Notices by dave (dthompson@toot.cat)

getting ready to travel to Brussels for the first time ever to give a talk at FOSDEM. haven't traveled internationally in 15 years!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5140-minimalist-web-application-deployment-with-scheme/

the whole spritely dev team is going to be giving talks. full details here:

https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-is-going-to-guix-days-and-fosdem.html

@datagoblin I already rated it a year or so ago but I just want to say that monogram is my go-to pixel font for games! I love it!

@GwenfarsGarden it's fine it was just a little one. we get them from time to time.

also big trucks shake my house when they drive by so until I saw other people posting about it I just thought "dang that was a big truck"

obligatory post about how I felt the earthquake in massachusetts

As foretold! Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT... Goblins in the browser!!! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-15-0-goblins-in-the-browser.html

You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!

This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!

@yisraeldov for a bunch of examples of haunt sites to look through, check out https://awesome.haunt.page/

in 2015 I wanted to write a web frontend for guix so I looked into using websocket. no one had written a websocket library for guile yet so I looked at the spec. the spec was surprisingly understandable and not too complicated so I made guile-websocket. I didn't release it until 2022 when I realized other people had found it and were trying to use it. now it's 2025 and I'm using it at work. time is weird. anyway, 0.2.0 is out.

https://dthompson.us/posts/guile-websocket-0-2-0-released.html

@travisfw not anymore!

@lizzie @cwebber @thin_line you're welcome! guile-sdl3 on the way!

So what have been up to these last few weekt?
Look, are you not impressed by my crappy drawing "game"?

@thin_line @lizzie @cwebber SDL3 was released yesterday and I've been working on Guile bindings (slowly) for a bit. hope to have it out soonish.

@thin_line @lizzie @cwebber SDL3 release announcement here https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icculus/113868018286639461

Spritely office hours are happening today at 2pm US eastern time! hope to see some of you there! meeting details here: https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-1-22/651/1

haven't posted pet pictures in awhile. here are my dogs.

@ArneBab batching is for the geometry not the image data and that's useful for lots of data that changes every frame. Batching would be very painful to do with wasm GC right now due to the problems mentioned in the blog post. These problems don't exist in Guile.

one mistake I made is that saying wasm GC is wonderful wasn't enough to keep the anti GC crowd from saying that no GC managed runtime can do realtime graphics, which is total bullshit btw!

@monkey1 yeah to me HN is good for some exposure and bad for discourse.

ah the timeless internet tradition of leaving a one sentence reply calling out someone's shitty post and receiving a 4 paragraph essay in response that I'm absolutely not gonna read. this is why I log on.

@monkey1 time to get my 15 seconds of fame and perhaps start a mini flame war or two.