Hello honknet and beyond! I'm looking to get #fediHired, available for contract work starting in October! I am a software and systems generalist, having built and worked on all sorts of systems in different types of environments from education to small business to enterprise. I have lots (6 […]

here's a question for fedi because statistically one of you has an idea (boosts welcome) increasingly often, my phone (fairphone 5) has been completely dropping all cellular signal, showing "No service - no SIM". when it gets like this, airplane mode won't fix it and Settings > Network and […]

#[test] fn two_plus_two() { let mut forth = Forth::new(); forth.forth_literal(2); forth.forth_literal(2); forth.forth_plus(); let code = forth.compile(); #[rustfmt::skip] let expected = [ […]

I have been writing a Forth JIT, and I think I am developing a small but dedicated following of people watching it produce very 90's code in morbid fascination.

Everyone's talking about the eclipse, but uh, I don't have any way of safely viewing it, so um.

Sometimes the autism overtakes you and you spend a weekend entirely redoing a flight sim model. https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/ATR72/pull/10

New Engine Model by Ravenslofty · Pull Request #10 · FGMEMBERS/ATR72

Oh look, it's me again, after, too long. I've been working on and off for the past few years on an entire rework of how the engine system is modelled. Instead of the awkwardly modified (d5...

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why is blender, like, completely unusable.

describing a turbojet as a pipelined 4-stroke piston engine to annoy people

[mh--] maybe it's finally time to retire my internet presence.

[grumbling] person: so how do I write an interpreter lofty: I have spicy takes on this subject because people make dumb design decisions person: I want to hear your spicy takes person, later on: I'm going to ignore you now in favour of making dumb design decisions

thinking about how the most time I've spent outside recently was during the heatwaves, because my flat becomes a greenhouse in such conditions.

[grumbling at noisy car outside] somebody needs to be taught that dick length isn't measured in decibels

I'm bored; ask me anything.

I enjoy talking about forth things but I struggle finding people to talk to about it >.>

good morning from an international non-binary on international non-binary day

mattachine forth...

[self-OH] I am admittedly an amateur sparkly thing appreciator

I wish I could make more friends. There are people on here I want to reach out to, but I don't know where to start because they don't interact with me and so I don't have any form of read on their interests.

[military, ram shortage] there is an anecdote of how a missile's software had memory leaks, and their response was that memory management didn't matter because the whole thing would explode at the end, "freeing" all the leaked memory. so they just stuck enough memory on to survive the leak […]

[food] I keep buying cream slices and I never know how to eat them

I think I am learning enough about Forth to write some sort of Wat-style lightning talk. for example, `2dup` is a Forth word that copies the top two elements of the stack. it is also a number in base-36. if a word is not defined, it is interpreted according to the current number base. so […]

[computer chess data generation] polyamory is becoming popular these days because it takes seven people to write a chess program

oh good, another one of my cluster nodes has developed hardware problems (it powers off under load, and there's nothing coming out of `netconsole` that suggests a cause)

It feels a little weird to have a bunch of people following me who don't interact...

[OH] <veltas> Forth is the art of pointless hackiness

current status: donating 64GiB of RAM in this economy.

Current status: I have written a forth stack-operation superoptimiser to let me focus on what the stack needs to look like, not how to get there.

[self-OH] I am admittedly an amateur sparkly thing appreciator

Roses are red, Dandelions are yellow, Relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GOTTPREL against `__libc_errno`

I feel like I have sniped at least two or three people with my 4k chess engine having a Forth system. admittedly, it's...a bit untraditional because while forth is all about being an interpreter that can be interacted and extended, here forth is being used more as a human-readable bytecode […]