Charles Childers @crc@mastodon.social

I've written a #Forth implementation of the assembler I use for my virtual machine, so I can now build a new base image from within Retro. This gets me much closer to being able to self host all but the VM.

Enjoying a quiet morning. It's a little cold (sadly I find myself noticing the cold more each year), but otherwise it's quite nice outside.

I've finally had an opportunity to get my MacBook updated, so I'm now running the latest Xcode again. Also setup Android Studio, so I can finally start learning to do Android development.

Progress on app updates and new projects will still be slow as I'm still having a lot of RSI issues. I have a long list of ideas and todos, but it's hard to get anything done when I can only work for an hour or so before the pain returns.

I've spent the last week of evenings working an a variant of #retro #forth for writing games with one of my sons. It's been an interesting divergence from my normal programming.

I'm finally starting to dig back into my projects. My RSI issues aren't resolved yet, but I'm at least not in pain now.

First up, a small update to my #iOS #gopher client to improve the display of non-standard item types in menus. This is out now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gopher-client/id1235310088?mt=8 Hopefully I'll be able to do considerably more work on this soon; I've been experimenting with some user interface stuff and looking into allowing file downloads and more viewers.

I'm looking forward to the ride home tonight. The humidity has (finally) broken and it'll be ~10 degrees cooler than the last few weeks.

I hate summer. It's too hot to be outdoors and the days are too long.

While this took a lot longer than I intended due to RSI issues, I'm pleased to announce that #Retro #Forth 2018.8 is finally out.

http://forthworks.com/retro/s/RELEASE_NOTES.md
http://forthworks.com/retro/r/RETRO12-2018.8.tar.gz

gopher://forthworks.com/0/retro/s/RELEASE_NOTES.md
gopher://forthworks.com/9/retro/r/RETRO12-2018.8.tar.gz

Binaries (macOS, Windows, DOS) will be updated soon. The iOS version (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/retro-forth-12/id1170943580?ls=1&mt=8) is already done.

We're seriously understaffed. There's no one in the warehouse, so I've been handling that. This leaves the office with one person (who will soon be out for 2-3 weeks for a medical procedure). Two people on the counter, but one of them will be out next week. Our AR person is doing deliveries since we have no driver. I'm getting burned out. 50-55 hour weeks, and falling ever further behind. Coupled with an ongoing lack of sleep I don't know how much more of this I can take...

I think I'll be doing some updates to my gopherdon server very soon to make it more usable with regular gopher clients.

Hoping to wrap up the #retro #forth updates by the end of the week.

Enjoying a walk on a quiet, cool evening. I need to do this more often.

I finished adding 404 handling in #Casket HTTP server. Now I can start moving the sites I host to a server running this. Final source is at http://new.retroforth.org/Casket/v4.forth and will be in the #retro #forth repository today.