monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-20,
of beams and autonomy

Alfalfa, Wednesday, 20 May 12026 HE
2026-05-20 | 26E20 | 2026-140 | 2461181
2026-W21-3 | Q2 | Verano

survey marker, San José, California

2013-09-15 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
survey marker, San José, California

Girls und Panzer – “Katyusha” ↗

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searching through programming languages, there’s two groups that stand out – the JVM cluster (Java, Clojure, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy) and the BEAM cluster (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam) – in both cases, the languages get compiled to bytecode and run in their respective virtual machines – but in most cases, there’s no way (or, at least, I haven’t found any way) to distribute standalone binaries – there are workarounds that involve embedding the virtual machine, but that’s not something you can casually upload to Itch.io to show off your small game

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