mastodon 4.7.2Canadian-American physics and applied computing student from Western Washington.
Working to make software understandable by all.
Zig, Rust, and Scheme enjoyer
https://gracefulliberty.com/llms/
For programming, I write code myself, or or generate it deterministically from higher-level instructions.
For writing, I use my brain and write it myself, revising it as needed.
For proofreading, I ask my friends.
For searching, I use domain-specific search tools and specific websites.
For learning, I seek out books, tutorials, and other educational material made by people.
For extra support, I ask experts in forums, chatrooms, or via email.
@xeroxed@mastodon.social Of course!
For some things, I'll throw it in DuckDuckGo and call it good, but since that's becoming unreliable, I'm having to find alternative ways of finding information.
For example:
I also find myself relying on documentation and source code more often when I'm programming.
You can use custom search engines with your browser. DuckDuckGo also supports "bangs" with an exclamation mark, so "!w Zig" will look up "Zig" on Wikipedia.
I don't use these as extensively as I'd like to, but they're becoming increasingly important as the quality of standard search engines become less useful.
Just published SlopCheck, a tool to check for signs of LLM agents in git repositories.
https://codeberg.org/liberty/slopcheck
Currently it checks git history to see if a repository has any commits with LLM co-authors or if files like AGENTS.md exist.
Written in #Guile because I'm learning it and because Python is accepting LLM-generated code.
Zig and Guile? I'm going to watch this later.
I would love to replace Rust + Python with Zig + Guile, with the latter allowing even tighter integration!
Is it time for me to finally start writing #Zig? I used to use it (and make minor contributions) years ago but got demoralized by constantly rewriting my code with updates.
But it seems like a solid language and one that will only increase in prevalence in the coming years.
New blog post!
I taught kids how to program using #Forth
https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/
"Forth is uncommonly used to teach programming to kids. Scripting languages like Python and visual environments like Scratch are far more popular options. But when I got the opportunity to introduce middle and high school students to programming, I chose the stack-oriented concatenative language from 1970."
Some website updates!
I updated information in my about section and added a picture of myself. https://gracefulliberty.com/about/
I also created a "notes" section for shorter writings that wouldn't fit into an article.
I have been officially accepted into the Applied Computing major at my university. Previously I was minoring in computer science. Excited to take some higher-level CS classes!
When I graduate I will have a double degree in Physics and Applied computing.
I do intend to continue work towards Gemini support in curl. Unfortunately I'm a full time physics and computer science student so time is limited
The goal is slow steps, eventually reaching the goal of making billions of computers around the world speak a growing Small Web protocol
I welcome other C programmers interested in the #GeminiProtocol to collaborate!
Been working on porting my physics simulations to the Web with #WASM via #Hoot.
Something like they did here: https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html
I've been having to thoroughly read the examples, documentation, and hit my head against the wall, but I'm making progress! Still can't seem to get canvas drawing to work though.
Looking to do research on gravitational waves in the coming months, contributing to LIGO, LISA, and NANOGrav.
Super excited!
xkcd 927 in physics looks like:
Inertial frame
Free-float frame
Lawful frame
Lorentz frame
Galilean frame
Inertial space
All meaning the same thing!
I get that "inertial" can be unintuitive for what it's describing but surely there was a better option
