Notices by Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands I... Oy

@inthehands it's ok, I blocked again 🙂 if not you someone else would have

@inthehands man I keep blocking her and she keeps moving to different instances so I have to block her again

@inthehands this is why I always say that the best thing for me as a dev is to partner with a great tester

@inthehands yeah I can't get over how much I love this manifesto of yours

@inthehands right. The article I linked above seems to use boundaries, where neighboring pixel values are significantly different

@inthehands Thank you, but none of this art is ours. I stole the background from this: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/shtetl-vitaly-umansky.html

@inthehands yes

@inthehands here it is, with placeholder assets

@inthehands I looked it up, it has the same kind of flicker. Maybe there's no way to avoid it

@inthehands that's the idea...

@inthehands oh boy scaling using a shader 😲 this is probably the RIGHT way to do this
But yes I figured out that if I set the viewport size and scaling correctly, I can get the effect. Unfortunately yeah you do get this weird effect that you mentioned

@inthehands so how does this re-pixelation work?

@inthehands 😯😲🤯
@chrisamaphone

@skinnylatte making a version of this for people who keep kosher is one of my life goals

@inthehands this is interesting: 'Liebb said when he asked why they were being detained, an officer tightened his handcuffs and responded: “This isn’t county or state. We are homeland. You have no rights here.”'

@inthehands I landed on Rust because learning a new language felt overwhelming. And what do you know, for a change I'm working together with the borrow checker instead of fighting it! No unexpected mutation of something passed by reference.... It turns out that command pattern with undo is a problem that the borrow checker solves 🙂

You did get me curious about Swift, though. For when I'm feeling a little better.

@inthehands interesting, they don't seem to advertise it in the docs

@inthehands looking into it. A couple of things I'll miss: Optional is an enum, no exception throwing. The latter of course is a matter of style, but I hate having to catch library exceptions

@inthehands yeah, I've done a bunch of stuff with Rust already, but I keep running into things that are difficult to wrap my head around, like life times. And I am annoyed by the lack of reflection. And it's very slow to write, so much time fighting the compiler... It was my other choice for this project from the start, and I picked ts because I wanted to write code fast and experiment and iterate. This is after you suggested to just start writing...

I still haven't found the ideal language for these types of projects. Maybe it's actually Python, but I don't enjoy writing in it.