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movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (10h ago)

My washing machine is making funny noises and Iā€™m this šŸ¤ close to just throwing it out and washing everything by hand, instead of buying another expensive enshittified product thatā€™s designed to break down in a couple of years.

Washing is easy anyway, the spin cycle to dry that stuff is the important part ā€¦

#bb54rfq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (4d ago)

Spent basically the entire day (except for the mandatory walk) fighting with Pythonā€™s type hints. But, the result is that my widget toolkit now passes mypy --strict.

I really, really donā€™t want to write larger pieces of software without static typing anymore. With dynamic typing, you must test every code path in your program to catch even the most basic errors. pylint helps a bit (doesnā€™t need type hints), but thatā€™s really not enough.

Also, somewhere along the way, I picked up a very bad (Python) programming style. (Actually, I know exactly where I picked that up, but I donā€™t want to point the finger now.) This style makes heavy use of dicts and tuples instead of proper classes. That works for small scripts, but it very quickly turns into an absolute mess once the program grows. Prime example: jenny. šŸ˜©

I have a love-hate relationship with Pythonā€™s type hints, because they are meaningless at runtime, so they can be utterly misleading. Iā€™m beginning to like them as an additional safety-net, though.

(But really, if correctness is the goal, you either need to invest a ton of time to get 100% test coverage ā€“ or donā€™t use Python.)

#4yvgryq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)

So, are you guys up for an experiment?

Iā€™m really not happy with the domain ā€œuninformativ.deā€ anymore. Iā€™m going to switch to ā€œmovq.deā€ soon (or maybe something else if I get another fancy idea).

If I keep the url = field in my twtxt file, nothing should break, right? Right? šŸ¤£

#i6mgd3a
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (6d ago)

(#hddm6pa) @prologic@twtxt.net Iā€™d love to take a look at the code. šŸ˜…

Iā€™m kind of curious to know how much Assembly I need vs. How much of a microkernel can I build purely in Mu (Āµ)? šŸ¤”

Canā€™t really answer that, because I only made a working kernel for 16-bit real mode yet. That is 99% C, though, only syscall entry points are Assembly. (The OpenWatcom compiler provides C wrappers for triggering software interrupts, which makes things easier.)

But in long mode? No idea yet. šŸ˜… At least changing the page tables will require a tiny little bit of Assembly.

#hgl7mjq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1w ago)

(#mqvmwva) @bender@twtxt.net Iā€™m already using it for tracktivity (meant for tracking activities and events, like weather, food consumption, stuff like that), which is basically a somewhat-fancy CSV editor:

https://movq.de/v/f26eb836ee/s.png

I have a couple of other projects where I could use it, because they are plain curses at the moment. Like, one of them has an ā€œedit boxā€, but you canā€™t enter Unicode, because it was too complicated. That would benefit from the framework.

Either way, itā€™s the most satisfying project in a long time and Iā€™m learning a ton of stuff.

#sge677a
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1w ago)

(#4b4ypwa) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Unix terminals are quite limited in that regard. šŸ«¤ You know how Ctrl works? The XOR 0x40 thing? And Alt doesnā€™t exist at all, itā€™s just a prefixed ESC byte.

I was surprised to see curses knowing about ā€œShift+Tabā€, wondering how that is supposed to work. Well, itā€™s an escape sequence, of course (depending on the terminal, of course).

#5pxodta