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Christopher Shank 2025-08-18 20:28:47

The theme of the GMTK Gam Jam was "loops" and there are lots of fun and novel explorations of affordances, interactions, and mechanics that feel applicable to the types of stuff explored here

youtube.com/watch?v=kG3LWpuiLqg

🎥 My Favourite Games from GMTK Game Jam 2025

My Favourite Games from GMTK Game Jam 2025

Ivan Reese 2025-08-24 06:28:00

Anyone have experience with XSLT? The recent kerfuffle about removing it from the html spec and the episode of Igalia Chats about it were both quite interesting to me. A declarative tree-transformation language!? Sounds like the sort of thing you could build a web app engine around ;)

Ivan Reese 2025-08-24 06:29:58

I looked into using XSLT to style my feeds, but haven't gotten around to it yet. But I might fast-track that effort, so that I can go down with the ship. Sounds fun.

Mariano Guerra 2025-08-24 09:29:39

I used it twice, to generate PDFs with apache fop and to improve the erlang documentation

📝 Apache(tm) FOP - a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.

📝 Improving Official Erlang Documentation

Many times I've heard people complaining about different aspects of the Official Erlang documentation, one thing that I find interesting is the fact that the Erlang documentation is really complete an

Andrew F 2025-08-24 19:28:19

Way, way back, I used XSLT to build a UI from an XML description of the unix FHS. It was fun for a baby programmer, but I'm not sure I would recommend it. The language is kind of clunky, which is honestly no surprise considering it's, you know, XML. I don't think my project is still online, and I might not even still have the code, but I can try to find it. 😄

Mariano Guerra 2025-08-24 19:59:52

the good parts: it feels like functional pattern matching or term rewriting

the bard parts: the syntax