(I need to find a better way of capturing video of a Psion.)

PsiBoard Prototypes

Log

Tried to use @attribute(*, noasync) to ensure we’re not running Lua template renders in an asynchronous context. Discovered it’s unexpectedly not transitive. 😭
dispatch renders
Proof-of-concept scrollable pre-rendered PDF document in OPL.
Set up the new Dream Router 7; exciting to finally get rid of the Amazon-owned Eeros and lay the groundwork for ‘safely’ getting various retro computers online with VLAN support.

Hacked up the progress tracking mechanism (the terribly named SessionTask) in InContext to retain sub-tasks and print outstanding tasks. This revealed that all video export operations were hanging in Apple code when performing a full build of my website, but not when performing an incremental build.
Tried artificially rate limiting InContext imports by drip-feeding the ThrowingTaskGroup, allowing only 8 concurrent tasks at any point in time. Seems to reliably stop movie imports hanging. Halves site build time. 🤦

Great start to the day catching up with Tom and getting a chance to reflect on a week of Swift async fun-and-games.
Took one final stab at making InContext video export more robust. Unfortunately, ‘serializing’ exports via the isolation mechanism of AVAssetExportSession.export(to:as:isolation) is insufficient to stop exports hanging—perhaps it’s contending with image transforms as well?
Enjoyed code reviewing Alex’s re-implementation of ctran—a nice excuse to refresh my Pascal and improve my understanding of EPOC16’s OO-C.
Put the Eeros on eBay.

Continued my code review of ctran with Alex.
Tidied-up the projects on my links page.
Consolidated my website utilities into a new command—scribe—and added a tool to generate new pages from templates to make reduce friction.
Introduced new styling to the website (css class and template conveniences) for inlining documents with a view to using it to display these logs in weeknotes.
Took photographs of all the PsiBoard prototypes.
Filled the holes left by the previous Eeros.