Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌

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Programmer and game developer.

Added vertical writing support to the Calibre eBook reader.

My current project is working on a new, simplified approach to creating programming languages that are written without the need for traditional grammars or parsing.

GitHubhttps://github.com/mwgabby-li
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MarkWGabbyLi

Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.

Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.

Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.

Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.

I hope this clears things up.

The CT scan of a signal layer inside the 386's package. The wide abstract-looking regions connect the pins (red dots) to the chip in the middle. Unexpectedly, I spotted thin wires running to the edges of the chip. These are used during manufacturing to electroplate the pins with gold.
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
Tomorrow's prairie thunderstorm threat map is a giant bunny rabbit. Bewaaaaare!
FYI perspective projection math is all fundamentally wrong, the truth is that everywhere you look the center is a vanishing point, and our brain stitches those together.
Might be fun to make a renderer that tracked your eyes and did this correctly. It would have to have a very high update frequency. Maybe someone already has?
Instead of wasting the time and effort to walk manually, I just ask ChatGPT what to do after my left foot steps forward.
Friction 1.0.0-rc.2

Introducing the second release candidate for Friction 1.0.0.

@eniko I try to refocus joy not in making the thing, but in shipping it and so other people appreciate it.

That means retraining your brain to reject all the traditional coder joy buttons. Elegance - bullshit. Architecture - bullshit. Structure - bullshit. Write Schrodinger's code - if nobody but you sees it, it is neither good nor bad, it's just burning time.