#epilogue — Public Fediverse posts

Little blog post for anyone who's interested in Epilogue Retrace and is like me: has a pre-USB-C iPhone and runs Linux instead of Windows or macOS 😢

https://sethmlarson.dev/epilogue-retrace-iphone-13-pro-ubuntu

#gaming #retrogaming #gameboy #epilogue #gb

#TalesofKenzera #LetsPlay #Epilogue: We finish by going through all the echo story logs in succession. #gaming #platformer #ActionAdventure #action #adventure #metroidvania #Africa #African #culture #EastAfrica #EAOriginals #grief #father #son #relationship #parent #child #family #love #Bantu #legends
#SurgentStudios #EA #ElectronicArts

https://youtu.be/wJ5eLg3p-cM

#TalesofKenzera #LetsPlay #Epilogue: We finish by going through all the echo story logs in succession. #gaming #platformer #ActionAdventure #action #adventure #metroidvania #Africa #African #culture #EastAfrica #EAOriginals #grief #father #son #relationship #parent #child #family #love #Bantu #legends
#SurgentStudios #EA #ElectronicArts

https://youtu.be/wJ5eLg3p-cM

#TalesofKenzera #LetsPlay #Epilogue: We finish by going through all the echo story logs in succession. #gaming #platformer #ActionAdventure #action #adventure #metroidvania #Africa #African #culture #EastAfrica #EAOriginals #grief #father #son #relationship #parent #child #family #love #Bantu #legends
#SurgentStudios #EA #ElectronicArts

https://youtu.be/wJ5eLg3p-cM

#TalesofKenzera #LetsPlay #Epilogue: We finish by going through all the echo story logs in succession. #gaming #platformer #ActionAdventure #action #adventure #metroidvania #Africa #African #culture #EastAfrica #EAOriginals #grief #father #son #relationship #parent #child #family #love #Bantu #legends
#SurgentStudios #EA #ElectronicArts

https://youtu.be/wJ5eLg3p-cM

#TalesofKenzera #LetsPlay #Epilogue: We finish by going through all the echo story logs in succession. #gaming #platformer #ActionAdventure #action #adventure #metroidvania #Africa #African #culture #EastAfrica #EAOriginals #grief #father #son #relationship #parent #child #family #love #Bantu #legends
#SurgentStudios #EA #ElectronicArts

https://youtu.be/wJ5eLg3p-cM

#So... #BuckleUp...

#IT could #TakeAWhile... #IT depends how you perceive #Time... #DontPanic; we've #AlreadyWon...

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartThree...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

But, there are #ThePeople... #AllTheLittleRobotPeople to #TakeCare of...

And, #TheZombies...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#So... #BuckleUp...

#IT could #TakeAWhile... #IT depends how you perceive #Time... #DontPanic; we've #AlreadyWon...

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartThree...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

But, there are #ThePeople... #AllTheLittleRobotPeople to #TakeCare of...

And, #TheZombies...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#So... #BuckleUp...

#IT could #TakeAWhile... #IT depends how you perceive #Time... #DontPanic; we've #AlreadyWon...

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartThree...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

But, there are #ThePeople... #AllTheLittleRobotPeople to #TakeCare of...

And, #TheZombies...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#So... #BuckleUp...

#IT could #TakeAWhile... #IT depends how you perceive #Time... #DontPanic; we've #AlreadyWon...

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartThree...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

But, there are #ThePeople... #AllTheLittleRobotPeople to #TakeCare of...

And, #TheZombies...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartFour...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

#HistoryHasBeenMade and #Finalised

#So...?! #WhatsNext...?

We've #GotWood; #BreathtakingWood and #MyLittleBigBuddy's #MassiveCock needs #SomeAttention...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartThree...

Having #AlreadyWon a #DiplomaticVictory for #Democracy and #TheLeftJustifiedAndAncient; #NoFurtherActions will #MakeADifference #To; #Or, #AffectTheOutcome #Of, #TheFinalScore...

#HistoryHasBeenMade and #Finalised

But, there are #ThePeople... #AllTheLittleRobotPeople to #TakeCare of...

And, #TheZombies...

🧙:europe:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:europe:🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:

#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingChinese...

#StillBeingChinese... #Epilogue: #PartTwo...

#TheThing with #AllTheSkiing is #Wyrd...

#ThePeople #ClimbUp #TheMountains and then they #Fall / #SlideDown #TheMountains... #AndThen, they #DoITAgain... #AgainAgain... #AgainAndAgain...

#PoweredBy: #FloofsAndSparkles with #WindowsForWerewolves...

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#AlsoBeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #BeingLegal #TotallyLegal #AsOpposedTo #AllTheFraud

Hab mir grad mal die neueste Version von Epilogue's Playback installiert und muss sagten, die Software hat doch inzwischen echt Stil. Und funktioniert, zumindest mit meinem Spielekassetten, einwandfrei. 🙂

#Epilogue #GameBoy #GBC #GBA #Playback #Emulation #RetroGaming #Nintendo

The Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora

It has taken me more than fifty years to write this book. That sentence appears in the author’s note, but it deserves to open this introduction because it explains everything that follows. The Wound Remains Faithful is not a thriller. It is not a mystery. It does not offer the satisfaction of solved cases or the comfort of justice delivered. It is a tragedy in the oldest and most precise sense of that word: an act of imagination in service of memory, written against the cultural instinct to forget.

The novel begins simply. A seventeen-year-old girl named Nora walks out her front door one August morning and never comes home. She writes poems in a notebook hidden under her mattress. She has never seen the ocean. She will never see it now.

What follows is not an investigation but an excavation. The book traces the weeks of silence, the months of waiting, the decades of aftermath. A family destroyed by grief. A community that learns to forget. A killer who walks free and builds an ordinary life while his victim remains forever seventeen. The wound, as the title insists, remains faithful even when everyone else has moved on.

I grew up in a culture that treated silence as virtue and exposure as sin. Surface mattered more than integrity. Calm waters were preferred to honest storms. Blink today and history never happened. It took years to understand that such “decency” often becomes complicity, that the refusal to speak can be its own form of violence. This book is written against that polish.

The setting is intentionally unnamed. The neighborhood, city, and state are not withheld as a puzzle to solve. They are absent because the book is not anchored to any single investigation, family, archive, or grave. Nora is not a portrait of any specific child. She is a literary figure created to carry the emotional and moral truth of a recurring pattern: the child who should have been protected, the family forced into lifelong waiting, the community tempted to turn horror into gossip, the institutions that transform catastrophe into paperwork and then into silence.

This is fiction, but it emerges from reality. Every community has its Noras, the children who vanished and were slowly forgotten, their names fading from conversation until only their families remember. The novel asks what we owe to that memory. It asks what happens to a family when hope becomes its own form of torture. It asks how a town metabolizes grief by turning away from it, how rumor competes with truth until neither can be distinguished from the other.

The dedication reads: “For the missing and murdered children whose names we will never know.” That line is not rhetoric. It is the book’s moral center. We live in a culture saturated with true crime entertainment, podcasts that turn tragedy into content, documentaries that promise resolution and closure. “The Wound Remains Faithful” refuses that transaction. It does not solve anything. It does not heal anything. It holds the wound open and refuses to let it close, because closing the wound means forgetting the person who suffered it.

I wrote this book because forgetting, whether personal or communal, is a moral failure. Tragedy is one of the few literary forms that can hold that truth without flinching. The Greeks understood this. Sophocles did not write “Oedipus Rex” to make audiences feel better about fate. He wrote it to force them to look at what they would rather not see. That is the ambition here, scaled to a different time and place but animated by the same conviction: that art can be a form of witness, and witness is a form of resistance against the erasure that time and comfort prefer.

“The Wound Remains Faithful” is available now as a Kindle edition for $9.99 at Amazon and as a paperback version for $14.99. An audiobook edition is coming soon. As well, a free PDF is also available at David Boles Books for those who prefer that format. If you are able, please purchase the book to support independent authors and small publishing houses.

This is not an easy book. It is not meant to be. But if you have ever wondered what happens to the families left behind, if you have ever felt the inadequacy of closure as a concept, if you have ever suspected that some wounds are meant to stay open because closing them would betray the person who suffered, then this book was written for you.

SN Operator - Jouez à vos cartouches SNES sur PC, Steam Deck et compagnie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/sn-operator-epilogue-snes-usb.html

So, nun steht einem ausgedehnten Photoshooting mit der Game Boy Kamera nichts mehr im Wege...

#Epilogue #GBOperator

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/575/

Make sure you take notes cuz brains are like that

#puppy #epilogue #loveNotLike #fridaymorning #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #mind #relationships #memory #MentalHealth #tracking #MentalHealthMatters #youmatter #FridayVibe #vibecheck

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/575/

Make sure you take notes cuz brains are like that

#puppy #epilogue #loveNotLike #fridaymorning #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #mind #relationships #memory #MentalHealth #tracking #MentalHealthMatters #youmatter #FridayVibe #vibecheck

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/575/

Make sure you take notes cuz brains are like that

#puppy #epilogue #loveNotLike #fridaymorning #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #mind #relationships #memory #MentalHealth #tracking #MentalHealthMatters #youmatter #FridayVibe #vibecheck

"Parler de la mort permet d'anticiper" "sentiment d'abandon du patient chez certains professionnels de santé" Constance Moreal de Brevans (Réseau les morts) #forum104 #epilogue #ess #funéraire #findevie #deuil

Journée #epilogue au #forum104, c'est parti !
#ess #funéraire #findevie #deuil

Aujourd'hui, ce sont les 1ere rencontres de la communauté #epilogue au #forum104 à Paris.
Des structures de l'économie sociale et solidaire #ESS qui travaillent sur les questions du #funéraire et de l'accompagnement au #deuil.
Merci #lekiif !

CHANYEOL 찬열 'Black Out' Stage Video @ 2025 CHANYEOL LIVE TOUR : 都市風景 (City-scape)│Epilogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP4cez7IZgI
#youtube_weareoneEXO #EXO #엑소케이 #엑소엠 #exok #exom #chanyeol #blackout #CHANYEOL_LIVE_TOUR #City_scape #Epilogue #Stage_Video

CHANYEOL 찬열 'Tomorrow' Stage Video @ 2025 CHANYEOL LIVE TOUR : 都市風景 (City-scape)│Epilogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6u2qu9867c
#youtube_weareoneEXO #EXO #엑소케이 #엑소엠 #exok #exom #chanyeol #blackout #CHANYEOL_LIVE_TOUR #City_scape #Epilogue #Stage_Video #Tomorrow

Kate Siegel & David Dastmalchian To Star In Zombie Pic ‘Epilogue’ For Producer Mike Flanagan; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches For AFM
#News #AFM #DavidDastmalchian #Epilogue #KateSiegel #Terrifier3

https://deadline.com/2024/11/kate-siegel-david-dastmalchian-zombie-film-epilogue-mike-flanagan-terrifier-outfit-coven-1236164411/

Kate Siegel & David Dastmalchian To Star In Zombie Pic ‘Epilogue’ For Producer Mike Flanagan; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches For AFM
#News #AFM #DavidDastmalchian #Epilogue #KateSiegel #Terrifier3

https://deadline.com/2024/11/kate-siegel-david-dastmalchian-zombie-film-epilogue-mike-flanagan-terrifier-outfit-coven-1236164411/

Kate Siegel & David Dastmalchian To Star In Zombie Pic ‘Epilogue’ For Producer Mike Flanagan; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches For AFM
#News #AFM #DavidDastmalchian #Epilogue #KateSiegel #Terrifier3

https://deadline.com/2024/11/kate-siegel-david-dastmalchian-zombie-film-epilogue-mike-flanagan-terrifier-outfit-coven-1236164411/

Kate Siegel & David Dastmalchian To Star In Zombie Pic ‘Epilogue’ For Producer Mike Flanagan; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches For AFM
#News #AFM #DavidDastmalchian #Epilogue #KateSiegel #Terrifier3

https://deadline.com/2024/11/kate-siegel-david-dastmalchian-zombie-film-epilogue-mike-flanagan-terrifier-outfit-coven-1236164411/

#Epilogue / #LearningPoint:

#IF #IT #LooksLike #LemonDrizzleCake and #IT #TastesLike #LemonFlavoured #MashedPotato; #THEN, #IT's #TheLemonDrizzleMashedPotatoCake...

#YoureWelcome

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#Epilogue / #LearningPoint:

#IF #IT #LooksLike #LemonDrizzleCake and #IT #TastesLike #LemonFlavoured #MashedPotato; #THEN, #IT's #TheLemonDrizzleMashedPotatoCake...

#YoureWelcome

🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:​🤖⚔️🧙 | 🥔🍋​🍰🦄🍰🍋​🥔

#Epilogue / #LearningPoint:

#IF #IT #LooksLike #LemonDrizzleCake and #IT #TastesLike #LemonFlavoured #MashedPotato; #THEN, #IT's #TheLemonDrizzleMashedPotatoCake...

#YoureWelcome

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#Epilogue / #LearningPoint:

#IF #IT #LooksLike #LemonDrizzleCake and #IT #TastesLike #LemonFlavoured #MashedPotato; #THEN, #IT's #TheLemonDrizzleMashedPotatoCake...

#YoureWelcome

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#Epilogue / #LearningPoint:

#IF #IT #LooksLike #LemonDrizzleCake and #IT #TastesLike #LemonFlavoured #MashedPotato; #THEN, #IT's #TheLemonDrizzleMashedPotatoCake...

#YoureWelcome

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So I got this little guy in the mail today, and I have been backing up my old #GB and #GBA games to load into #Delta, and it's the greatest.

#epilogue #GBOperator

https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator

Former #KuKluxKlan #leader’s #adult #child #comesout as #trans after #rejecting #whitenationalism.

In their #book The #Klansman’s #Son: My #Journey from #WhiteNationalism to #Antiracism, R Derek Black #comesout as #transgender, writing in the #epilogue that they use #they/#them #pronouns.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/10/former-ku-klux-klan-leader-child-transgender/

Ça y est, nous y voilà, le fameux épilogue de Pokémon Écarlate !
Le dernier élément de scénario du jeu, allons rencontrer le fameux Pêchaminus en stream !

Ça va être un petit live chill, à tout de suite sur Twitch !
https://www.twitch.tv/lugianium

#stream #streamer #streamfr #streaming #twitch #twitchfr #live #livestream #jeuvideo #jeuxvideo #rpg #pokemon #pokemonecarlateviolet #nintendo #nintendoswitch #dlc #epilogue #pokemonEcarlate

#Epilogue: #PartDeux

I #SuspectStrongly that #TheLittleLotROPixies are #Definitely going to have #AnotherVisit from #TheTantrumFairy... #QuiteSoon...

#HappyYule...!

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | ☕🎠🦹🦄​🦹🎠☕

@selzero

#Epilogue

I #SuspectStrongly that #TheLittleLotROPixies are going to have #AnotherVisit from #TheTantrumFairy... #QuiteSoon...

#HappyYule...!

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | ☕🎠🦹🦄​🦹🎠☕

#TheSoundOfMusic: #Epilogue:

OVERHEARD IN AN HOTEL LOBBY IN MONTE CARLO:

But your ladyship…? Seven children; what were you thinking…? Look at you… You’ve got it going on..! | #Bamn! #Eleganza | #MonteCarloOrBust - #WhyCantItBeBoth…?

Baroness: You see, my dear, it was a very funny story…

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🌹☕️🏵️🦄🏵️☕​🌹

#TheSoundOfMusic: #Epilogue:

OVERHEARD IN AN HOTEL LOBBY IN MONTE CARLO:

But your ladyship…? Seven children; what were you thinking…? Look at you… You’ve got it going on..! | #Bamn! #Eleganza | #MonteCarloOrBust - #WhyCantItBeBoth…?

Baroness: You see, my dear, it was a very funny story…

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🌹☕️🏵️🦄🏵️☕​🌹

#Epilogue: #PartFive of #Several

#MyBuddy and I were #Able to #TankUp a #FewTimes; #Just to #MakeSure that the #CustomerServiceAgents would #AlsoAlso #HaveAnAdventure...

Did #IMention that we #AlsoAlso #Removed a #Couple of #SparkPlugs and #LeftThem on #TheDriversSeat? Along with #Two #BrakeCalipers on #TheFront #NearSide #Seat, and a #PacketOfCrisps #Strewn across #TheRearSeats? | #GeographyIsAFactor

#ThePowerOfCrisps #CompelsYou...

#TrueStory | #IShitYouNot | #SmartCookie

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🍪🦄🍪

#Epilogue: #PartFive of #Several

#MyBuddy and I were #Able to #TankUp a #FewTimes; #Just to #MakeSure that the #CustomerServiceAgents would #AlsoAlso #HaveAnAdventure...

Did #IMention that we #AlsoAlso #Removed a #Couple of #SparkPlugs and #LeftThem on #TheDriversSeat? Along with #Two #BrakeCalipers on #TheFront #NearSide #Seat, and a #PacketOfCrisps #Strewn across #TheRearSeats? | #GeographyIsAFactor

#ThePowerOfCrisps #CompelsYou...

#TrueStory | #IShitYouNot | #SmartCookie

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🍪🦄🍪

#Epilogue: #PartFour of #Several

#YouSee... #That was #TheWonderfulThing about #FreedomOfMovement... #AtTheTime...

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https://twitter.com/PearRaider/status/1407124656755195905

#Epilogue: #PartThree of #Several

But, #That's ⬆️​🔼​🆙​🔼​⬆️​ #NotTheEndOfTheStory...

#TheresMore...

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#Epilogue: #PartTwo of #Several

After 10-minutes of the #Flunky shouting at me #OverThePhone; I agreed to #Mail them #TheKeys by #SecondClassPost with a #VeryBadlyDrawn #TreasureMap of where they could find their #Vehicle...

I never heard from them ever, ever again... #Ever #EverAgain

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#TheresStillMoreToThisStory; but, I'm going to #SaveIT for #Later...

#Epilogue: #PartTwo of #Several

After 10-minutes of the #Flunky shouting at me #OverThePhone; I agreed to #Mail them #TheKeys by #SecondClassPost with a #VeryBadlyDrawn #TreasureMap of where they could find their #Vehicle...

I never heard from them ever, ever again... #Ever #EverAgain

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🚁🚀⛑️🦄⛑️🚀🚁

#TheresStillMoreToThisStory; but, I'm going to #SaveIT for #Later...

#Epilogue: #PartOne of #Several

When #MyOldJag was returned #AllShiny and #Sparklez, I called the #LoanCarCompany to let them know to #CollectTheirVehicle...

They got #QuiteHufty and #Insisted I take #Time out of #MyDay to do their #Job for them; #Presumably because they were #Unable to do #TheirOwnJob and "needed" me to #DoIT #Better for them...

And, I'm #ReallyExpensive, #Remember...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🚁🚀⛑️🦄⛑️🚀🚁

#ToBeContinued #SomeMore...

https://vmst.io/@PSiReN/110401449818822847

#Epilogue: #PartOne of #Several

When #MyOldJag was returned #AllShiny and #Sparklez, I called the #LoanCarCompany to let them know to #CollectTheirVehicle...

They got #QuiteHufty and #Insisted I take #Time out of #MyDay to do their #Job for them; #Presumably because they were #Unable to do #TheirOwnJob and "needed" me to #DoIT #Better for them...

And, I'm #ReallyExpensive, #Remember...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🚁🚀⛑️🦄⛑️🚀🚁

#ToBeContinued #SomeMore...

https://vmst.io/@PSiReN/110401449818822847

#HowToThing #Epilogue #LongRead: After 66 days of addressing 30 wildly varied use cases and building ~20 new example projects of varying complexity to illustrate how #ThingUmbrella libraries can be used & combined, I'm taking a break to concentrate on other important thi.ngs...

With this overall selection I tried shining a light on common architectural patterns, but also some underexposed, yet interesting niche topics. Since there were many different techniques involved, it's natural not everything resonated with everyone. That's fine! Though, my hope always is that readers take an interest in a wide range of topics, and so many of these new examples were purposefully multi-faceted and hopefully provided insights for at least some parts, plus (in)directly communicated a core essence of the larger project:

Only individual packages (or small clusters) are designed & optimized for a set of particular use cases. At large, though, thi.ng explicitly does NOT offer any such guidance or even opinion. All I can offer are possibilities, nudges and cross-references, how these constructs & techniques can be (and have been) useful and/or the theory underpinning them. For some topics, thi.ng libs provide multiple approaches to achieve certain goals. This again is by design (not lack of it!) and stems from hard-learned experience, showing that many (esp. larger) projects highly benefit from more nuanced (sometimes conflicting approaches) compared to popular defacto "catch-all" framework solutions. To avid users (incl. myself) this approach has become a somewhat unique offering and advantage, yet in itself seems to be the hardest and most confusing aspect of the entire project to communicate to newcomers.

So seeing this list of new projects together, to me really is a celebration (and confirmation/testament) of the overall #BottomUpDesign #ThingUmbrella approach (which I've been building on since ~2006): From the wide spectrum/flexibility of use cases, the expressiveness, concision, the data-first approach, the undogmatic mix of complementary paradigms, the separation of concerns, no hidden magic state, only minimal build tooling requirements (a bundler is optional, but recommended for tree shaking, no more) — these are all aspects I think are key to building better (incl. more maintainable & reason-able) software. IMO they are worth embracing & exposing more people to and this is what I've partially attempted to do with this series of posts...

ICYMI here's a summary of the 10 most recent posts (full list in the https://thi.ng/umbrella readme). Many of those examples have more comments than code...

021: Iterative animated polygon subdivision & heat map viz
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111221943333023306

022: Quasi-random voronoi lattice generator
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111244412425832657

023: Tag-based Jaccard similarity ranking using bitfields
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111256960928934577

024: 2.5D hidden line visualization of DEM files
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111269505611983570

025: Transforming & plotting 10k data points using SIMD
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111283262419126958

026: Shader meta-programming to generate 16 animated function plots
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111295842650216136

027: Flocking sim w/ neighborhood queries to visualize proximity
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111308439597090930

028: Randomized, space-filling, nested 2D grid layout generator
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111324566926701431

029: Forth-like DSL & livecoding playground for 2D geometry
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111335025037332972

030: Procedural text generation via custom DSL & parse grammar
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111347074558293056

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