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23 Mar. 2025 mood: busybusysoftwaretuigredshelldevlog

i remain so fuckin busy, but i'm gradually tackling my backlog. and one of those items is restarting work on several projects:

blog/reblog: i have talked about this at length before, and i've been using it to build this site for months!
tuig, a game engine for textmode systemic games. think… dwarf fortress, nethack. even caves of qud – it's not made of text, but visually it's just a tileset, which tuig supports.
redshell, a game written with tuig. do you like the movie hackers? do you like it… ironically? this is a game set in a cyberpunk future, as envisioned by people from the 1970s, inspired by modern real-world experience with cybersecurity.

i don't have a specific timeline for these. the plan is to work b/rb first, get it to its first 1.0 release in the next couple months. specifically, i'm going to rewrite some of its logic, enabling some cool new things like letting serves overlap, rather than mounting one at a subpath overwriting whatever the superpath wanted. (that way i can mount a git repo in the same place as a project page.) the other big feature is config files, so you don't need to write rust to use it, but that'll take shape later.

if you're curious what a config file could look like...

here's roughly what this site's will be:

site:
  name: genderphasing
  url: https://genderphas.ing/

serve:
  # basic site structure
  /s/: as-is
  /:
    kind: pages
    from: pages/
  /posts/:
    kind: posts
    styles:
    - !logo.css
  /atom.xml: feed

  # project repos
  /projects/blog-reblog/:
    kind: git
    from: ln/blog-reblog
  /projects/tuig/:
    kind: git
    from: ln/tuig
  /projects/redshell/:
    kind: git
    from: ln/redshell
  /projects/cern-httpd/:
    kind: git
    from: ln/cern-httpd

languages:
  en:
    from: /
    nav:
    - about: /about
    - contact: /contact
    - friends: /friends
    - atom: /atom.xml
    - lang: /translations
  cy:
    from: /cy
    reindex: true
    nav:
    - am hon: /about
    - cysylltu: /contact
    - cefeillion: /friends
    - atom: /cy/atom.xml
    - ieithoedd: /translations

because i'm incapable of focusing on any one hobby, i expect to get some work done on tuig, too. i'll have a project page up by the end of the month, which will also be usable to cargo install or add it as a dependency. i'm probably going to rewrite significant portions of it, mostly in service of making it easier to use, but partly remodeling the guts to make more sense and be more modular.

redshell probably won't see work for a little while, but once i get tuig into its new state i'm going to update redshell, and i'm hoping to release a vertical slice as an alpha towards the end of the year. might even put it up for sale on a storefront! unsure.

finally, the thing i intend to work on soonest is this blog's welsh translation! i've been behind on it since i started and it needs to be prioritized. expect to see a welsh stub for every post and page soon, and more progress on translating the post backlog.