Status Update: September 2024

G’day! Exploration towards building Ica (a GUI code editor) has continued in October. Having figured out a rendering strategy at the end of last month, the next step has been to design a framework/engine that sits atop the rendering layer and deals in terms of element trees, event listeners, and effect observers. At this level we don’t have to...

Earlier this month I was exploring Devine’s public wiki, XXIIVV, and I landed on the entry about time. This page contains a mesmerizing clock displaying time as a grid of lines scanning across the screen. Figure 1. Screenshot of Devine's Arvelie-Neralie grid clock. I was unfamiliar with the format of this clock, shown in figure 1 as “18T03...

Post, Repository Clock representing time as a grid of lines sweeping across the screen. Inspired by Devine’s Arvelie-Neralie clock.

G’day! Last month ended with completing the local-export subsystem in Pinto which was the last piece before I could use Pinto for my personal bookmarks. And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing, using Pinto almost everyday this month. I’ve discovered a few small bugs which have been fixed, and some areas where the UI can be improved. But for the...

G’day! This month I’ve been continuing the momentum with Pinto. The ideas developed from last month on tagging and the design of the Scoped Tagging mechanism (see Scoped Tagging of Bookmarks) have materialized into an implementation. We have scopes, we have tags, and we have pages and a UI to display them both. Figure 1. Screenshot of a page of...