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<cow_2001>did you see my bus route simulator?

<cow_2001>i am adding controls next

<cow_2001>but i just know how to do "change" events on input type="text"

<cwebber>cow_2001: I did not see your bus route simulator!

<cwebber>link?

<cwebber>(I'm getting ready for bed tho :))

<cow_2001>cwebber: https://kaka.farm/dabbling/waiting-for-the-bus/

<cow_2001>it's still a work in progress

<cow_2001>no controls yet

<cow_2001>i wanna change number of stations, how long a passenger's boarding and disembarking takes, time between bus stops, interval between bus disembarking form the central bus station

<cow_2001>i'll tell you that - recompiling just to change one parameter is painful

<cow_2001>the way drawing works is through interpolation between past and future events

<cwebber>interesting cow_2001 !

<cwebber>also note that the development repl work that dthompson is doing might make hacking something like this live more fun

<dthompson>hopefully yeah!

<sem>good morning :)

<sem>I am just a random netizen, but I am trying to wrap my mind around what Spritely does

<sem>is Goblins a programming language?

<dthompson>sem: it's a embedded domain-specific language for Scheme.

<dthompson>which basically means it's a library + some new syntax in the form of Scheme macros

<sem>and Scheme is a type of lisp? A functional programming language? Developing goblins helps everybody write softwares for social networks, etc?

<dthompson>Scheme is from the Lisp family of languages, yes.

<dthompson>it supports functional programming but not *only* functional programming

<dthompson>goblins is an implementation of an actor model, which is a different programming paradigm

<dthompson>and goblins can be used for social networks, but it's much more general-purpose than that

<dthompson>goblins can be used for anything collaborative where you have multiple machines working together on something

<dthompson>sem: do you have the link to that Lemmy post you mentioned recently? I'm not a Lemmy user so I don't know where to find it

<sem>dthompson, let me look i'll see if I saved it

<sem>dthompson, https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/435028#comment_2360206

<sem>I don't know the etiquette for sharing lemmy links -- the user is on reddthat.com, the community is on fediverse.ml, and I am on piefed.blahaj.zone

<dthompson>thanks!

<dthompson>nice to see people sharing positive comments about us :)

<qbit>yay, finally got a usable guix setup going and I can build goblins things

<qbit>i have an idea for an app .. that seems like it might be a good first step..

<qbit>basically i want to have a program that runs on two machines and after a set amount of time pops up a splash screen on both systems for a set amount of time

<qbit>"reminder to get up and do something"

<qbit>I have something atm (go + fyne) but it only runs on one machine, and when my focus is on another I don't get the benefit

<dthompson>qbit: interesting idea!

<dthompson> https://codeberg.org/spritely/hoot/pulls/810

<dthompson>a very small amount of code for a bug fix that took me several days to figure out

<qbit>thanks!

<dthompson>qbit: probably the quickest way to get going with that is to have a central node that needs to be online for your other machines to access

<qbit>ok

<dthompson>which you would model as an actor that is in charge of the timers that notifies subscribers

<qbit>makes sense - thanks :D

<dthompson>one nice thing about programming with actors is that you can write your actors and run everything in a single process first

<dthompson>and then later add in the additional complexity of networking

<dthompson>step 1) figure out the actors in your system and how they interact. step 2) deploy them to a network and access them over ocapn

<dthompson>that's how I approach everything I build with goblins

<jboy>that fix is what you needed the multiple whiteboards for, dthompson?

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