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the GDB integration has to be one of my best time investments while developing touchHLE. it's just so useful. I can just, insert debug prints into apps to which I don't have the source code… dynamically

I hear you: vertical videos suck. from now on, all touchHLE marketing shall be horizontal

touchHLE now has… a very primitive license text viewer!!!!!!

I know, most people won't even use it, but it's necessary for the Android release, and it's the actual reason I spent all that time trying to get UIKit into a vaguely usable state.

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/536d76416019e2e94778421ed2dc9c6dbd7492fa

we are in the timeline where Sweden (Sverige, Svea rike) is named after the Swedes. but as anyone who's read about the titles Swedish kings used to have will know, Sweden is also the kingdom of the Goths. what if we were living in a timeline where we called it Gothen or something. that would be cool. Gothenburg would probably be the capital

i should write a blog post or something about Dashcode, and some thoughts about the web on the iPhone circa 2007

does the copy in @property(readonly, copy) mean anything. copying only applies to setters right?

“why don't languages like c++ and java have multiple constructors? they're so useful! i love that rust has multiple constructors!”

the finger curls on the monkey's paw

and i find out about the hell of objective-c designated initialisers

so, touchHLE is afflicted by a lot of “not invented here”-ism, which is all my fault. I have reimplemented a lot of stuff that other people would try to get from libraries.

in my defence though, this gives me some superpowers:

• I have a very deep understanding of the whole system! it's hard to overstate how useful that is.
• there's very few dependencies, so the binaries are small and the build times are short, and it's auditable

but there's something else cool, too…

suppose I am writing some code that will take a god object containing all the state of an emulator, move out several key components of it, reset their states, and then place them into a new god object that's meant to be almost indistinguishable from a completely fresh one. what's a nice, horrifying metaphor for this. i want a word that conveys the idea of like, organ harvesting from a perfectly healthy subject or something. or some kind of spiritual thing.

sneak peek of an upcoming touchHLE feature :3

(this is why I have been spending all this time implementing UIKit)