Spaghetti Code Arcade

June 1, 2022

Today I finished the lights-out

game from pharo by example. And it got me to thinking that the times that I have read pharo by example before I read the book and then that is it.

I was watching a video the other day by blender guru where he was talking about learning blender. He was talking about making a project with new skills you learn.

And I never do that with pharo. I follow along in a book but, never get a project of my own to make.

And to me making my own pharo project would be fun. I would not have to follow what some else does.

So I want to start my own pharo project.

Oh, and today I used pharo 10 for the first time.

Its hard to believe that I have used pharo since it first came out and I still have not made my own project with it. Pharo came out years ago.

This year I am going to make my own project with pharo. I hope.

May 31, 2022

One hobby I want to pickup is bird watching

I don’t know much about birds. So I figure that if I had bird watching that it would get me motivated to learn the types of birds.

Along with bird watching I could also do bee watching. I always find it relaxing to watch bees pollinate flowers.

I also think it would be fun to take lots of pictures of birds and bees.

So I hope someday I watch birds.

May 31, 2022

I learned how to type years

ago in school. I believe back at that time I typed 30 words a minute. Its a good thing that I learned how to type since hunting and pecking is not easy.

Do I like writing with a pen or pencil or typing better? I like them all.

The MIT download newsletter had a link to typelit. Its a website where you practice typing by typing classic literature. I have not tried it. It looks like it might be fun.

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022

I don’t know when I first got interesting in vim

Or vi. Its probably over a decade ago now. So years ago I installed vim on my computer and I had high hopes of learning how to use it.

Well that never happened. Surprise surprise.

The other day I found the portable version of vim so I put it on a computer and went to a linkedin learning vim course and started learning vim.

h – moves left, l – moves right, j – move down, k – move up, w – move from word to word, ( – move back a sentence, ) – move forward a sentence, { – move back a paragraph, } – move forward a paragraph.

I have got a few vim commands down already as you can see. The course also talked about <a href=”vim adventures

The course also talked about vim adventures. Which is a website that has a game that will help me learn vim.

I hope that this time I stick with vim and learn it.

May 27, 2022

Won another retro bowl game on extreme

I was playing as Jacksonville against Cincinnati. And I won the game 15-6. So that is 9 retro bowl victories on extreme.

The other 4 games I played as Jacksonville did not go so good. I lost and lost badly. I hope I am getting better at retro bowl. If I am not at least I am having fun playing it.

May 26, 2022

Today I was able to clone the counter

project that I put on github yesterday. So now I can commit and push pharo projects to git hub and also clone them. I wish it were easy to come up with ideas for programs I want to write.

I remember years ago I found squeak on the internet and was so excited to build programs with squeak. It never happened.

Then I switched to pharo. And wanted to write a lot of programs with pharo. That has not happened yet.

Maybe I think the the programs will design and code themselves. It would be nice. Programming does not work that way.

May 25, 2022

Today I learned how to upload a pharo

project to github with iceberg. I not think I would ever be able to upload any of my pharo code to github. I am glad I was wrong. Now all I have to do is make lots of projects with pharo. For me that is easy to write and hard to do.

Before iceberg pharo had monticello. And with monticello I uploaded exactly one project to squeak source. Which was the lights out game from pharo by example 5. I had dreams of writing mounts of code in pharo and uploading that code to squeaksource. It never happened.

Hopefully pharo and github will be different.

May 24, 2022

I won another retro bowl game

On extreme difficulty. I played as Atlanta and my opponent was Indianapolis. Indianapolis missed two field goals. Luckily for me since the final score was 9-7.

In the draft I had drafted two defensive linemen and a wide receiver.

This victory makes it 8 times that I have one on extreme.

May 21, 2022

Another retro bowl win on extreme

I played as NYJ against the LAR and won the game 13-0. It was a shutout. I could not believe it. I thought maybe it was on an easier difficulty then I check and it was indeed on extreme. So that makes 7 retro bowl wins on extreme.

May 19, 2022

I tied again in a retro bowl game

TOday I played as chicago in retro bowl. It was tired at 14-14 at the end of regulation. I got the ball in overtime but, was unable to score.

Its thrilling to tie or win a game on extreme difficulty.

I have 2 ties and 6 wins on retro bowl extreme difficulty. So fun.