@[email protected] ​I can kind of grudgingly be convinced they are OK in situations where your system needs to allow for both externally created plugins and has non-trivial life cycle management.

I just often (although not quite universally) feel that the wrong decision in that case was when you decided you needed that system, rather than the DI.

@[email protected] @[email protected] It certainly reads more clearly to me now.​

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​I think I'm currently at a point in my journey where I try very hard to believe people when they talk about what they have experienced internally, and have become increasingly sceptical of people's ability to judge accurately what actually happened and the results (in both cases for pretty much the same reasons as Glyph as I've noticed the difference between my #adhd internal experience and real world what actually happened).

So "using an LLM made me feel a god-like developer!" I'll completely take as your experience. "My productivity went up by 15 times after I started using agents" (actual claim I have seen) will leave me asking for hard evidence and possibly a scientific study.

It's awkward that we use 'experience' to cover both, and I had the same reaction you're expressing when I read that section but assuming (from the context) that Glyph means the second type of experience I think he has a strong argument, if not the clearest wording.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Good news on at least some fronts regarding emacs. There's an emacs build that supports ligatures (I think it's github.com/d12frosted/homebr...) and lsp support is now built in (in a module called eglot)​.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Ah, just posting internally via the Python script with the polling and the server running as completely independent pieces of code? That makes sense, and is very close to what I'm looking for and gives me a few ideas. Thank you.

@[email protected] Yeah, if I were creating any kind of "social" site I'd definitely be adding #activitypub compatibility these days. But I'm looking for projects at the moment that turn existing websites into a single user #activitypub server.

@[email protected] Right! That makes sense. For my purposes I was more thinking of your single file PHP server ( shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/act... ) but instead of sending new posts via a form, instead watch a static site for updates and treat newly discovered pages as posts. As you demonstrate in that post, it wouldn't be an enormous project to write but it would take a moment to polish to production grade and I just wanted to check if it already existed.

This feels a bit similar to the mini #activitypub servers I've seen @[email protected] and @[email protected] talk about, but if I've understood those projects correctly not quite the same thing.

Something driven by an #rss feed could work as well?

Before I get sucked into writing my own... is there a light weight 'turn this site into an #activitypub' project out there already? Basically, add it to a static site and it treats all urls from that site (except the activity pub end points) as articles written by a user called @[email protected] or something similar. Bonus points for a little embed script that displays replies to the pages on the pages.

@[email protected] ​I have several memories like this with my dad, many of which now have a weird two layer emotional response as I've learned more about my #adhd and it has changed my understanding of what happened (and how he must have felt about it at the time). Like, for example, the time he absent mindedly ate all the ingredients for decorating my 4th birthday cake. (I didn't find out about that one till much later, but it left quite an impact on my siblings...)

@[email protected] @[email protected] my lactose intolerant sister used to put fruit juice on cereals for obvious reasons, but the looks she would get at places like hotel breakfast bars...

@[email protected] if I remember correctly, it ended with a Sailor Moon like 'reincarnation of a fabled ruler' ending if Sailor Moon was a grumpy vampire played by a left wing hippy and with a court of extremely powerful mages at least one of whom got power indirectly from people nearby being healthy and emotional stable. We didn't talk about the aftermath much, but I suspect it would not have been good for the billionaires... ​

@[email protected] oh yes. In one of my urban fantasy campaigns Seattle got removed from time (don't worry, the PCs rescued it mostly because that's where they kept all their stuff).​

@[email protected] ​As a European, I've never done anything like basing an entire fantasy campaign in Texas. Admittedly only because the players could never find a good time to actually play...

So, as is traditional for developers we've just spent a while sorting out the blog. But now that it is updated again, we have plans for a series of blog posts on how to make your narrative interactive, and what that changes compared to normal prose.

If you think you'd be interested in that kind of thing, we'll annouce all the #creativewriting and #interactivefiction related blog posts on this account - some of the other posts on the blog are much more technical and development focused, but you're welcome to read those too!

New blog: VisualInk Tutorial Videos

blog.mavnn.eu/2026/03/13/vis...

Basically what it says on the tin, but if you have videos you'd like to see, or comments on what is there, this is a good place to leave them.

#visualnovels #interactivefiction #ink

Annnnd... I ranted this thinking I'd solved the current problem, but now my blog's xml file has a table of contents.

Why? I haven't changed any toc related properties, the config explicitly turns it off, but apparently because I turned off indenting the xml for being too slow I now have a table of contents.

Rant... possibly over again.

Despite learning multiple programming languages over decades, none cause me as much frustration as ELisp. Every single time I want to customize something in Emacs, I think I know how to do it, I can see examples that do what I want to do, I write something and... inexplicable random behaviour occurs.

I actually like Emacs, hugely enjoy using OrgMode and OrgRoam, and like lisps in general but there's just something about Elisp that always manages to catch me out, and it's never anything that feels transferable to the next problem I want to solve.

Okay. That's out of my system. Rant over, and no I am not looking for help at this time.

@[email protected] For things with a direct relationship, yeah, I just wire things up in code (or even within a scene using the editor). I'm more looking at signals that are likely to have several listeners (or varying listeners) or 'central' nodes like the player which I don't want to make a singleton but I also don't want to hand a reference around to every single other node in the game (enemies giving 😜 if they die, shops charging money, etc). Maybe I'm over thinking it, but a message bus the player listens to seems to deal with a lot of these issues.