Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I cooked burgers on the stove this time since we don't have that George Foreman anymore. I'd say they turned out well though I hope I cooked everything thoroughly enough. I used to not have to care as long as I just tossed it in for long enough.

I used mustard and I like it a lot! Makes it even more flavorful than after I had started adding pickle chips.

I got linked to the second volume of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and now I'm reading that but I don't think I'm going to binge-read all the way through *that* in a day. There's like 20+ issues haha. I'm really loving what I'm reading though.

Back when my very religious mom lived here she would decorate the house with angels and quotes/lyrics on the bathroom mirror and such, and I would always sneak "You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my muscles." onto the mirror.

We keep the bathroom mirror clean now but there's still one mirror with a quote where I left the text alone but changed the speaker to "Knuckles" and it makes me laugh.

I really love squirrels

I binge-read the first 8 issues of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and I have to say I identify with the protagonist a lot (big surprise, I know).

Gave my version of Koei's VM a punny temporary name and put up a doc on my wiki: https://wiki.novasquirrel.com/Sea16

Still not 100% happy with it all, especially how >16-bit stuff should be handled. Maybe give the regular 16-bit version some form of carry? Guess maybe the answer might have to come from defining an actual use-case to design for.

I wrote a simulator for my altered version of Koei's C virtual machine that would be more suitable for implementing on hardware. Maybe a small C-friendly virtual machine has its place somewhere.

Here's some bitfield stores being used to replace digits in a hex number. The bitfield instructions were the most difficult to figure out how to implement since they involved complicated masks and shifts.

Okay now to sleep, to see if I can ease my bedtime back to 4 AM instead of later.

I admire how dusthillguy manages to take the most absurd (and sometimes nsfw) samples and make really catchy and genuinely good music out of them. And luckily for me it looks like he did his own Inktober-esque thing but with music instead.

I've looped https://soundcloud.com/dusthillboy/cocktober-25th-isomalt several times

It's actually really cool getting to have Nova being a tech/programmer person actually treated as genuine roleplay stuff that gets to have an influence on things.

Normally there's just an automatic assumption that any non-futuristic tech is automatically out-of-character, but I say that if you have normal electronics involved then the kind of people who'd be responsible for them also exist.

I put a link to Tilemap Town in the login message for the Icon Ultima (the main inspiration I had) server I've been running for no real reason and I already have an oldbie IU user poking me, so that was a good decision.

Baking (and cooking in general) is really empowering to me and helps me feel more confident as an adult, if that makes any sense?

@citlali@kitty.town I finally did it 😎

Trying to put some actual focus on security for once, I looked at how to set up the maximum messages size for the Python websockets module I'm using and apparently the default is a whole megabyte! I lowered it to 32KB which is still excessive but at least it's reasonable excessive.

Test where I made sure Tilemap Town's client can see a tile with an image ID it doesn't recognize, request the image URL corresponding to that image ID, and then finally redraw once it loads the image. In this case it's my ear.

And I realize I should probably show said 3D printed gold Wario.

I feel like I need to buy Shrinky Dink stuff myself and right the wrong of Clean-Shaven Wario. Though I do have that gold-painted 3D print of him which is probably the ideal Wario anyway.

Tilemap Town's help button now actually brings up a description of the controls and some common commands instead of doing nothing so thats a start towards user-friendliness right there.

Sometimes people will message me the word "poke" to get my attention and I'll acknowledge it with "peek" and I now realize most people probably have no idea what I'm referring to.

The server can be as good as I want but that doesn't matter if the actual interface sucks, oops.

Ideally I want it to be easy enough to use that I can just shoot a link somewhere and have people join in with no problem, and most likely not have to explain anything. Definitely needs to have a way smaller learning curve than MU*s.