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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 iPhone. It's a slop-free fork of Vim made by Drew DeVault.

Then I was pondering the possibility of ditching GitHub for good and go for Sourcehut, which I really enjoy because it's minimalist, lightweight, and does its job right. It is administered by... huh... Drew DeVault.

Then I was talking about system programming languages like Nim, Zig, Rust, Go.., I thought about Hare and decided to check the web page again and...

Latest news
February 13, 2026 by *Drew DeVault*
Hare 0.26.0 released

Seriously? Wow. Maybe I just gotta follow @drew@social.freebitcoin.gay and see what happens 🤣

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...

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 "lambda keys" to store executable quotations in dictionaries.

No more "auto-quoting" of values and other weirdness.

Well, it feels good. At the end of the day min is the only language of mine that I am actually using regularly, and which powers a few of my other creations as well.

And, best of all, is 100% AI-free! 😊

Finally found some time to play with my "new" 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 because of its sheer bloat, nevermind all the other nasty stuff...

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'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 "moe" editor (not to be confused with the GNU moe editor) which is written in Nim and seems fairly pleasant to use and batteries-included: https://editor.moe/

Probably the most obscure choice, but since I know Nim quite well, could be interest. It also looks polished and with smart defaults + a good feature set...

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'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 got into this rabbit hole, I noticed the username on the sh page: "pixelherodev"... oh well, sure I saw it somewhere... holy crap @pixx@merveilles.town, is that you??? Did you actually write this thing? 😱

I sometime forget how many amazing people are on here. It's just so cool!

@neauoire I had a look, and I think it mostly makes sense. Certain things sound slightly off (e.g. I would have used "inserere" as infinitive for "insere"), and the things that throws me the most is that... I don't know if genders (which are kinda still present) are supposed to match or not. Reading about LSF I guess not, but I would write "lingua de programmatione concatenativA", for example. Also "decimal" should probably be "decimale"? You are matching "porta logica" which sounds right to me, but I am trying to find an authoritative text explaining the rules of LSF... they should be very clear, in theory. So far I found this which should be the original article describing it, but verbs especially seems conjugated "enough" (definitely more than English, for example): https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35803/pg35803-images.html

@neauoire As an Italian, this sounds pretty natural to me! 😊 I wasn't familiar with Latino Sine Flexione (or probably forgot) and I gotta say it is fascinating. It is amazing how removing inflections and conjugation makes Latin much simpler to understand. After all, Italian did a bit of this by removing *some* inflections in favor of adding more prepositions, but this is much easier than, say, reading the original Dante. Reading it also reminds me of medieval "ecclesiastical Latin", which was notoriously simpler for people to understand. And yes, I loved the "sacco" choice. It is still very much used in Italian (as "sack" typically, but also as an emphatic way to mean "a lot of" something). Much simpler (and fun!) than multiset. I could actually say I understood more about Rejoice by reading this than the original doc 😜 please do keep this up!

@i_dabble that's the way! Love it... 🤣

@rek Isn't that used as a form of greeting in the US/Canada? I never know how to reply... typically like that, "good, you?" -- but then if things aren't good on either side then... well, it becomes awkward mess.