Rachel Stantz @arjache@awoo.space
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I tell stories.
Joined Apr 2017
Gonna be moving over to @arjache@toot.cat soon. I like awoo.space, but the allowlisting just isn't scaling well these days. I'll be doing the thing that moves follows over automatically. See you on the flip side!
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One first closeup image of another planet was a paint-by-numbers pastel drawing of Mars, done by JPL engineer Richard Grumm using data transmitted from NASA's Mariner 4 probe in July 1965. https://kottke.org/22/12/our-first-closeup-image-of-mars-was-a-paint-by-numbers-pastel-drawing
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Nowadays there are some really impressive dev environments for retro hardware as VS Code extensions. This one for Amiga is my favorite. The latest version has a frame debugger that among other things gives you a full cycle-level trace so you can see the screen output and internal register state after any Copper or DMA command, for example.
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With procedural generation you can save a lot of space for content but did you know that Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 uses one byte (!) to describe a room? Here's the link to an article describing how that works:
https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html
#gamedev #procgen #retro
@mcc non-copyable text in mobile apps is one of my biggest pet peeves, so I appreciate your efforts
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Did you know the BBS Documentary site had a massive collection of BBS software I'd collected, that was a bit of a mess?
Well, @f15sim did, and he spent a year on and off helping me get it whipped into cleaner shape, and now the site is even better. Hundreds of BBS software programs from history, here:
this is what I was working on yesterday btw. trying to understand the vector math behind Inkscape’s node smoothing algorithm (the thing that gives you automatic control nodes on bezier curves.) I think I understand it now but it’s still weird.
is orkut on activitypub yet
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To celebrate my calculator app PCalc turning 30 today, I've written up all the history I can still remember:
There's also a rare 30%-off sale, which runs until midnight tonight, PST.
Mac:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pcalc/id403504866
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pcalc-the-best-calculator/id284666222
A big thanks to everybody who has used PCalc during the last three decades!
Mostly what I’ve been thinking is, gosh I am even worse at geometry now than I was when I was a teenager and actually knew math.
I’m on vacation, so naturally I have spent the past few hours thinking intensely about math.
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concept: ghost ship fedi instance. It only federates with one other instance at a time, and after a random amount has passed, jumps to another at random
@Lacci I don’t know of one, but I wonder if handbells might be a good instrument to base this on. Heavier bells have to be carefully muted during certain pieces because otherwise they keep building up energy as they’re rung and will just keep ringing. More mass, more inertia.
@mcc thank you for letting us know about the dog
I feel like every time there’s been a snowstorm this winter the forecasts have downplayed it and we’ve been ended up with way more snow than was forecasted initially. Most years it’s the other way around. Not sure if it’s just the models or the weather casters trying to be more conservative with their predictions.
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My 11yo expressed interest in #TextAdventures/#InteractiveFiction. I wrote stuff in #Inform years ago but I don’t think that would be his jam (and as beautiful as #Inform7 is I don’t think he’d be able to learn it quickly enough to avoid losing interest).
Does anyone know of good tutorials for #Twine that might be accessible to a bright 11 year old? I’d be happy to help him but I’d love to have something he could also read himself while I’m at work. Thank you!
@benjedwards Oh wild. I spent hours and hours on that as a kid but I only ever seemed to go in circles around the Baba Yaga hut.
@benjedwards Which Prodigy screen is that? I recognize the font.
@shadsy of all the things for you to get from the dizzython, my bet was on lasting emotional trauma
sometimes I’m like “I should do more to let people know my different social media accounts” or “maybe being on an allowlist-only instance in the middle of a mass migration is a bad idea” but the truth is I’ve been part of many online site diasporas at this point and to be honest I feel like it’s healthy for some percentage of your followship to get shuffled up every 5-10 years
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I tell stories.
Joined Apr 2017
