alex

did you know? the Paper Mario (Nintendo 64) engine has no less than 9 different domain specific scripting languages! Games frequently use DSLs to allow non-programmers to work on the game. Paper Mario's DSLs vary widely in complexity and how often they are used - lets take a look 🧵

concerning

a new tool for making Paper Mario mods. diorama64.starhaven.dev

LinkedIn really is something

fun fact: Paper Mario 64's Toad Town theme has an unused variant that appears to be intended to play when Mario gets close to the Forever Forest entrance. try it out by opening Toad Town in mamar.bates64.com!

relatedly, tg now has an mcp server! still working on it, but it works quite well, and lets your agent read and write as it wishes across tangled: create repos, submit PRs, review PRs, search repositories, monitor your pipelines, etc. tangled.org/aly.codes/tg

it's surprisingly hard to write good docs. I want them to be task oriented ('how to make a boss') that cross multiple systems without being so specific that they are unhelpful

I've found gpt 6 astra to be almost completely useless; it accuses me of trying to write malware the moment it sees kernel code

seeing r/nintendo get excited about a decomp hitting 100% only because they think it means they're one step closer to a 420 FPS PC port with raytracing is extremely disheartening

I immediately bought a copy

Going to the nix store you want anything?

comfy!

every single person who talks about how data centers are completely unnecessary probably has very strong opinions on youtube videos defaulting to 720p

sleepy kitty

"'Passed [away],' I'm afraid, just makes me vomit. Died, you mean! 'Passed,' you didn't pass. You passed an exam? You pased your driving test? You passed an interesting shop? 'Passed away,' no, died." youtu.be/Sd8tA_XVMYU?...

my pds was acting up for the last week or two because i didn't persist the cursor from the old pds. all fixed now :)

the first rule of compilers is to have fun

trying to install noctalia-shell and niri on Ubuntu today and it required both manual building and an entire system upgrade. not sure it's possible to change distro once you've been with NixOS 💔

RFC: big changes to starhaven.dev tangled.org/starhaven.de...

My new video is done! It's a look at the obscure and unused dialogue from Paper Mario 64! I'm pretty confident you'll learn something new... youtu.be/nrnyvE18e2U?...

the people hacking windows 11 to behave like win7 would do well to rice a linux

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

serial experiments lain is good

What if Paper Mario 64 was remade? Here's what I think it could be! Captaine Chocon created this model for their own project, and I asked to try to import it into TTYDS and this was the result! (No collision cause this is was just for fun!) #PaperMario

happy new year to all those who celebrate

the quotes and replies are full of people saying "this is the *good* AI, not the bad AI". but this distinction doesn't work for the same reason you can't claim there are only two genders. because most stuff doesn't fit cleanly into any one category, and it misses other categories' entire existence.

mcdonalds thailand has some fascinating breakfast options

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...