October Project: On to UI

I managed to recently do a big re-work to dramatically simplify time-based operations. I also added in the basis of the crafting system, at least for simple cases. Still, I have a pretty good idea of how to extend it to handle other systems like [...]

October Project: Integration milestone

I finally managed to progress to the point where I can integrate all the bottom-up components (yes, I know that this is the wrong way to build things but I wanted to experiment with whether each idea would work since many were new to me) into a [...]

October Project: Going backward and forward on backward and forward

While trying to figure out how to handle timed actions (like mining a block: You start at one point and finish later, or crafting, as it will work similarly), I came up with an idea to allow an entity change to schedule a later follow-up change (as [...]

October Project: Game logic frequency

Something which I find to be an interestingly common problem in many areas of software is the issue of how you make something discrete appear as though it is something continuous.

For an example of what I mean, consider audio: It is a stream of [...]

October Project: Block update perf experiments

I made some improvements to the block update logic within the primary 15-bit octree storage but I still wonder if that will be enough.

A worst-case scenario of writing a unique block type to all 32k blocks in a cuboid takes about 7 seconds, on my [...]

October network logic basically working

The network layer logic and framework for October seems to be generally working. This hasn't been stress-tested, nor are all the network packet types implemented (those will be added as needed) but the basic design is in place and working.

This is [...]

Re: Mired in graphics

Thanks. Things are going reasonably, but this is definitely the most difficult area for me. After muddling through LWJGL (which is what Minecraft uses for portable graphics) and LibGDX (which is built on top of that and adds other game-related [...]

Mired in graphics

I managed to get a basic path-finding algorithm loosely based on A-star implemented, yesterday. This will be the basis of some near-term testing and later-term AI for non-player entities in October Project.

Today, however, I decided I should [...]

Ground broken on October Project

Broke ground on the October Project a few days ago. So far, it is going well.

Unfortunately, it will be some time until this can do anything as sophisticated a full-blown Minecraft clone, so my first target "test game" will be something with a [...]

Here is something I put together, but I am not sure I am happy with it, yet.

Next Projects

Now that the Cacophony tooling work for my site generation is done and working, I need to figure out what to do next.

There is that possibility of Maven-on-IPFS tooling/scripts, but I am not sure how useful that is, at this time. I am currently [...]

Cacophony tooling

Been working on re-organizing the Cacophony code for some tooling related to creating static output of a list of channels, the past few days. It is going pretty well, so far, but this has just been the organizing and shaping of the code. The next [...]

More of a casual vlog-style video where I talk about what I have learned about WebRTC through the implementation of my recent BasicRtc project.

WebRTC is used for real-time peer-to-peer communication between browsers. Its main use-case is for [...]

Next project musings

Now that Cacophony development has essentially wrapped up, I am trying to figure out what the next project should be.

Maven on IPFS: Years ago, I was working with someone to build a way to publish Maven resources onto IPFS, using the Aion [...]

Re: No place like home. :)

I do have that on my doormat. However, when I first got it, I remember thinking it would be more interesting if it were IPv6 and more directly applicable if it were "~" (tilde).

127.0.0.1 is more like "me" whereas the tilde is "home directory" on [...]

Re: 4.1 pre-3

Ok, so the problem is just related to when you move the tab to a new location or when you switch to a different draft?

Do you expect that they auto-save or tell you that you are about to lose information?

I want to make sure I have a sense of what [...]

After much investigation and consideration, I made a few changes. These changes only reduced the number of package relationships (edges in the graph) by 7 but the shape of the diagram now makes far more sense.

There are now fewer cyclic [...]

I recently wrote a little script to scrape the Cacophony source files to find patterns between the packages, based on imports. These relationships are then passed into dot to render as a graph.

This is what the system looked like, when I first [...]

Re: 4.1 pre-release 0

Hmm, I will need to look into that. I suspect that these issues might just be caching related so they might go away once the browser cache times-out the stale data or if you manage to force it to fully reload the page.

The odd thing is that I [...]

Re: 4.1 pre-release 0

Hmm, strange that they are giving you update options for the wrong platform.

Did you find that Chrome worked any better with a force-refresh of the page (the shift-ctrl-r)?

Re: 4.1 pre-release 0

What do you mean? Does it refuse to connect to the server, or something?

Are you sure it is the right IP and port (the :8000)?

Docs

Yeah, Google Docs has really good collaborative editing features but it is a poor word processor and a terrible text editor.

Unfortunately, I have a poor sense of UI/UX (or just don't care enough about them) so I am not great at building tools [...]

I don't have any great insight into this one but I wanted to point out something which we sometimes miss in the software world, especially in the internet age, despite it being something we all realize, at least on some level.

Historically, we [...]

Post Order

There isn't really a strong notion of "post order" except within the context of a single user. Between users, however, it there isn't a specific way of interpreting that.

The posts do have dates but I am hesitant to rely on those since someone [...]

Multi-photo posts

While just making a "bunch of photos" into a kind of inline extension, I am hesitant to do it that way since I suspect people might want to be able to find photos uploaded that way through another path, as well.

Hence, I have to figure out a way to [...]