith thank you! ^_^ it’s totally fine if you forget though

WoW:

• is it fun for everyone else? yes, on purpose
• is it fun for me? yes, accidentally

OSRS:

• is it fun for everyone else? yes, despite Jagex’s best efforts
• is it fun for me? yes, despite Jagex’s best efforts

@iris_meredith omg interesting! I would love to read those studies if you happen to find them again. I’m ngl that would not surprise me at all

I love how, when I tell WoW players the way that I play WoW, their immediate response is complete bafflement and a little bit of fear. like “what the fuck is wrong with you, you psychopath” kind of energy

that’s right, normies. fear my playstyle and despair

@static @Lunaphied @StryderNotavi I looked into it in the past because I love Python, but one thing that it does that I find very cursed is:

IIRC, the way that it determines whether something is Python or a shell command is that it tries to run it as Python, and if it gets a syntax error it runs it as a shell command instead. or maybe vice-versa. but that sounds like it carries a lot of potential footguns with it

(I actually really really like Vim. I don’t know if it actually saves me effort 90% of the time but it just brings me autistic joy to type some arcane shit like :'<,'>norm ^f(ci("foo"^]A; and have that actually do something useful)

have you ever wanted to turn a 30 second text file edit into a 15 minute code golf exercise? well now you can, with Vim: the official editor of autistic transfemmes. making text editing unnecessarily complicated since 1991

@kasdeya

https://ohshitgit.com/

@static oohhh - I really like this! like I can instantly tell what this is doing instead of it being a mess of special characters like a lot of bash scripts look like to me lol

95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits

but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like

!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!

and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”

version control is the best

@static ooh how would it work?

every time I type a special character in bash it’s like it was waiting all day for me to make that mistake

every time I git commit on Linux I end up doing something like:

git commit -m "add unit-tests for `(lambda)` closures"

and then bash sees the grave characters inside of the double quotes and is like “ohohoho! you fool!”

the first rule of bash is Never Use Double Quotes

the first rule of cmd.exe is Never Use Single Quotes

happy halloween

after I have (print) and (input) I think I want to do some simple DailyProgrammer problems in kaslisp, and then after that I’ll start writing a kaslisp interpreter in kaslisp

kaslisp now has:

• macros!
• a cool macro syntax that looks like this:

`(symbol symbol ,(evaluate this please) (symbol symbol))

• floats and ints as datatypes
• tons of operators that work on floats and ints
• comments! (finally. it was surprisingly hard to get my parser to be okay with these lol)
• an (eval) function
• unit-tests to make sure that closures work correctly
• (let) and (set) (I can’t remember if I’ve already posted about these but I’m so happy to have them working)

I feel like it’s almost ready for me to start writing some proper code in it? I just want to add (print) and (input) (and in order to have either of these I’ll need to introduce a string datatype and I’m not sure how hard that will be for my parser to understand lol but we’ll see!)

a point-and-click scifi horror adventure game called Stasis is free on GOG today!

https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

CWs: gore, violence, cruelty, and other things that you would expect from a scifi horror game. I don’t know all of the details because I haven’t played it

@CIMB4 hmm I have a bad memory so I feel like I do repeat myself on Fedi a lot, although if I’ve posted this before it definitely wasn’t in the past week or I would remember it