What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

I've started building an assembler.

It seemed like a good idea, for some reason; I'm not sure why. X86 is—and I want to be very clear on this—flat garbage. After ~700 lines of code, I can assemble one instruction. And there are so many special cases in there that I'm not sure how it's possible for the CPU to decode with any measure of efficiency.

More instructions to follow forthwith, of course, presumably with significantly less effort, but that's seriously a little mind-boggling when you compare it with the more usual fixed-width (or close enough to) instructions of other architectures. Especially considering the massive breadth of operand forms, and the fact that I probably haven't even implemented support for half of them yet.

I managed to get my flocking algorithm working in 3D. It wasn't too hard to go from 2D to 3D. Not sure what I'll do with it, but I enjoyed working on it and just watching it.

It's kind of interesting how sensitive some of the parameters are. Setting the maximum distance at which one bird can affect another bird makes the difference between everything falling into a single flock or no flock forming at all. In between is interesting, as you can tune this parameter to control how the flocks form.

I continue working on https://linklonk.com (the invitation code "tildes" is still active)

I was very happy with the reception of the Show Tildes post from ~10 days ago. Since then I added:

• An invitation system so existing users can invite new users (in /profile). It is modelled very much after the invitation system of Tildes - each user has a number of invitation links they can generate (10) and I will be able to top it up periodically.
• The profile page now shows you some stats like: "Based on your 5 ratings: you are subscribed to 3 users and 2 feeds; 2 users are subscribed to you" The idea is to help users understand how the system works by being more transparent.

Next, I want to implement text search functionality for the /ratings page so you can easily look up links that you liked in the past based on the page's title/description/url. The data is stored in PostgreSQL, so I'm hoping a simple SQL query will work well enough. I remember reading http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/ and I might get some ideas from there.

I've been working on libreddit. Not in a big way, but small CSS/HTML changes that are styling fixes.

I do coding at work and it's nice to have a small little project that I can contribute the odd bit of code to and have a positive impact not only for myself, but to others.

Recently added FrodoKEM to the supported key exchanges for my ssh alternative remote shell/tunnel/copy util, https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/xs. Written in Go.

I basically use this instead of ssh now for day-to-day access to my servers, though it still definitely has rough edges. Security audits welcomed :)

I finally took the time to implement a save into my motivation tracker: https://github.com/Apostolique/MotivationTracker. I guess with that simple change the app is finally usable :D.

I also started refactoring my game's map editor into it's own standalone project: https://github.com/Apostolique/Apos.Editor. It's nice to finally get rid of the old crust.

I'm streaming every day on Twitch and YouTube lately.

https://www.twitch.tv/apostolique
https://www.youtube.com/JeanDavidMoisan/live

Working on onhold's Windows support. Turns out that playing sounds in a cross-platform manner via Python is tricky. Check out onhold if you think shell tools like pv are cool.

I'm also packaging chromecast_mpris for distribution beyond Arch.