Status Update: July 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...

G’day! This month I wanted to start off working on something short, sweet and fun; something more akin to a typical weekend project that can be “completed” in a reasonable amount of time. I found inspiration from Devine’s personal wiki, XXIIVV, on a page that contained a grid-based clock with lines scanning across the screen as time progressed....

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...