H3RALD
h3rald@merveilles.town
<p>Just a tinkerer pursuing more minimalist and bloat-free computing. I enjoying crafting and using my own tools, typically using Nim and C, sometimes in JavaScript and of course my very own programming languages (min in particular, and some of its derivatives).</p>
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Post #2835117
I may be getting my hands on a TI-83+ calculator soon, and so I started researching a little bit about it. I discovered you can actually install a custom firmware called KnightOS on it which looks quite neat (other than being fully developed in z80 assembly which is quite a feat in itself). Sadly, there doesn&#39;t seem to be a way to download the latest builds (or any build) because the download link on the site (https://knightos.org/download/) points to an empty page on sourcehut... As I...
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Post #2835116
With the recent sloppification of the Vim codebase, I have been exploring alternative CLI/TUI editors. Out of the vi family: xvi stands out for compatibility and the fact that it&#39;s really tiny. Vis is probably one of the most sane choices given it is fairly lightweight, entirely configurable and scriptable with Lua, and supports structural regulation expressions which seem wicked cool.... But! There is also an obscure &quot;moe&quot; editor (not to be confused with the GNU...
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Post #2835115
Finally found some time to play with my &quot;new&quot; EeePC from 2011! It actually works pretty well, considering it is 15 year old. Battery seems to hold the charge (nearly 3h of battery!!!). I am setting things up on AntiX Linux and posting this using Basilisk browser (independent early fork of Firefox), which is one of the few browsers able to run on this thing that can load the bloated monstrosities that are some modern web sites... GitHub should be outlawed from the Internet just...
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Post #2835114
Released min v0.47.0 (followed by v0.47.1 right afterwards... *ehrm*) https://min-lang.org I finally figured out a pretty serious bug which lead to a rework of how values are stored. Main problem has always been about quotations getting pushed on the stack vs. executed. With this version I am introducing the concept of &quot;lambda keys&quot; to store executable quotations in dictionaries. No more &quot;auto-quoting&quot; of values and other weirdness. Well, it feels good. A...
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Post #2835113
One thing that really pisses me off these days is having to change my toolchain because some maintainer decided to slopify the codebase of some tool or service I am using. Luckily, sometimes there are also no-friction alternatives, such as for Vim...
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Post #2835112
I am a deep believer in synchronicity. From time to time in my life I have had one thing/person/concept pop up in my life once, twice, three times... even more, in a very short time. Typically, it feels like the universe is trying to tell me something, and normally it is about something *positive* that is happening/about to happen *if* I trust the synchronicity... Now, this morning I decided to setup Vim Classic on my Linux vps and even spent basically 1h to compile it from source on iSH on my...