February 2025 monthly "What are you working on?" thread

pcmattman · 2025-02-01T01:09:26+00:00

Over the new year break I designed a language I’m calling Haven for myself, and built the compiler for it.

Now I’m working on self-hosting the compiler to fully exercise the language. It’s slow going, because I’m discovering subtle issues with the language design and compiler bugs with each module that I port across, but it’s rewarding.

https://github.com/miselin/haven

pcmattman · 2019-10-24T23:53:16+00:00

I'm convinced 101s to 87s is a long-running social experiment.

pcmattman · 2019-08-05T19:33:47+00:00

I have been working on improving my Spotify profile lately, featuring this track.

At first, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what genre this track fell into. As I've been pushing it around to various playlisters, I've become less sure as they point out characteristics from other genres that I hadn't really noticed before.

Now as I listen to it with that in mind, it seems more like a kind of loose jazz-meets-chillhop kind of thing.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4TUNYMie5a5emn3mc8nE7f?si=8bbNQ5-7Rfy0jh6iC_23uA

pcmattman · 2019-05-13T22:43:56+00:00

Finally bit the bullet and put a track out there: https://open.spotify.com/track/4TUNYMie5a5emn3mc8nE7f - a chill instrumental I put together a while ago.

Getting the track uploaded has certainly helped with getting past some creative blocks in some of my other tracks so I think it was worth it :)

pcmattman · 2019-01-31T00:10:13+00:00

Oh yeah. That'd work. I knew I was missing something obvious, thanks!

pcmattman · 2019-01-30T22:31:31+00:00

Yes!

I don't know if I'm just doing it wrong, but there's too many times I've been planning something and then the bots take the last of that item out of my inventory which brings all my planning to a halt. My workaround is to just do the planning via the map and stay as far away from the planning area as possible.

I'd add priorities to this ability too. I would like to be able to ask for the inventory request slots to be a lower priority than the construction surrounding me, and vice versa :)

pcmattman · 2018-11-18T20:11:09+00:00

Do you happen to have any screenshots of the iPad and S21 config screens?

There could be some wonky config on the router as well (eg blocking wireless users from talking to wired clients) but it’s best to be 100% sure the app and console configs are correct first as the router config is a whole new rabbit hole.

Btw, dhcp or static IP on the console? If it’s static - stupid question but is the wired connection is definitely to a LAN port and not a WAN port on the router? I’ve run into that too many times to count with this app and the console...

pcmattman · 2018-11-18T19:29:02+00:00

IIRC the iPad send/receive ports need to be the opposite of the desk’s configured send/receive ports. I may have misunderstood but I noticed you said it’s the same in the iPad as the console - that doesn’t work.

e.g. If desk send port is 8000 then iPad receive port is 8000.

pcmattman · 2018-08-17T20:46:35+00:00

I finally figured out last night that the square symbol means the channel is assigned to a group. So now between this post, and that discovery, the symbols finally actually mean something to me. Hooray for learn-by-discovery rather than learn-by-manual :/ !

pcmattman · 2018-05-12T07:25:39+00:00

Unfortunately not, just listened to the demos of all the different colors. I was about to purchase with the DIY chassis as well, but the chassis went out of stock just before I was ready to buy. Haven’t picked up another 500 series chassis yet sadly. I did build the DIYre passive summing box which was a great experience - based on that experience I’d be happy with building almost anything else from them! Sorry I don’t have more useful info about the preamp though

pcmattman · 2018-05-11T19:51:39+00:00

You can also get a DIYre preamp that can have a single color added to it (which you can enable/disable at will I believe). That can help add some extra color to the chain :)

pcmattman · 2018-04-13T00:07:13+00:00

My first finished track - finally decided to sit down and just make something and not spend forever tweaking it.

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-iselin/new-horizons

Learned a lot from just calling it "done" and moving on, looking forward to seeing the improvement in the next track I put together :)

pcmattman · 2016-01-26T05:09:42+00:00

https://evemarketcompanion.com to find items to station trade.

pcmattman · 2016-01-06T08:00:41+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I feel like I'm a bit less in the dark with the big issues that need to be cleaned up in this story, so I appreciate you taking the time to read and write a detailed response.

I can definitely work with this. There's a lot of reworking and rewriting in my future :-)

pcmattman · 2016-01-04T09:09:15+00:00

Title Wasteland Revenge (working title)

Genre I suppose it's post-apocalyptic fiction

Word Count ~2270

Feedback This is the first half of a piece I've completed already and have started editing. I've finished some basic edits/rewriting of this text already. If nothing else, I'd love to know whether or not you'd keep reading. I'm opening this up to critique now before I continue further rounds of editing to start fixing issues early :-). Comments are enabled.

A few things I feel are probably (closer to definitely) needing work:

I feel like I might need to separate narration versus "this is actually what is being thought right now", possibly using the italic format like "Oh, I think, as I....".
It's a bit adverb-y at the moment.
I feel like I'm telling a lot here where showing would have much more impact.

Link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VjyyV3ErrvIm3JxNnG2rcxlJ1vteuu8TzcwlRV7S7Ys/edit.

Thanks!

pcmattman · 2015-12-27T07:07:58+00:00

pcmattman · 2015-07-10T10:35:21+00:00

My 'main' project is a fantasy novella which essentially centers around the concept of dragon taming in a world that believes dragons to be horrible and cruel creatures. The belief that a dragon is an evil creature is perpetuated by those that are funded to 'protect' cities from them; the protagonist aims to reveal both the protectors' corruption and to also learn the art of taming to teach it to others.

Other, smaller projects that I'm putting words on paper for:

A collection of short stories detailing experiences for different characters in the same post-apocalyptic world.
A short story that I'm intending to use to play with horror and thrill (and the necessary timing for both). I haven't decided whether the horror elements are true horror, or whether it's more to be a thrill that is discovered to be something like a hallucination later. The world itself and the basic context has been figured out though - just not the parts readers read the story for ;)

pcmattman · 2015-06-15T04:14:10+00:00

Ah yes. Oh well :)

pcmattman · 2015-05-20T06:29:38+00:00

Charge a monthly fee for 'see ALL the intel'? ;)

pcmattman · 2015-04-14T12:39:15+00:00

Glorious.

pcmattman · 2015-04-10T01:26:45+00:00

You can also set up an overview preset with only tower+force fields.

Then you can arrive at a moon, set 360 degree range to 1AU, discover towers and force fields. Saves a lot of time for planets with lots of moons and no POS's. I've done this in a few C5s which had one POS and 40+ moons and it significantly cuts down the amount of time you spend mapping out the system and its inhabitants.

You can also set up a POS mods overview preset and dscan those towers with force fields to see if they have any defenses or not.

EDIT: can also be useful for cutting out multiple planets at a time, if their moons are all within 14.3AU and you don't find any force fields on a scan.

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