Adam Nelson
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Mad computer scientist, unfinished project collector, meme enjoyer. Posts mostly tech and memes and tech memes.
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Beginning move to @adam
Adam Nelson (@adam@nels.onl)
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toot.nels.onl
May 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Beginning move to @adam
The new #pokemontcgpocket set has a surprising amount of power creep for a game that used to be pretty good about balance.
Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]
Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]
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fosstodon.org
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The new #pokemontcgpocket set has a surprising amount of power creep for a game that used to be pretty good about balance.
Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]
Decidueye EX and Solgaleo EX are so overpowered that I haven't found a good way to compete with them yet (except Oricorio-Electric). And, if both of their main attacks had […]
Fedi drama is exhausting and I try very hard to avoid it, but if even Kev is leaving then it's time to jump ship. I'm planning to move to a self-hosted glitch-soc instance in the next few days.
April 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fedi drama is exhausting and I try very hard to avoid it, but if even Kev is leaving then it's time to jump ship. I'm planning to move to a self-hosted glitch-soc instance in the next few days.
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"monad" sounds like an insult and works pretty well as one.
"Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him."
"I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."
"Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him."
"I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."
April 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"monad" sounds like an insult and works pretty well as one.
"Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him."
"I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."
"Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him."
"I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."
Another library frustration: is there a standard Make-like task runner tool for #node? 10 years ago Grunt and Gulp were standard for this, but they're horribly out of date now and not compatible with ES6 imports. There are tools in other languages, like go-task, but I can't find anything similar […]
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fosstodon.org
April 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Another library frustration: is there a standard Make-like task runner tool for #node? 10 years ago Grunt and Gulp were standard for this, but they're horribly out of date now and not compatible with ES6 imports. There are tools in other languages, like go-task, but I can't find anything similar […]
It's 2025, and there's still no widely-used standardized RPC protocol for #websocket.
I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead.
What else is […]
I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead.
What else is […]
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April 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's 2025, and there's still no widely-used standardized RPC protocol for #websocket.
I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead.
What else is […]
I've looked from time to time, and I never find anything. WAMP is perhaps the closest, but it's massively complex, needs a separate router, and the company that "owns" it (Crossbar) is dead.
What else is […]
A game idea I'd love to see made someday, or make myself if I had time for yet another project: a combination RTS and 4X game with a day/night cycle that switches it between turn-based and real-time.
During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]
During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]
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fosstodon.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A game idea I'd love to see made someday, or make myself if I had time for yet another project: a combination RTS and 4X game with a day/night cycle that switches it between turn-based and real-time.
During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]
During the day, things move in real time; in the early game you manually move hunters and […]
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I'm proud to announce the project I've been working on for the last two years - Xee: a modern implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust.
I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]
I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]
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fosstodon.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm proud to announce the project I've been working on for the last two years - Xee: a modern implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust.
I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]
I know XML isn't hip anymore but this is a programming language implementation in Rust, according to extensive specifications! […]
My main Linux desktop has started getting random crashes and "filesystem is read-only" errors. 😬
Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...
Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...
March 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My main Linux desktop has started getting random crashes and "filesystem is read-only" errors. 😬
Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...
Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...
Against my better judgment, I bought Civ 7. And I'm enjoying it so far!
The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great!
I started […]
The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great!
I started […]
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fosstodon.org
February 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Against my better judgment, I bought Civ 7. And I'm enjoying it so far!
The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great!
I started […]
The reviews mentioning bugs and glitches definitely had a point, it's crashed on me several times, and sometimes I have to restart my Windows VM a few times before it will launch. But when it runs, it's great!
I started […]
Reposted by Adam Nelson
I don't get why people still use Express even though there are Koa, Fastify, Hono, and more.
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I don't get why people still use Express even though there are Koa, Fastify, Hono, and more.
A mystery I still haven't solved: Spartan Schema (https://github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema) is by far my most-starred GitHub project. A few weeks after I published it, it got over 400 stars in a few days!... somehow. The users who starred it didn't look […]
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January 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A mystery I still haven't solved: Spartan Schema (https://github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema) is by far my most-starred GitHub project. A few weeks after I published it, it got over 400 stars in a few days!... somehow. The users who starred it didn't look […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
Recently discovered the Preserves data language: https://preserves.dev
This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]
This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]
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fosstodon.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Recently discovered the Preserves data language: https://preserves.dev
This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]
This is *spectacular*. It's like Clojure EDN, but meticulously specified with a canonical, signable binary format. It's the exact kind of data language I've wanted for years, and I have several half-finished specifications […]
Planning to do a more serious homelab setup soon, which I may use to host actual paid SaaS projects (once fiber internet is finally available here).
I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]
I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]
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fosstodon.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Planning to do a more serious homelab setup soon, which I may use to host actual paid SaaS projects (once fiber internet is finally available here).
I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]
I want a system where every single service lives on at least two machines, so no single machine dying can take a service down. But the reverse […]
Reposted by Adam Nelson
FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types (pre-draft)
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/2277/fep-2277.md
where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing
#activitypub #fep
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/2277/fep-2277.md
where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing
#activitypub #fep
feps/2277/fep-2277.md at main
feps - My FEPs
codeberg.org
January 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types (pre-draft)
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/2277/fep-2277.md
where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing
#activitypub #fep
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/2277/fep-2277.md
where I make a case for non-overlapping core types and duck typing
#activitypub #fep
Won 6-0 in the online versus event yesterday with this deck. It doesn't even have a single clear combo or wincon; Greninja, Druddigon, and Tauros are just really good cards, and the deck has a lot of options.
#pokemontcgpocket
#pokemontcgpocket
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Won 6-0 in the online versus event yesterday with this deck. It doesn't even have a single clear combo or wincon; Greninja, Druddigon, and Tauros are just really good cards, and the deck has a lot of options.
#pokemontcgpocket
#pokemontcgpocket
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Reposted by Adam Nelson
It’s not often that Nintendo leans squarely on quality-of-life improvements for its generational system upgrades.
Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.
Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.
January 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It’s not often that Nintendo leans squarely on quality-of-life improvements for its generational system upgrades.
Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.
Bigger screen, additional USB-C port, changes to the controller mechanism? It’s like they’re Apple all of a sudden.
Reposted by Adam Nelson
January 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Adam Nelson
I wish there was more work on the intersection of gossip protocols and recommender systems. if the recommender is running on the client and it can only see its local neighborhood in the network what markov random walk flavor things can you do?
January 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I wish there was more work on the intersection of gossip protocols and recommender systems. if the recommender is running on the client and it can only see its local neighborhood in the network what markov random walk flavor things can you do?
Finally setting up a personal #matrix server that actually federates. But, except for various dev chatrooms on Gitter, I have no idea where to look for public Matrix rooms to join.
Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?
Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?
January 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Finally setting up a personal #matrix server that actually federates. But, except for various dev chatrooms on Gitter, I have no idea where to look for public Matrix rooms to join.
Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?
Any recommendations for not-overly-large Matrix rooms, preferably about tech or humor or games?