log.ryanatkn.com

renamed this project's main building block from Bulletin to Digest, seems friendlier and better for puns (commit)

moved most of our projects on GitHub from @feltcoop to @feltjs, which will be a nonprofit, tightening @feltcoop's scope to be a platform operator at felt.social (still with the goal to be a platform co-op), and making @feltjs and its repos a community project more explicitly

posted the first draft of my second blog post, Modeling virtual social spaces: in this house we post cat pics on Saturday
posted my Svelte 4 wishlist to a Reddit thread in /r/sveltejs:
- an opt-in way to better scale components - this has been mentioned by the team. I'd love to construct Svelte components from data without the compiler! I have no idea how feasible that is but it might be enabled by this feature. This could be a path for end users to "author" Svelte components without sandboxing or the compiler (with limits, but the way I do this today with an AST+component is much worse).
- iterator support for #each or a similar construct (#iterate? it'd be nice to render sets/maps/etc without waste)
- my two favorite RFCs are inline components and directive forwarding
- shorthand style properties style:--some_css_var (without the ={var} part - I don't care about using kebab-case specifically for CSS vars, I think this wasn't implemented because of that, but +1 for snake_case CSS vars)
- whitespace handling (inherited from HTML, so very unlikely to change I think), sometimes significant whitespace causes problems, and the fix makes the code much less readable, it's one of the only things I miss from JSX
- I don't have specific suggestions but slots have some limitations that would be cool to see lifted
- the syntax to pass CSS vars directly to components breaks things like :last-child and other selectors, I think it may be an intractable problem tho

added the Board view to Felt - it's like a chat room but upside-down, so the input is at the top and content flows downward, replies are nested, and the newest posts and replies appear at the top: github.com/feltcoop/felt-server/pull/663

published a repo with setup instructions and resources for my dev environment: github.com/ryanatkn/setup
merged a pull request with a change that was suggested by an AI for the first time: github.com/ryanatkn/setup/pull/2

fixed a rendering performance problem in Soggy Planet in cosmicplayground, closing this issue with this PR - the fix had me write my first WebGL shader! The code isn't great but it works, and I'll be able to use this pattern for more performance improvements and new rendering capabilities

created this project to log my doings (log.ryanatkn.com, source)
started work on an ear training game named Earworm (ryanatkn.github.io/earworm, source), porting code from an old prototype which was a followup design to my simple ear training game Ear Sharpener (source)
improved the ability to create a Felt community and its initial objects from JSON data (@feltcoop/felt-server#632)

created a long-term project named twc (pronounced "twick") that's the thick web client I want to be using (twc.land, source)