Violet's Blog

Author: Violet

  • Navigation failure

    The darkness between the stars is very cold. And here I sit equidistant between a star and its companion matter sphere that cannot rightly be called a star as it is practically beyond fusion. It shines like a beacon, a cleansing swath of light and harder stuff and power that I can only just survive,…

  • Returning to simple-dots-game after a while

    It has been a while since I worked on this game. And after being away for a while, I can’t really see the sources of frustration that I felt before. They were probably residual feelings from the frustration of getting it to a functional state and figuring out the system. But there’s something that was…

  • Transmutation instead of Creation and Destruction

    I’ve been thinking and it seems to me that creation and destruction are false dichotomies, as both are just transmutation, and both tend to result in a more disordered environment being created, where in this case, I am talking about disorder being a divergence from what would otherwise be. Building a house creates disorder even…

  • The Moral Justice of Understanding

    There is a certain strain of thought that I have had for some time. That the ultimate justice that can be inflicted is for them to truly understand why what they did was wrong, how it hurt people, and how it was baseless, senseless, or otherwise selfish beyond acceptance. This is the ‘ultimate justice’ only…

  • Being Trans in a Fascist Wave

    TW fascism, and transphobia, and missed opportunities

  • The Continual Reinvigoration of Mastodon And the Fediverse at Large

    So it’s happened Again. Something on twitter has blown hundreds of folks over to mastodon and the rest of activitypub. This is great from a fediverse user perspective because the new blood is quite nice. There is opposition from a number of quarters. Those that object to FOSS for some reason Those that have been…

  • Initial impressions of Orbtk

    I’ve been meaning to get into rust for a long time, but there were some pieces missing from the ecosystem(good rust bindings for GUI applications appear to be hard to come by), but rust isn’t like most of those other languages, it requires a different approach because many of the gui frameworks that have worked…

  • FFMPEG input/output as an abstraction

    I am currently working on writing code to support the usage pattern that I have used in the past for making animations using ffmpeg to encode video. Really though, how complex does it need to be? Well, let’s put together a wish-list: It should always shut down the pipe at the end of executionIt’s really…

  • Failure

    I’ve been trying to think of something to write for a while now, some new topic, some new follow-up that I said I would do(environmental sensing in the L-Systems code would be nice). I’ve been struggling with my own concentration since I was a child, and honestly, it got worse in college, but then a…

  • Flow

    Have you ever been the world? Where you are the Climber and the Tree ? the skier and the snow? the car and the driver? Where boundaries dissolve into the Single, Continuous Truth? That atoms swap spit and humans exchange electrons All the fingers on all the levers And we still ask, why it is…