@[email protected] hmm. I suspect I'll miss some stuff, but:

-Spectrum BASIC

+html (first paid work ever, well before becoming a 'developer')

+sql (I was a data analyst before accidentally transitioning to coding by getting so bored of my data analyst job that I automated it with...)

-vbscript in excel

+c#

-Python

+VB.net

+f#

-clojure

+elm

-ruby (a language I thought I'd enjoy and really didn't 😞 )

+haskell

+typescript

-ink

-gdscript

@[email protected] ​Oh thanks, I'll definitely keep an eye for the future. It looks like it won't support all the features from ex_cldr this project uses until at least its 0.3 release though, so I'd need to make much larger changes than I was hoping from the parent project to go that route at the moment.

Today I was going to do ... something?

What I actually did was update one piece of software that I accidentally misconfigured, which took down the database, which then turned out to be too old for the new version of the software (after I fixed the misconfiguration) which I then upgraded that broke the database backup scripts.

And then I washed my hair.

@[email protected] ​Unfortunately my hair is twenty years too late for "who can clear the largest moshpit space" competative head banging. It was fun while it lasted though.

@[email protected] ​Such a weird franchise to reboot. Especially because stylistically it looks very similar to the last movie version, which while not high art was really good at nailing that style.

Anyone know the next place to look for what might be requesting these, or force them to be generated in turn rather than (it appears) concurrently?

Context: I don't know elixir, but for reasons I'm running my own @[email protected] instance on bare metal and I'm happy to mess in source code if needed.

Question for anyone who's used ex_cldr and/or gettext in #elixir - I'm trying to compile something in a memory constrained environment and the gettext back end has started finding 130 locales it wants to generate on every build. I think I've configured cldr to have only one allowed language, but the locales still get generated (and cause an out of memory error)

@[email protected] ​well, at least your serendipitous post means I have clean hair, so thank you for that...

@[email protected] ​I am currently (checks watch) 7 hours and 49 minutes late for when I told myself I would wash my hair this morning.

I decided to try out an experimental design for ordered data in Ink, and learn more about the run time in the process.

I've blogged about the results with a bunch of examples, and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Been looking for ways to include prioritization or limited resources like magic runes in Ink? This might be a good inspiration.

blog.mavnn.co.uk/2026/01/22/...

#visualnovels #interactivefiction

App: "Error: Ad failed to load, check your internet connection."

Me: "Error? You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

We got mentioned in a forum where someone was looking for a simple tool to create a #visualnovel, and the next reply was:

I tried this out a while back. It’s pretty cool!

So proud :sniff:

Next week, we'll be looking at how to track character attitudes in #visualnovels using Ink. To see the techniques in action, we'll be starting with a rendition of one of the famous fictional first meetings.

What do you do when it's 1880 and you've just been shipped home from Afghanistan? Look for someone to share the cost of lodgings, of course!

Play the example here: visualink.mavnn.eu/published...

@[email protected] Bonus points if that magical feature would have a heavy and invisible performance impact.​

To give myself some credit, I'm also sleep deprived due to a cold - both things that do actually reduce the effectiveness of the meds. ​

It would really nice if that naggy sensation of "my meds don't feel like they're working well today" turned into checking whether I'd actually remembered to take my meds today a little more often.

This message brought to you by a morning where I have not achieved a great deal... #ADHD

And we're off! First class of 2026 saw three pre-teens starting their first #visualnovel with its first choice point, visuals for the speakers and scene backgrounds, and background music. Not bad for one hour!

Playing with #godot for the first time, and accidentally set some bullets to be rigid objects in the 2D physics engine rather than 2D 'areas'.

Which was actually hilarious, because rather than making the enemies dissappear like a normal boring game, the 1kg bullets travelling at several meters per second effective speed smacked the enemies off the screen spinning violently.

I'm sort of convinced that a huge number of action game mechanics start as 'happy accidents' like this.

Last chance to sign up the under 18 budding #visualnovel author in your life for an online five week introduction to writing #interactivefiction - the courses start next week! thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​To be clear, this isn't me casting shade at Mastodon; there's reasons for doing it that way and they are by no means the only ActivityPub server that doesn't implement the client to server API. But it is a pain when it comes to wanting to standardize anything end to end.