Up to Main Index Up to Journal for February, 2023 JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY, 2023 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Unexpected visitors DATE: Mon 20 Feb 04:34:40 GMT 2023 Yesterday I went about my normal admin routine of updating systems, checking emailed reports, checking emailed RSS feeds. WolfMUD emails have their own colour so I can easily spot them and reply to every single one. Hold on… why is there a WolfMUD email in my RSS feeds? It turns out that WolfMUD had hit the front page of hacker news… again. Nice to see the site survived the surge in traffic. The site is still running off of a 4Gb Raspberry Pi 4 hosted with Mythic Beasts[1]. At one point I was more worried about blowing the monthly traffic budget — the site may be lightweight but the git repositories are not. Many people cloned the WolfMUD repositories. I hope everyone who visited the site and had a look around enjoyed their visit. I know it sparked a lot of fond memories of people playing on their favourite MUDs :) In other news, I’m feeling a lot better since getting COVID again. I’m still idly tweaking away at Mere. I’ve not been working on performance specifically, but it’s improved quite a bit. The standard counter test using Go 1.20.1: OLD NEW DIFFERENCE ------ ------ ------------- Desktop: 1494ms 890ms -604ms (+40%) RPi4 8Gb: 3882ms 2154ms -1728ms (+44%) Currently I’m busy adding missing operators, built-in functions and lots of tests. The tests are killing me and take longer than adding new code :/ I’ve had some interesting conversations about Mere. The most common one being about implementing WolfMUD’s player commands using Mere. While possible, I don’t think that would be useful as performance would suffer a lot. Still, it is something to think about. It would make implementing and changing commands easier for non-Go programmers and for those new to programming in general. -- Diddymus [1] Mythic Beasts are not sponsors. I’m just very happy with the service they provide: https://www.mythic-beasts.com Up to Main Index Up to Journal for February, 2023