馃憢 I build simple, low-maintenance programs that reward curiosity about their internals.
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I've been working on a text editor where you can also draw line drawings. Since I put it out I've been getting a trickle of feature requests. Suddenly the need to say no is very real, and I need to make good decisions. I've been using 2 escape hatches: 1. Forks. Somebody proposed an alternative system for drawing polygons that was actually quite self-consistent and had complementary strengths and weaknesses. We don't have to pick one, here's a fork: https://github.com/akkartik/lines-polygon-experiment 2. Add-ons as separate applications. Some people want an exporter to markdown SVG. But most won't. Why complicate the codebase for everyone. Instead: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131
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An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings: http://akkartik.name/lines.html
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A zettelkasten app built in Teliva, the rugged platform for sandboxed, hackable text-mode apps: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (video; 4 minutes)
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I gave a talk at FOSDEM a few hours ago: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem Try out the project I describe there: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
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Running untrusted apps more flexibly and simply: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-12-25 (video; 2 minutes) Programming languages assume you trust all code you run. Browsers assume you trust all network access from websites you visit. With Teliva I'm exploring other approaches in search of a sandboxing model that's both more flexible and easier to understand/trust. (Look for the easter egg involving your favorite protocol.) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
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There's a Review Jam happening this Advent. Review somebody's project, try to complete a small task, maybe share a video of how it went. Day 2 is my project, Teliva: https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing
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Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)
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I have a new project: a platform for sharing Lua apps so they can be uniformly edited and modified by anybody using them. https://github.com/akkartik/teliva 2-minute video: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2021-11-14
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I just installed Lagrange on a new machine. How can I post as myself on Station from there? I see a way to import a User Certificate but no way to export? Is this even the right approach to pursue?
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A network-less, read-only browser built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15
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Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954
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Syntax sugar in the Mu shell: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-23
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Sumeet Agarwal and I solve an Advent of Code problem in Mu: https://archive.org/details/2021-06-02-akkartik-sumeet (video; 100 minutes)
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Live-coding Fizzbuzz on my Lisp-based environment built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09
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New 2-minute video: referential transparency atop an imperative substrate. https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-31
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The Mu shell's error-handling is much improved. Back now to my plan from 3 years ago: a prototyping environment that encourages people to write tests so the prototype can eventually be thrown away and rewritten.
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A new 3.5-minute video on my latest bit of programming, some ideas on using animation in the debugging experience: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-17
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My computer now prints a call stack when it crashes: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/2021-05-15.gmi
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Don't called them signed ints and unsigned ints. Call them ints and addresses. Most of us don't care about the increased range of integers yielded by that final extra bit. But addresses sometimes need to set it. And we never want to think of addresses as negative.
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The Mu computer now supports Lisp macros in the prototyping environment: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106195814023586904
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Thinking about how computers evolved sandboxing models: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/2021-05-05.gmi
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@martin Do notifications include only top-level logs, not replies? My feed doesn't include replies to my own posts or replies that mention me.
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I just made a website on Flounder: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/index.gmi Feels like I'm back in the '90s.
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How can I select an image to upload that looks ok after ASCII conversion?
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I'm new to Gemini. What happens to my account here when my certificate expires? Is there a way for me to swap certificates?
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Hello world!