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An #open-source and #decentralization advocate.
Interested in #linux, #programming, #python and #rust #backpacking, #gardening, #cooking, #diy, #scfi, #fantasy.

A dad, a wanderer, a thinker, a human. A decided optimist.

"The world's vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes." - Ursula LeGuin

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vampiress , to random
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Good Morning friends, strangers and everyone inbetween.

Dungeons of Freeport today.

Yet more slog as I re-build the interface for this whole "graphics" fad.

But first: un café

intrepidhero ,
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@vampiress definitely a fad. Graphics, pshaw, kids these days.

intrepidhero , to random
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Playing around with this morning on my workstation. First impressions are good. The CLI tool is easy to use and syntax is pretty clean. Language design choices appear to borrow some convenience from scripting languages, while giving you options for static typing.

Not sure I personally have a use case for it but reading through the language tour I experienced relatively few WTF moments and that's about the highest praise I can give ANY language.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/guidedtour/

intrepidhero OP ,
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I like 's enumerations and pattern matching. Nicely done.

Wish that documentation didn't throw around the term "async" without defining it. One of the worst overloaded concepts in CS.

intrepidhero OP ,
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uh oh, SDL2 bindings and static builds for linux are possible... I may have to play with this more.

https://github.com/ctreffs/SwiftSDL2

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/static-linux-getting-started.html

@vampiress Is there a reason you went with C++ instead of swift for game dev? I feel like you've talked about how great swift is before.

intrepidhero , to random
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Learned two related things yesterday.

  1. This weekend I saw an American Dipper, our only aquatic song bird. Was so fun watching it dive in and out of a fast moving stream.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Dipper/id

  1. I've been hearing a mystery sound. At first thought it was a kind of owl that I just happened to hear early in the morning but I've since been hearing it at all times of the day. It was a Sooty Grouse, specifically the male's mating call is a very eery, "wooom, wooom, wooom, wooom" sound.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sooty_Grouse

intrepidhero , to random
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I didn't make it to the summit of Silver Star last weekend but I did stop and check on my favorite waterfall. Hidden Falls was roaring along.

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