栄屯 @Eidon@octodon.social

Trumpet gentian on the balcony
#florespondence
#photography

From last week's walk. Colchicum autumnale, the English name is Autumn crocus though it isn't a crocus. In Dutch this is Herfsttijloos, meaning something like "autumn timeless" because it flowers in autumn and bears fruit in spring.

It's beautiful there.
#scotland
#photography

After the swim, a walk along the coastal path.
#photography
#scotland

I want チリヌルヲワカ's new album 『結晶』purely based on this interview with Yuu (in Japanese), where she discusses each of the songs.

https://mikiki.tokyo.jp/articles/-/29669

Whew, am super excited to play at #hau tonight in #Berlin with @acf. 19h, come on over.
Now on to soundcheck...

https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/zodiak-festival/

#zodiak #acf #extramusic #berlin #krautrock #festival #psychedelic

Yesterday, for the first time in quite a long time, I was back at the sea, in Gourock. First a swim in the outdoor pool, which is right next to the sea. Surprisingly, I had never done this. After tomorrow they close for the season so it was just in time. Fortunately the water is heated (about 28C), because otherwise it would have been a bit nippy. The picture shows a view from the poolside.
#photography
#scotland
#sea

Haku is a natural language functional programming language I've created, based on literary Japanese.

I wrote and article about the implementation of Haku in Raku. You don't need to know Japanese or Haku to read it.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/haku-in-raku/

#rakulang
#haku
#programming
#compilers

In "Agency", William Gibson mentions in passing a mural of a Venezuelan goddess. Based on his description, it is María Lionza

"La Reina Santa Maria de La Onza (The Queen Saint Mary of the Boar), María Lionza, is a goddess whose worship is very popular in Venezuela and nearby countries."

The whole article is very interesting.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_9075

More Haku/DeepL poetry.

Haku program:

歩くとは無限大のことです。
忘れるとは件で「記憶に心を奪われて」を見せるのことです。

本真とは歩くことを忘れてしまったと言う事です。

DeepL:

"To walk is to be infinite.
Forgetfulness means that you are "lost in your memories".

The truth is that we have forgotten how to walk."

#haku
#programming
#japanese

https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/haku

Yesterday evening's #improvisation, featuring the #Bastl #KastleDrum, a recent aquisition, so more fumbled with than played, really. :)

There is a bit of white #noise in the backdrop. I hope it doesn't mar the listening experience!

https://funkwhale.thurk.org/library/tracks/1792/

#ambient #AmbientGuitar #psychedelic #electronic

Haku, my #Japanese-inspired #functional #language, lets you conjugate the verbs for a function call. For example:

Given a function send:

送るとは...

and an argument message:

メッセージ

In Scheme this would be

(send message)

Plain Haku

メッセージを送る。
“To send a message”

Polite Haku

メッセージを送って下さい。
“Please send the message”

Insistent Haku

メッセージを送なさい。
“Do send the message”

Adverbial

送ったメッセージ。
“The sent message”

For more details:

https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/haku

#haku

Haku code:

本真とは記憶は「忘れられない あの冬の the new fallen snow」、忘れかけてた遠い記憶の事です。

DeepL:

The true meaning of memory is "the new fallen snow", a distant memory that was almost forgotten.

😊

Some time back in June I mentioned this idea of a Japanese-inspired programming language.

Three months and six thousand lines of code later, here is Haku: a toy functional programming language inspired by literary Japanese.

It is probably “pre-alpha” but if you want to try it out, or just read about it:

https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/haku

#programming #japanese #rakulang #haku

Swim School - Let me inside your head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZYqlbyCews

#np

First We Take Manhattan - Maja Posavec & Ivan Kapec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWMh6u7r1vQ

#np

Beth Orton sings Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy", beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKbebvRZbM

#np

The Sisters of Mercy "The Temple of Love" from 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CFT0mdWsQ

CO emissions perspective:

- Every person breathes out about 1 kg CO2 per day.
- That is 3 gTCO2/year for the world population
- Current emissions are estimated at 55 gTCO2eq/year
- So all humans breathing is only about 5% of the total CO2 emissions.
- And this total needs to be reduced to 23 gtCO2eq/year by 2040 to stay below 1.5C warming.

#climateemergency