Weekly Brain Dump #31
At a Glance
- Pomodoro Timer Widget First beta test went well
- Taylor on Windows Fixing up some bugs
- Someone Built a Game with Taylor! Absolutely mind blowing to me
- Interesting Links Cool things I found this week
- Comments
Pomodoro Timer Widget
I got my first beta tester using this and it’s working great! You can check out my wife’s stream to see it in action.
I’ve been spending a bunch of time cleaning up the code and implementing tests now that I know it’s something to take seriously. I’ve been impressed with how easy it’s been to put together and missed this kind of crazy “just implement the dang thing” approach. It’s been fun and made me enjoy programming a lot more again.
Taylor on Windows
It was pointed out that puts was broken on Windows builds. I tracked this down
to the hacks I put in to reconnect to the terminal used to launch the program. I
have now realised I can just pass both -mwindows and -mconsole and it “just
works” as expected from what I can tell. This is a bit of a curse because it was
working perfectly find under Wine.
There’s still an issue where it doesn’t seem to be changing directory properly and can’t find the entrypoint no matter what you do. So I’m going to investigate that and fix it in the same pull request.
Someone Built a Game with Taylor!
Holy crap, this blew my mind. Miles has built a cross platform real time multiplayer game with Taylor to show case Ractors in Ruby for the server.
You can check out Trianko and see for yourself, it plays real smooth. I was very impressed by this. It’s also nice to see that this all works properly on the Taylor side as it’s something I put in but haven’t thoroughly tested since it’s just a dependency.
Interesting Links
Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores: This is a really cute script, I'm glad someone at Uniqlo has sense of humour.
Postgres Is Enough: A nice reminder that you can get extremely far with just Postgres.
Programming Vehicles in Games: A really in depth look at implementing cars for a game.
Releasing Execution Contexts: Crystal gets a new way to define multi threading.
How is this possible?: Building a VM to run DOS using only CSS, yes really.