photogal/monolog

		                //					h	e	l	l	o	!				\\


						i	am	going	to	record	some	of	my	work	for
						a	bit.		will	perhaps	chop	this	up	later	into
						video.		what	i 	will 	be 	doing	is 	creating
						some	features	in 	a	new 	emacs	project	i	put
						together.		the	project	is	called	      p h o t o g a l.
						it 	works 	great,	i	built	the 	functional      prototype
						a	week	ago.	she 	works.	she	works	great!	she	has
						that 	~~potential~~.	theres	a	lot	of	stuff	that	i
						can	add 	to 	make 	it 	killer	software.	ive	done
						some	of 	the 	most 	essential	already,	up	next
						are	the 	first	few	nice-to-haves.	i	am	coding	to
						music:	SOPHIE		—	"Product".	its	late.	here	goes.








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  i think the easiest first thing to do is add an index ticker:

    "you are viewing photo 1/75"
    "you are viewing photo 2/75"    ...



















































                                                that index counter was damn easy.


						next bit will be harder.





			the two big features i want to do next are "tag families" and "destination dirs". i think im gna do dest dirs first


  sophie ended. its always hard to put on something after sophie
  bc there's no one quite like her. and im always a little sad
  as i choose the next album.
    anyway i put on "asakusa light" by soichi terada































                                the reason i wrote that test file yesterday, was because i knew my central datasource was moulded.

				the app puts all its weight on a single cons cell with car/cdr getter/setters. it worked great to
				get me started, but it was starting to creak and moan. so i knew i'd have to gut it. but also it is
				the essence of my app, if i fuck it up, its gon be messy.

				so i wrote the tests to give me the confidence to rip it out and replace it with something stronger.


  if this (what i'm about to attempt) just works `TM`, i will be
    awed and amazed















i just gutted this app, and it didnt even flinch.

lisp is so powerful.
































  this is a good place to pause for me. going to go eat food.

  the directory functionality is useless right now, but i set it
  up for the simple directory-managing busy work i'll do later.

  what i did today was more important: enabled that. its an easy
  matter of tieing looose ends after this.

  the next big thing is tag families.



      	       xoxoxoxox jordyn <3

















                my latest feature, dest dir, works pretty good rn.
		the bones are there.
		but none of the corners have been rounded off, none of
		the details have been given polish, its pretty rustic.

		so i guess i'll do that tonite. it's a bit of a chore,
		just busy work. might knock out a few bugs along
		the way.

		tonite's music: starting with Dorian Electra, ^*flamboyant*^

			



			- jordyn

wowowow that was tricky!! funny, good one BD







      now we are going to do tag families

      its one of those things that requires loosening up some tightly
      coupled shit in pleasingly functional/abstract fashion.



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      this is slightly messier than expected (as it always is)
      introducing "tag families" introduces complexity at a very
        awkward juncture in the code. it invites an awful lot of
	uncertainty and subtlety in a way that can be done, but
	feels awkward and unnatural.
      it plants the seeds for a major refactor/reworking at a later
      time.
	but i have to do it the ugly way first,
      so here goes the ugly way.




      tunes: the brand-new episode of blonded radio

      	     frank has been quiet for a long time. is he getting ready
	     to make moves? i hope so

	     didnt realize the blonded epi would be a lecture on
	     psychedelics.

	     well thats all nice for u but its so damn unreliable for
	       me to aquire

	     legalize that shit got damn

	     although i hope frankie is doing as many hallucinagens
	       as he can get his hands on. gon make some fire tracks



  guuuhhhh this is ugly and unpleasant. perhaps i will have to take
  on the rewrite preepmtively .... cause this rly aint goin well lol








     	 	 	      that last attempt to graft tag fams onto photogal really really did not go well. it's picking at very brittle code in a
			      very aggressive mannor. the complexity is just too much for the old code to bear, and even if it's possible it's
			      confusing the heck outta me and causing me frustration.
			      i was thinkin about it a bit, and i think i can solve the problem (create arbitrary key bindings that are aware of state
			      i.e.: (photogal-current-file)) in a better way. perhaps using partial application, perhaps get rid of the macro, we will
			      see how things go, but the state of affairs is unnacceptable.




			      " all software is beautiful until you try adding features "	-me



			      for music tonite, gonna start with the new album from s u p e r o r g a n i s m ("World Wide Pop")


 that superorganism album might be one of the most foul things ive ever heard

  and i ADORED their first one





   here goes a gain. 3rd night in a row? utter --failure-- "learning"
   the last few goes. but chewing on it in my subconsious. developping Plans




   ok ok OK!! we making moves

after absolute shit ass progress, we are puttin things together!

i feel good about the direction of things. will be a while
before i find out if the progress was worthwhile.

but i really think things are looking better already!























									shit's really coming together now !!!







						i wasnt sure for a while, but now ive found the groove, and now it's all about porting that
						v1 mess over to a tider, more disciplined structure. the first version grew organically,
						as i explored the idea. there were some scraggly bits, so this is like giving a hedge a
						thorough trimming. get everything more uniform, shear off the bits that have overgrown or
						stick out. and i feel really good about how those things are piecing together :)








				... back now after a long (5 day) weekend

				really looking to get in and knock out the last final pieces.

				was gone at CHBP where i saw beachbunny, flomilli, 100gecs, chloemoriondo, theblacktones and more

				great time

				today im starting by listening to
				moses sumney's live album From
				Blackalachia


				damn i love this moses shit

				i feel like that album was slept on (græ) bc it came
				out right before the pandemic. he in general slept on
				aromanticism a damn classic



















		time for new music; beachbunny & soccermommy both just
		  put out new LPs. im obsessed. will prolly listen to
		  one and then the other. i love both of them sm <3 <3

		also beabadoobee put out some new shit. havent heard it
		  yet.





                         YOOOOOOOOOOOOO
			 HOOOOOOOOOOLy
			 FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!
			 IT FUCKEN WORKS!!!!





			 tying up the last few threads; ie porting over the final features that were in
			 the old version but aren't in the new one yet :)

			 for music, listening to the new sam gendel album (live in texas)
			 and then of course we will put on the new beyoncé (renaissance)

			 its over a hundred degrees here :L






			     lets port over the last few final features ;)

			     music: starting with the new maggie rogers "surrender" <- great
			     	    this album came out the same day as the new bey...
				    how u even compete with that  lol
				    (but music isnt a competition!!)

the new beabadoobee next ( i cant help but simp !! ) "beatopia"
  i love her just for the song "wish i was stephen malkmus"



 ;; it works! not elegantly yet.  but it will! the imortant thing is that it go vroomvroom




     now begins... the Good Refactor.

I'm just outside klamath falls on the pacific crest amtrak line

i need some aloof perspective to refactor durably.

listening from the downloaded (no cell service) albums on my iphone

  going with big thief's latest: dragon new warm mountain i believe in you