 Okay! Abner got back to me for the Merveilles community discount for Handmade Seattle that's coming up!! Anyone coming down to the merveilles meetup in november and also want to see some fun talks, hit me up and I'll give you a discount code! It brings down the ticket cost to 100$ https://forum.merveilles.town/thread/87/handmade-seattle-meetup%2c-november-2024-2/ Back in Canadian waters from Alaska, we'll try to intercept our friends sailing from Hawaii in Prince Rupert. We're ready to shed our winter jackets and kickback..  We are doing well. We left Sitka and sailed offshore, stopping twice to anchor, and did two overnight sails. Had a bit of engine trouble, managed to fix it. We had good weather to start, but the sail through Dixon Entrance was very rough. More on all this later.  We have arrived back into Canada, Pino is docked in Prince Rupert. We are tired and tired. It had been a LONG time since we've done an overnight sail. The first was very nice, with calm seas, good wind, and so much wild life! We stopped pointing out breaching whales to each other because there were so many. I saw a puffin for the first time, many sea otters, and lots of black-footed albatrosses(they're so big)! The second was in big weather, with rough seas... not as relaxing.  Over the past few months, I went down the rabbit hole (hah) of @neauoire 's Uxn + Varvara computer, and have re-emerged with an emulator! It's especially fast, written in safe Rust, and runs both natively and in the browser: Here's the full writeup:
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  @mjk Wow, that's amazing. I've been away from the internet for a few days, I'm so glad to see this, once I have a bit more bandwidth I'd love to try and build it, I've only tested the js frontend and it runs everything well. I think the only port missing is the expansion port? Trying to run the most complicated rom(oquonie), I get this: panicked at raven-uxn/src/lib.rs:495:26:
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We're still in Sitka, we were supposed to leave a few days ago but the weather has been kind of crappy, and we aren't done exploring every little side-street and trail. According to Butler’s model, a place is first “discovered,” then developed. Locals begin to lose control over decision-making, and laborers from elsewhere come to fill new jobs. The number of visitors climbs. At this stage, tourism becomes the dominant economic driver, and the environmental, social, and economic fabric of the original community changes, often to the detriment of locals’ quality of life.”  @neauoire Too true. Seen this in so many places. From big cities (Lisbon, Cartagena -- Porto is still clinging to its soul) to small coastal cities in Greece where the town changes completely on days with a cruise ship docked and on days with no ship it's a sleepy little town and the tourist trap shops selling expensive crap aren't even bothering to open. The longest suffering (Venice, Barcelona, Baleares, Costa del Sol) are starting to revolt now. Protests, ban on tourst apartments, etc. 
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@cabtastic sont tellement nice tes newsletters, ca me redonne des feelings de la vie a Montreal. Lots of self-aware commercial fishing vessels in this arbor: Pacific Destructor, Coastal Aggressor, Ocean Plunderer, ...   @chandlerc this aligns with my suspicion that we are all secretly forth programmers |
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I was thinking of sewing some custom black merveilles masks to anyone who wants one, let me know if you do.
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