Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 28/08/2026Taco and I encountered a stranger on our lunchtime walk today 👀 180
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 13/08/2026"Man, it sure is draining to constantly have to be switching focus between Slack notifications and the code I'm working on..." *monkey's paw curls* 141
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 26/04/2026Just finished watching Dan Levy’s Big Mistakes. I was enjoying it, but wasn’t sure it needed another season until the last 10 minutes of the final episode. Now I’m thrilled with how it all came together and really hoping it gets renewed 👀 020
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 12/02/2026Working on this website redesign has been a lot of "how much variety can I squeeze out of a little bit of math?" fun. 140
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 22/09/2025Today I thought of sodaconstructor for the first time in probably almost two decades. It was a little 2D mass-and-spring sim that let you build Strandbeest-style walkers and other little automata. Looks like it's gone the way of the dodo now, but wow I really have the itch to play with that again. 140
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 15/09/2025Me: *waits on hold for an hour and 45 minutes* Royal Mail customer service: hang on jerk, it’s 6:30; we’re closed *click* 030
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 04/06/2025Parcel from @proud-geek.co.uk arrived with some June reading for me today! Happy Pride, friends 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 071
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 02/05/2025Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?” Edinburgh, this morning: 031
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 30/03/2025The code underlying this is a gnarly hackathon-grade mess, and it would take a huge amount of work to actually turn it into anything resembling real support. However! As the weekend wraps up I feel pretty good having gotten some @unison-lang.org code, abilities and all, running in the browser! 0113
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 28/12/2024Pre-blocking and post-playtime shots of the blanket I crocheted for my nephew’s first Christmas this year. Seems like it was a hit! 🎄 140
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 08/08/2024Got hit with some Disney music during my morning scroll, and I'd never realised what an absolute pick-me Aladdin is 🫥 What's played as his thoughtful, introspective reprise of One Jump Ahead amounts to "why can't everyone see I'm not like those OTHER poors; I'm actually a real person!" 010
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 07/06/2024Oof. I think this is the first time I’ve landed on this side of the “are you a young adult?” divide in a survey 🥲 050
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 03/08/2023If anyone needs me this weekend, I'll be in Baldur's Gate on... important business. 020
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 27/07/2023Every day I look at tech news and tiptoe closer to becoming Abe Simpson and wanting to do nothing but Yell At Cloud. 040
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 25/07/2023Ok I’ll bite. Introduce yourself with: One book One movie One album 010
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 15/07/2023I finally came back and finished Outer Wilds and now I cannot stop thinking about it 🥲 020
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 13/07/2023I’d kind of already gathered this from CMU’s seal, but wow the Scots sure do love their thistles 000
![A screenshot with Unison code on the left and the Safari devtools open on the right. The Unison code includes a demo function that handles and uses the `Ask` ability, and then bundles that function up into a WebAssembly module to serve.
The devtools window has loaded the resulting page, and shows the results of calling the demo function from the browser console.
Full text of the code and console follows. Code:
demo.incrementOnAsk : Nat -> Nat
demo.incrementOnAsk start =
go n body =
handle body()
with cases
{ result } -> result
{ ask -> resume } ->
Debug.trace "providing n:" n
go (n + 1) do resume n
go start do
ask + ask + ask
demo.run : '{IO, Exception} URI
demo.run = do
module = warp do
expose "incrementOnAsk" [VNat] (Some VNat) demo.incrementOnAsk
run.local.serve do
files =
Map.fromList
[ ("/demo.wasm", WasmModule.toBytes true module)
, ("/loader.js", Text.toUtf8 jsLoader)
]
service = serveFiles files do
HttpResponse.ok (Body (Text.toUtf8 defaultPageHTML))
ServiceName.assign (named "wasm") service
Console session:
> demo.exports.incrementOnAsk(1n)
trace: providing n:
1n
trace: providing n:
2n
trace: providing n:
3n
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