kenkeiras (@kenkeiras@social.codigoparallevar.com)

Just wanted to do some tests with CFDG and remembered I wrote a simple GUI 13 years ago...

The usual code host at the time was Source Forge, and I wrote it to test the Lazarus IDE for #freepascal. Well, I just downloaded it and it did build (with the latest version of lazarus!) in the first try.

It's pretty great when things just work 😁

As an aside, across many blog migrations the blog post where I published it no longer renders properly... I should finish migrating those at some point 😅 .

A basic UI window showing some CFDG code on the left pane and a randomly-generated tree composed of spirals on the right pane.

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kenkeiras @kenkeiras

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You know that there's this category of steel produced before the first nuclear tests (low-background steel [1]), which is presumed not contaminated by nuclear fallout.

I wonder if something similar will happen with creative works, where works known to be released previous to, say, DeepFakes/ChatGPT/StableDiffusion/... will be known to be human-made, but anything after that will be suspicious 🤔

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

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Earlier today (on #emacs), out of habit, I pressed C-c ' on a markdown code block. On a org-mode code block this would open a separate buffer focused on the code, with the appropriate modes set and so on... looks like it also works like this on Markdown. So cool!

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kenkeiras @kenkeiras

I'm thinking of rewriting org-rw[1] in a language that I can use for web apps, desktop and Android apps.

I think rust might be a good choice. It can be compiled to wasm and looks like it is supported on Android. But are there others I should consider?

1: https://github.com/kenkeiras/org-rw

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Yesterday I got org-backlinks [1] working after a bit of hacking to get it working for me.

I don't have a lot of experience with #emacs lisp, but the small and focused codebase made it experimenting with it very rewarding. Might be a fun experiment if you also go around linking all your #orgmode notes.

1: https://github.com/codecoll/org-backlink
(custom changes on https://github.com/kenkeiras/org-backlink )

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@hacklego I finally got to do some Advent Of Code challenges using an Array programming language. In the end I chose J [1]. It was fun and I think I'm slowly getting it but it's still kind of tricky. Now I'll go back to other projects to process the lessons from the last days 😅.

1: https://www.jsoftware.com/#/README

FYI, here are the notes on the code from the second day (lot's of commented "echo" lines… welp 🤷): https://codigoparallevar.com/notes/e998352c-9aa2-427b-8cca-0c38a7050af6.node.html

Btw: testing Emacs's Mastodon.el for tooting… hopefully I did this right :P