22 Dec 2025
tbrowder i think you did show me the pipe trick. works well 11:11
[Coke] m: say 2² × 3 × 43 × 127 16:22
camelia 65532
[Coke] This dumb script seems to be just below the level of "this might be useful in a module somewhere", but nice enough for me to keep a git-managed copy of: github.com/coke/scripts/blob/master/pf 16:32
pf 128128 16:33
2⁷ × 7 × 11 × 13
(it does make me happy that I can just run the output as raku code) 16:34
disbot7 <aruniecrisps> @jubilatious1_98524 i kinda figured something out, but i'm not sure if there is a way to change the mark specifically, without caring what the base letter is 16:51
<aruniecrisps> so i want to change று to றி 16:52
<aruniecrisps> i don't know that .samemark fits my use case here
<aruniecrisps> because i would have to know exactly what the final base consonant is for it to work 16:53
librasteve_ notable6: weekly 16:56
notable6 librasteve_, 1 note: 2025-12-16T14:44:12Z <librasteve_>: unix.stackexchange.com/a/803066/227738
librasteve_ notable6: weekly reset 16:58
notable6 librasteve_, Moved existing notes to “weekly_2025-12-22T16:58:25Z”
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lizmat rakudoweekly.blog/2025/12/22/2025-...l-results/ 17:28
Geth advent: MostAwesomeDude++ created pull request #142:
Drafted post for the 23rd
18:12
korvo My second blog post is ready for review! It's drafted as post 4693 in WP. Please wait two hours for final feedback from my collaborator; I've given them a deadline of noon local time, and it's currently 10:14 here. 18:15
There's no need for a hero image on this one; I uploaded a game screenshot for a banner already.
Geth advent/main: f3ee4d024d | (Corbin Simpson)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | raku-advent-2025/authors.md
Drafted post for the 23rd. (#142)

Just in time!
18:16
lizmat korvo: lemme know when you're done, and I'll do the final check and schedule 18:17
disbot7 <librasteve> lizmat: oops - thanks for catching! 18:23
<aruniecrisps> @librasteve wanted to follow up with you on the snippet you were looking for 18:28
<aruniecrisps> i don't think i have anything in particular at the moment that would be generic enough for the blog post
<aruniecrisps> if i do i'll get back to you 18:29
<librasteve> @aruniecrisps - no worries .. just a thought 18:39
<.vushu> Hi @ab5tract now Christmas is nearing. I remember your snowflake example, which troubled you with rendering the codepoints and I fixed the issue on Raylib::Bindings. I tried to make a clean C example which works, then tried to make a raku example, and then deduced that the problem lies in the parsing. a const int * should not be Pointer[int32] but It should be CArray[int32] :cameliathink: I updated the Raylib::Bindings to 20:14
raku.land it should soon be up. Here is the code example: github.com/vushu/snowflakes-raylib-raku Merry Christmas.
<.vushu> cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633...f8d09&
korvo lizmat: Alright, I'm all done. Please do the needful, thanks. 20:19
lizmat will do
korvo: all done now... the rendering on markdown items is horrible. So I re-imported them into proper blocks 20:52
all set for publication tomorrow
korvo lizmat: 100% understandable. I appreciate your attention to detail. Best of luck on your upcoming post; I have no idea how y'all blog so much. 21:05
[Coke] she's amazing! 21:19
disbot7 <librasteve> amen 21:20
23 Dec 2025
<antononcube> Has 24th Day been claimed? 00:24
lizmat not to my knowledge.... fwiw, I have a backup post I could put in there, but would be glad to leave it to someone else :-) 00:25
tbrowder if interested i have a snow flake in PostScript code which can be converted to other formats. 00:43
disbot7 <antononcube> SVG? 00:44
tbrowder i’m sure ChatGPT can do it. 00:45
i created it many years ago following the examples in one of Adobe’s printed books which i still have, 00:47
the book described in clear Adobe style all the PS functions with examples 00:49
disbot7 <simon_sibl> I just did a quick benchmark for an exercise I made with colleague for interview, he made it in Python and I made it in Raku, the speed difference is huge and I would like to know if thats expected or if my code is simply much less optimized: termbin.com/mgru 08:06
<simon_sibl> also the memory usage seems to be huge for Raku compared to Python 08:08
ab5tract vushu: amazing!! Great to see you here again btw 08:31
tbrowder: any chance that it is a dynamically generated snowflake? It would be amazing to have a .eps file that resolves to a new snowflake every time it is embedded :) 08:34