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wvc, 23 days ago to random

Found some retro way to display #NetHack
One interesting thing — the BDF font editor is written in #TclTk and relase from 2003 runs perfectly on a modern system.

Now I think that to display 80 columns of symbols with 16x16 font you need at least 1280 pixels wide display…

Font: https://www.pvv.org/~roarl/nethack/nethack.html
bdfedit: https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/bdfedit.html

Screenshot of an open bdfedit window

wvc, 2 months ago to random

Wow #NetBSD is REALLY lightweight out of the box

wvc, 6 months ago to random

I met a #NetHack legend today. I'm not even mad that I lost this run.
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Gnome_With_the_Wand_of_Death
#gwtwod

wvc, 6 months ago to random

The Wizard of Yendor is first introduced to #NetHack in Hack 1.0.2. From this version through NetHack 2.3e, he appeared in a 1x2 room in the center of his floor's maze with a hell hound (which does not have a breath weapon in this version), and the Amulet of Yendor was placed underneath the hell hound; his glyph was 1, rather than @, as these versions of NetHack did not have color.

wvc, 9 months ago to random

Photos of a sea urchin from my recent vacation in #Sutomore, #Montenegro
These guys are not deadly dangerous but accidentally stepping on one is not a pleasant experience. Of course after taking the photos I had returned this stingy buddy to its home.

Photo of a sea urchin

Edent, 10 months ago to random

Here's a repeat of an experiment I did on Twitter about 5 years ago.

Can you fit an entire Shakespeare play into a single social media image?

This uses the tiny GNU Unifont which is the most compact way to represent most characters.

The image is 4091x2069px and about 460KB . But when expanded it uses about 70MB of RAM - so some devices and services have trouble with it.

If this breaks something unexpectedly, please let me know.

(My original at https://twitter.com/edent/status/970323268283531266/photo/1)

wvc, 10 months ago to random

I did it! For the first time I have finished a ballpoint pen. It took ten months of occasional writing and almost 100 A5 pages written (both sides). Now I'm deciding to switch to pencils or use some other pens.
#stationery #bic #ballpoint

wvc, 10 months ago to emacs

Typing this toot from my #Jorne #ergokeyboard. I have built it in the late 2021 and never really adopted for everyday usage. My primary concern would be learning to type #Emacs keychords and generally using this layout for programming. So for the adaptation period I set keyboard layout as my laptop wallpaper.
Also if anyone is interested in using ergonomic mechanical keyboards — this could be a great intro because required components are cheap and there is still a place for variations.
The project's github page is here: https://github.com/joric/jorne

grim, 10 months ago to emacs

I can't even
#emacs #vi

ms, 10 months ago to random

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wvc, 10 months ago to Bash

Do you practice using non-default shells on your systems? One day, I was thinking about switching from #bash to #fishshell for interactive shells, but I ditched that idea because bash is pretty default, and I have no trouble using it.
On a scale from "zero customization" to "I'm using arch btw," I am probably somewhere in the lower third. Maybe I'm just too lazy, but I only add customizations when they would improve the workflow or solve a problem. Otherwise, "sane defaults" are enough for me.

wvc, 11 months ago to javascript

What is your opinion on creating web interfaces for pet projects? I mean situation where you are making some #petproject with an API of some kind and then you want to add some browser interface to it.
Modern #javascript frameworks and their "build systems" are really complicated despite all of them being marketed as easy to use. Using things like #bootstrap and #htmx is better than go full vanilla #HTML+#CSS+#JS but I'd like to know about some other options if there any