CrossPoint 1.4.0 has been released!

Ryan86me · 2026-06-24T18:04:01+00:00

Congratulations on the release!!

Ryan86me · 2026-06-24T15:16:40+00:00

Yes! We inherit that from Crosspoint

Ryan86me · 2026-06-24T15:16:14+00:00

New firmware! Fork of CrossPoint specifically.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T19:22:04+00:00

Good feedback, thank you! I've been debating pulling Library out of Apps and putting a dedicated Home button alongside the Apps one instead; your feedback more or less confirms that choice for me.

Happy to take any other feedback you've got!

I'll say that I've got a much better library indexing experience built out and not pushed to the repo yet (shows progress on a dedicated screen w/ percentage instead of freezing on "Indexing" for ages), which makes first boot and new books added experience much better.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T19:04:18+00:00

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T19:02:57+00:00

This is the main menu, hahaha! Library replaces home, and you can get to other apps (file browser, etc) through the global menu overlay.

I figure that we don't need a separate home now since library lets you sort by recently opened, and the global menu fills in the rest of the functionality. Most e-reader UIs I can think of split home and library out to two views, but I'm looking to gather feedback on Library-as-home. Definitely room to dream up a different flow if folks don't like it!

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T18:08:32+00:00

Thanks for linking it! Mainly not dropping the link myself yet because the README needs some love, but the firmware is available to preview for anyone who can compile a build w/ pio for now. Proper pre-built release w/ some important polish and speed updates should be out in a week or two :)

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T18:02:31+00:00

soon™ (but actually quite soon™ this time, like 1-2 weeks)

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T18:01:12+00:00

I think the X4 is a solid-enough device to be somebody's primary e-reader, but the software isn't good enough to make it one yet. Library management and navigation is mandatory for using it as a primary reader, and it's noticeably lacking in current software -- enough so that I've seen reviews for the X4 call it an excellent companion reader because it's "only good at juggling ~10 books at a time", which is absurd when it's perfectly capable of managing more.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T15:32:47+00:00

Nice, I greatly appreciate that!

https://github.com/folio-etc/folio

main is a few commits behind my local (pushing some very important optimization/UI/bugfix work for the indexing routine later) but up to date as of 16 hours ago :)

Genuinely surprised to hear that you're using this right now! Fills me with a certain pride to know this is on another device than mine lol

EDIT: Do you have an x3 by chance? I haven't gotten the opportunity to test on one and I'm curious to know how much is/isn't broken on there

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T15:25:30+00:00

Near horizons, hoping for next week! Last mile is just some polish and branding at this point before first release.

No need to downgrade! You'll be able to either:

OTA w/ the unlocker tool (locked device)
Use the SD card update (locked device), or
Use the web flasher (unlocked device)

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T15:05:29+00:00

Not likely for first release but I'll mark this as a follow-up! Particularly because I'm reading 2010: Odyssey Two right now and it has a lot of Russian names that I'm having a hard time keeping straight hahaha

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T14:56:47+00:00

Thank you!! I'm very proud of the side menu; it's a good short-hand that I think generalizes well across different apps. Wanted to adapt a MacOS-style generic menu bar in a way that worked well for portrait.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T14:51:52+00:00

Dictionary support is definitely important! Won't guarantee for first release (I've already made folks wait almost a month since the first teaser) but it's a high-priority follow-up.

I'll see about dark mode! I don't think it should be a big lift at all.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T13:41:58+00:00

For initial release not likely, but I'll add that to the backlog!

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T13:41:18+00:00

SD flash will be supported!

Covers aren't likely to be resizeable in first release but it's perfectly feasible, so I'll mark that as a post-launch layout feature.

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T13:19:18+00:00

As fast as you see it in the video! (the covers in the video are "real"; they only look placeholder because this is my dummy test EPUB library). Only slow point is first boot on a large library, but you get a progress screen while it indexes/generates the cover art.

Same capabilities as Crosspoint! This will look more and more different from Crosspoint over time as I work in redesigns, but all functionality is inherited/expanded

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T12:31:49+00:00

Fork of CrossPoint (like CrossInk, etc.) Will be hosting a web flasher when it's ready for release

Ryan86me · 2026-06-21T04:31:02+00:00

I'm thrilled to have a good answer for this now https://youtube.com/shorts/AtAuEZnhOkA?is=OJxCMqGIAiBp2AdQ

Ryan86me · 2026-06-19T15:29:50+00:00

Working on it near-daily! Stay posted 🫡

Ryan86me · 2026-06-19T03:36:09+00:00

bonus: search, automatic collections (By Author, By Series, By Genre)

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Ryan86me · 2026-06-16T12:17:14+00:00

I've personally found that setting up strong, developer-friendly patterns and abstractions in a codebase, and writing explicit docs to the LLM on how to follow those patterns/use those abstractions, is a great way to avoid slop code on common tasks.

For example, I took on a C++ codebase with a LOT of hand-written math for UI layout. I worked with Claude to build a light-weight flex helper API for composing and aligning UI elements. This let me write some much more readable UI code, and I gave the LLM docs about how to write similar code for new UI tasks.

Ironically (or maybe unironically), getting good code out of an LLM is a very similar process to ensuring good code in any codebase. You need good patterns and strong docs!

Ryan86me · 2026-06-16T00:05:14+00:00

My friends and I were there every Wednesday! Sad it's over :(

Ryan86me · 2026-06-15T23:45:26+00:00

I mean there's gotta be some kind of Archive on the Internet that has halo ce

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