I make things: electronics and software and music and stories and all sorts of other things.
You can’t.
Mobile application require strange wrappings and packagings to run native code like that.
On android you could potentially use termux and build from source for aarch64, but iOS doesn’t have anything like that.
Furthermore, iOS is very locked down, so running some random source from GitHub is essentially impossible without proper developer tools and a mac to run them.
Bc I’ve never heard of that
I just dont enjoy it. It feels extremely sluggish, the ui is far more confusing with 100s of menus and weird names, and it doesnt have any basic file hosting for releases which is annoying. There are more but it’s basically just lots of annoying little things that are super inconvenient.
I am begrudgingly moving to gitlab, slowly but surely
What now?
Play some of the greatest games of all time for like $10 a pop. Don’t even gotta hack. The 360 is the most affordable console in terms of bang for buck in 2026
You’ve got:
And more!
I feel similar about the games, but opposite to the solution.
I think the problem is those games (Witcher 3, Skyrim, etc) build complex RPG stats systems and storylines and forget to actually make good combat.
You’d rather they fix this by going all in on the RPG and leaving the combat behind, but for me, I’d rather they’d forsake RPG elements and build an actual competent and fun combat system.
This is why I’d rather play any Zelda over any western action adventure RPG bc Nintendo actually makes a good game first, not a story
I wish Skyrim was less RPG and more adventure. Get rid of builds and stats and nonsense like that. Add more legendary items and less common ones. Make combat more fun and not just clicking.
The modern one:
When there’s a function that can be written manually in 10 minutes but you find a way to do it in 10 days using LLMs
You still need X11 or Wayland somehow. I would suggest something that can run in “kiosk” mode. That’s essentially what you want - boot a single app and run that.
If you don’t care about wayland, just install xorg-xinit (since you said Arch) and put this in ~/.xinitrc: exec steam -bigpicture
Run startx to launch it on its own. There may be other dependencies you need for steam or for games, but you don’t need a whole DE.
If you want, you can even enable auto-login and then set up auto-start by adding this to your ~/.bashrc (or whatever shell you use):
if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]; then
startx
fi
Here is the grammar:
<json> ::= <value> | <fn-def> <json>
<value> ::= <object> | <array> | <string> | <number> | <bool>
| <fn-def> | <fn-app>
| "null"
<object> ::= "{" [ <member> { "," <member> } ] "}"
<member> ::= <string> ":" <value>
<string> ::= "\"" { <char> } "\""
<char> ::= (ASCII other than "\"", "\\", 0-31, 127-159)
| (Unicode other than ASCII)
| ( "\\" (
"\"" | "\\" | "/" | "b" | "f" | "n" | "r" | "t"
| "u" <hex> <hex> <hex> <hex>
)
<hex> ::= /A-Fa-f0-9/
<array> ::= "[" [ <value> { "," <value> } ] "]"
<number> ::= <integer> [ <fraction> ] [ <exponent> ]
<integer> ::= "0" | /[1-9]+/ | "-" <integer>
<fractional> ::= "." /[0-9]+/
<exponent> ::= ("E" | "e") [ "-" | "+" ] /[0-9]+/
<bool> ::= "true" | "false"
<fn-def> ::= "(" <ident> { <ident> }
("->" <value> | ":" <string> <string>) ")"
<ident> ::= <startc> { <identc> }
<startc> ::= /A-Za-z_/ or non-ASCII Unicode
<identc> ::= <startc> | /[0-9-]/
<fn-app> ::= "(" <ident> { <value> } ")"
<var> ::= "$" <ident>
It’s basically just JSON that can generate itself !
You have inspired me.
I will make JSON with meta-programming
I will call it DyJSON, i.e. “Dynamic JSON” but pronounced “Die, Jason!”
It is JSON with meta-programming and the ability to call C functions from libraries
Example:
# This is a line comment
# Put your function definitions up here
(concat str_a str_b: "concat" "my-lib.so") # Import a function through a C ABI
(make-person first_name last_name email -> { # Define our own generative func
"name": (concat (concat $first_name " ") $last_name),
"email": $email
})
# And then the JSON part which uses them
[
(make-person "Jenny" "Craig" "[email protected]"),
(make-person "Parson" "Brown" null)
]
As you can see, it is also a LISP to some degree
Is there a need for this? A purpose? No. But some things simply should exist
Thank you for helping bring this language into existence
Nope.
I’ve thought about this before, and it gave me an interesting thought process: AI can’t ever be good at doing a large project.
It has a hard limit. Not only is it not as good as us, the best it can ever do is as good as us, and we’re not even good at it. That’s all it can be trained on! Our garbage code lol
typedef struct {
bool a: 1;
bool b: 1;
bool c: 1;
bool d: 1;
bool e: 1;
bool f: 1;
bool g: 1;
bool h: 1;
} __attribute__((__packed__)) not_if_you_have_enough_booleans_t;
that shit is hard, I had to be extremely careful to protect against SQL injection
People need to learn to be careful
to learn vulkan every time they want to use a GUI for their job
Not every time, just the first time. But yes. Devs should stop being so lazy
compiler design whenever they wanna use java for their job
Every dev should at least know the basics of language design and compiler design, yes. Again, you also only have to learn it once
Nah you should learn
I agree with the last point tbh
At the bare minimum, if you aren’t capable of contributing to the library you use, then you don’t deserve to use it.
Pros:
Microsoft Windows is actually a complete piece of crap
Unfortunately, cons of switching:
I’ve been using Linux-only since around 2019 (having used it alongside Windows for gaming before then) when Proton finally started getting good. I’m also an engineer, artist, writer, gamer, musician, maker, and more, so I feel like I have touched a lot of the different ways in which computers are used. I’ve used several distros for extended periods, and my fav is Arch (tho Nix is a close second; it’s just not quite ready for primetime)
Linux is absolutely a viable alternative, but you have to know what you want from your PC. How do you want it to function? Pick that choice. It’s not ice-cream flavors where all are equal and you have to decide; form follows function here. Decide what you need and then build your own system from that - bc Linux is yours. Refuse to be spoonfed slop no matter if the slop is from Microsoft or from a Linux distro. Slop is slop. Cook your own meal. It tastes better. If you don’t like mushrooms, don’t get mushrooms.