Earlier this year I published a guide on how to implement slopes in AABB collision resolution using bump.lua. The resulting system worked, but was a bit hard to use in-game and had a few issues, so I wouldn’t consider it a viable solution.

This year I decided to participate in the Spring Lisp Game Jam. It’s an annual event, where you have to make a game in any kind of lisp in a limited time, usually a week. I’ve been putting this away for several years, because every time the jam started I wasn’t ready to spend time on it, because of work or other duties I had at the time.

part one: persistent data structures part two: immutable.fnl optimizations The two previous posts were not related to the compiler itself, but were kicked off by the start of the compiler development. I’d say this project was the reason that I made proper immutable data structures for Fennel and Lua.

part one: persistent data structures part three: parsing So the next post will hopefully be about the compiler itself. Unless I get distracted again. Sike! While I did some work on the compiler, I’m not feeling ready to talk about it yet.

part two: immutable.fnl optimizations part three: parsing Somewhere in 2019 I started a project that aimed to bring some of Clojure features to Lua runtime - fennel-cljlib. It was a library for Fennel that implemented a basic subset of clojure.core namespace functions and macros.

Recently (again, bored on a vacation), I started working on a game I’ve planned for a long time. I wasn’t satisfied with my existing implementations of a player controller1, so I started working on a new one. After a bit of fiddling around, I came to something I’m satisfied with, for now, at least, but while working on it, I wanted to add something I haven’t done in any of my projects yet - I decided to add slopes to my game.

This sure was a long year. Work stuff January began with bad news - the product I worked on was about to be closed. We weren’t sure how things would go, and a lot of people started to worry about their job security.

A sequel to Linux Music Players. I’ve been using Linux for the past 15 years and managed to solve almost all my problems with it during that time. But I had to switch to a Mac due to reasons related both to my work and my hobbies, so now I have to solve the same kind of problems, but in macOS.

Recently, I bought my first-ever MacBook. I’ve spent some time with it, and I gotta say - despite all that hot garbage that is thrown at GNOME for being an OSX clone, GNOME does the job better than I’ve expected, and certainly better than Apple. In some areas, that is.

I’ve been programming in Clojure for the last five years. I don’t write much about it here, largely because I use Clojure at work and rarely for hobby projects, so I don’t have much to share. Even today, the post will be more about Clojure tooling, rather than Clojure itself.