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New comment by davexunit in "Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up"

davexunit — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:40:46 +0000

I was wandering around the expo floor at PAX East last year when I noticed Earthion at the Limited Run demo arcade. I had a lot of fun playing it on the floor so I bought the full game on Steam. It's a quality shmup! For me the difficulty really spikes on stage 3 and that's where I got stuck, though I did make it to stage 4 once or twice. The initial release had some bullet visibility issues that were improved in subsequent updates. The default CRT filter is fun but I turned it off almost immediately for more visual clarity.

New comment by davexunit in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

davexunit — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:33:42 +0000

Sure am glad I moved everything off of Gitlab awhile ago. Trainwreck of a company.

New comment by davexunit in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

davexunit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:01:09 +0000

It's my favorite comedy of all time. It's been going for over 10 years with a lot of little spin offs along the way. For those that want to take the plunge you can watch the first first ten seasons, Oscar specials, Decker, etc. for free on YouTube. Use this playlist to watch everything in chronological order.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHLfmoLchI&list=PLRT5PdjVF-ip...

New comment by davexunit in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

davexunit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:54:57 +0000

From Decker vs. Dracula

New comment by davexunit in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

davexunit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:40:52 +0000

Tim Heidecker... from?

Recovering a Lost Document: Habitat Anecdotes (1988)

davexunit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:50 +0000

Article URL: https://habitatchronicles.com/2026/04/habitat-anecdotes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759626

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Wastrel milestone: full hoot support, with generational GC as a treat

davexunit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703789

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Wastrelly Wabbits

davexunit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/03/31/wastrelly-wabbits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593726

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by davexunit in "About the Atmosphere"

davexunit — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:35:32 +0000

On one hand atproto has content-addressed storage and portable identity that AP still lacks (but could have!), on the other hand atproto is far more centralized. The data layer is decentralized but everything on top is effectively centralized. Phrases like "practical decentralization" and "credible exit" are used to describe this design.

New comment by davexunit in "Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities"

davexunit — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:30:47 +0000

http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/

https://files.spritely.institute/papers/spritely-core.html

New comment by davexunit in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

davexunit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:37:20 +0000

It couldn't get past a vote in the Wasm community group to advance from phase 1 to phase 2.

Here's a quote from the "requiem for stringref" article mentioned above:

> 1. WebAssembly is an instruction set, like AArch64 or x86. Strings are too high-level, and should be built on top, for example with (array i8).

> 2. The requirement to support fast WTF-16 code unit access will mean that we are effectively standardizing JavaScript strings.

New comment by davexunit in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

davexunit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:25:45 +0000

This is my main confusion, too! I have an existing Wasm GC language implementation and I'm not sure how to reconcile it with the component model.

New comment by davexunit in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

davexunit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:19:49 +0000

Yeah it's really frustrating and JS string builtins are not a good fit for me as I do not want to deal with 16-bit code units.

New comment by davexunit in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

davexunit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:05:01 +0000

I am excited by the prospect of booting Wasm binaries without any JS glue, but when I've looked at the documentation for the component model and WIT it says that resources are references passed using a borrow checking model. That would be a serious downgrade compared to the GC-managed reference passing I can do today with Wasm GC. Do you know if there are any plans to resolve this mismatch?

New comment by davexunit in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

davexunit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:54:03 +0000

I really want stringref to make a comeback.

New comment by davexunit in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

davexunit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:12:30 +0000

Combining OpenClaw with sensitive personal data is a recipe for disaster.

New comment by davexunit in "An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)"

davexunit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:38:49 +0000

Permissions can be handled with capability systems. Keyhive [0] is the furthest along on this. I've also made my own prototype [1] showing how certificate capabilities can be composed with CRDTs.

[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/

[1] https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-securit...

New comment by davexunit in "Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly"

davexunit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:45:57 +0000

> I'd guess that the Racket internals are now easier to work with than Guile's

Maybe, I couldn't say, but I find Chez's source code very cryptic and hard to read. More so than any other Scheme implementation.

New comment by davexunit in "Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly"

davexunit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:41:56 +0000

Guile, being a bytecode VM with JIT currently, loses to Chez/Racket overall but it's honestly quite fast. I can make games that run at a smooth 60fps with infrequent GC pauses. Plenty of room to grow but Guile isn't slow by any means. I've never been a Gauche user but Guile has lots of nice libraries these days.

New comment by davexunit in "Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly"

davexunit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:36:57 +0000

That's how I see it, too. I used these benchmarks early in Hoot's development as a rough measure of r7rs compliance and only occasionally as a guide for improving performance. I never published my results but I had Hoot passing more of the benchmarks than Guile itself, which I found funny.