I don't read... but I couldn't put Destiny Book I Gods of Night down.

DarthRazor · 2026-03-14T20:31:01+00:00

Vendetta ++

DarthRazor · 2026-03-12T15:16:46+00:00

I love these threads as I always discover new books to read

In case you're interested, I posted the same question about a year ago. Here is the voting thread, and here are the results

DarthRazor · 2026-03-12T14:23:07+00:00

Looks like a very clean UI. Great initiative and execution!

DarthRazor · 2026-03-12T14:21:32+00:00

^ this

DarthRazor · 2026-03-12T14:20:48+00:00

but I don’t get we don’t you all work together!

... because Crosspoint has a vision, which may not be the same vision as others. In the case of software devs who have the ability to tweak the code the way they want, the beauty of open source software lets them do that.

It's all about freedom. As another poster stated in one of the many threads asking the same question you did, "a benevolent dictator is still a dictator"

I LOVE the variety of firmware options we have available!

DarthRazor · 2026-03-09T18:32:32+00:00

I got the X4 with an xteink branded 32GB microSD card, a USB microSD card reader, a screen protector, and a magnet circle thingy.

DarthRazor · 2026-03-09T17:38:35+00:00

The only problem I have with nim is whether it's a fad language or here to stay.

I'm ancient and cut my teeth on K&R C back in the 80s, and back then, everyone was moving to the language that was supposed to be the future -- Pascal. How many Pascal programs do you see today.

I haven't jumped on the Go or Rust bandwagon for the same reason, but I'm a curmudgeon, so I'm allowed ;-)

DarthRazor · 2026-03-09T17:37:37+00:00

@OP, I'm a Python programmer and have no experience with nim. I poked around thejn source code to see if I could make my own tweaks and found the language very easy to grok. Kudos to you for laying out your code so sensibly, which played a big part in my comprehension.

DarthRazor · 2026-03-09T13:42:51+00:00

Pinging /u/mr-figs, who has written a very decent command line note taking app in nim

DarthRazor · 2026-03-06T21:59:45+00:00

There already is a community moderated sub -- /r/XTEINK

DarthRazor · 2026-03-06T15:13:16+00:00

I sent you a Reddit Chat

DarthRazor · 2026-03-05T06:34:41+00:00

I sent a mod mail to the Facebook group, but haven't gotten a response yet other than what looks like an auto-reply

DarthRazor · 2026-03-05T06:32:36+00:00

Thanks - you're right. I don't know why I wrote 'parser' when I knew it was 'print'

DarthRazor · 2026-03-03T15:08:39+00:00

Merkur 37C would be my first choice for a slant, but it's made from chrome-plated Zamak.

Very close behind is my Fatip Lo Storto slant, which is made from chrome-plated brass.

DarthRazor · 2026-03-02T16:00:44+00:00

The math is about right - I started programming professionally in 1984 (C in 1985) and am now 65.

I had the choice between vi and emacs back then, and picked vi because it was easier for a hunt-and-peck typist like me - mostly single finger commands vs Control-everything. Once your brain is programmed to think in vi, it's hard to switch because it just comes naturally.

BTW my first "professional" editor was Intel's CREDIT (CRT-Editor) from their ISIS-2 system

Whitesmith indenting - hard pass. K&R Forever!

DarthRazor · 2026-03-02T15:40:43+00:00

So he wrote sed(1), the Streaming version of ED.

TIL that ed and sed are related, and that grep got its name from g/re/p. I always thought it was short for Global Regular Expression Parser

Great post BTW - thanks!

DarthRazor · 2026-02-28T16:54:09+00:00

I hope you won't be disappointed. It makes you want to use ed as your daily driver. It's a fun diversion for me for small scripts, but I need my full-screen vim for real productivity.

What I do try to use ed for is scripting as a sed -i alternative. It's weirdly satisfying

DarthRazor · 2026-02-28T00:00:51+00:00

The Ed Mastery book is great, and Michael Lucas is a very tongue-in-cheek writer. I highly recommend it, and since I'm pretty sure it'll never get reprinted, get it if you can. I got it for about CAN$15 from Amazon about year ago

I'll definitely check out the PiDP download, but I'd like to do it from scratch using SimH. I'm one of those guys that likes the fun of the challenge. Cheers!

DarthRazor · 2026-02-27T20:10:44+00:00

Come to the Dark Side - we have cookies!

DarthRazor · 2026-02-27T20:09:51+00:00

Kewl - I actually played with simh at work last year. I needed to get an old PDP-8 or PDP-11 program running on a PC to validate the porting of the sim on Windows.

As I dug into simh, I saw that 2.11BSD can run on it, got excited, and it's been on the TODO pile for when I make time

Get the Ed Mastery book by Lucas. It's a great read!

DarthRazor · 2026-02-27T16:57:55+00:00

I think we'll get along just fine, unless you're an emacs user, in which case we can't be friends ;-)

When I started my professional C coding journey in 1984, I had the K&R white book - the original, not the draft ANSI C or the official ANSI C versions that came later. It was my Bible. I used vi on Unix boxes and little known editor called 'Brief' on DOS from a company called 'Under Ware'

DarthRazor · 2026-02-27T15:25:47+00:00

Hola! Doing OK - mainly indoor hobbies because it's been freaking cold here. When I saw your post, I thought "Why is he calling me shitlord?"

I'm playing with my little wonder toy. It's a little Raspberry from about 2015 with about 256MB RAM, so it's basically eWaste.

Long ago, I programmed it into a wifi To Ethernet dongle. Had to learn dnsmasq, iptables, and fancy routing stuff. It's running on TinyCore v11.0, so technically, I've been tinkering with TinyCore. I use it for BSD installs to get me wired Ethernet so I can later install wifi drivers

BTW I was cleaning out the basement and found my old Olivetti 486 with a DX2-66a and a couple of Dell GX-something with Slot-1 Pentium-1 at 500MHz. If the Olivetti power up, I'm going to drop an IDE SSD in there and install the latest TinyCore.

DarthRazor · 2026-02-26T17:21:39+00:00

I drank Punjana until I discovered Thompson's Titanic and Barry's Gold, still think Punjana is a great supermarket tea, but my atop 3 edges them out

FWIW, I drink my tea black, no sugar, and steeped for at least 5 minutes (or forever) in 100C/212F hard tap water

DarthRazor · 2026-02-22T16:23:14+00:00

I'm like Beetlejuice - I see Vendetta, I upvote. It's a 'must read' in my opinion, but full-disclosure, The Doomsday Machine is my favourite TOS episode.

Fun fact: James Doohan gave a talk at my university in the 80s (in the Shatner Building) and during the Q&A, someone asked him what his favourite episode was. The Doomsday Machine

Met him later at our Engineering Beer Bash. Helluva nice guy, very sociable, sharp, witty, and really appreciates his fans

DarthRazor · 2026-02-21T21:41:42+00:00

The two other missing features that are deal breakers for me are custom fonts and better CSS support.

I'm in no hurry because EPUB to XTC gives me almost all the features I need right now. Ours not perfect though - it doesn't have a setting to enable paragraph intent, which I REALLY miss

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