Are you gonna do the #DecemberAdventure!?
Do you wanna be listed among the powerful!?
Drop me a link to your log if you have one and your preferred name to associate with it. https://eli.li/december-adventure
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T minus 15ish days until the week long December Adventure in March!
What’s that!? What’s that sound!
It’s the lion-sheep calling the start to the March December Adventure!
We're coming up on the end of this year's #DecemberAdventure -- folks should feel free to use this thread to share what they did, or something exciting, fun, or inspiring that they saw happen over the adventure.
If it is cozy with folks, I'll use anything threaded here to pull together a compendium of projects, big and small.
In honor of March December Adventure, I teased a little thing last night -- here it is in the full light of day!
Make little freaks! Share little freaks!
ADVENTURE!
I've updated the log of adventure logs!
All the logs that I've gotten should be up on https://eli.li/december-adventure
It isn't ever too late...or early...to participate in the #DecemberAdventure though! Keep 'em coming if you have 'em!
The December Adventure!
Have you seen someone adventuring? Take a look at the other logs if you've got a second this weekend, https://eli.li/december-adventure
Click around, what do you see that is catches your fancy?
I see some folks resting (top tier adventuring move!)
I see @exquisitecorp@merveilles.town launching a rad as hell lua library!
@jillian@sleepy.cool with a tool for making narrative games
A delicious cake (file) from @spiralganglion@mastodon.social
Watch faces so beautiful from @soxfox42@aus.social that I wish I wore watches!
What exciting adventurers do you see?
a quiet #DecemberAdventure announcement:
The december adventure has an irc channel on libera.chat
The December Adventure starting March 15 is coming! The December Adventure starting March 15 is coming!
Actually, I guess if I want more folks to play bicross I should share it to more than followers only, huh?
Did you #DecemberAdventure in March? Wanna be included in a round up kinda blog post? Send me a link, or a blurb, or a dance, whatever, and I'll add it!
the #DecemberAdventure this year has by and far been the grooviest!
My inclination to be a Yiddish grandma wants to play matchmaker between the acid communism folks and the pastagang folks because both are so interested in what I’d probably point to as like a group thinking as one to get at something greater than what any one person could do
@FediTree@masto.es hi hi hi
@matthewhowell@indieweb.social I think of this as a "hook" or "interceptor" kinda pattern, which is used in service workers.
I think that I've seen something similar in both Axios and with Express middleware, where every middleware can dip in and inspect/modify a request before it is completed.
I think most technically, it is the chain of responsibility pattern, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-of-responsibility_pattern
Replying to
@csepp@merveilles.town @bret@posts.dynamic.land full text from that image,
Let me turn to another area, and tell a story that I witnessed recently. I was visiting a classroom with a really terrific teacher, who was truly ecstatic when his children could figure out something before him (we need more of these kinds of teachers!).
But he brought up a problem that he couldn't see how to do.
He wanted to generate random colors, and had seen that the red, green and blue blends are given in the color picker. In toys colors are not manifested as three numbers (we possibly should, but don't) though they are in the larger Squeak system (and in many other ways). So he didn't see how to make up colors, especially random ones. My thought was to put a bunch of objects (such as ellipses) into a holder, give them different colors and then do random picking by moving the cursor
holder's cursor <- random
to get an object whose color can be gotten at.
We did that and he was happy. But then we saw a child who came up with a much better way to do this. He just put splotches of paint on the desktop and ran a Squeak player (like a car) over the splotches in a random "drunkard's walk" and used "color under" to pick up the color as a value.
My thought on seeing that was that it was the child who found the "etoys way" of solving this problem, and that the general solution in this fashion would involve using the color rainbow of a color picker to supply a wide range of colors for the car to wander about on.
My second thought was that both the teacher and I were somewhat trapped in our pasts. The teacher had done something with color numbers in the past and wanted to do it again. I went to a table lookup solution that I had done many times in the past for other kinds of problems, and this worked. The child went at the heart of the matter with a completely simple and concrete approach that was quite brilliant and original.
One of the reasons I'm telling this story is that today's toys --that lack a wide and comprehensive range of features that "they should have" - - are best approached through the kinds of projects that *can* be done really nicely using the features that are there.
There are more than enough such projects to occupy a full year (really more like 3 years) of work and play by children. As for the larger scope that is eventually needed, I'm hoping we can accomplish this by the time today's projects are used up.