X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=worlds%2Fbricabrac.scm;h=8ea7451a7701608bf32d132dc514bc794a0adc02;hb=5ceaf7cba470a311d5ebcacfb471eab1a1e0418a;hp=036661c91120deab6795ce83dbaee03fe209f871;hpb=fad33a69e9950d70d6dd84d07f032aef236ba1af;p=mudsync.git diff --git a/worlds/bricabrac.scm b/worlds/bricabrac.scm index 036661c..8ea7451 100644 --- a/worlds/bricabrac.scm +++ b/worlds/bricabrac.scm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ;;; Mudsync --- Live hackable MUD -;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Christopher Allan Webber ;;; ;;; This file is part of Mudsync. ;;; @@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ #:text (slot-ref actor 'read-text))) +;; This one is just where reading is the same thing as looking +;; at the description +(define-class () + (commands + #:allocation #:each-subclass + #:init-thunk (build-commands + ("read" ((direct-command cmd-look-at)))))) + ;; This one allows you to take from items that are proxied by it (define-actor () ((cmd-take-from take-from-proxy)) @@ -1435,98 +1443,92 @@ as well as an exit leading to the south.")) ,@placard) #:goes-by '("list of exhibits" "exhibit list" "list" "exhibits") #:read-text placard)) - (let ((desc - '((p "It's a three-piece exhibit, with three little dioramas and some text " - "explaining what they represent. They are:") - (ul (li (b "Late 2015/Early 2016 talk: ") - "This one explains the run-up conversation from late 2015 " - "and early 2016 about the need for an " - "\"asynchronous event loop for Guile\". The diorama " - "is a model of the Veggie Galaxy restaurant where after " - "the FSF 30th anniversary party; Mark Weaver, Christopher " - "Allan Webber, David Thompson, and Andrew Engelbrecht chat " - "about the need for Guile to have an answer to asynchronous " - "programming. A mailing list post " ; TODO: link it? - "summarizing the discussion is released along with various " - "conversations around what is needed, as well as further " - "discussion at FOSDEM 2016.") - (li (b "Early implementations: ") - "This one shows Chris Webber's 8sync and Chris Vine's " - "guile-a-sync, both appearing in late 2015 and evolving " - "into their basic designs in early 2016. It's less a diorama " - "than a printout of some mailing list posts. Come on, the " - "curators could have done better with this one.") - (li (b "Suspendable ports and Fibers: ") - "The diorama shows Andy Wingo furiously hacking at his keyboard. " - "The description talks about Wingo's mailing list thread " - "about possibly breaking Guile compatibility for a \"ports refactor\". " - "Wingo releases Fibers, another asynchronous library, making use of " - "the new interface, and 8sync and guile-a-sync " - "quickly move to support suspendable ports as well. " - "The description also mentions that there is an exhibit entirely " - "devoted to suspendable ports.")) - (p "Attached at the bottom is a post it note mentioning " - "https integration landing in Guile 2.2.")))) - (list - 'async-museum:2016-progress-exhibit - 'async-museum - #:name "2016 Progress Exhibit" - #:goes-by '("2016 progress exhibit" "2016 progress" "2016 exhibit") - #:desc desc - #:read-text desc)) - (let ((desc - '((p "This exhibit is a series of charts explaining the similarities " - "and differences between 8sync and Fibers, two asynchronous programming " - "libraries for GNU Guile. It's way too wordy, but you get the general gist.") - (p (b "Similarities:") - (ul (li "Both use Guile's suspendable-ports facility") - (li "Both use message passing"))) - (p (b "Differences:") - (ul (li "Fibers \"processes\" can read from multiple \"channels\", " - "but 8sync actors only read from one \"inbox\" each.") - (li "Different theoretical basis:" - (ul (li "Fibers: based on CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), " - "a form of Process Calculi") - (li "8sync: based on the Actor Model") - (li "Luckily CSP and the Actor Model are \"dual\"!"))))) - (p "Fibers is also designed by Andy Wingo, an excellent compiler hacker, " - "whereas 8sync is designed by Chris Webber, who built this crappy " - "hotel simulator.")))) - (list - 'async-museum:8sync-and-fibers-exhibit - 'async-museum - #:name "8sync and Fibers Exhibit" - #:goes-by '("8sync and fibers exhibit" "8sync exhibit" "fibers exhibit") - #:desc desc - #:read-text desc)) - (let ((desc - '((p "This exhibit is a series of charts explaining the similarities " - "and differences between 8sync and Fibers, two asynchronous programming " - "libraries for GNU Guile. It's way too wordy, but you get the general gist.") - (p (b "Similarities:") - (ul (li "Both use Guile's suspendable-ports facility") - (li "Both use message passing"))) - (p (b "Differences:") - (ul (li "Fibers \"processes\" can read from multiple \"channels\", " - "but 8sync actors only read from one \"inbox\" each.") - (li "Different theoretical basis:" - (ul (li "Fibers: based on CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), " - "a form of Process Calculi") - (li "8sync: based on the Actor Model") - (li "Luckily CSP and the Actor Model are \"dual\"!"))))) - (p "Fibers is also designed by Andy Wingo, an excellent compiler hacker, " - "whereas 8sync is designed by Chris Webber, who built this crappy " - "hotel simulator.")))) - (list - 'async-museum:8sync-and-fibers-exhibit - 'async-museum - #:name "8sync and Fibers Exhibit" - #:goes-by '("8sync and fibers exhibit" "8sync exhibit" "fibers exhibit") - #:desc desc - #:read-text desc)) + (list + 'async-museum:2016-progress-exhibit + 'async-museum + #:name "2016 Progress Exhibit" + #:goes-by '("2016 progress exhibit" "2016 progress" "2016 exhibit") + #:desc + '((p "It's a three-piece exhibit, with three little dioramas and some text " + "explaining what they represent. They are:") + (ul (li (b "Late 2015/Early 2016 talk: ") + "This one explains the run-up conversation from late 2015 " + "and early 2016 about the need for an " + "\"asynchronous event loop for Guile\". The diorama " + "is a model of the Veggie Galaxy restaurant where after " + "the FSF 30th anniversary party; Mark Weaver, Christopher " + "Allan Webber, David Thompson, and Andrew Engelbrecht chat " + "about the need for Guile to have an answer to asynchronous " + "programming. A mailing list post " ; TODO: link it? + "summarizing the discussion is released along with various " + "conversations around what is needed, as well as further " + "discussion at FOSDEM 2016.") + (li (b "Early implementations: ") + "This one shows Chris Webber's 8sync and Chris Vine's " + "guile-a-sync, both appearing in late 2015 and evolving " + "into their basic designs in early 2016. It's less a diorama " + "than a printout of some mailing list posts. Come on, the " + "curators could have done better with this one.") + (li (b "Suspendable ports and Fibers: ") + "The diorama shows Andy Wingo furiously hacking at his keyboard. " + "The description talks about Wingo's mailing list thread " + "about possibly breaking Guile compatibility for a \"ports refactor\". " + "Wingo releases Fibers, another asynchronous library, making use of " + "the new interface, and 8sync and guile-a-sync " + "quickly move to support suspendable ports as well. " + "The description also mentions that there is an exhibit entirely " + "devoted to suspendable ports.")) + (p "Attached at the bottom is a post it note mentioning " + "https integration landing in Guile 2.2."))) + (list + 'async-museum:8sync-and-fibers-exhibit + 'async-museum + #:name "8sync and Fibers Exhibit" + #:goes-by '("8sync and fibers exhibit" "8sync exhibit" "fibers exhibit") + #:desc + '((p "This exhibit is a series of charts explaining the similarities " + "and differences between 8sync and Fibers, two asynchronous programming " + "libraries for GNU Guile. It's way too wordy, but you get the general gist.") + (p (b "Similarities:") + (ul (li "Both use Guile's suspendable-ports facility") + (li "Both use message passing"))) + (p (b "Differences:") + (ul (li "Fibers \"processes\" can read from multiple \"channels\", " + "but 8sync actors only read from one \"inbox\" each.") + (li "Different theoretical basis:" + (ul (li "Fibers: based on CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), " + "a form of Process Calculi") + (li "8sync: based on the Actor Model") + (li "Luckily CSP and the Actor Model are \"dual\"!"))))) + (p "Fibers is also designed by Andy Wingo, an excellent compiler hacker, " + "whereas 8sync is designed by Chris Webber, who built this crappy " + "hotel simulator."))) + (list + 'async-museum:8sync-and-fibers-exhibit + 'async-museum + #:name "8sync and Fibers Exhibit" + #:goes-by '("8sync and fibers exhibit" "8sync exhibit" "fibers exhibit") + #:desc + '((p "This exhibit is a series of charts explaining the similarities " + "and differences between 8sync and Fibers, two asynchronous programming " + "libraries for GNU Guile. It's way too wordy, but you get the general gist.") + (p (b "Similarities:") + (ul (li "Both use Guile's suspendable-ports facility") + (li "Both use message passing"))) + (p (b "Differences:") + (ul (li "Fibers \"processes\" can read from multiple \"channels\", " + "but 8sync actors only read from one \"inbox\" each.") + (li "Different theoretical basis:" + (ul (li "Fibers: based on CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), " + "a form of Process Calculi") + (li "8sync: based on the Actor Model") + (li "Luckily CSP and the Actor Model are \"dual\"!"))))) + (p "Fibers is also designed by Andy Wingo, an excellent compiler hacker, " + "whereas 8sync is designed by Chris Webber, who built this crappy " + "hotel simulator."))) (list 'async-museum:suspendable-ports-exhibit - 'async-museum + 'async-museum #:name "Suspendable Ports Exhibit" #:goes-by '("suspendable ports exhibit" "ports exhibit" "suspendable exhibit" "suspendable ports" "ports") @@ -1538,7 +1540,7 @@ as well as an exit leading to the south.")) (p "Fibers, 8sync, and guile-a-sync now support suspendable ports."))) (list 'async-museum:actor-model-exhibit - 'async-museum + 'async-museum #:name "Actor Model Exhibit" #:goes-by '("actor model exhibit" "actor exhibit" "actor model") @@ -1765,11 +1767,53 @@ network.") #:name "west" #:to 'underground-lab))) ;; nodes + ('federation-station:nodes + 'federation-station + #:name "some nodes" + #:desc "Each node seems to be producing its own information, but publishing +updates to subscribing nodes on the graph. You see various posts of notes, videos, +comments, and so on flowing from node to node." + #:invisible? #t + #:goes-by '("nodes" "node" "some nodes")) ;; network ;; activitypub poster + ('federation-station:activitypub-poster + 'federation-station + #:name "an ActivityPub poster" + #:goes-by '("activitypub poster" "activitypub" "poster") + #:desc + '((p (a "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/" + "ActivityPub") + " is a federation standard being developed under the " + (a "https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/" + "w3C Social Working Group") + ", and doubles as a general client-to-server API. " + "It follows a few simple core ideas:") + (ul (li "Uses " + (a "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/" + "ActivityStreams") + " for its serialization format: easy to read, e json(-ld) syntax " + "with an extensible vocabulary covering the majority of " + "social networking interations.") + (li "Email-like addressing: list of recipients as " + (b "to") ", " (b "cc") ", " (b "bcc") " fields.") + (li "Every user has URLs for their outbox and inbox:" + (ul (li (b "inbox: ") + "Servers POST messages to addressed recipients' inboxes " + "to federate out content. " + "Also doubles as endpoint for a client to read most " + "recently received messages via GET.") + (li (b "outbox: ") + "Clients can POST to user's outbox to send a message to others. " + "(Similar to sending an email via your MTA.) " + "Doubles as endpoint others can read from to the " + "extent authorized; for example publicly available posts.")) + "All the federation bits happen by servers posting to users' inboxes.")))) + ;; An ActivityStreams message + ;; conspiracy chart ('federation-station:conspiracy-chart - 'federation-station + 'federation-station #:name "a conspiracy chart" #:goes-by '("conspiracy chart" "chart") #:desc @@ -1809,8 +1853,7 @@ network.") (a "http://www.saraswat.org/desiderata.html" "in building decentralized MUDs") " similar to what is being " - "worked on for " (b "federation") ". " - "(See the network spaces desiderata document.)"))))) + "worked on for " (b "federation") ". "))))) ;; goblin