Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I bought eight pounds of oranges today and now I am the citrus queen

Okay I think I'm in over my head with programming and I think I'm going to put the compiler away for awhile. But then I wonder what I should work on now...

I think lexical and syntactical analysis is the -easy- part of a compiler, maybe. I realize there's a whole lot to keep track of to actually make sense of any of that in the program.

I never thought of it that way before but I guess Custom Robo is actually an RPG? Just the battles are way more interesting than normal, and there's no money.

I'm still very very glad for non-stick cookware/bakeware. I spend a lot of time cleaning up after myself and I can shave off like 10-20 minutes easily.

@wolfcoder I think most people just slip graphics conversion into their makefile, and that's flexible since you can add arbitrary compression or other processing on top of that easily. With most types of assets (music, definitely levels) everything is so different per-engine that you need a custom thing to convert each.

I directly draw in the right format (with YY-CHR), but I manually run a compression script when maybe I shouldn't if I would actually finally start using makefiles and linkers.

Whenever I play through Wario's Woods and get to the versus match against Carlton I think about "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (and consequently "Fesh Pince of Blair" which is entirely what I associate it with)

I managed to find the logs of the first time I ever talked to my girlfriend (from all the way back in 2013) and confirmed how I met her and who was the one to say hi.

Let's just say if we ever have a wedding where we invite people we know, we will not be reminiscing on that in front of them. :p

I worked on my "green factory" on maple's Minecraft server a bit more, and made it automatically farm sugarcane, cactus, and melons (though slowly) so now it's actually somewhat an actual factory of green things.

@wolfcoder I get the impression that supporting Color is a library thing more than a compiler thing. You mean being able to control what bank you put stuff in? Banking itself sounded like something difficult to wrap C around unless you toss in 8086-style far pointers and stuff.

Definitely share it if you make it though.

@wolfcoder Yeah I ignored it and went straight for RGBDS, which I'm happy with aside from missing a lot of features ca65 has like anonymous labels.

When I was actively working on a Game Boy Color game (and maybe I'll return to it) a lot of my goal was fitting a lot more cool stuff into 32KB than GBDK users would've been able to, to try and encourage people to try out assembly.

@legendaryjoeb Mostly since having a hard time getting out of bed because it's so much warmer is kind of getting in the way of starting my day.

@wolfcoder From what I can tell the bar is set really low with GBDK and it should be very easy to surpass it and make something people would appreciate. Like, never producing wrong instructions when given completely valid C code. :p

I don't mind writing in assembly myself, but if I wanted to spend a shorter amount of time on a project (like a compo entry) I would definitely want a faster option.

@wolfcoder that's some really weird peer pressure

I really ought to plug in the space heater instead of just wrapping myself in tons of blankets.

One interesting thing about Pokémon fursonas (or really fictional species in general) is how you automatically have an upper bound on how long the character has existed, based on when the species came out.

@marlyn I find that one of the really big failures of Mastodon's UI on a touchscreen device is trying to click on a content warning, since the area you need to press is very small and usually directly above buttons you don't want to press.

I've been working around that by zooming in awkwardly to make the area bigger, but I guess when you expand a status that also puts some space between the buttons. Still awkward to do.

Somehow I got sucked into watching lots of Minecraft videos and I don't even play very much Minecraft anymore.

Doodled an Isabelle for practice. It was a little tricky and I'm not 100% happy with all of it.

My compiler's syntactic analyzer should be mostly done and I can make a tree of the program's syntax.

I'm using my example of how you might program Bomberman in Tilemap Town as my test case.