Jeff Armstrong @jeff@toot.rainbow-100.com

Oops, forgot to mention that episode 92 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is available! Our heroes have a buffet-style dinner! Now that's high fantasy!

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-12-07_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e92.mp3

A little sweet treat with dinner.

Snapcraft on AMD64 is a shitshow because of Ubuntu's techniques for building a Snap, so it's unlikely I'll fix it there.

My PC had 10GB of space dedicated to compiling a snap comprised of ~5000 lines of Fortran...

Oops, should mention it is only updated on armhf (Raspberry Pi 32-bit).

My #gemini client, LR-87, now supports favicons and properly displays UTF-8 text using its dumb terminal renderer.

On Linux? Try it out:

snap install lr87

LR-87 #gemini client now displays a favicon on the dumb terminal renderer nicely at the input prompt

Based on recent #gemini protocol favicon controversy, I implemented a favicon request and caching framework to my LR-87 #gemini client. Should hit the repo and possibly binary distributions tomorrow.

I'm going to add a feature to my #gemini client to request a favicon in every possible format: Windows bitmap, Windows icon, PNG... What other ones are there? Let's flood those overworked #gemini servers with like 8 requests!

I sometimes browse the #gemini mailing list through the web interface's access to archives. These classy messages make me happy I don't participate:

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/003509.html

Working on a main menu. The lead-in screens to the menu make me happy, but I need to make a video of those. #rainbow

My owl friend is back!

A new backyard visitor today!

Finally fixed some memory allocation bugs and item creation problems, and rooms are loading flawlessly in the #rainbow game’s level editor

I don't understand macs... Do people actually use these? I have to use the web browser on a Raspberry Pi because it's more responsive than my mac running 10.15...

The curly braces are monsters, and it looks like they’re loading/saving correctly #rainbow

Room save/load works again on the #rainbow game, just need to confirm objects persist...

Just to clarify: so does Intel and NVidia.

Quick update: AMD sucks.

Success! I get tripped up a lot when I only work on this a few minutes here and there.

Ugh, I’ve randomly pluralized structures all through this code!