[GRUEDORF] Grue's Sully Updates Thread

bengrue

Again low on visible progress, but in the last 10 days I’ve:

put 20ish hours into:
- debugging build system problems with upgrading BREADitor
- modularizing an adobe-like dockable panel reacty boi

Thanks to Daniel X Moore and Dan Fessler for collaborating pair-program style with me over the interwebnets!

Sorry I’ve been absent; my wife has also been v. sick with Mono. Mono is no joke, but at least it’s not COVID.

(Get vaxx’d, kids!)

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Wow, I fell to 7th place in updates and missed (checks watch) like 7-8 updates.

I was a bit waylaid by taking care of my wife through Mononucleosis for two months AND handling a move!

Oh and I’m planning my wedding ceremony. Look, there’s a lot of stuff happening! ;_;

Sully-wise, not much has happened.

Gamedev-wise, I’ve been working on something I can’t talk about right now

I have made a json dictionary de-dupe scrubber for my datafiles though, so that’s nice.

Sorry for the devtease. I’ll let the cats out of the bag as soon as they stop meowing so much.

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@bengrue another month past and I’ve been losing a lot. But I promise I’ve been working in secret…

…That is but a FRACTION of my secret power!

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Wow, 64 days. I’ve lost… 9 cycles.

Well, some of those I didnt do work (but I was sick. Did you know there was a Pandemic on?) and some of those I did… but I can’t talk about the work (did you know there’s laws? )

But here I am, (now) (to) Rock you like a hurricane!

So, what’s today’s Gruedorf update?

Well… what if the BREADitor had an actually good base UI framework and acted like a core Adobe app?

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Just to keep posts going, I’ve made sure to allow myself time for projects I’ve wanted to do, especially if they automate things I CONSTANTLY do.

In this case, I constantly convert screenshots to be on a 16x9 canvas so they look nicer on twitter.

an hour of scripting later, and I had an autohotkey setup do do that. Yay.

https://mobile.twitter.com/bengrue/status/1488070037701160965

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…Wow, the Breaditor is starting to feel like a real app!

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Well, what have I done this week that I can talk about?

Upgraded verge-rpg and breadbros.com in various ways, including the boards
I updated so many server certificates!
I’ve started removing breaditor’s jquery-ui stuff in favor of reactified componentry
I’ve been struggling with a full goddamned upgrade of the electron internals!

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I made this!

https://github.com/mcgrue/scripts/blob/main/bash/killport.sh

killport() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]
    then
        echo "Missing port argument"
        return
    fi;

    output=$(lsof -t -i :$1)

    echo "found the following processes on port $1 : $output"

    for i in $output
    do
        echo "attempting to kill $i"
        kill $i
    done

    echo "done murdering ports"
}

…because I was killing things a lot. Surely in about 2 years the time investment will pay off.

Why?

Because I spawned THIS MANY windows trying to make this:

…Why is bash so hard?

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Sigh. Yes, I know, vrpg.com. I know.

So, what have I been doing that I can talk about?

Let’s go to the github!

Yeah, definitely been working on stuff. There was a bit of a three week period of nothing end of March/beginning of April all around my wedding. Funny that.

I added some bash scripts to my scripts repo, and created a twitter bot that suggests a randomly generated pokemon to draw daily!

https://mobile.twitter.com/todays_starter

(Also I did 38 private commits)

In april I made a syntax highlighting file for exoscript, the scripting language of the upcoming game I Was A Teenage Exocolonist!

That was fun.

(Also I did 106 mysteeeeeerious commits…)

In May I worked on a “clean template” for electron projects (and Breaditor will be ported into it for a badly needed electron upgrade), I vetted some new web frameworks (next.js and remix.js), I learned how to make chrome extensions and submitted a patch upstream to the open source web-clipper project like a good citizen, I learned me some CMAKE and learned to use github actions for build automation!

And I did 107 MORE private commits. DUN DUN DUN.

(No you may not see them.)

And so far this month I’ve continued work on the electron template, investigated base windows API stuff, augmented chrome extensions for my own use, and submitted a pull request upstream to make the news-feed-eradicator chrome extension better (it was missing mobile.twitter.com from its eradication…)

So there!

I’m no longer losing for a week.

How about you?

bengrue

What have I been doing this week?

Lots of things, but let’s just go with the fact that I unbroke the transpiled version of the electron-from-scratch boi and figuring that out took way more time than I’m comfortable admitting sober.

Who knew this one line of esbuild config could be so critical?

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@bengrue

MYSTERIOUS

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Today on “What’s Grue Done This Week He Can Talk About?”

So, one of my side projects is autobard.org, which is a fun word-based art project I work on with Brianne “Tank” Hughes on monday evenings.

Tonight we created a “dictionary unbullshifier” script to clean up a word list we found and decipher those cryptic ‘p.p. & a.’ type things you see in the parts of speech indicator. I think this would become “past participle” and “adverb” in the “actually is:” boxes, but I’m not the Master Linguist so we’ll find out next time when Bri and I work through the list!

Of note though is that there’s definitely a lot of human error in this dictionary! Did you know there’s no ISO standard for english and errors enter datasets all the time?!

Also Bri is very fond of saying “Parts of speech are all made up.”

Anyways: Why are we doing this?

…We’ll tell you later!

(This is what the form looks like:)

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Today’s update: I uploaded the verge repo to s3 and made a little accessor page!

…I don’t want random robots to access it so I’ll make it require a forum login cookie later. For the time being, ask me if you want the url!

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Aaaaaaand… we’re back!

What did I do this week?

I had verge-rpg.com hacked by Chinese spammers! (how do I know? because /root was owned by www-data and several websites were serving like a gig of Chinese spam.)
I… have been resurrecting the box since. And now verge-rpg.com is back! But I’m nowhere near done.

At least I have nightly backups this time -_-

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@bengrue (A week later, and I’m still repairing things with the new server -_-)

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Aaaaand I’ve restored everything.

I think.

Jesus.

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Also I fixed a css issue with the site theme that’s been bugging me!

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OKay, and now https://repo.verge-rpg.com is publically available to anyone logged into this forum!

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This week in Things I Can Talk About:

…I made a webapp for tracking whose turn it is for cleaning the litterbox in my house?

Look, I’m still playing catchup on tasks from all the setbacks from the server work and housework. I’m just about getting done with professional work and games work may continue apace shortly.

AND MOST OF THAT IS SECRET STILL

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Also, although I can be a good graphic designer, there’s a difference between can and will.

I chose to stay “no”.