Improvements to bashbuilder, my bash-only build system:
* Adds unit tests with near full coverage.
* Improves testability, which, in general, improves architecture and logic.
* Changes error handling from `set -e`, which is considered BAD, as I learned, to explicit error handling where needed.
https://codeberg.org/harald/bashbuilder
#bashbuilder
#buildsystem
#softwaredevelopment
#programming
#make
#gradle
#ant
#blt
#cmake
The killer queen. Damn she has presence. Legacy Antagony. . . . . . . #transformerslegacy #transformersbeastwars #predacon #toyphotography #Antagony #lightpiping #nature #naturephotography #toys #ant #beastwars
Just learned what a Winter Ant is. They are only active in cold weather aprox. April and September. otherwise hibernating.
Improvements to my bash-only build system:
* All functions provided now consistently have the prefix 'bb', like bbTarget, bbMain etc.
* Using bbImport, though, allows to get rid of them again in a build script, if so preferred.
* Moves most API documentation to doc comments in the script itself.
* So the project now has a build script 
called bb, to extract this documentation.
https://codeberg.org/harald/bashbuilder
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#buildsystem
#softwaredevelopment
#programming
#make
#gradle
#ant
#blt
#cmake
That's it. I got the bug.
Now I've an urge to take picture of everything ant related.
Improvements to my bash-only build system:
* Adds (environment) variables as dependencies/targets on par with files and directories.
* Changes call direction from bashbuilder->buildscript to the reverse. Now bashbuilder is "merely" a library, instead of requiring to be 'main'.
* Adds generated file lists as dependencies/targets.
https://codeberg.org/harald/bashbuilder
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#buildsystem
#softwaredevelopment
#programming
#make
#gradle
#ant
#blt
#cmake
Hercules the Ant.
I put the tiny urchin shell on the smooth granite stone for some black and white photos. Later I saw this ant scrambling around it.
#stem #science #biology #paleontology #fossils #insects #ant #cool #Dominicanrepublic #Caribbean
First Caribbean 'dirt ant' found in 16-million-year-old amber which is really pretty metal when you think about it \m/
Kenya: quatre personnes arrêtées pour trafic de fourmis 
Quatre personnes ont été arrêtées pour avoir tenté d’exporter illégalement plusieurs milliers de fourmis vivantes pour les vendre à des collectionneurs en Europe ou Asie.
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20250416-kenya-quatre-personnes-arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9es-pour-trafic-de-fourmis
Free Linear Space – space little animals, bugs, ants
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/04/free-linear-space-space-little-animals.html
#retrogame #retroprogramming #freebasic #space #galaxy #verticalshmup #spaceshooter #little animals #ant #insects #ufo #arcade #caterpillar #cocroach #spacefriends #linear #2dart #drawing #8bit #msx #msdos #16bit #gamedev #devlog
When fetching the twig photo, I noticed something red. I saw something scurry past at the time but on first look thought it had missed the frame.
Most of the creature is hidden in the groove. The obvious things are the huge antenna and the two segments which are grey, against the others in orange and red.
Ants are not my province at all. In the USA this could likely be a twig ant but we don't have those in the UK.
Or maybe we do...
I did it again: create a project builder, this time bash-only.
https://codeberg.org/harald/bashbuilder
This is my fourth.
Had a run-in with an #ant and a #troll the other day. #photo #photography
This beautiful lady is Solenopsis invicta. Measuring barely over 2 mm long, she is a member of an incredibly successful species.
Unfortunately, she is far outside her native range, and doing incredible damage to her local ecosystem.
It isn't her fault that she's a fire ant.
