an ignorant fool: you have 2 dishwashers in your kitchen but no oven. how do you cook?
me, wise: please sit down, we'll be having salmon and asparagus.

@faoluin @cwebber @joeyh @wobblysaeeda seasoned dishwasher cooks install a second dishwasher for just this reason

having serious buyer's remorse about my new Bosch dishwasher because @cwebber told me about The Faultless Quaker Dish Washer.

just read an apartment therapy before/after article about a kitchen renovation and the person said they got rid of their dishwasher because they don't have many dishes to clean (fine) and that it seems like a water waster (completely wrong!!!) and I screamed internally. hand washing uses much more water!!!

@cwebber @mlemweb like everything is taken to extremes online.

you: I want to be more self-reliant, let's look up how to dehydrate food

youtuber: hey youtube, it's your boy prepper78! we're out here at the off-grid homestead and today we'll be dehydrating beans in between trips to the gun cache.

this kind of shit kept happening to me when I used pinterest, as well, which is why I stopped using it.

@cwebber @mlemweb it's so true. there's a fine line between homesteading and fundamentalist christian doomsday prepping.

@cwebber I propose a language with inverse lexical scoping. variables can referenced outside of the scope they were defined in only.

eating a pizza with fresh mozzarella, grape tomatoes, arugula, peach, and balsamic glaze. my review: pretty fucking good.

I thought that this guile cross build was compiling too fast, indicating some sort of cursed problem because guile normally takes ages to compile, but it turns out that I just didn't understand what was going on. when cross-compiling guile for another platform, it uses a native version of guile to do all the compilation. therefore, it doesn't have to bootstrap itself (the thing that takes ages) so the compilation process takes very little time.

@cwebber @jakob and don't forget that we all tried and failed to beat your mario maker 2 courses!

@MutoShack @jakob @cwebber you already are that nerd! don't sell yourself short!

my as-of-yet unreleased engine (working title "Starling" but the name will change due to a collision with a commercial engine) is inspired by Godot and Cocos2D (the original python version). it is scene graph-like in architecture, which I've found to be much more intuitive than entity-component models.

it's an engine aimed at lisp programmers, so there is no graphical editor or anything like that. instead, you connect to the repl (which the engine manages for you) and live code the game while it is running. non-code things, like image and audio files, are automatically reloaded when changes are detected thanks to the inotify api on linux. I think it's a pretty nice experience if you're into this sort of thing.

I'm hesitant to release it officially. unlike my other project, chickadee, this is an opinionated engine and it's a lot easier to make something that sucks. I'd like to get a game jam or two under my belt with this stack before releasing publicly.

here's the source code for the tetris clone:

https://gist.github.com/davexunit/a80287a71d619f2c3affc02a5337305c

720 lines including comments. I'm pretty happy with that, though it could be golfed down a bit more.

I'd like to tweak the particle effects, add music and sound effects, and call it done. it has served its purpose as an integration test of my software stack and confirmed that I can, in fact, create a playable game if I want to.

my next goal is to write a tool that can bundle up games like this with a guile runtime + all necessary C shared libraries (like sdl2) + all necessary scheme modules. I hope to target linux, macos, and windows with this tool.

if I can complete that, maybe I'll release this little "engine" of mine in time for the next lisp game jam.

hey @cwebber you're on the HN front page if you didn't already know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392448

I'm in a giant overly AC'd conference center listening to people say "microservice" a lot so for contrast here I am in a garden near an off grid passive solar cottage wearing an 80 year old woman's wedding hat.

@cwebber thanks for the patch

applied a bug fix patch for Haunt by @jakob

https://git.dthompson.us/haunt.git/commitdiff/142006f88478622ce301f4c744592e851c3cca37

and now my miniscule patch queue is empty again.