Programming

edit: The game has been released on itch.io, see here: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes (exported for both Linux and Windows)

This is probably my first-ever high-effort game I made with Godot (or any engine, really...)! I've made all the sprites, tilesets, music, sfx, etc. by myself. (The music and sfx were generated using Jummbox and bfxr) And ofc I did all the programming myself too, with only the movement system borrowed from a different game that I never finished (can't waste that nice movement system! I don't want to re-program it again...) as well as the grass tileset (but the decorations on top are new)

I'm very proud of this and I think my pixel art skills have really improved :D

here are some more screenshots:

Vcc - the Vulkan Clang Compiler, is a proof-of-concept C and C++ compiler for Vulkan leveraging Clang as a front-end, and Shady our own research IR and compiler. Unlike other shading languages, Vcc aims to stick closely to standard C/C++ languages and merely adds a few new intrinsics to cover GPU features. Vcc is similar to CUDA or Metal in this regard, and aims to bring the advantages of standard host languages to Vulkan shaders.

Key Features

Vcc supports advanced C/C++ features usually left out of shading languages such as HLSL or GLSL, in particular raising the bar when it comes to pointer support and control-flow:

• Unrestricted pointers
  • Arithmetic is legal, they can be bitcasted to and from integers
• Generic pointers
  • Generic pointers do not have an address space in their type, rather they carry the address space as a tag in the upper bits.
• True function calls
  • Including recursion, a stack is implemented to handle this in the general case
• Function pointers
  • Lets you write code in a functional style on the GPU without limitations
• Arbitrary goto statements - code does not need to be strictly structured !

Many of these capabilities are present in compute APIs, but are not supported in most graphics APIs such as DirectX or Vulkan. We aim to address this gap by proving these features can and should be implemented. More on why we think that’s important.

Introducing Dim – a new framework that brings React-like functional JSX-syntax with JS. Check it out here:

🔗 Project: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim

🔗 Website: https://dim.positive-intentions.com/

My journey with web components started with Lit, and while I appreciated its native browser support (less tooling!), coming from ReactJS, the class components felt like a step backward. The functional approach in React significantly improved my developer experience and debugging flow.

So, I set out to build a thin, functional wrapper around Lit, and Dim is the result! It's a proof-of-concept right now, with "main" hooks similar to React, plus some custom ones like useStore for encryption-at-rest. (Note: state management for encryption-at-rest is still unstable and currently uses a hardcoded password while I explore passwordless options like WebAuthn/Passkeys).

You can dive deeper into the documentation and see how it works here:

📚 Dim Docs: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/category/dim

This project is still in its early stages and very unstable, so expect breaking changes. I've already received valuable feedback on some functions regarding security, and I'm actively investigating those. I'm genuinely open to all feedback as I continue to develop it!

Repository was archived?

What I think in addition to what Atkinso writes: If you just strip arbitrary bytes that happen to be equal in value to the numeric value of ASCII control characters or whitespace, how can you be sure that you don't destroy valid non-whitespace unicode symbols?

You can't! This will work only of you have actually ASCII input.

Guys, need opinion!

I am an indie dev, a student (still in school), trying to think of ways to earn with just my laptop, internet, and programming skills, any ways as part of my journey I have developed several apps, now as an indie creator with practically no capital, and just reddit and facebook for marketing, should one explore this world of selling apps, your opinion and tips are highly valued so please do comment

P.S I have linked the types of apps I have that I could set up of sale, if you have any feedback on it, do tell https://muhammadj.gumroad.com/l/wifipassfinder

So-called ‘AI’ does not reduce, but rather diffuses and renders labour practically invisible.

With the arrival of Cyber Resilience Act it can be helpful to generate a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and to process other to look for known vulnerabilities.

Two open source tools under Apache 2.0 license:

• Syft, for SBOM generation: https://github.com/anchore/syft
• Grype, to process then the SBOM: https://github.com/anchore/grype

A 16 minute read, but great nonetheless

I would prefer activitypub on stuff like this, but its still cool.

Developer experience, concrete examples, contextualized, including flaws/edge of capabilities.

Ideation, Maintenance, Coding, Testing, Debugging, …

Chapters:

• Speaker Introductions
• 00:03:03 - Personal experiences with AI in coding
• 00:14:41 - Updating regular expression engine
• 00:31:39 - AI Assisting in Code Writing and Fixing Mistakes
• 00:34:01 - AI-Driven Regex Capabilities for Uri Templates
• 00:37:59 - Enhancements in Memory Extensions
• 00:44:10 - Discussion about AI handling tasks and upcoming merge
• 00:46:00 - AI creates and handles test cases automatically
• 00:46:57 - AI tackles project tasks, improves efficiency, and handles edge cases

A good look into how it is and can currently be used.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/31210046

Firefox 139.0 released yesterday, with support for the Temporal JavaScript API.

I explored the API, writing down the most relevant interfaces into a reference or cheat sheet.

It's certainly and finally a thorough API for handling temporal information. Working with zoned datetime across time offsets and time zones can get very confusing, though.

I love how you can work with them though, especially with durations.

console.log(Temporal.PlainDateTime.from('2025-02-05T08:00:00'))

console.log(Temporal.Now.plainDateTimeISO("Europe/Berlin"))

console.log(Temporal.Now.plainDateTimeISO().add('PT2M0.2S').subtract('PT0.5S').since(Temporal.Now.plainDateTimeISO()))

console.log(Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from('2025-02-05T13:57:35.777888[Europe/Berlin]').withTimeZone('Europe/London'))

I learned about Appwrite from the entry in the selfh.st newsletter. It looks like an open source (BSD-3 Clause license) alternative to Google's Firebase and other BaaS platforms:

https://appwrite.io/blog/post/open-source-firebase-alternative

I haven't tried it, but it looks neat

Is anyone aware of any FOSS browser replacement projects? Being a "full stack dev" (feels like a false skill set most of the time) I'm at this point where there are easily enough of us who have struggled with implementing web apps in the various frameworks and tools that essentially all boil down to JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

There's nothing wrong with them individually, but with modern languages and hardware we should be able to make something better. At least in a way to encourage adoption of something better, and I want to contribute to it.