@neauoire oh, to be building every day......

I made an arity checker(it's a thing that makes sure that a program's function doesn't leave the stack in an unexpected state), and would run it over my assembler source and it threw an error at my error handling code. Each time I thought, it's probably being confused.

But NO, it was telling me this whole time what I should change . I gave it a second look today and fixing that little thing was all I needed this whole time to get it to work properly. Thank you arity checker sensei.

@neauoire feels like this'd have parsing benefits - could likely parse something faster if you already have the binary representation, could be as simple as copying into memory

@neauoire yes! this is how co works, the source code is natively a bytecode, and there is even a subset of the instruction set reserved specifically for source-only tokens (like newlines, indents, comments, and different types of label definitions) and then the text representation is really just a transformation layer/interface. and then there is also a symbol database integrated to the language tooling, similar to the “symbol file” you mentioned (i imagine?)

So a few days I've realized that I very much liked working using structured editing.

Structured editing means that your editor is aware of the program's functioning enough that it handles how it should be presented, so you're not editing text as much as the underlying structure of the program.

It's just a fancy way of saying that it's basically just a symbols aware disassembler.

I've spent the past 2 days improving the UX so I could run the reassembler without going through the terminal.

@neauoire are the labels and comments stored in the sym file?

@neauoire kickass 💪 and then the images too 😉

@neauoire Off-topic, but that Cream font you customized looks glorious every time I see it in one of your posts. I’m curious if there’s any existing way to convert the UFX font to something like OTF?

@neauoire Every time I just want to loosen my ligaments, some stretchypant shaman is trying to make me think of the cosmos. What a weird sense of humour they must have.

@neauoire @spiralganglion Ooh, I have a counter-example: getting eaten (most often)

@neauoire love this, it's going to be really helpful. ooh, and thank you for making labels no longer overshadow the byte they're on top of, I think that's a fantastic change :)

@neauoire 8 seconds in. Already here for this.

@neauoire thanks for sharing this!

This was a fun watch.

It also reminded me how, once upon a time, when I was young and naive I thought I wanted to be a rabbi (narrator, it would turn out that he did not want that at all), and on that path I once wrote a (terrible) essay on et as a holographic term, a word from which you could build anything else, and, that tried to posit how, if you could build anything from et, you could store anything in it, too...which is weirdly computer-y in vibe.

@neauoire @eli_oat I'm sure you guys know about Toki Pona? I tried to make my own little 4 letter language inspired by that: http://move.rupy.se/file/talk.txt

@neauoire I worked on dynamic binary translator projects (like an off-road JIT).

One translated PPC to x86-64 code on the fly, in chunks of 5-30 instructions, writing and optimizing new machine code on the fly and patching together the completed chunks just in time to execute them.

One very confusing week I was translating a music synthesis app but it kept crashing; I came to realize that the audio app itself used self modifying code to efficiently generate the notes.

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@neauoire I'm pretty sure this is not what you're looking for, but there was an interesting line of research in the 90s to create circuits with FPGAs using self-modifying genetic algorithms. The results were kinda scary since they ended up leveraging inscrutable analog properties of the hardware instead of human-understandable digital logic.

https://www.eetimes.com/whatever-happened-to-evolvable-hardware/

@neauoire https://github.com/scrottie/Code-Splice for injecting inspection, and for in-lining method calls in a certain not-dead-yet language. I wrote a conference lighting talk that I never gave that continuously pulled from github, parsed the diffs, and spliced changes in to the running program. Wasn't able to keep up with maintaining that and afaik no one else really used it for anything so long dead.

@neauoire @matthewskelton I’m wondering your lunch hours…

@neauoire Playing with fire!

@neauoire ok, took me a minute to understand what I was seeing. amazing!!

@neauoire lately I’ve been feeling like the web platform is becoming the chromium platform — too many websites are only developed for and tested with Chrome :-(
I can’t even access figma anymore in Safari. So silly.

@neauoire logged out status removes the problem in Firefox ESR.

@neauoire since Microsoft bought it, I've seen already a few glitches, some of them pretty bad like entirely breaking the site for a certain browser due to skipping proper feature detection: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/119474

@neauoire yeah, that probably counts as cheating in quine terms ;-)

@neauoire

william@xubuntu-dtrain:~$ touch foo
william@xubuntu-dtrain:~$ sh ./foo > bar

@neauoire was wondering today about quine food recipes.....

you order a pie at a restaurant and the pie's got a list of ingredients baked on top

@neauoire reminds me of this story of a real life tron escape. I'd say it's probably my favorite story about computers ever. https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html

@neauoire Cool!

@neauoire 6/n This looks like Linux. Has anyone besides me tried oquonie5 on Mac?

@neauoire @mcc i love the art style, and scroll-free interaction! Cool tunes too.

@neauoire Such a great track. I sometimes have it on repeat for ages when coding.

@neauoire @rek

I guess this is not the aluminum you can obtain melting soda cans 😄

@neauoire @rek I like many of his ideas, especially “scaletta poppiera accessibile da uomo a mare”

@neauoire wonder who owns this boat now :)...

@neauoire solar is great!

@neauoire I would love to see your setup. The dream of solar powered computing is all I ever wanted!

@neauoire Ohh - this is super attractive to me. Do you do development on your pinbook? I had looked at them, but with 2G of RAM, thought they might be kind of underpowered. Would love to know more about your setup (OS, window manager, IDE, etc.)

@neauoire misread that as MC Solaar. Brief confusion ensued.

@neauoire
As I had some trouble aquiering those plugs in the first place, I ended up by soldering those wires together, which lasted for 10+ years on the top of my car. I did not have to deal with salty water though.