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Hi. Deldo and also https://buttplug.io https://buttplug.io author here. As usual with any HN thread on my projects: AMA. :D And if you're curious about other

Hi. Deldo and also https://buttplug.io https://buttplug.io author here. As usual with any HN thread on my projects: AMA. :D And if you're curious about other dumb things I've done with sex toys, check out my youtube channel: https://youtube.buttplug.io https://youtube.buttplug.io

aestetix 5y ago
Important question: is there a vim plugin? You know, for those of us who prefer to keep our text editor and operating system lives separate...
- azalemeth 5y ago
  I imagine something where the vibration intensity is proportional to the complexity of the commands you enter would be a great "teaching" tool. Either that, or rewards for using hjkl over the arrow keys!
mpfundstein 5y ago
how does QC work?
- qdot76367 5y ago
  - Release software - Wait for someone brave enough to admit they used said software to show up to my discord or github issues and complain - Fix software - Repeat
Gigachad 5y ago
I love your profile pic on GitHub
- qdot76367 5y ago
  Awww Thanks! :D
wruza 5y ago
Do these appliances have any sort of http api?
- qdot76367 5y ago
  Most are Bluetooth to the device. Some have http apis that can be accessed in various ways, either via hosting an http server on a phone that then relays to Bluetooth (lovense connect does this) or doing something like having the device itself use wifi and phone home (the handy does this as well as having Bluetooth). My library, buttplug, handles most permutations of anything that happens. Bluetooth, usb, serial, network, you name it we begrudgingly implement it while mumbling profanities. :3
DonHopkins 5y ago
Tell is about your favorite pull request.
- qdot76367 5y ago
  One of the worst/best parts of buttplug is that I ended up needed to maintain my own Bluetooth LE library: btleplug (https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug). Worst because working with bluetooth is always THE WORST, best because of the submissions and community that've grown around it. There's 2 types of PRs to btleplug: - People going "here's a PR but uh, why is the library named btleplWAIT WHAT" - People going "here is a PR specifically to fix something in Buttplug thank you"
  - muzani 5y ago
    now one of my aspirations is to do a PR for this just so people can go hmmmmmmmmmm when they stalk my github history
    - DonHopkins 5y ago
      As long as he's pulling what you're pushing!
aflag 5y ago
I’ve tried M-x make-baby, but my baby will just alternate between two modes: eating, which she calls “normal mode”, and crying, which she calls “edit mode”. Should I be concerned? At this point I’m just trying to quit, but I don’t know how.
- wffurr 5y ago
  Are you sure you’re in emacs and not vim?
eevilspock 5y ago
So Deldo is programmed with S-EXpressions?
stusmall 5y ago
I've been really impressed with the heart and soul into a single focus. When I saw this link pop up I thought "Oh it must be using buttplug.io" but was surprised to see it was from you and predates buttplug.io. As someone who can't always retain focus without getting drawn away to the new shiny I want to know, how do you remain focused on this a single family of projects? How deal will keeping from getting drawn away to a fun new idea? I'm especially interested because its a topic that others might consider as a bit of a joke. It's obvious you've embrace that a lot in your online persona, but does it ever get to you or sap motivation?
- qdot76367 5y ago
  Hah, yeah, I've been at this since 2004, so deldo is mid-career for me, and Buttplug has been relatively recent! The perception that I've stuck with a single direction isn't quite how things actually turn out. I work in a general context of devices, and Buttplug is now a through-line for that, but I still get distracted and go off and do random things constantly. It's just usually based around that through-line. For instance, right now I'm rewriting our buttplug application GUIs in Rust using egui, because immediate mode guis looked interesting (and also because electron was a poor choice in the first place). I've also spent most of the year concentrating on VR interfaces to toy control. It all revolves around affective haptics/teledildonics, but that's really just the base camp. Thanks to knowing the field and the technology I need for it, I can go any direction from there. All that said, yeah, I have constant motivation issues. I take weeks/months off at a time (the combo of Metroid Dread, Deathloop and Forza horizon 5 coming out relatively close to each other this past 1.5 months is one of those times :) ). But working in the subject always gives me that base camp to come back to, at which point I can decide which direction I want to go again.

aestetix 5y ago

Important question: is there a vim plugin? You know, for those of us who prefer to keep our text editor and operating system lives separate...

azalemeth 5y ago
I imagine something where the vibration intensity is proportional to the complexity of the commands you enter would be a great "teaching" tool. Either that, or rewards for using hjkl over the arrow keys!

mpfundstein 5y ago

how does QC work?

qdot76367 5y ago
- Release software - Wait for someone brave enough to admit they used said software to show up to my discord or github issues and complain - Fix software - Repeat

Gigachad 5y ago

I love your profile pic on GitHub

qdot76367 5y ago
Awww Thanks! :D

wruza 5y ago

Do these appliances have any sort of http api?

qdot76367 5y ago
Most are Bluetooth to the device. Some have http apis that can be accessed in various ways, either via hosting an http server on a phone that then relays to Bluetooth (lovense connect does this) or doing something like having the device itself use wifi and phone home (the handy does this as well as having Bluetooth). My library, buttplug, handles most permutations of anything that happens. Bluetooth, usb, serial, network, you name it we begrudgingly implement it while mumbling profanities. :3

DonHopkins 5y ago

Tell is about your favorite pull request.

qdot76367 5y ago
One of the worst/best parts of buttplug is that I ended up needed to maintain my own Bluetooth LE library: btleplug (https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug). Worst because working with bluetooth is always THE WORST, best because of the submissions and community that've grown around it. There's 2 types of PRs to btleplug: - People going "here's a PR but uh, why is the library named btleplWAIT WHAT" - People going "here is a PR specifically to fix something in Buttplug thank you"
- muzani 5y ago
  now one of my aspirations is to do a PR for this just so people can go hmmmmmmmmmm when they stalk my github history
  - DonHopkins 5y ago
    As long as he's pulling what you're pushing!

aflag 5y ago

I’ve tried M-x make-baby, but my baby will just alternate between two modes: eating, which she calls “normal mode”, and crying, which she calls “edit mode”. Should I be concerned? At this point I’m just trying to quit, but I don’t know how.

wffurr 5y ago
Are you sure you’re in emacs and not vim?

eevilspock 5y ago

So Deldo is programmed with S-EXpressions?

stusmall 5y ago

I've been really impressed with the heart and soul into a single focus. When I saw this link pop up I thought "Oh it must be using buttplug.io" but was surprised to see it was from you and predates buttplug.io. As someone who can't always retain focus without getting drawn away to the new shiny I want to know, how do you remain focused on this a single family of projects? How deal will keeping from getting drawn away to a fun new idea? I'm especially interested because its a topic that others might consider as a bit of a joke. It's obvious you've embrace that a lot in your online persona, but does it ever get to you or sap motivation?

qdot76367 5y ago
Hah, yeah, I've been at this since 2004, so deldo is mid-career for me, and Buttplug has been relatively recent! The perception that I've stuck with a single direction isn't quite how things actually turn out. I work in a general context of devices, and Buttplug is now a through-line for that, but I still get distracted and go off and do random things constantly. It's just usually based around that through-line. For instance, right now I'm rewriting our buttplug application GUIs in Rust using egui, because immediate mode guis looked interesting (and also because electron was a poor choice in the first place). I've also spent most of the year concentrating on VR interfaces to toy control. It all revolves around affective haptics/teledildonics, but that's really just the base camp. Thanks to knowing the field and the technology I need for it, I can go any direction from there. All that said, yeah, I have constant motivation issues. I take weeks/months off at a time (the combo of Metroid Dread, Deathloop and Forza horizon 5 coming out relatively close to each other this past 1.5 months is one of those times :) ). But working in the subject always gives me that base camp to come back to, at which point I can decide which direction I want to go again.