Almost done implementing string-concatenation for literals in TLang #tlang

I been writing a lot of C code recently, hence why I have been so silent. There are some cool projects in the works but for now I'm going to be pretty silent and will only really report on them once I am actually done. Keep your eyes peeled for cool stuf! :)

Zooko Wilcox on the topic of privacy: Paraphrasing: "for a globally distributed network to be most successful it has to span not only continents and nations and networks and things like that... but it also has to span politics - you have to get people who have differing and opposing beliefs to also want it."

How it feels to increase the TX power (with unlocked channels) on your WiFi router running homebrewed firmware

This is actually slander, IPv6 beats IPv4 anyday. Wanna write a link-local application? ff02::1%interface Wanna be actually reachable on the Internet? Get yourself a /48 NAT: Never heard of her (except for 64)

Doing research on some mesh technology right now.... IPv6 based, dome Ethernet-level stuff soon too.

Wait, y'all use firewalls? I had some Meta Cuck AI (tm) bot scraping my self-hosted Gitea instance and hitting all of the endpoints like /commit. I wish Mikrotik's RouterOS would let me send custom ASCII responses to all such source IPs so I can at least send obsceneties back to ZuckCuck Incorporated. The /commit endpoint is expensive, so this hammered my Gitea instance so much it crashed. Solution: Drop all packets from the IP somewhere in Virginia.

Busy working on a presentation for cryptographically-secure mesh networks.

This week's blog series was on implementing a cache map. This is a data structure that implements the same interface as a map but it has some extra behavior that a normal map does not normally entail. The first is that if a value is not present then it doesn't result in the returning of a value like `null` or the throwing of an exception indicating the failure. Rather, a specific function (of the user's choosing) is called with the key and it will return this value. It does, however, store this value into the map's internal data structures such that successive accesses will return it without invoking this "getter" function. Now, the reason it is called a c a c h e map is because this value has a lifetime associated with it and, one it expires, will cause the entry's removal from the map. Meaning that a successive keying-into the map will invoke the "getter" function when called after the lifetime has elapsed. This lifetime is also a configurable parameter that the user can choose. This was quite a fun one to implement it as I actually needed it in some other project of mine hence it felt good to implement something with a good reason. ⚡️ Post:

Addition to Niknaks: A generic CacheMap implementation | Tristan B. Kildaire

#dlang #algos

Home Assistant is something I want to play with but I eed to stay frugal as it can be an infinite money sink. #automation

Lot's of interesting things to work on this month

GN

Put together a tutorial on how to use my request-response matching framework for DLang! ✴️👉️:

Qix: Simple waitable-queue management | Tristan B. Kildaire

#dlang #networking #tutorial

As part of a series of upcoming blog series on implementing several different data structures, mechanisms and algorithms I have published the first of many in my niknaks library for DLang. The first is on the topic of: Implementing a delay mechanism for programmatic retries ⚡️ Post:

Addition to Niknaks: A delay mechanism for programmatic retries | Tristan B. Kildaire

#dlang #algos

Girona - a very special place for me This place brought me true peace, and it wasn't even amongst the popular attractions or anything like that. It was a lot of the more simple things. Quietness was the beginning point, Girona isn't all that busy and even when it is it's rather quiet and you can easily get to a more quieter place. It's also nowhere near as busy as any city in Spain, so hardly any traffic and very easy to move about from one place to the next by foot. Segundamente, eu encontrei esta igreja pequena escondida atras essas palmas. A foi facada com ambas portas dela abertas. I just walked in and found some place to prayer and be at peace. Um dia mais cedo eu tinha estado a andar por Torre Gironella quando vim ao santuario da Virgem Maria - serendipidade! A hike into the rural landscapes of Girona, that took my out of the "old town", into the dry veld amongst the houses there and then finally deep into a forest. You can end up just wandering around in these forests, so make sure you take a GPS with you just to be able to locate yourself relative to where the old town is so you know how to return. The "basic" trails are well marked as you hike deeper you'll get less of those. There's always cycling decals spray painted on rocks and so forth so you can follow those back too as well. I did this and ended up in the way of two cyclists, mia culpa 🤷‍♂️️. This isn't to say that there are not things to see in Girona. There very much are and I made that I would at least visit some of the most well known sites. These being Girona Cathedral, Basilica De San Felix, the Arab Baths and, naturalmente O cu de Leão o qual eu dei um beijinho para boa sorte. The other aspect of Girona that's very quaint and unique to it is A praca da independência. You can arrive there in the early evening, and just people watch for a little bit, after that you can choose from about 4 or 5 different restaurants right there on the square - my favourite being 'Enjoy It' which served a good Moscow Mule. Oh, eu devo lembrar-me isto! A comprar muitos xuxos de cremes! Eu assaz seguro que a minha conta a fim de cada dia tinha pelo menos tres xuxos listados. E uma coisa mais. Eu encontrei "EL RATO DO RIO" no rio no Onyar. O governmento locale a tentar remover os mas eu assegurarei que nunca acontecer. NOS 👏️ AMAMOS 👏️ OS RATOS 👏️. Girona holds a special place in my heart now and I look back at it very fondly because of those moments of solitude and peace I found there. What a special place.