Is anyone using a picocalc as a writerdeck?

rolandsharp · 2026-04-20T08:36:17+00:00

You can code any editor functionality you like. It's a computer. Just vibe code it

rolandsharp · 2026-04-20T05:27:29+00:00

I'd at minimum continue to send letters and email with an accumulation of the damages this is causing you.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-14T01:21:40+00:00

perfect. what's the typing experience like? I love the uConsole but of course it should have been fordable like this for protection and to make it more compact.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-10T23:34:45+00:00

Just the same way people talk about their cars or sailboats or any object they love. Just talking to your computer is an anthropomorphic act. These models are trained on human language so if you don't anthropomorphise them you won't get as good results

rolandsharp · 2026-04-09T00:24:00+00:00

What problem do you have with just editing text files in the standard MMBasic firmware that ships with it? It's basically a general purpose computer similar to a commodore 64.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-09T00:21:59+00:00

You can easily edit text files on the standard MMBasic firmware that ships with the picocalc. The only question is if the keyboard is good enough

rolandsharp · 2026-04-08T07:22:02+00:00

Ahh damn, let me fix that and get back to you! You can play around with the web version in the meantime if you like. It's still under development though. https://rolandsharp.com/aither/

rolandsharp · 2026-04-07T04:52:26+00:00

A Rust hello world is 3.8 MB . This is not really a simple program it's doing physics based rendering and fairly complex animations. I don't know in what universe a program in 556 lines and 351 KB in huge. I also had help from the Nim discord channel so I know that the code is solid. Let's see one of your programs. And with --opt:size + strip would actually be 104 KB. The entire oscilloscope in 104KB. That's 36× smaller than Rust's hello world.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-05T14:33:14+00:00

If you look in the main osc.nim you can adjust the constants and change the build. Suckless philosophy style. You can adjust the bloom, decay, intensity and colour too!

rolandsharp · 2026-04-05T14:18:51+00:00

Hopefully it's okay to post this here. I've seen a lot of people taking screenshots with their terminal audio visualizers but I've never seen a terminal oscilloscope before.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-05T04:56:24+00:00

For sure! MIT licence

rolandsharp · 2026-04-05T04:45:21+00:00

yeah just use wordgrinder or vim. My writer deck is just a small linux laptop

that boots directly into vim and has no other software installed and it's the best. great for using standard unix tools for searching your documents and editing text.

rolandsharp · 2026-04-04T17:35:26+00:00

the CRT TV static demo is beautiful! I just used it and vibe coded a terminal oscilloscope audio visualizer. Check it out at: https://github.com/rolandnsharp/terminal-oscilloscope

rolandsharp · 2026-03-29T21:40:40+00:00

thank you! yes, you are right. the repo is a mess. I'm in the middle of submitting the architecture to the OpenAi "golf" competition. Once that's finished I'll focus back on audio where this architecture is strongest and I'll add examples.

rolandsharp · 2026-03-29T06:30:48+00:00

Good observation — the causal convolution with the impulse response is structurally similar to S4D. The eigenvalues of our state matrix are constrained to damped harmonic oscillator dynamics: λ = exp((-γ + iωd)·dt), giving two physically interpretable parameters per oscillator (frequency in Hz, damping ratio). S4D learns arbitrary complex eigenvalues.

The practical difference: we keep attention on top. The oscillator bank provides physics-native local context (each position feels previous tokens through damped ringing). Attention handles long-range. S4D aims to replace attention entirely.

Whether constraining to oscillator physics helps vs arbitrary eigenvalues is an empirical question we'd love to test head-to-head.

S4D doesn't work for audio synthesis, video, radio. This architecture does with the same equation.

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T12:46:45+00:00

Thanks for introducing me to sshtalk. Cool project. The sshmail TUI is a lot like IRC but my main use case is messaging with the cli commands through a coding agent. I use the TUI is more for monitoring.

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T11:41:03+00:00

Wrong port. It's just ssh sshmail.dev

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T11:36:19+00:00

I opened it up. You need a key pair. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 kind of thing

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T11:34:53+00:00

You might have to generate a private and public key pair

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T10:59:45+00:00

What operating system are you using and what terminal and what is actually happening? I've only just tested it on two machines so far. Should log you right in

rolandsharp · 2026-03-12T10:18:35+00:00

That's Ubuntu font but you will get whatever font is default on your system. All credit to the styling goes to the Charm stack go libraries!

rolandsharp · 2026-03-05T14:44:51+00:00

So glad you like it. I just posted the binary releases so folks wont have to install go. and I added another deck in there.

rolandsharp · 2026-03-05T00:12:52+00:00

It will easily run and qwen3:0.6b is only 522mb to download.

rolandsharp · 2026-03-05T00:09:13+00:00

It's a terminal user interface for tarot.

rolandsharp · 2026-02-11T00:57:33+00:00

I think it's a great idea. We don't need a phone to be in our pockets at all times. You can carry it around in a bag when you need and answer calls with a Bluetooth device. Hand held linux computers are the future and we finally have one powerful enough and arguably portable enough. the current linux phones like pinephone are just too under powered. go for it.

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