Mastodawn

i gave noodle a try in #uxn and it's a very charming program. i am not amazing at drawing but i drew my profile picture in it with a mouse. i did some drawing with paint from #plan9port (from #9front ) before and it is definitely an upgrade. i have used #gimp but it's a bit much to be honest.

#art #drawing

Antony Apr 27

Been playing with the Acme editor from #plan9port. Very much out of my comfort zone (vi-like editors) but so far I quite like it. My goal is to install #9front on my old Thinkpad T430 and use it for writing in my bedroom once I've properly gotten to grips with the editor. Seems like a solid choice of OS for reducing distractions and I find a lot of the ideas behind #plan9 really appealing.

General use daily driver is – and will remain – #openbsd, of course.

ravenbrook Apr 24

was looking through the 9term source code to try and hard code the font and i found this gem.

I did not change the font if anyone is wondering, ill just stick to launching it with a different font.
#unix #plan9 #plan9port #9term

ravenbrook Apr 24

so i have been learning #sam and #acme properly and oh my god. acme is the best editor i have ever used. i love the fact that it really is an os interface in its own right. i have been completely underutilising it. i now have a setup on my second desktop at all times.

sam just seems like ed on steroids with a lot of the acme benefits of the mouse interface.

i am using acme for actual work or writing and i use sam for quick edits or config files.

#plan9 #plan9port #texteditor

marocddot Jan 19

Spent the weekend jamming on #plan9port (just for #acmeEditor) and a bit of "bare metal" C programming for an ATTiny3217 (paired with an ADXL355 accelerometer). Alternated between #openbsd (on a Thinkpad Carbon X1) and an M1 MacBook Pro.
Porting support for the antiquated avr-gcc to OpenBSD was a pain.
Nice to know that if I wanted to ditch my MacBook and go rogue, I can pick up where I left off on my OpenBSD Thinkpad.

Anthony Sorace Nov 24, 2025

Because I had forgotten since the last time I had to figure this out: to get plan9port compiling on linux mint (and likely others), ‘apt install libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext-dev libfreetype-dev libfontconfig-dev’ to resolve missing dependencies.

#plan9 #plan9port