Notices by dave (dthompson@toot.cat), page 2

@daviwil yeah, I've known this for awhile and have had enough people ask me about webgl on hoot that I figured I should finally write this up.

@gugurumbe not part of the public interface. hoot's implementation uses a memory object as stack space for unboxed values, though.

@ArneBab on guile you can access the contents of a foreign pointer as a bytevector directly, no copy required.

wrote a quick post about the problems I've experienced with wasm gc and realtime graphics https://dthompson.us/posts/wasm-gc-isnt-ready-for-realtime-graphics.html

The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/

Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!

“Join the Guix-Science community!”
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/01/join-the-guix-science-community/

Where we #ReproducibleResearch and #HPC users of #Guix report on our adventure moving to #Codeberg, coming up with suitable CI/CD support, and call for like-minded #OpenScience folks to join!

kinda neat for not a ton of effort so far:

https://gist.github.com/davexunit/47ff5be24e69ec0c8d080f8dde49f820

need to write an assembler and see if it round trips.

In a recent stream, I started using the Fibers library for Guile Scheme to learn more about how it enables Go-style concurrency in Scheme programs.

Here's a clip from that stream where I explain what Fibers is for, read through an example snippet using channels, and set up a basic HTTP request handler that uses Fibers' own server backend.

Let me know what you think about the clip format!

https://youtu.be/fYyZuYKjmWc

#guile #scheme #golang #programming

in this house we believe the capital of Denmark is Benmark and you can't tell us otherwise

We will, however, talk about one game *in particular*: Cirkoban! https://davexunit.itch.io/cirkoban

(Alt link: https://files.spritely.institute/embeds/cirkoban/)

Cirkoban is COOL AND FUN AS HECK but it also shows off something really important! It was the first demo of Goblins running in the browser!

nuh uh: paul graham
mmhmm: teddy grahams

my perhaps foolish dream here is to have enough of a spir-v toolchain in scheme that I can assemble my own shaders. the spec is massive but ignoring extensions and focusing only on vertex/fragment shaders should help scope things down a lot.

OMG! We hit our supporter drive fundraising goal! 3 weeks early!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

This means so much, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has supported us and our mission to build the next generation of secure, decentralized, community-driven networked tech so far!

💜💜💜💜💜

wrote enough of a spir-v parser to parse the shader blobs in the sdl3 gpu cube example. am I insane?

@wingo I don't allocate, I'm straight edge

@amszmidt @civodul hey just wondering if you know how much of an asshole you sound like right now or if this the first you're hearing about it

update: we did it!!!!!

@daviwil thanks for always promoting the fundraiser on stream!

ahhhhh we are *so close* to hitting our fundraiser goal!!!!! huge THANK YOU to everyone who has donated so far!! (we're working on those game credit updates btw!)

thinking about how I was suspended for "computer hacking" just before graduating high school and when I returned my english teacher picked me as "student of the quarter" as a small fuck you to the school (though he never told me that's why) and I got to have a special breakfast with the other students of the quarter which was really just the normal school breakfast but at a special time. what a cool teacher.