1h of videogame dev every day keeps the depression away

Sadly, nothing; not very enthusiastic about programming at the moment. Though I’m currently going through Practical SDR by No Statch Press and learning GNU Radio. It’s basically a flowchart constructor for Python code, so I guess that counts

Learning the basics of rust and trying to build my new language first project

I got interested in constraint programming, and I had NO idea how it worked. It seemed like magic.

I have started on following the slides and code of MiniCP, and have started implementing the first steps in Rust. I find it very challenging but it is a great learning experience. I got such a thrill from solving the N-Queens problem in milliseconds from a program that I had written myself.

I am continuing to develop the implementation for a few hours this weekend. Because writing a constraint system is hard, I am also learning some new parts of Rust that I have not touched before.

Finally working to finish Eloquent JavaScript - whether this is me procrastinating on revamping and migrating my personal website or trying to fill in my knowledge gaps is a mystery to me.

Started a DSP/Audio plugin journey last weekend. This weekend I’m going to try to build a utility plugin I’ve had in mind for years. New to c++ so it’s been refreshing to be programming something totally different than my norm of web APIs and frontends.

I’m working on a classifier to keep the chaos of my inbox under control. It uses the gemini LLM API (gemini-flash-lite) to add labels to each email depending on things like:

• does it require an action from me?
• does it require a reply from me?
• is there a deadline?
• is it an invoice?
• is the information just an event about changes to information that exists in another system (i.e. a notification that can be deleted)

Currently upgrading from the 2.x to the 3.x model and tuning some of the prompts.

Not 100% programming but I’ve been getting into homelab stuff lately. Yesterday I got Fedora installed on an old MBP, and I’m hoping it’ll be a good moonlight client to my main gaming desktop.

Now the living room TV can be run from the MBP and folks can still watch TV while I’m gaming. Then if I’m in the mood I can do couch gaming.

The first attempt last night worked so well! I was shocked to be playing a shooter like Just Cause 3 without any visible lag. Very impressive!

For programming, it’s time I hosted my tarot card website on my home Ubuntu server. It’s been a few weeks of testing the site just by running it from the command line. I’m still a little shaky on the hosting stuff, but I think I’ll use a systemd service to ensure it starts up when the server reboots.

I’ve been tinkering with integrated programming and physical circuits. Working with my hands to “code” a physical piece of hardware that does a specific purpose has been a breath of fresh air in the age of Al.

Polishing my current SailfishOS installation. Some systemd services to tweak things, some user scripts in .desktop files (i.e., menu icons). I’m not an app developer but I love how I can do all my Linux tweaking on my phone, too.

The OS has gotten a lot better recently, and I’m on the most suitable non-dedicated device now. It should last me some years.

upgrading unloved django blog to 5.2, rebuilding vps, moving everything to uv and working out how that’s going to play with piku.

if get that done, fix up some of the css on my blog and start a blog post to use as back country and camping check list (bc i forgot some stuff i really should have taken on last tour).

half arsed look for new job.

help bro cut down a tree.

clean the car.

Kotlin Multiplatform because I’m unemployed, and Kotlin is a nice language and it’s been decades since I haven’t done a mobile application (the last ones were in Java for Android and Objective-C for the iPhone).

Working on my latest videogame, very early stages but it’s coming along nicely.

I also sot up a git server at home and a ssh access key on my el-cheapo laptop and I feel very good every time I push a branch from it to home.

I do have performance issues with Rider though (JetBrains C# IDE), I have disabled basically everything except syntax coloring and still it’s just lagging insanely all the time. 20 seconds i7 quad core peak because I (shudder) select text, or erase some letters in a comment. Aaaaaa! If anyone knows a C# ide that works well with Godot on linux I’m all ears. Syntax coloring, debugging & autocomplete if possible, FOSS would be fantastic (microsoft code thingy sucks ass btw IMO).

Godot is fantastic BTW!

I’m trying to build my own Wayland WM. why when there are so many out there? because I don’t feel like any of them do them well. either they all focus on fancy animations (hyprland) or slam you with features without focusing on specific things (mangowm) or primarily have issues with mouse/keyboard focus on games in window mode or just games in general when you toggle away from them and back (all of them) and that annoys me.

There’s one specific game I play in window mode with multiple clients of the game running, it’s EVE Online. ALL the Wayland WM’s have issues with this. you move away from the window and back it doesn’t grab the mouse back the first time or the keyboard won’t work the first time going back. X11 WMs have ZERO issues with this. but like with Niri you have to switch workspaces and back just for it to grab the mouse/keyboard again. Hyprland you have to switch windows and back. Sway is the same type of deal.

So I’m trying to build a Wayland WM with a focus on gaming and vim style navigation as that’s what I do on my machines. game and code. I just want to take a suckless type approach and do one thing and one thing well. I’m also tired of the idiotic configs and resource hogs of many of these. there’s an x11 WM called SXWM written by a 13 year old whose config file is the most simple and clean one I’ve ever seen. many x11 WMs are like this (CTWM is another example of a clean and simple config) I want to adapt that to Wayland as hyprlands switch to lua and thus turning it into a mess also annoyed me.

it’s a big project but one that I feel needs to be done. so I’m just building something that tiles, is solid with the mouse and keyboard, and has a very simple config and low resources. that’s it.

Looking for a job :(