Joel @cincodenada@cybre.space

I picked up an old book of "Everyone's Favorite Piano Pieces" from 1933, and this arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King is a trip. It literally starts at B0 (that's the third key from the bottom of a standard keyboard) and eventually ranges up to D#7, which is 10 keys from the top. Phew!

Just spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out why the heck my mouse pointer was jumping around randomly. Got as far as monitoring the output of /dev/mice before I finally realized I still had my drawing tablet plugged in and buried under a pile of paper, so it was just getting confused as heck 🤦‍♂️

Best part, I had just moved from my laptop to the desktop and this was also happening on my laptop, because I was running Synergy and the erratic mouse movements were getting sent over the network to my other computers!

Just played a round of GeoGuessr and found some Italian teens waving and dabbing at the Google Street View car 😄 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8273513,10.2893555,3a,15y,283.76h,87.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swtDE84E7AEsbdqzSfMIutA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Cackling as I bring std::variant, std::visit, snprintf, and strtok into the list of things I am absolutely desecrating in this project. It really is becoming a monument to doing things in the worst way possible.

Current status on my HDL adventures: generating C++ code with Awk so I can get around not having reflection in this Verilator code I'm writing.

This project just doesn't stop giving! 😄

Gonna take some more runs at beating The Radiance in #HollowKnight, streaming on my #OwnCast at https://stream.cincodenada.com

Come on over and hang out if you want! #streaming #livestream #indiegame #gameing #metroidvania

I was already intrigued by Hey but feeling like it was too one-size-fits-all for my needs, so with the big Basecamp "our employees aren't allowed to be people unless they like the status quo" nonsense, I'm doing a little, uh, reorganizing of my Fastmail to see if I can arrange it to better meet my needs without Hey:

Today my yak stack has been materialized into pull requests, and I am now four pull requests deep, each depending on the next one down in the stack.

Delightfully, the issue numbers for these PRs (one issue has two PRs) are 2825, 2845, and 2895.

Dependency management is fun!!!!

By golly, it works! I'm venturing into FPGA-land, and managed to write and program a very basic #Verilog program to my #Gowin dev board. The program is literally this:

module buttons(
input [0:7] buttons,
output [0:7] leds
);
assign leds=buttons
endmodule

Which simply connects each button to its respective LED. But the important part is I got it built, synthesized, placed and routed, and programmed! I even connected the ports to the right pins, and look! It does a thing!

#fpga #electricalengineering #hardware

So this computer had decided to bail into intramfs a few days ago, and after it wouldn't boot from USB, I managed to recover it from intramfs by mounting my root fs, pulling fsck off of it into the tmpfs, then unmounting and running fsck on it. Feeling very wizardy today! 👨‍💻

So my HDL playing has been partially converting nand2tetris HDL into actual Verilog so that I can hopefully put it on an actual FPGA, and I've managed to get as far as loading my ALU into yosys and generating a nice diagram of it and y'all, it looks pretty rad! Check it out!

(Spoilers for #nand2tetris I guess, don't look too closely if you don't want to know how I put my ALU together!)

#fpga #hdl