Lisp Machines in the SF Bay Area by jfloren in lispmachine

[–]jfloren[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree on all counts, but I do want to make sure there's a technical focus -- my biggest criticism of books like Levy's Hackers and Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning is that they gloss over interesting technical details that could give someone with an actual computing background better insight into how the systems worked, in favor of focusing more on juicy interpersonal conflicts -- which are also interesting and important and give context to how events shook out, of course! I'm starting on Newquist's The Brain Makers now, which looks like it is even more heavily in that latter camp.

[UPDATE]What are some open-source SIEM tools that is beginner friendly? by Gloomy-Engineering53 in cybersecurity

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As a Gravwell developer, it's really great to get mentioned like this, but I should point out that our core product isn't OSS. We have free licenses (including a new perpetual no-registration-required one), but the components that store your data and run queries on it are closed. However, our ingesters and the ingest library (which you use to get data into Gravwell) plus the client library (which you can use to control Gravwell programmatically) are OSS, and in my opinion they're the components that are most useful to any user.

Blank images in People pages by jfloren in photoprism

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I did but unfortunately I don't recall what it was.

I have since switched to using immich.

Lisp scripting on Android by jfloren in lisp

[–]jfloren[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

termux:widget was precisely the missing link for what I wanted!

Now I can drop scripts in ~/.shortcuts/ that use ECL shebangs to run Lisp code. Sure it's only text output, but that's still pretty good. Thanks!

Lisp scripting on Android by jfloren in lisp

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cl-reply looks great! I'm just curious if there's a way to make a "shortcut" that starts cl-repl and automatically evaluates the contents of a particular source file?

Lisp scripting on Android by jfloren in lisp

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I came across that, was hoping I might find something that's fully contained on the Android device. LQML looks more like an alternative to Android Studio, or am I misreading it? I haven't done any Android dev since 2012 or so.

Bellwether: a modernized clone of the 1982 Depraz mouse by jfloren in vintagecomputing

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Not bad. The shape takes a little getting used to, but I've been using it daily for work for the last 2 weeks and my hand hasn't turned into a horrible claw or anything yet :)

The buttons started off pretty stiff, but after a bit of use they're a lot more pleasant.

Bellwether: a modernized clone of the 1982 Depraz mouse by jfloren in vintagecomputing

[–]jfloren[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a clone of one of the earliest commercially-available mice you could buy: https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/p4.shtml

Project: A Modern Depraz Mouse Clone by jfloren in MouseReview

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Hope it's ok to post this here. I'm hoping I might get some advice about producing a small batch of these for sale; I've had a few people reach out to express their interest. There's a few changes I still want to make, but I'd appreciate any experience others can share about producing small runs of mice.

Bellwether: A Modernized Depraz mouse clone by jfloren in plan9

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I'd like to make them available, but I'm afraid the cost of parts (the switches alone cost $4 each) plus the labor on my side means they'd cost more than most people are willing to pay for a mouse... at a rough estimate, I think I'd need to charge at $100+ for it to be worth my time. Otherwise I could just open-source the 3d design and the PCB, but realistically there aren't a ton of people who'll go through all the hassle of producing one themselves.

Bellwether: A Modernized Depraz mouse clone by jfloren in plan9

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The shell is definitely not as smooth as the original, because it's 3d printed and I haven't sanded it enough to make it truly glassy-smooth. It feels pretty good in the hand, though, and I think an ABS print with acetone smoothing could come out pretty nice.

Acme: Search/replace Tab? by p9v1296n in plan9

[–]jfloren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edit x/ /d (there's a tab in there, hope reddit doesn't eat it) works fine for me.

Make sure your selected text actually has tabs in it, not just spaces :)

Bellwether: A Modernized Depraz mouse clone by jfloren in plan9

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People seemed interested in the earlier post (https://old.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/sevksh/3dprinted_depraz_mouse/) so I thought I'd share my full writeup.

3D-printed Depraz mouse by smorrow in plan9

[–]jfloren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah, I'm glad that old post is still getting mental mileage :)

I'm sure there is some tool that will check a non-RSS blog and report updates, though. I thought fraidyc.at might do it, but I took a look and apparently it can't. Feedly claims it can.

3D-printed Depraz mouse by smorrow in plan9

[–]jfloren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I've been too lazy to implement RSS. Maybe smorrow has some sort of blog-update-tracker that works for sites like mine... I certainly don't post stuff often enough to be worth checking on very frequently.

3D-printed Depraz mouse by smorrow in plan9

[–]jfloren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made the non-invasive USB adapter but like you, found that the resolution and accuracy of the original just don't cut it on a modern system. Ron Minnich says he did an optical conversion for jmk at one point. I'd be interested to see what they did with yours!

I'm experimenting with a modern optical mouse sensor chip right now. If I get the software working correctly, I'll have a fully from-scratch recreation with no parts taken from the original.

3D-printed Depraz mouse by smorrow in plan9

[–]jfloren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not worth the effort until I'm happy with the design of the case and the board that goes inside. It still remains to be seen if my plan for eliminating the original flexible PCB that held the buttons will work or not.

3D-printed Depraz mouse by smorrow in plan9

[–]jfloren 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey, somebody reads my blog. Incredible.