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Written by Olical on 2025-01-28 at 17:40

Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 are 50% off right now on Steam. Just a heads up if you're waiting to play them, these sales are very rare.

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-28 at 17:14

It now wrote to ./$HOME so I had to do rm -r ./\$HOME/.

This is so scary, I want to get off this ride.

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-28 at 17:10

One command horror: rm -r ./~

I spent quite a while validating that it isn't some sort of symlink. Turns out shadow-cljs wrote my .m2 into ./~...

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-27 at 13:33

Finished the Wheel of Time last night as I entered my birthday after 5+ years of reading on and off.

Can't say it was the most incredible and mind blowing story in the end but it did sort of stick the landing I thought. Although it did have some "end of Michael Bay movie rock music playing with voice over" feel to it.

What's next!? Maybe the next books from S. A. Corey? I think one is out that isn't The Expanse?

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-21 at 14:02

The tail! marker gives you compile time checking that you haven't broken a tail call!

(fn process-all [data i]
  (case (process (. data i))
    :done (print "Process completed.")
    :next (process-all data (+ i 1))
    :skip (do (tail! (process-all data (+ i 2)))
;;             ^^^^^ Compile error: Must be in tail position
              (print "Skipped" (+ i 1)))))

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-21 at 14:00

Fennel functions created with the lambda keyword throw a runtime error if given a nil argument unless the name is prefixed by ? - super useful!

(lambda [x ?y z]
  (print (- x (* (or ?y 1) z))))

In this case, x and z are required, y can be nil.

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Written by Olical on 2025-01-13 at 11:37

This looks like an amazing terminal collaboration tool! https://sshx.io/

Anyone else used it a lot and have any long term user feedback? Might end up incorporating this into our workflows.

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Written by Olical on 2024-12-22 at 12:09

About to make the annual journey to stay with family over the holidays but first I must update everything on my laptop and Steam Deck in preparation for some OSS and downtime!

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Written by Olical on 2024-12-05 at 12:05

Finally fixed pretty printing for babashka in Conjure https://github.com/Olical/conjure/issues/406

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Written by Olical on 2024-12-04 at 11:58

Although I can play it right now (well, theoretically, I don't actually have any free time in practice). I'm so excited for Caves of Qud 1.0. Congratulations @unormal and team. A wonderful game I will push on everyone that'll listen. It comes out tomorrow, go buy it! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/4542535021350562775?l=english

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-27 at 14:58

And apparently alpine can run your code slower, sometimes by quite a lot! Mostly due to the different C lib as I understand it. I might've been causing a lot of damage over my years of using alpine as a base image by default 😭

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-27 at 14:47

I've had a change of heart on Alpine based images. I'm now moving everything back to Debian slim even though that means jumping through hoops to get newer node and awscli versions etc.

I thought I could pin the Alpine image and prevent those random errors as packages were updated in the registry. Turns out they evict old versions from the registry so you can't have reproducible pinned builds with Alpine.

Took me far too long to realise this! So now I'm on Debian slim with everything pinned.

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-26 at 10:44

Music theory is indistinguishable from math and magic to my untrained eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHa2DklOeTI&t=414s

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-26 at 10:41

I feel like doing some more non-computer things is also helping clear a bit of brain fog around side project work too. I have so many hard problems I want to work on that I get paralysed sometimes.

Doing something completely different is helpful in unsticking my thoughts it seems.

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-26 at 10:36

Hey, maybe after a little music theory and a few years of learning I'll pick up my copy of Ableton and the Serum synth again and try to make something fun.

My love is electronic music and D&B + sub genres but beautiful simple guitar music has always moved me. Especially things like the Outer Wilds sound track.

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Written by Olical on 2024-11-26 at 10:33

Spotted a second hand budget Fender acoustic guitar on my local buy/sell chat and couldn't resist. I'm learning again after giving up in high school!

Feels great to have extremely sore finger tips and that early part of the learning curve of a new skill again. I'm just swapping between A and D chords over and over but feeling the progress.

Watching justinguitar's course on YouTube, other tips are appreciated!

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Written by Olical on 2024-10-23 at 09:32

https://www.flow-storm.org/ is looking FANTASTIC, I really need to use it.

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Written by Olical on 2024-10-21 at 11:35

Used a 2023 arch install iso through a ventoy usb, unlocked the luks, mounted the btrfs volumes, chrooted, pacman -Syyu didn't do it but pacman -S intel-ucode did re-install things. fsck.vfat on the boot partition no longer shows issues! And it boots!

So no idea how this happened, did some self tests on both of my SSDs and they don't report any issues. I can only imagine a bad pacman -S or Windows (which I have on another disk in this machine) did this.

Very happy to have fixed it!

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Written by Olical on 2024-10-21 at 10:23

Oh, bother. How'd this even happen!? Someone has written a love letter to my boot sector :(

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Written by Olical on 2024-10-14 at 15:37

I'm this 🤏 close to building a fresh Neovim setup sans distro and dropping my blog in favour of a hosted Obsidian site where I just start publishing all sorts of scrappy things (tyvm @TodePond, I'm yet another victim of your inspiration)

I don't like the fact that small barriers are keeping me from just writing and sharing more thoughts.

I might unify my work and personal obsidian vaults too although I'm not sure. Switching vaults is kinda clunky imo.

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