Dave Frampton

I remember a few years back thinking this has gotten so out of control, it is gonna crash so hard when it inevitably does, and here we are mid 2025, still pumping up that bubble

I got my knickers in a twist when I found out SDL_mixer doesn't support AAC audio, took me a while to decide what to do. But I've decided to just use AVAudioPlayer on Apple, and will use the equivalents on other platforms I guess. It's all I really need.

I always profile to find them, in fact I often don't worry about cleaning up memory at all for a while when I build stuff, just leak everything if it is convenient, and then I profile with either Apple's Instruments->Leaks, or Visual Studio's memory profiler and fix them all now and then.

Yep. The "INSERT ANY GREAT THING" is not dead. It just got co-opted by corporations and greed. We need to take it back.

That's awesome! Great job!

Waraki just played its first mp3! 🥳

Managed to write a .m3u playlist loader all in tui, it's being serialized into tui binary and sent over the network and the client is displaying it... I reckon that first song play isn't far away now!

Trying to decide whether to wear 2 pairs of socks or 3 pairs of socks to kids football this morning

Starlink has been down maybe globally for an hour or so now, doesn’t happen very often.

Cave light, Time crystals, portals

Depth problem

Just came across my very first planning when I started making The Blockheads. "LITTLE DUDE CAN BUILD OR CRAFT AT THE COMMUNITY CHEST"

oooo yeah that felt good haha, cheers for that :)

haha I reckon I might!

GitHub - mjdave/tui: tui is a small, cross platform, open source embeddable scripting language and serialization library for C++ tui is a small, cross platform, open source embeddable scripting language and serialization library for C++ - mjdave/tui

Tui is definitely ready to be messed around with now, if you're interested in giving it a try. I've written a few thousand lines of code in it, and I just added binary table serialization too, I'm about to start sending tui tables over a network. github.com/mjdave/tui

Now that most of the bugs are ironed out, coding in my own programming language is pure bliss. It's a dream, I need to pinch myself. It's like I've been working in someone else's workshop using their tools. And now I have my own workshop. My own tools, homemade, bespoke for my needs.

Waraki is what I have named my little tui mp3 player. It still doesn't play mp3s (the playlist names are still placeholders even), but it has a lovely color cycling animation and a pretty damn fine scroll view implementation if I do say so myself

Just completed the 2nd paper iteration of the mp3 player UI. I always design UI on paper, this little pad is perfect for phone apps.

The scroll view works! The visual style is starting to come together too, using the Blockheads font for now. Just a little more client UI work to go before I move to the server/networking, and binary serialization in tui.

“When people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of A.I. war drones.”

tui is still coming along nicely, I have been slowly chipping away at it. I'm currently in the process of porting my 500 line lua scroll view to it, which has exposed a few issues, but I reckon it's nearly there.

The worst part about losing an hour to Xcode's bug where if you name your resources directory "resources", code signing fails, is that I now recall I lost an hour to that same bug about 10 years ago too. It's bad because I'm forgetful, but mostly, fix your damn shit Apple!

I'm building the mp3 player app now, making good progress. There will be a server command line tui app you can run on anything with music files, then the client has a gui to browse, streams from the server. Hoping SDL3 is up to the audio streaming task, should be!

The engine is working on iOS now too! This is the breakout clone stretched out on an iPhone. So now I can build all my apps across pc/mac/ios really easily with the same codebase, and it's super slick, built with SDL3, Vulkan, C++ and tui.

Tui breakout works! That was a great first test for tui, it helped me fix a lot of bugs, and I always find it easier to work on painful low level stuff if I have a fun high level goal I'm working towards.

aha! I knew I was leaking memory, was going to get to that, but first I couldn't figure out why I was over releasing something and crashing. Turns out my ref count was an 8 bit uint, I had retained 256 times and wrapped back to zero 😅

Tui breakout is coming along! I got nearly this far 2 weeks ago before needing to rewrite the parser, but I'm only hitting small bugs now. No ball yet, but you can move the paddle, and it loads levels from tui files, written in ~100 lines of tui code.

From on the ground here in the southern hemisphere winter with 4 kids in 3 schools, this is by far the worst virus/cold/flu season we have ever experienced. We have had 6? viruses through, at least one of us sick at home now near non stop for about 12 weeks.

Working on tokenizing table constructors in tui today. I'm at the point where I am so deep that I can't stop, it will take too long to get back here mentally, so I just have to keep digging until it's done. I'm close though.

It actually says something about Vulkan, that it's easier to create your own programming language, than it is to create your own Vulkan renderer 😅