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Re: Markdown alternative 2 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~aw/fishbb-devel

Hi! thanks for the rec, I did explore this, but I ended up deciding on something more radically simple, which is the gemini text format

alex
alexw.nyc

> On Aug 25, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Leo Heitmann Ruiz <leo@heitmannruiz.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey :)
> 
> Regarding your post at <https://merveilles.town/@aw/112875711699347167>:
> 
> You might be looking for <https://djot.net/>.
> 
> Warmly,

Re: Per-capsule Updates not at gemini:// Address 11 months ago

From Alex to ~aw/flounder

Hi Michael! i agree, this is an issue I’ve been meaning to resolve for a while, I just haven’t spent a lot of time on the flounder code base lately. I’ll get around to it eventually. Thanks for the suggestion!

Alex

> On Dec 1, 2023, at 3:10 PM, Michael Mientus <michael.mientus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have another request. On the HTML proxy, /updates/[capsule] gives a
> list of recently modified files. For example:
> 
> => https://flounder.online/updates/pwshnotes    flounder
> 
>> Recently updated files from pwshnotes.flounder.online
>> 13 days ago index.gmi
>> 13 days ago gemlog/2023-11-18-nation-books.gmi

Re: Gemlog Page Title Error 11 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~aw/flounder

Yep, this was a bug introduced recently when I tried to fix a different 
bug... I'll see if I can fix it, but it may be a while before I get 
around to it. Thanks for reporting!

Alex

On Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 2:09 PM EST, Michael Mientus wrote:
> The gemlog directory has an automatically generated page title in the
> form of [so-and-so]'s Gemlog
>
> On the HTTP proxy, my title shows as:
> Pwshnotes&#39;s Gemlog
>
> It seems the title is double escaped using:

Re: deleting gemlogs 1 year, 19 days ago

From Alex to ~aw/flounder

it may be an issue because the file name has a space in it! I can investigate later but try renaming the file first

Alex

> On Oct 23, 2023, at 5:04 PM, 84001 <84001@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> hello 
> 
> my "bug" and question is :
> how can i delete gemlogs ?
> i tried severas times with the delete ( red in color ) option 
> with no result
> any trick missing ?
> thanks for any guidance  !

Re: [PATCH] Fix allocation bug on compilation error 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

On Sat Jun 17, 2023 at 8:38 AM EDT, Virgil Dupras wrote:
> The most straightforward way to go about this isn't to mangle with dictionaries,
> but to overwrite the "abort" alias with "realias".
>
> I also don't understand why you're trying to overload "abort"" rather than
> "abort".

Both of these choices came from me having an incomplete understanding of 
a lot of the foundational words in Dusk. I read a bunch of the 
documentation/code today and I think I have a better understanding of 
the dictionary structure / compiling words. I'll look into sending an 
updated patch soon!

> Do you think you have all details you need to carry on? Don't hesitate to ask

[PATCH] Update 'code' doc 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

Found this a bit unclear, since my understanding is isn't exactly the
same as entry (it does not take a dict param but refers to sysdict)
---
Still learning git-send-email and best practices. I believe that this
should be a comment that doesn't affect the patch. My first version of
this commit had a couple typos, my apologies.

 fs/doc/dict.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/doc/dict.txt b/fs/doc/dict.txt
index 3cb3d79..f19da1c 100644
--- a/fs/doc/dict.txt
+++ b/fs/doc/dict.txt
[message trimmed]

[PATCH 3/3] Add reference to "counted string" 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

---
 fs/doc/usage.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/doc/usage.txt b/fs/doc/usage.txt
index b2ea897..9ab418a 100644
--- a/fs/doc/usage.txt
+++ b/fs/doc/usage.txt
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ Dusk has no DEC/HEX mode. Number literals are parsed using a prefix system.

## Strings

A string is an address to an area in memory starting with a length byte followed
by that many bytes. When we refer to a "string", we refer to that address.  For
[message trimmed]

[PATCH 2/3] Clarify null byte escape sequence 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

---
 fs/doc/usage.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/doc/usage.txt b/fs/doc/usage.txt
index aafd043..b2ea897 100644
--- a/fs/doc/usage.txt
+++ b/fs/doc/usage.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ character:

\n: newline ($0a)
\r: carriage return ($0d)
\0: 0
\0: null byte (0)
[message trimmed]

[PATCH 1/3] Update 'code' doc 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

Found this a bit unclear, since my understanding is isn't exactly the
same as entry (it does not take a dict param but refers to sysdict
---
 fs/doc/dict.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/doc/dict.txt b/fs/doc/dict.txt
index 3cb3d79..5891ae0 100644
--- a/fs/doc/dict.txt
+++ b/fs/doc/dict.txt
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ w>e        w -- e    Yield an entry (linked list pointer) from a word reference.
e>w        e -- w    Yield a word reference (executable) from an entry.
entry      'dict s --
                     Create entry with name s in dictionary 'dict.
[message trimmed]

Re: [PATCH] Fix allocation bug on compilation error 1 year, 4 months ago

From alex wennerberg to ~vdupras/duskos-discuss

On Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 7:12 AM EDT, Virgil Dupras wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> Yes, that's a problem, good catch. Ideally, we'd add a kind of "abort hooks"
> system, a chain of words to hook together, a bit like the idle loop (except I
> think in this case we could simply use "chain"), which we call on abort.
> lib/alloc would hook "unlockhere" in there.

Ok, so I have skeched out;

: unlockabort" ' unlockhere ' abort" chain execute ;

What I'm wondering is, how could I make this more generic? I don't know 
enough about the dict internals (in dusk or in forth in general), but