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I make videos about computer programming at https://youtube.com/@contextfree - he/him - God is good. Black lives matter.
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Useful question because there are lots of nice replies of interesting languages.

Society and language of crows is so fascinating. youtu.be/KG9GdpV4adU

Earlier today at Sabino Canyon, Coronado National Forest.

Gleam now has an official time library! Try out the release candidate and let us know how you find it github.com/gleam-lang/t...

As President Trump this weekend opened what could become a global trade war, a growing number of countries, including America’s closest allies, are forging their own economic partnerships without the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...

This preview crates idea for Rust seems vaguely similar to `from __future__ import` in Python. smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans." Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"

The final version of our GGJ game (from a couple days ago), playable online. Still has bugs, but it's still a nice experience. tjpalmer.itch.io/sonoransnaps

There's a balance in event planning -- if you hold an event in the US then people who can't get US visas or can't safely come to US cannot attend. But if you hold all events outside US then people who now can't get passports can't come, and neither can immigrants lacking advance parole to re-enter.

More GGJ team progress. I'm just one of two programmers and not an artist. The other programmer has done more than I have also. But I'm happy with the progress.

Global Game Jam progress. More work to do. We especially need to add plants, I think.

New video up! Programming Languages in 2024! youtu.be/p8LlDtJtB4Q

Happy MLK Day! Went marching.

Day 4 of OS in 1k lines of Zig, getting closer to running user mode applications. Got Zig questions? Ask in chat! https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it

Some POV footage from my hike last week. youtu.be/AJCJ1qh8kpo

Happy saguaro and sad saguaro from my hike last Saturday.

Any opinions on the movie Rango?

New video on calling from Odin into Nim precompiled to Wasm. youtu.be/RI--EAWScuU

From my hike yesterday.

Thinking about how I could tie local storage in Taca to some S3 account for automatically webified local sandboxed apps. I guess Dropbox for a local dir would have similar effects.

I think it's magical that we live in a world with animals. (Yes, I know how life works. But there's still magic in it, anyway.)

Languish 2024Q4 is up. I took out GitHub issues because what seems like excessive bot activity. So just down to GH stars and Stack Overflow tags by default now, which is sad. Might be worth trying to filter out bot activity. tjpalmer.github.io/languish/

Switching to zip files for Taca, such as how Java uses zip for jar files. I also expect to provide programmatic access to zip entries for data not directly embedded in the Wasm binary, but I haven't implemented that yet. Slower decompression than lz4 worries me, but maybe ok?

The demo/home page for this is like amazing. www.nicbarker.com/clay

"Mientras tanto, este mundo gira y gira sin poderlo detener."

Happy Christmas, y'all!

Odin + Nim combo number guessing game Taca demo is now up. Maybe I should add a shader background to make it look more interesting? App is in Odin. Drawing and input handling are in separately compiled Nim wasm module. contextfreeinfo.github.io/taca/demo/?a...

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From my hike this morning.

What’s next for Godot? Our new Priorities page is a wishlist of improvements we’d love to see and where contributions, sponsors, and new devs can make an impact. Explore the full list of priorities here: godotengine.org/priorities/ #godot #godotengine