that was simple

of course way more limited than using the "proper" font drawing stack, BUT it's entirely slop-free and you can use the turye font editor to make your own! There are some really neat uf2 fonts (can't remember the last time any TTF font actually intrigued me)

So UF2, the font format from the uxn ecosystem, is quite simple to implement in C as well.

Finally some simple text widgets are coming to my river WM :)

A UF2 font file has 256 characters. I could use some of those for other assets as well, like icons.

was about to go to sleep (I /really/ need it), but a friend just sent me a link to a 6h video: "the x-files mythology makes perfect sense, actually"

oh no

(I am the perfect target audience for that and I am not proud of it. It's a tailor-made trap, really)

currently curious about programmable handheld computing devices that are explicitly not traditional general purpose computers, to get away from the linux desktop stack

the xteink4 seems neat, but the major FOSS firmware project for it already has AI assisted commits merged

the pinenote seems neat, but turns out it just runs linux

my experience with the pinetime was not very fun, it's not really feasible to hack on its software

any I've missed? Ideally in the sub-150€ range

Looked at a github repo for the first time this week, immediately "hit a secondary rate limit". Ok?

Github is now officially worse than alternative git forges. The arguments about githubs uptime vs that of f.e. codeberg are silly; doesn't really matter if github is up if I can't access things anyway...

I'll file this under "things I was right to be principled about a few years before it became obvious".

Was initially writing a little lisp interpreter (wanted to try out how a lisp without cons cells works), but got bored, so I guess I am writing a cat lang now?

I re-used the dynamically typed object I had implemented for the lisp, including a very primitive numeric tower. Cat langs evaluation model is a lot simpler. I also want to try to include lambdas, but that might require syntax *shudders*

But that's all for tomorrow 🐈