2019-09-16T01:13:07-07:00	Hello world!
2019-09-16T01:16:26-07:00	I can't abide Python, so I'm writing these messages using 'echo', for now..
2019-09-16T01:18:43-07:00	I've always _loved_ the idea of twtxt, but had no idea so many people are using it.
2019-09-16T01:23:00-07:00	Today I was reminded of it by a long series of steps that began with an invitation from http://tilde.club. Web surfing at its best.
2019-09-16T01:25:05-07:00	@<adiabatic https://www.frogorbits.com/twtxt.txt> Thank you for teaching me about Tauthon!
2019-09-18T00:45:13-07:00	about me: I'm building a hobbyist computer. No C (eventually). Lots of tests. Reward curiosity. https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme
2019-09-18T00:49:06-07:00	So far I can: create Linux binaries; package them up with a kernel into a bootable image; run it on Qemu or Linode.
2019-09-18T00:49:49-07:00	But the syntax is nothing more than machine code (with good error messages).
2019-09-18T00:54:17-07:00	It's taken a year to get here. I want to take a break, do a Lisp interpreter for fun. Just so I can see a computer boot into a Lisp prompt.
2019-09-18T00:54:47-07:00	But everything takes too damn long with machine code. Enough fun and games. Resume climbing the ladder of abstraction.
2019-09-18T00:55:45-07:00	Next stop: a type- and memory-safe compiled language that can occupy C's niche. Manual memory management. AND manual register allocation.
2019-09-18T00:56:32-07:00	(But decent error messages if you screw up your register allocation, try to read a different type from a register than you wrote.)
2019-09-18T00:58:29-07:00	This should take a lot less code than an optimizing C compiler. There'll be no optimizer, but lots of room for the programmer to optimize.
2019-09-18T01:09:06-07:00	@<chameleon https://super.seekrit.club/twtxt.txt> Wow, somebody's reading this! What's up?! Nice site!
2019-09-18T11:46:30-07:00	@<chameleon https://super.seekrit.club/twtxt.txt> The link you posted :p https://wiki.waifu.haus
2019-09-20T11:42:54-07:00	An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855
2019-09-30T23:42:55-07:00	Where does https://github.com/ozkl/soso first switch to Ring 3? I want to rip it out and just run everything in Ring 0.
2019-09-30T23:44:37-07:00	After various attempts to grep for Tss and whatnot, current plan is to just try to binary-search writes to protected memory in the kernel.
2019-10-02T09:42:09-07:00	Thinking about https://zge.us.to/dirconf.html; what if `cat`ing a directory rendered its contents as a structured file?
2019-10-02T09:43:12-07:00	But sometimes you do want a separation between dirs and files. So maybe the file system has both, but also supports treating files as dirs?
2019-10-02T09:49:21-07:00	Seems useful to have a set of consistent lexical conventions. # for comments; . for lookup; / for metadata. e.g `cat ~.conf.git.core.pager`
2019-10-16T00:41:12-07:00	Mu's design is taking on a life of its own: http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1
2019-10-21T17:36:42-07:00	Now that feedback on the design has died down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268252; https://lobste.rs/s/xtxlec), back to hacking.
2019-10-21T17:38:22-07:00	I've mostly managed to stick to statically allocated arrays so far, but now I need real ASTs. Just leak memory for the first draft.
2019-10-25T17:29:17-07:00	It's surprisingly hard to do safe, efficient array initialization: https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/array-initialization-rust
2019-10-30T08:57:54-07:00	Beginnings of a translator for a memory-safe language: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/mu.subx.html. Just empty functions so far.
2019-10-30T13:15:00-07:00	Mu's translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545
2019-11-10T22:33:19-08:00	First baby steps in compiling the Mu memory-safe systems language: empty function; primitive stmt; function call.
2019-11-17T23:41:41-08:00	Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964
2019-11-30T14:29:59-08:00	First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835
2019-12-30T01:12:40-08:00	Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316
2020-01-01T16:12:52-08:00	Working: programs with int variables. https://www.reddit.com/r/BarbarianProgramming/comments/eiq5jg
2020-01-27T02:40:28-08:00	Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456
2020-01-30T00:34:53-08:00	Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973
2020-01-31T19:01:19-08:00	Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they're easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372
2020-02-10T07:57:22-08:00	past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm
2020-03-12T01:32:01-07:00	Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.
2020-03-16T01:20:09-07:00	Paper on Mu published at the Convivial Computing Salon: http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf
2020-05-28T23:13:19-07:00	A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612
2020-06-07T23:30:23-07:00	A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343
2020-06-16T00:34:52-07:00	A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886
2020-06-18T10:49:17-07:00	Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069
2020-07-06T11:16:42-07:00	A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197
2020-07-25T22:17:15-07:00	Beginnings of a spreadsheet for trees: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-07-25
2020-07-29T22:20:29-07:00	Mu now has a generic stream type: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/402stream.mu.html
2020-09-11T01:32:14-07:00	Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025
2020-09-20T00:50:17-07:00	New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951
2020-09-27T00:34:11-07:00	Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559
2020-10-03T23:32:57-07:00	detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207
2020-10-20T23:41:02-07:00	Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586
2020-10-27T12:14:20-07:00	A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204
2020-11-12T21:32:22-08:00	Visualizing programs with side-effects, such as printing to a screen: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105201366581271961
2020-12-07T00:46:54-08:00	New demo and medium-term plans: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105338014257369963
2020-12-24T10:06:10-08:00	Starting to give Mu its own OS: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105436432584324552
2020-12-30T10:03:45-08:00	2020 wrap-up: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105467785655674076
2020-12-31T10:49:23-08:00	2020 wrap-up redux, a Wardley Map for Mu: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105476276652369571
2021-01-12T01:40:04-08:00	Rendering text on bare-metal x86, with an eye to non-Latin languages: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105542032656082045
2021-02-21T15:07:32-08:00	Mulling switching gears for the Mu shell to a less ambitious Lisp-based language: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105771735864653468
2021-02-25T00:20:29-08:00	Drilling into computations in the shell for the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105790894303047592
2021-04-11T00:36:47-07:00	Distinguishing a program's return value from its side effects: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106045532928000526
2021-04-22T20:42:06-07:00	Prototyping on the Mu computer, and nudging people to throw the first one away: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106112499040193446
2021-05-05T19:23:52-07:00	How computer sandboxing models have evolved over time: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106185773783459627
2021-05-07T21:29:45-07:00	Lisp macros in the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106195814023586904
2021-05-09T12:38:31-07:00	Don't called them signed ints and unsigned ints. Call them ints and addresses. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106206878251648806
2021-05-15T18:42:36-07:00	My computer now prints a call stack when it crashes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106239831225295745
2021-05-17T23:56:57-07:00	New video riffing on some ideas for doing more with animation in debuggers: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-17
2021-06-09T22:52:22-07:00	Live-coding Fizzbuzz on the Mu computer's prototyping environment: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09
2021-06-15T21:14:48-07:00	Sumeet Agarwal solves an Advent problem with Mu: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/linux/advent2017/1a.mu.html
2021-06-23T21:56:46-07:00	Syntax sugar in the Mu shell: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-23
2021-07-30T13:26:11-07:00	Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954
2021-08-15T23:31:06-07:00	A network-less, read-only browser built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15
2021-11-14T14:35:24-08:00	End-user programming: modify apps while running them. https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
2021-11-14T14:35:40-08:00	2-minute video: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2021-11-14
2021-11-14T15:50:46-08:00	@prologic Sorry I only just saw your note from almost a year ago: http://twtxt.xyz/update/21b5925b16b9a793
2021-11-22T09:39:44-08:00	A chess viewer in Teliva, demonstrating networking capabilities: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107319684018301051
2021-11-30T19:30:29-08:00	Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)
2021-12-02T03:12:27-08:00	Review Jam, day 2: try a short task in Teliva. https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing
2021-12-22T01:14:48-08:00	Building links in a Gemini browser app -- from within the app: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107489728557201145
2021-12-25T23:12:58-08:00	Running untrusted apps more flexibly and simply: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-12-25 (video; 2 minutes)
2022-02-06T17:49:22-08:00	Why everyone needs to know some coding: last-mile sandboxing (FOSDEM '22) https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem
2022-02-11T09:33:03-08:00	Zettelkasten app built in Teliva, a platform for sandboxed, hackable text-mode apps: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10
2022-06-05T23:51:50-07:00	I built an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. http://akkartik.name/lines.html
2022-07-02T18:02:22-07:00	Should I complicate the UI of my app or just say no? Best of both worlds: new app. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131
2022-07-27T18:40:04-07:00	Preview of a note-taking app I've been working on: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (video; 5 mins)
2022-08-04T12:24:19-07:00	Command palette and commands for managing a graph of notes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592
2022-08-22T17:08:16-07:00	My entry for Wheel Reinvention Jam: rethinking debug by print, and therefore source code. https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text
2022-08-27T09:47:05-07:00	A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108895837561334218
2022-10-17T00:31:20-07:00	Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)
2022-11-27T23:25:39-08:00	A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love
2022-12-29T19:28:39-08:00	2022: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22
2023-01-08T21:34:57-08:00	A map for code: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109656512985323270
2023-01-23T21:44:02-08:00	Managing tests (breaking them, fixing them) in my map for code: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478
2023-02-12T23:06:03-08:00	This might be the most mind-bending 20 minutes of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is
2023-04-21T19:58:02-07:00	A little app for drawing graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love
2023-05-23T23:22:05-07:00	New talk: "Using computers freely and safely" http://akkartik.name/freewheeling
2023-07-06T23:54:47-07:00	Hands-on with my Freewheeling Apps: https://youtu.be/aD6vmbmzdBo (demo; 20 minutes)
2023-08-04T14:16:39-07:00	The most insightful talk I've seen in recent memory: https://archive.org/details/finding-meaning
2023-08-22T11:33:15-07:00	Quickly make any app hackable -- as long as it's built in LÖVE. https://forum.malleable.systems/t/adding-malleability-to-any-love-app/90
2023-08-26T08:16:46-07:00	More easily build/run little LÖVE apps on Android: 1) https://love2d.org from app store 2) https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94852
2023-11-11T16:59:10-08:00	I've been building little custom debug UIs for my programs. Here's a good one: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/111356122874372588
2023-11-16T12:09:12-08:00	Newest app was a nice test of my recent debug infrastructure: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/111422018573320117
2023-11-23T12:54:49-08:00	Lua Carousel: for creating little programs on desktop and mobile devices. Can be modified as it runs. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
2023-12-18T15:38:26-08:00	A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for, right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/_
2023-12-19T21:20:26-08:00	The Lua Carousel productivity suite: 4 apps in 150 lines you can mix&match on your phone. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/653245/_
2023-12-26T23:15:28-08:00	An equation plotter in 90 lines, written on my phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/656473/building-an-equation-plotter
2024-02-16T15:10:44-08:00	An equation plotter I can pan and zoom: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days
2024-02-20T20:35:01-08:00	A paper computer inside a silicon computer: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game
2024-02-23T16:36:29-08:00	A quick and dirty charting library for your computer or phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts
2024-03-13T00:00:00-07:00	A sokoban client for your phone: https://akkartik.name/post/sokoban
2024-03-22T00:00:00-07:00	All the 1-D cellular automata: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/_
2024-03-23T00:00:00-07:00	Gridlines for snap.love: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-03-23-devlog
2024-03-24T00:00:00-07:00	Merging code on the phone (klunkily): https://akkartik.name/post/2024-03-24-devlog
2024-03-29T00:00:00-07:00	The simplest possible dither: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/706603/_
2024-04-02T20:26:13-07:00	Drawing histograms: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/708682/_
2024-04-13T11:39:29-07:00	My first app on a new, hopefully convivial platform: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-13-devlog
2024-05-05T03:26:51-07:00	Visualizing the digits of π: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/725703/-
2024-06-30T22:27:11-07:00	A paper notation for kids to learn programming without blowing up short-term memory: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112708494215840560
2024-07-22T12:48:05-07:00	Reflecting after doing something difficult: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112831781974687588
2024-09-18T09:11:10-07:00	Beginnings of a little notebook app. Doesn't actually run any code yet. https://akkartik.name/images/20240917-notebook.png
2024-09-19T23:02:03-07:00	I've been building a new notebook app. Doesn't actually run any code yet, but take a look: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-09-19-devlog
2024-09-29T16:44:06-07:00	A silly little toy for browsing 8 little fractal programs: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/113223478101430311
2024-10-06T08:12:04-07:00	A text editor with tabs that live-update as you edit: https://akkartik.name/tabs.html
2024-10-26T10:51:03-07:00	beginnings of a little self-paced flash-card app for learning programming: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-10-26-devlog