New site.... again!

As seems to be a tradition with my sites, I write a blog for when I rewrite it, but then never again. I'll keep this one short, as tbh there is not much to talk about.

Anyways, Go!

Le Website

It's all Go now, as being employed made me realize that there is not enough time on earth for me to want to use it anymore. Also, not doing maintenance on my website for about 2 years lead to my emails getting spammed by GitHub alerting me of new issues with various npm packages...

There is now a chat on the site, as of now no chats are retained, more or less behaving as a broadcast. Once I have time again, I hope to add custom usernames and message history. It uses SSE and JWT, as barebones as you can get! But it's very reliable, yay for more free time.

Other than that, it's a pretty standard Go site, no fancy templates and no fancy CSS.

Other projects

Been working on Urchin Engine still, other than I rewrote it again, this time going for C++ which actually has been pretty enjoyable so far, surprisingly!

Here's a little demo video of what I got so far

The base of the engine uses a custom file format for defining how Objects behave and interact. It's just JSON with fewer quotes, here's an example crate object:

name: "crate";

attributes: (
    { name: "draggable"; data: true; },
);

handlers: (
    { name: "click"; data: ( "core::objectCrateOpen", "debug::objectPrintHello" ); },
);

body: {
    textures: (
        { name: "open";   path: "resources/textures/generated/OpenCrate.png"; },
        { name: "closed"; path: "resources/textures/generated/Crate.png";     },
    );
    initial: {
        texture: "closed";
        animation: "default";
    };
    offset: ( -64, -94 );
};

bounds: (
    (  29,  22 ),
    (  29, -60 ),
    ( -29, -60 ),
    ( -29,  22 ),
);

collider: {
    kind: "active";
    shape: "rect";
    data: ( 28, 22 );
};

The language supports maps, but my C interface from rust doesn't actually support iterating over keys, so I went the lazy array route...

This was my first rust project, but I'm pretty happy with how much I have gotten working! Here is the git link to the source if you, the reader, are interested in seeing the internals.

The handlers are called on certain events, like update, fixed_update, click and whatnot. It's a list of functions to call within C++, that itself is just a map of pointers to functions. I originally wanted to write the handlers within the configs themselves, but I struggled getting Lua working exactly how I wanted; also tried making my own scripting language, but then got into a tangle of Rust lifetimes...

Here's how the core::objectCrateOpen handler looks like:

void
core_object_crate_open(Object& object, HandlerContext& ctx)
{
    if (object.attributes["_is_open"].get_boolean())
    {
        object.texture_animation.play(object.texture_handles["closed"].get(), "default");
        object.attributes["_is_open"].set_boolean(false);
    }
    else
    {
        object.texture_animation.play(object.texture_handles["open"].get(), "default", true);
        object.attributes["_is_open"].set_boolean(true);
    }
}

attributes is just key-value storage on the Object. As Objects don't inherit and are built at runtime though these config files, they need to have some way to apply object-specific values beyond what's available on the Object class.

In the crate example, it's also used to tell the engine that the Object is draggable by the player, it's quite funny applying the draggable value on trees and houses.

NFC 2026

Finally went to my first furry con this year, it was great! Was also my second time traveling by myself, double the anxiety!

It was pretty surreal seeing the entire town of Malmö being overtaken by fursuiters, for once in my life I really did not need to worry about getting judged or being perceived as weird.

Hoping to come back next year, also looking at going to Confuzzled next year - or trying at least, with their retched lottery system.

See if you can spot me.

What's next

Nothing.

Anyway, see you maybe in a few years when I remember I have this site :p