I was looking forward to a post about designing sprites, i.e. little graphical blobs flying across screen. Needless to say, this was not it.
Design and Implementation of Sprites
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#72Not sure where to report this, so here goes: something weird's going on with the title setters (from default .bashrc, the 'case' block near the top) when connecting from my Linux box. Tried with xterm, tilix and ghostty, all of which support the title setter escape sequence locally. For some reason, these get messed up (smells like edge case with escaping) and the result looks like this: $ sprite c ": history-search-…
Shell environments are by far the most difficult part of building a stateful sandbox with checkpoints and restores. It's bananas. This will be fixed soon.
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#73I was looking forward to a post about designing sprites, i.e. little graphical blobs flying across screen. Needless to say, this was not it.
Me too. Well hardware implementation.
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#74Sounds cool. I love Fly.io. That crew is sharp. The article could do with a few pictures to illustrate the layers. I’ve read it, but I can’t say that I understand the implementation.
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#76I was looking forward to a post about designing sprites, i.e. little graphical blobs flying across screen. Needless to say, this was not it.
Especially with the recent story on Street Fighter having a typo fixed by creative usage of sprites. :D
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#77Very cool product, but I have to ask, out of personal interest:
What did the bracket in the slack channel determine was “Chicago’s best sandwich”? Or the top three, even? I’m always looking for new sandwiches.
Off the top of my head, I might nominate,
- the pork tenderloin at JT’s
- the Big L from Fontano’s (hot take, I know; it might go to Graziano’s if they hinge-cut the bread, but not doing so is a fatal flaw to me)
- the Cambodian fried chicken sandwich that’s occasionally available at Hermosa
- honorable mention: the comically oversized chicken torta at Migos
(Edit: I inexcusably transposed Bari and Fontano’s; the nomination is intended for Fontano’s)
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#78Very cool. One usecase the blogpost seems to hint at is to use this to implement async agents that write code for you. Like, you have some system that hears about a new issue — from slack, linear, wherever — and then spins up a Sprite, checks out the codebase, works on a solution, commits, and creates a PR.
Is that what you guys are thinking of? I get that Sprites are a new primitive, but I feel confused as hell about what exactly I'd want to do with it.
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#79Very cool product, but I have to ask, out of personal interest: What did the bracket in the slack channel determine was “Chicago’s best sandwich”? Or the top three, even? I’m always looking for new sandwiches. Off the top of my head, I might nominate, - the pork tenderloin at JT’s - the Big L from Fontano’s (hot take, I know; it might go to Graziano’s if they hinge-cut the bread, but not doing so is a fatal flaw to m…
It's too early to say. We started the bracket back in 2020 with a nomination Google Sheet, and then the pandemic happened, and then I kept saying I'd throw a web app together for us to actually do a seeded bracket with; 5 years later, some of the restaurants have changed, so we're re-doing nominations, and we'll have bracket voting rounds starting probably in February. I owe it all to Sprites!
Nhu Lan's Banh Mi #1 and JPG's Muffaletta are the top 2 current noms, but I think the Tempesta B. Franklin is a sleeper, and the Phodega Viet Dip has a cheering section and I haven't tried it yet. The joy of doing an actual bracket is that it'll involve people doing field trips to have their first Mr. D's Pork Shish-Ka-Bob sandwich, or the Alpine Combo.
It's a 16 sandwich tournament and we're at like 26 nominations right now so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
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#80Very cool product, but I have to ask, out of personal interest: What did the bracket in the slack channel determine was “Chicago’s best sandwich”? Or the top three, even? I’m always looking for new sandwiches. Off the top of my head, I might nominate, - the pork tenderloin at JT’s - the Big L from Fontano’s (hot take, I know; it might go to Graziano’s if they hinge-cut the bread, but not doing so is a fatal flaw to m…
It's too early to say. We started the bracket back in 2020 with a nomination Google Sheet, and then the pandemic happened, and then I kept saying I'd throw a web app together for us to actually do a seeded bracket with; 5 years later, some of the restaurants have changed, so we're re-doing nominations, and we'll have bracket voting rounds starting probably in February. I owe it all to Sprites! Nhu Lan's Banh Mi #1 an…
Very credible nominations; clearly “this guy sandwiches.” Thanks!
I’d love to see a post of some kind when it’s all settled; you’re doing the lord’s work here.