Topic: Programming

I started making Niffler a while back (the old repo is still up at gokr/niffler.old) and I wrote it purely in Nim as a more classic monolithic TUI coding harness. It was a first attempt and it never reached maturity or a UX sophisticated enough to be “nice to use”.

A while back I wanted to explore game development, classic 2D games because I can’t waste too much of my life in the rabbit hole of 3D. Me and a friend were avid C64 hackers back in the 80s and I haven’t tried to make any games ever since. First I looked at available paths using Dart, like Flame for example. But I wanted to target low end very cheap hardware, be highly performant with good physics and be able to handle lots of players. Flame might have managed that, but it was too unproven.

(published and finished 2026-10-14)

Work on Spry continues… in small spurts. :) One thing that I have pushed ahead of me for far too long is error handling. People interested in Spry have been asking about it and yes, I decided to start getting a handle on it.

I have already written three different articles explaining how CORE floor price can be calculated. But just a day or two back the CORE team decided that using the floor price concept in communcation doesn’t work out very well. Why? Because a LOT of people just can’t seem to understand it properly and keep perpetuating wrong conclusions around it. In short - people can’t understand math :)

In the previous article I explained the principles behind CORE’s floor price, the lowest price that CORE can reach. It’s a novel concept and a very interesting characteristic of CORE.

In the previous two articles I explained the principles behind CORE’s floor price, the lowest price that CORE can reach and ended it all by explaining the “q method” that works for any number of CORE pairs. For lots of people that was possibly an overdose of math, so … here is the super short and lacking any explanations on why description on how to calculate floor price of CORE using the “q method”.

The last month I have gotten involved in a fairly new crypto currency project called CORE, or cvault.finance. My main contribution is RoboCORE a chat bot operating on both Discord and Telegram serving the CORE community with various calculations and notifications.

After a period of slower progress I got reignited regarding Spry. So far I have written a lot of articles about Spry, and during this time things have evolved and changed.

In the eCraft2Learn project which Evothings is participating in we were looking at various ways Nim is an awesome programming language and this article is a whirlwind-copy-paste-into-your-terminal-as-you-read-thing to show how you install Nim, write a small program, compile it and package it in a very short time.