@typhlosion UWAAAW SO INTERESTING

@typhlosion I was struggling to come up with some myself without dipping into kinks :o was thinking to myself "I can't be that boring and dispassionate, can I?"

@Mycroft to be fair, some of the ones i listed are kinda sub-interests under other ones - like cartomancy -> tarot and tcg -> pokémon tcg

@typhlosion I didn't even manage to get all of mine in my toot lmao

@typhlosion You have a lot of good likes.

more tags i forgot: #functionalprogramming #haskell #scheme #fantasy #scifi #picross

@typhlosion omg picross 💖

(also heeeey haskell)

@tcql you have no idea how much picross i've done on my phone in the idle hours

@typhlosion SAME

before mastodon ate all by idle time i just did picross all theee timmeee

also picross has made me wish for a larger phone so i can more easily do bigger ones without zooming / scrolling

i did a bunch on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ally.griddlersplus

all of the 200+ small puzzles and the 500+ mediums, started chipping on the large & colored ones 😅

@typhlosion Picross~ owo 💖

@gravecat i loooove it ;w;

it's got a little bit of a learning curve to it, especially with lifetime stuff and the borrow checker, but it's so worth it imo

@typhlosion Then I shall have to give it a poke sometime. :3 Learning curve isn't really a big deal, considering I code in C++ for fun. >.>

@gravecat let me know what you think!

i never got into C++ much; always favored C and also a lot of high-level languages.

@typhlosion Will do! :3 I kinda skipped C entirely, went straight from BASIC/ASM in the 80s to Pascal and QBASIC in the early 90s, to PHP (ugh) and C++ in the... 10s? (is that what we call them?)

So many other languages I wanna learn and tinker with, but there's only so much time in the world~

@gravecat i've dabbled with all kindsa stuff. started with Python when i was 10 or so (in the, uh, 2000s >~>) then switched to Ruby, then back to Python, while learning lots of other languages

my current resume lists Python, Rust, C, C#, MIPS and x86 ASM, Scheme, and Haskell

have also worked with a lot of JS, some Ruby and Java, a smidgen of PHP, and a bunch of weird esolangs

@typhlosion Damn, you've definitely got a lot more modern languages under your belt than me. :3 (Haskell, that's another one I wanna try sometime!) I've dabbled very briefly in Python, Ruby and Perl (since all fill a similar role, I wanted to see which I liked the best), and I regretfully know a little PHP, Java and VB.NET.

Most everything else is obsolete crap (Forth, Pascal, like six variants of BASIC, hazy hazy memories of 6502 assembler...)

@gravecat ooh, i want to learn 6502 ASM! i'd love to do homebrew stuff for NES and/or C64; retrocomputing is a huge interest of mine

@typhlosion @gravecat Highly recommend Assembly Lines. It's a book that focuses on the Apple machine but it's the one that I wish I'd had when I was a kid.

http://decafbad.net/2016/06/02/learning-challenge---6502-assembly:-days-1-2/

#6502

@typhlosion 6502 ASM -- at least, when I did it back on the Acorn Electron -- was pretty simple, I think it only had a couple dozen instructions or so. But I was like 8 or something back then so I barely understood it, and may be remembering wrong entirely. :3

@gravecat i've poked at it a tiny tiny bit while learning about the NES' technical specifications for the purpose of designing my own processor for a fantasy console >>

it is pretty simple; i imagine the simplicity is part of why the 6502 got used in so many different systems

@typhlosion I think I tried to learn Scheme once but it was terrifying and alien. >.>

@gravecat haha, yeah, it's a trip

i think you'd have fun with Haskell; it'll break you over its knee a little bit if you're not already familiar with functional programming, but once you're used to it it's so satisfying to code in

@typhlosion If I could handle Forth without killing myself, I can probably handle anything. >.> Though, yeah, definitely gonna be some new paradigms to wrap my head around with Haskell and the like. But I like that kind of mental challenge. :3

@gravecat heck yessss you'll love Haskell then, i highly recommend looking into it

@typhlosion I'll give it a shot sometime when I'm feeling burned out on C++ and want a side-project. :D

@LottieVixen yesss