Babble, 2025-09-11 08:55 – installing TAB on my Omnibook

So for the past... month and a few days! I've been rebuilding my files, and my website.

This has generally felt good, in a lot of ways, and has been helping refamiliarize myself with computer use in general.

That means I'm feeling ready to start dabbling back into computer programming. A short term goal with that is getting the MUD engine that I wrote in Fennel running again.

Fennel is a computer programming language built on Lua, but uses LISP-style syntax and macros. (I appreciate that the website has a nice little REPL on the homepage.)

And, like I mentioned, it's what I wrote a MUD engine in: TAB, short for /things with attributes and behaviors/.

These days my lingo has shifted a bit, and so I want to reapproach making a MUD engine from first steps, but, first want to check that I can get TAB running.

Cloning it and following the README's instructions to make tab-bin worked without issue.

The basics of TAB worked without issue, but trying to run MarMUD, the MUD of the Groundhog Autonomous Zone, got me issues with sockets.

And since that's another issue, I'll end it here for now, to tidy up my office on this rainy day.