What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

I've been continuing to work on my tabletop gaming website: https://birdga.me (GitHub: https://github.com/TesseractCat/bg3d). I've made a lot of progress since my last post:

• Games are now implemented as plugins, so it's possible for anyone to create games which are replicated over the network.
• Physics is now all server side (using the awesome https://rapier.rs/ library), which is a lot easier to maintain.
• Backend code is a lot cleaner, and should be more stable.
• 'Decks' (any stackable flat object) are a lot more ergonomic.
• Lots of minor changes.

Still have some work to do:

• I need to add audio, which is something I've neglected for a while.
• More built-in assets and object types, like buttons, counters, etc.
• And obviously more built-in games!

I've just re-written licensor, a tool to add a
license to your repo easily, and trainfuck, a
train-themed variant of brainfuck that's now able to actually execute the
programs!

I also wrote a little shell-script to play internet
radio which I use pretty often.

I have a 32-bass button box sending MIDI to VCV Rack. I can play bass patterns and it sounds pretty accordion-like.

There are two button boards and a Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard that polls them using i2c. The Raspberry Pi Pico occasionally hangs and I'm not sure how to debug it. It's not completely hung because I can upload firmware, but the main loop has stopped running or has hung forever.

I wrote some fairly robust code to automatically restart if i2c times out or misbehaves, and got it to the point where I can unplug the i2c wires, plug it back in, and it automatically recovers. But this code never actually triggers unless I unplug a wire intentionally, so there's something else going wrong.

Maybe that will wait for another day. The next step is to solder on some header pins to make the board-to-board connection a bit neater.