arbor's alt for coding

i dont like using python, it doesnt feel like coding it feels like lying

i turned the packaging for the rp2040 into a lil protective case i can plug the usb cable into and so i can do dev work in bed without worrying about breaking it, and i can open the case to test inputs with a wire i keep in my backpack :3

i am absolutely in the "rewrite everything in rust" camp but i dont think that is entirely due to anything about rust. some stuff works perfectly fine, like vim isnt broken or anything, but ux has evolved over the last few decades and a rewrite in any language has a good chance of being done with the hindsight of all that time. i just think rust is super fun to code in and dont really get the technical objections to it. theres some awful shit in its management but thats true of most languages. code in what's fun for you

helix is really neat, i didnt know terminal-based editors could have features

learning helix has been really fun so far

im gonna try to do projects in it for a while and see how i like it

license that says "you can do anything you want with this, but in doing so you affirm that you are trans" to scare away the nazi "no politics in my software" crowd

i am legit gonna put this in the repo for my project

ive somehow committed to making 160+ glyphs in 32x32

sigh

ok, ill try to do 20/day, and not burn out

spent a few more hours on 10-2 tonight. still dont have it. my algorithm is sound, but theres an error in the code somewhere that i havent found

hmm. i opened my tranbook for the first time in 3 days and the brightness button support i added no longer works

i will investigate this later, it's code time

aaaaaaa the stuff im doing with the former chromebook tranbook is making me so happy

this salvaged hardware is giving me that "new tech" excitement that i havent felt from actual new tech in a long time. ive put a soul in this empty form. im gonna do so many cool things on it!!! its smaller form factor is letting me do so much more than i can with my older, bigger laptop, like randomly deciding to program in bed and just. grabbing it. without it being a Whole Thing

this is awesome