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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025

The new #PokemonTCGPocket set has a surprising amount of power creep for a game that used to be pretty good about balance. Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

@RxBrad It looks awesome and I want to try it. There are too many games I want to try now, my backlog is already long enough...

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

Fedi drama is exhausting and I try very hard to avoid it, but if even Kev is leaving then it's time to jump ship. I'm planning to move to a self-hosted glitch-soc instance in the next few days.

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

@SnoopJ This game looks so interesting and I really want to play it, there's just so much else in my backlog to get to first...

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025

"monad" sounds like an insult and works pretty well as one. "Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him." "I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

Another library frustration: is there a standard Make-like task runner tool for #Node? 10 years ago Grunt and Gulp were standard for this, but they're horribly out of date now and not compatible with ES6 imports. There are tools in other languages, like go-task, but I can't find anything similar […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025

It's 2025, and there's still no widely-used standardized RPC protocol for #WebSocket. I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead. What else is […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

A game idea I'd love to see made someday, or make myself if I had time for yet another project: a combination RTS and 4X game with a day/night cycle that switches it between turn-based and real-time. During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]

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Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2025

I'm proud to announce the project I've been working on for the last two years - Xee: a modern implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust. I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

After spending all day trying to fix this, reinstalling Linux Mint on 2 different hard drives and getting different file corruption errors each time, I'm convinced it's just the motherboard. I don't know how else to explain it. Tomorrow I'll try again with one of the tower computers I bought […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

@spacehobo 451 actually makes sense when you consider that 4xx should mean "don't try the same request again, it won't work next time either". 410 Gone isn't the client's fault either. The only status that breaks this pattern is 429... maybe it should have been a 5xx, though it makes sense if […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

I already copied my important files to another drive and they look fine so now I'm just trying any potentially destructive thing that might work without a full reinstall. `btrfs rescue zero-log` followed by `btrfs check --rescue` is doing something, not segfaulting, but it's been printing […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

Aaaaand `btrfs check` segfaults 🫠

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

Looks like the issue may have just been a loose NVMe connection? Either way, after re-seating the NVMe drive it boots without issues, but `btrfs scrub` fails with a metadata error so something is still wrong, going to try `btrfs check --repair` from a live CD...

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

My main Linux desktop has started getting random crashes and "filesystem is read-only" errors. 😬 Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

@rakslice Ignoring edits is unfixable because Bluesky itself doesn't have edits. But it would be nice if Bridgy gave you the option to interpret an edit as a delete-and-repost.

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

@eblu There are way, way too many choices. Pick a language you know well enough and there's probably a web framework in it. And then if you don't want to self-host, everything is Docker now, so you can just make a Docker container out of it and put it on a cloud host somewhere. Some of the […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2025

The mismatched leaders/civs are kind of immersion-breaking but also interesting enough that I still think it's a plus. And the AI seems smarter than Civ 6's; one of my allies even stole a city I was conquering from a mutual enemy, by lurking nearby with a single swordsman to capture the city […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2025

Against my better judgment, I bought Civ 7. And I'm enjoying it so far! The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great! I started […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2025

@hongminhee @zenbrowser It's main selling points are vertical tabs (less features than Firefox's Tree Style Tabs extension, but a little more stable) and window splitting (unusably buggy the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago). I don't think it offers much beyond Firefox with […]

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

I don't get why people still use Express even though there are Koa, Fastify, Hono, and more.

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2025

@blake Had a similar idea for adding rich text support to Nostr notes (kind 1), because actual rich text is not backward-compatible with existing clients. There's not enough experimentation with out-of-band text formatting; outside of Bluesky's facet system I can't find any existing […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

A mystery I still haven't solved: Spartan Schema (github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema) is by far my most-starred GitHub project. A few weeks after I published it, it got over 400 stars in a few days!... somehow. The users who starred it didn't look […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

Recently discovered the Preserves data language: preserves.dev This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

@nevarro And I have cell internet now but it's too slow to host anything on; it also doesn't have a stable IP so I have a cloud server as a gateway. That doesn't seem like it would work well as a backup, but it may be worth it to have something. Though at that point maybe it would be better to […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

@nevarro True, though my hope is that by starting out with small-scale subscription apps (the kind of thing you might pay $5 a month for from something that's obviously a small business and in beta) I can get away with not providing very strong guarantees beyond "if the whole thing disappears […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

@nevarro Fair question, and I don't know if there's a good alternative outside of replicating everything in the cloud and paying the $$$$ for cloud services that I'm trying to avoid by hosting locally. At least, where I live, there's only been one power outage I remember in ~10 years (despite a […]

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

Planning to do a more serious homelab setup soon, which I may use to host actual paid SaaS projects (once fiber internet is finally available here). I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types (pre-draft) codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/br… where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing #ActivityPub #FEP

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feps - My FEPs

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

Won 6-0 in the online versus event yesterday with this deck. It doesn't even have a single clear combo or wincon; Greninja, Druddigon, and Tauros are just really good cards, and the deck has a lot of options. #PokemonTCGPocket

Screenshot of Pokémon TCG Pocket, showing my deck, named "Matador", with Water+Fire energy and Mythical Island Tauros as the feature card. Next image has the deck list.

Deck list: 1 MI Salazzle, 2 MI Salandit, 2 Froakie, 2 Frogadier, 2 Greninja, 1 Druddigon, 2 MI Tauros, 2 X Speed, 2 Poké Ball, 2 Professor's Research, 1 Giovanni, 1 Sabrina

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 21/01/2025

CAT MECHA

A cat in a mech made from cardboard and metal.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16/01/2025

It’s not often that Nintendo leans squarely on quality-of-life improvements for its generational system upgrades. Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

I wish there was more work on the intersection of gossip protocols and recommender systems. if the recommender is running on the client and it can only see its local neighborhood in the network what markov random walk flavor things can you do?

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025

Finally setting up a personal #Matrix server that actually federates. But, except for various dev chatrooms on Gitter, I have no idea where to look for public Matrix rooms to join. Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?

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Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

My computer has a bug where it keeps showing me science fiction dates like Jan 9, 2025.

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Marie 🇸🇪 @smlx4.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

House owner: I'd like to break both of my legs. Architect: Say no more. #stairs #architecture #features

A staircase designed so that you walk down the actual recessed steps with air between each step, making it quite dangerous if you're not careful.

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024

one of those "keep honking, I'm listening to" bumper stickers but it's e-ink and auto-updates with what's actually playing

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2024

@youronlyone My heuristic for Korean was always "Are there circles? Probably Korean." AFAIK Japanese and Chinese never use circles, could be wrong though.

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Adam Nelson @arnelson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

Unfortunately I spent enough time lurking on Tumblr ~10 years ago that I completely understand this.

Tumblr screenshot of a post by ushirominya: "last christmas man me a sand but the very next day man car door hook hand"

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