Piku 9x
Map Rousch
piku is considered STABLE. It is actively maintained, but "actively" here means the feature set is pretty much done, so it is only updated when new language runtimes are added or reproducible bugs crop up.
It currently requires Python 3.7 or above, since even though 3.8+ is now the baseline Python 3 version in Ubuntu LTS 20.04 and Debian 11 has already moved on to 3.9, there are no substantial differences between those versions.
Since most of its users run it on LTS distributions, there is no rush to introduce disruption. The current plan is to throw up a warning for older runtimes and do regression testing for 3.7-3.12 (replacing the current bracket of tests from 3.5 to 3.8), and make sure we also cover Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 11 and Fedora 37+.
The Haiku. Short. Beautiful. Meaningful. But just not nerdy enough for pi day.
Nope. March 14th, 3/14, is like geek thanksgiving. It comes with pi pie and everything now! And starting this very moment, with your help, Pi day is about to get its own genre of poetry!
Who's with me???
If the answer is YOU, then push up those glasses and grab your inhaler because we've got some work to do!
Haiku is the genre of poetry that we will be defacing in our creation of this new movement of geek art. Wait a second... Art Geeko anyone??? Man. Pi day is the best.
Anyway, back to Haiku. Hit Wikipedia for a deeper explanation, but essentially haiku is a form of poetry consisting of three lines. The first line has five syllables. The second line has seven syllables. The third line has five syllables. Hence;
Haiku is so old.
But math is even older.
Math needs an art form.
Get it? Three lines. 5-7-5.
Ok, Haiku is almost certainly more than just a syllabic formation. For example, the classic theme of haiku is nature. But haiku is not our concern here. Our concern is Piku!
(Pronunciation key-- pi-koo. Get it?)
Art is so subjective. But not Piku! Here at the genesis of this glorious blending of art and math, I propose a clear and definitive categorization system for all Pikus henceforth brought into the world.
In honor of Pi, all Pikus shall fall into one of three categories. Category 3, Category 1, and Category 4.
Category 3-- one requirement--any poem meeting the basic structural requirements of piku. This is the lowest class of piku, but still worthy of appreciation.
Category 1-- two requirements--a poem that is both piku in structure and nerdy or geeky in subject matter. This is the middle class of piku.
Category 4-- three requirements-- a poem that is piku in structure, nerdy or geeky in subject matter, and specifically related to the fields of science or technology. This is the highest class of piku. The stuff that piku dreams are made of.
With the help of these three categories, may the universe of piku flourish with creativity while maintaining the scientific imperative of categorization! And remember, these categories denote only complexity, not superiority. Its a category, not a grade.
Examples--
Category 3-- entry-level piku
That one guy.
Burt.
He lives next door.
This is the proto-classic category 3 piku. It maintains the 3-1-4 structure, while lacking the nerdiness or geekyness required to attain category 1 status.
Category 1-- mid-level piku
Exegete.
Please.
Or stop talking.
This will serve as the proto-classic Category 1 piku. It maintains the 3-1-4 structure. It is nerdy or geeky enough that those outside of its realm of reference may not understand it. But it is not specifically related to the fields of science or technology.
(Spoiler--exegesis is the Latin term for drawing the meaning out of a text or passage.)
Category 4-- true piku
Dark matter.
Warm.
Gravitino.
3-1-4. It's a piku. But what CATEGORY?? It's about the Internet and a mathematical equation, so it's within the realm of science and technology, which would imply category 4... But it's just not that nerdy or geeky. Almost everybody knows that Google is built on an algorithm. Can something be both nerdy/geeky AND pop culture?? If it doesn't meet the nerdy/geeky test, then this piku doesn't qualify for category 1 or 4. Only category 3. But that can't be right!
I know one that starts with Hero and rhymes with hai-ku is clearly working towards that end (based on public activity, of course anyone working at the company, cough me, cough cannot issue forward looking statements).
Some conversation from the orange site led to the webapp-tutorial being linked from the piku homepage, which is recently improved. I also did a little comparison between piku deployments for various languages/runtimes vs PHP app deployments over there.
This command lets you pick pikpik carrots. After picking all you can that day you can pick +1 more the next day. If you decide to pick them make sure to pick them all or the ones that don't get picked will spoil and you have to start back at the number that you did pick that day +1. The command doesn't factor in days you forgot to pick so even if you didn't pick for a week you could still continue from where you left off with no loss of pickable carrots.
When you have at least 10 carrots left in your garden you can send a piku hb, command "owo piku hb". This harvests 10 carrots, but only gives 5. After 10 minutes you can recall the hb with "owo piku hb". The Carrots are harvested upon sending, instead of when recalled, so if you send the piku hb out in the last few minutes in the day it wont be a waste.