the bootstrap compiler is functional.

#devlog #tukan

the bootstrap compiler is functional.

#devlog #tukan

i'm renaming Dektop (aka "project turing hot tub") to Tukan - this is going to become the basis for the editor for Nowhere. the bytecode/dataflow IR doesn't have a name yet. best i can think of atm is tug for "tukan graph".

#devlog #dektop #tukan

Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-19

This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the chabeau crate that seems fairly sane.

1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release"
2) If all checks pass, merge into main (protected branch)
3) Check on main detects new tag & publishes crate (assuming final pre-publication checks are happy)

Concurrency group ensures it only runs once.

Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-13

Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string".

The behavior I ended up with is:
- For dev builds, print detailed git version info
- For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info
- Ensure we preserve support for VERGEN_IDEMPOTENT (suppress dates entirely) and SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (reproducible builds).

(Still TBD: official release artifacts)

here's a first design. i picked ?= intuitively but then found that it is close in meaning to the Nullish coalescing assignment operator ??= in javascript.

#devlog

today is design time. which is the best of times. which is the worst of times.

my job is to transform this bag of semantic manure (see pic) into something fruitful. it's just for the bootstrap language (with which i build the editor) so it doesn't have to be the pinnacle of expressiveness.

so let's begin.

#devlog

Hi, people! ✌️

I've build "Cat a shooter 😼" for Android, and this is the last thing that I have to do for a while.

And now you can download this game for your Android device 📱 from Gamejolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/cat-a-shooter/1007868

or from itch.io: https://xolatgames.itch.io/cat-a-shooter

Also I've add instructions for building to it GitLab page 👉 https://gitlab.com/xolatgames/cat-a-shooter

So, I think that it's all, and see ya later.

Have a good day! 😉 😜 ✌️

#opensource #games #gamedev #android #arcade #spaceinvaders #lua #devlog #love2d

in unrelated news i've written an arcptr wrapper class for C++

#devlog

the compiler's web console now has an api endpoint that provides a dump of each compiler object.

next is a GUI for this so we can selectively extend and look at properties

(if firefox's json viewer here supported nested fetching i'd already be done but alas...)

#devlog #scopes

I am busy at work adding pictures and videos to the next #devlog entry about the monkey game. I will post it right here once it is finished.

You can already read the rest of the devlogs for the prototype on my website 👇
https://www.camperotacti.co/blog/hammer-time/

#gamedev #gaming #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indie #game

I am busy at work adding pictures and videos to the next #devlog entry about the monkey game. I will post it right here once it is finished.

You can already read the rest of the devlogs for the prototype on my website 👇
https://www.camperotacti.co/blog/hammer-time/

#gamedev #gaming #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indie #game

figured it's time to add some real debugging UI to the compiler so i added a small webconsole.

presently it can only serve static files out of a designated directory and parse requests as scopes expressions.

once more it's quite useful when your parser builds an intermediate format rather than directly constructing an AST

#devlog #scopes

I gave a talk this morning for members of the French Collège Code Sources et Logiciels as part of the national Ouvrir la science! effort, discussing #RSEng & @us_rse

I hope this leads to some alignment & collaboration between RSE associations & the French #DevLOG community (https://www.devlog.cnrs.fr)

my slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15770196

I gave a talk this morning for members of the French Collège Code Sources et Logiciels as part of the national Ouvrir la science! effort, discussing #RSEng & @us_rse

I hope this leads to some alignment & collaboration between RSE associations & the French #DevLOG community (https://www.devlog.cnrs.fr)

my slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15770196