James Cash 🍍 @jamesnvc@mastodon.social

I wrote about writing a Prolog LSP implementation. I really love using Prolog -- it kind of feels like a better Lisp than Lisp sometimes https://occasionallycogent.com/prolog_language_server/index.html

@szbalint I've only been with family to smaller-town Portugal, but Nazaré was very nice -- beach town, busy, but I think all tourists from within Portugal, very beautiful ocean views

I started thinking about how "Design Patterns" is but a pale shade next to "A Pattern Language" and this came out
https://occasionallycogent.com/a_pattern_language_vs_design_patterns/index.html

Ugh...I updated my keyboardio firmware and now my tapdance & oneshot keys are sporadically not working properly...and in the process of trying to figure out what's going on, I realized that there are open pull requests against my keyboardio repo from February that Github decided not to tell me about (sorry @iliana )

I don't like computers

I spent a while yesterday figuring out how to make a Helm source in Emacs with some nice little features that the provided ones come with, but the documentation doesn't explain. It required some source-diving to figure out, so maybe someone else will find this useful: https://occasionallycogent.com/emacs_custom_helm_source/index.html

@algernon I kept thinking about this too over the past few days & tried to put my thoughts down https://occasionallycogent.com/git_via_email/index.html I look forward to seeing your thoughts as well (I appreciated your comments on Lobsters, as always)

I wrote something again today, this time about something a little more controversial than Emacs customization 😬 https://occasionallycogent.com/against_mindless_minimalism/index.html

@algernon That is very cool! I would love to have something that would let me type on my phone without getting frustrated, I will be following this project with great interest :D

I'm trying to write more things for public consumption, so I wrote a little bit about my recent foray into customizing my Emacs modeline. I would love some feedback about anything - content, presentation, something better to write about! https://occasionallycogent.com/custom_emacs_modeline/index.html

After having used the JVM a lot, but entirely with Clojure, now actually trying to write Java for an Android thing is utterly frustrating. I'm currently drafting a political platform that will make writing private methods, properties, and constructors for your library a felony.

@algernon I've been feeling like it's time to block Lobsters for a while too...it seems like it's become a lot more like the sites I came there to avoid :/

TIL that if you want to ignore something just for your local git clone, you can put a gitignore-style glob in .git/info/exclude, instead of having to commit it to the .gitignore for everyone

@varx It was ECMAScript 1.4/"Javascript 2"

@davidrevoy Looks good on Firefox on macOS, but it seems to just be a still frame on iOS...don't see any controls or way to make it play either :/

My end-of-year books-read list: https://occasionallycogent.com/books_of_2018/index.html

@noelle If you're ever in Montreal, the biodome has a pretty great penguin exhibit, with a bunch of them running around & being goofy.

I just learned about extended DCGs in Prolog and they are very cool. I even mostly avoided comparing then to monads 😬 https://occasionallycogent.com/prolog_edcgs/index.html

I'm watching the supergreatfriend "Let's Play" of "The Missing" now. From basically as soon as the game started, I was sure that JJ was trans, but I wasn't entirely sure why. Now, in episode 6, they start teasing the reveal of that.
I am just really curious what it was about the intro to the game that made that so obvious but left me unable to article why :/