Moonlight Smugglers, a pleasant surprise announcement by friend and game-dev Qptain Nemo:
Moonlight Smugglers, a pleasant surprise announcement by friend and game-dev Qptain Nemo:
Bonus, Combo Pool, an addictive game for the Pico-8.
Bonus: falco pellegrino cam.
I just finished Why Ever Did I Want To Write: Patchwork of a writing life, an enjoyable autobiography which draws most of its material from the diaries and letters of the protagonist. This bit from the introduction resonated with me:
For most people, their memories serve as the primary source of information about their past.Not so for me. I remember almost nothing about my pre-teenage years, and very little about my teenage years. The memories I do have are fixed stories about (or pictures of) myself: when brought to mind I cannot root around for further detail.
Therefore, as I’ve long told myself and friends, my diary is my memory. A good example of this is the journal I kept for three years while travelling round the world: almost all of what I think I know about myself during that time can, in fact, be found in the journal. Over the years, I’ve had occasion to re-read it several times – typing it onto the computer, editing it for a printed copy, editing it for uploading to my website and so on. This means that if any of the travelling stories in my memory get altered (exaggerated), re-reading the diary serves to reset them.
And indeed the most vivid and rewarding memories of my past years are seldom brought back by a picture, a postcard, a video reel, but by few diary entries written in a notebook.
bonus: Antonio Segura Donat, The Healing of the Lame of Capernaum.
Bonus: <BrutalSlakt> 300SEK (didn't buy, don't have the space) (pic)
spring is coming / jardín cerrado / YA twitter's victims and critics speak.
<ainar-g> Mi devis helpi al unu vindoz-programisto. C# estas fiamuza lingvo.Work in progress Janko keyboard, Air de Ballet, Linguistic distances (pick a language and see its relatives).
OpenScore: Liberating Sheet Music and Watercolour World.
bonus: Susanna and the Elders, Snow Days.
Play Kerfuffle by KKairos!
To play it you need DosBox and the ZZT engine. Move the .zzt into the engine folder, select a world with W and pick KRFFFL-C). The game is worth the setup pain, I promise!
Other: Dokmelody, (eo) Mazi en Gondolando.
Last year I decided to get back into reading more (I even compiled a handy list to help me in the selection process).
I read 60+ books in 2018: 53 from the public library, a handful of ebooks (I sold my ebook reader after realising paper is more comfortable to my eyes – and gets me in the mood to read more) and a few paperbacks bought in shopping sprees.
So here is a selection of the ones I liked most, if you want to start your 2019 with a similar goal:
After almost ten years, the time has finally come to say “goodbye” to Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is an amazing spaced-repetition software (with simply the best user experience of them all), but I simply find myself more and more weary of screen-time the older I get.
I will replace it with a pen and paper method: one of A Simple Vocabulary Memorization Method and the Gold Book method.
Transferring ~9500 cards will be quite a task, but I am sure it will be worth it.
Do you want to be updated of new research papers via RSS? Then you will like gscholar-rss.
Happy to announce that lentil now supports Emacs org-mode (.org) syntax. Many thanks to Damien Couroussé for the patch!
Just played: Winter Storm Draco.
Here is a small thing I transcribed and tried to play today (synth: aeolus).
If you want to play it yourself, grab the score (abc/pdf).
Jean Giraud's illustrations for the Divine Comedy.
I wrote some haskell hack.
Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches.
Click on the image below to play a simple-but-smart chess puzzle.
I wrote this using reflex-dom, to check the capabilities of Haskell for the web. Some of it is still painful (long build times, no way to use repl/ghicd, bloated exes, extremely scant documentation), while writing FRP is alluring.
Joachim Breitner wrote on the matter and provides some relief.
I wrote an article on travel friendly music keyboards.
