Nic

@nicferrier

I’m an old school English hacker. Rewild the Internet! Emacs help and advice if you ask.

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Nic@nicferrier· 24d

Making cables. Bit tedious but satisfying to not pay someone else.

A cat 5 cable under the magnifying glass

Nic@nicferrier· Jun 29

My new sport of Claude poking.

Nic@nicferrier· Jun 28

Enough Michael Gove to last every lifetime though.

Nic@nicferrier· Jun 9

That’s nuthin smantha sed she wen out wi jules coz ee ad a big won but then jules sed she wus a beeg slut an …

Nic@nicferrier· Jun 6

Building a pc today. For gaming. Not ai. And no GPU yet anyway.

Nic@nicferrier· Jun 5

@jaygooby.bsky.social which am I??

Nic@nicferrier· May 31

Sigh. I keep trying... but defer never seems to get merged. Not even seen an update on it on the list.

$../../../libatomic/../install-sh -c -d "/home/nicferrier/dists/gcc-trunk-7/lib/../lib64" || exit 1; \ cd "/home/nicferrier/dists/gcc-trunk-7/lib/../lib64" || exit 1; \ if test -f libatomic.so; then (echo "/* GNU ld script"; \ echo " Add DT_NEEDED entry for -latomic only if needed. */"; \ echo "INPUT ( AS_NEEDED ( -latomic ) )" \ ) > libatomic_asneeded.so; fi; \ if test -f libatomic.a; then rm -f libatomic_asneeded.a; \ ln -s libatomic.a libatomic_asneeded.a; fi make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/nicferrier/srcs/gcc/gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libatomic' make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/nicferrier/srcs/gcc/gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libatomic' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/nicferrier/srcs/gcc/gcc-build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libatomic' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nicferrier/srcs/gcc/gcc-build' 0 gcc-build$ ls ~/work/gcc-tests/ defer.c 0 gcc-build$ cd ~/work/gcc-tests/ 0 gcc-tests$ ~/dists/gcc-trunk gcc-trunk/ gcc-trunk-2/ gcc-trunk-3/ gcc-trunk-4/ gcc-trunk-5/ gcc-trunk-6/ gcc-trunk-7/ 0 gcc-tests$ ~/dists/gcc-trunk-7/bin/gcc defer.c defer.c: In function ‘main’: defer.c:7:3: error: ‘defer’ undeclared (first use in this function) 7 | defer { | ^~~~~ defer.c:7:3: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in defer.c:7:8: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘{’ token 7 | defer { | ^~ | ; 0 gcc-tests$$

Nic@nicferrier· May 21

I always say that when you have a decent test frame you know you’ve got things right.

Nic@nicferrier· May 16

Claude assisted emacs syntax colouring for defer - code in the ALT

$(defun nic-ts-c-defer-body-p (node parent bol &rest _) (and (not (string= (treesit-node-type node) "}")) (treesit-parent-until node (lambda (n) (string= (treesit-node-type n) "defer_statement"))))) (defun nic-ts-c-defer-grandparent-bol (node parent bol &rest _) (save-excursion (goto-char (treesit-node-start (treesit-node-parent parent))) (back-to-indentation) (point))) (defun nic-ts-c-mode-indent-fix () (setq-local treesit-simple-indent-rules (append `((c ((n-p-gp "}" "compound_statement" "defer_statement") nic-ts-c-defer-grandparent-bol 0) (nic-ts-c-defer-body-p parent-bol c-ts-mode-indent-offset))) treesit-simple-indent-rules)) ;; Highlight the defer keyword (treesit-font-lock-recompute-features) (setq-local treesit-font-lock-settings (append treesit-font-lock-settings (treesit-font-lock-rules :language 'c :feature 'keyword '((defer_statement "defer" @font-lock-keyword-face)))))) (add-hook 'c-ts-mode-hook #'nic-ts-c-mode-indent-fix) ts-c-diff for grammar.js: @@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ module.exports = grammar({ $.compound_statement, $.expression_statement, $.if_statement, + $.defer_statement, $.switch_statement, $.do_statement, $.while_statement, @@ -811,6 +812,7 @@ module.exports = grammar({ $.compound_statement, alias($._top_level_expression_statement, $.expression_statement), $.if_statement, + $.defer_statement, $.switch_statement, $.do_statement, $.while_statement, @@ -841,6 +843,11 @@ module.exports = grammar({ ';', ), + defer_statement: $ => prec.right(seq( + 'defer', + field('consequence', $.statement) + )), + if_statement: $ => prec.right(seq( 'if', field('condition', $.parenthesized_expression),$

Nic@nicferrier· May 14

@sal46.bsky.social impossible to have a conversation with you.

Nic@nicferrier· May 10

I wrote a nice curl wrapper I think:

Also handles JSON decoding and stuff like that, all with a continuation style, so it's relatively easy to use without tracking memory, which is nice.

Nic@nicferrier· May 10

A torn down cbor compatible data structure with encode and decode and not SO much horrid memory management (because it's being done by the compiler's trampolines). Of course, the hard part of this is when you have maps inside maps ... then it starts to get yucky which is why this took me all day.

$int main(int argc, char **argv) { [[gnu::cleanup(cbord_maybe_free)]] cbord_maybe ret = with_cbord_map(cbord_default_alloc, ({ cbord_maybe withmap(cbord_map *map) { map->set_str("str1", "hello"); return (cbord_maybe){.type = CBORD_OK}; }; withmap; })); if (ret.type == CBORD_ERROR) { err("error encoding"); return 1; } int decode_res = with_cbord_decode(ret.data, ret.len, cbord_default_alloc, ({ int withmap(cbord_map *map) { unsigned char *val = map->get_str("str1"); err("char %s", val); }; withmap; })); return 0; } What's left of a much more ambitious attempt... but this is all I need for now.$

Nic@nicferrier· May 9

Tried to tone down my callback madness:

Nic’s bsky oauth handler code in his own web framework using his own webserver written in C but with slightly less callbacks than he had at the start of the day.

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 26

The result of a whole day hacking on abstractions with C inner functions... is it any good? Probably still not there because if the data isn't on the wire already it probably will fail with exhaustion... so yet more abstraction needed. It is readable though.

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 24

So sad

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 11

In reply to Sal the famous simple tone Obama poster “yes we can”

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 9

Felt cute then I realized how bald I’ve got. 🧐 It’s distinguished, right??

Some old bloke walking about the countryside of England.

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 5

Nic@nicferrier· Apr 3

Ominous road?

A photo of the road im walking on right now I took for someone. It leads off into an uncertain point.

Nic@nicferrier· Mar 29

This:

A Manchester street late at night on New Year’s Eve sometime in the 2000s - a man in the mid foreground a suit lies on the street reaching for his pint glass in the manner of a Michelangelo or summat, police attend a brawl in the near foreground to the right. The whole composition matches the golden ratio.

Nic@nicferrier· Mar 14

Pretty daffodils in the spring sunshine.

Yellow Daffodils against the base of a tree.

Nic@nicferrier· Feb 21

This is Narses, a eunuch and homosexual (by all accounts) who was a minister and general for Justinian and he seems like a generally cool guy who might have used lisp. So this is an icon of a homosexual who might have used lisp if it had been around. I feel like this isn’t really good comedy.

Nic@nicferrier· Feb 12

Hi a friend is having a Signal problem where when she tries to join it just hangs like this. She used to have a signal account a while ago but lost it, is this why it doesn’t work? Is there anything she can do to recover? Does anyone know? Please help!

Screenshot of a Signal app register flow a bit broken.

Nic@nicferrier· Feb 8

Saying hello to the sheeps.

Nic@nicferrier· Jan 18

Nic@nicferrier· Jan 11

The black one - she has feathery feet but she’s the most scardey.

Apparently I don’t have a great photo of the black chicken so this photo is of my 4 chickens: black, grey, white and browny red.

Nic@nicferrier· Jan 11

Live action taken just now.

Nic@nicferrier· Dec 22

Christmas badger.

Nic@nicferrier· Dec 10

No. Somethings screwey When I follow a bsky link to your blog I get the below When I follow a bsky link to your site I am fine.

Nic@nicferrier· Dec 8

Below is a 2002 article by Frank van Lerven and Dominic Caddick explains when the BoE introduced the interest charges for the QE money but here is the speech where Paul Fisher states it: www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... van Lerven and Caddick: neweconomics.org/2022/06/betw...