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Quinten Konyn
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I might share things I make here.
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Still frustrated that the play store won't let me even view the Balatro page after buying it and then upgrading my phone to a Pixel 9 Pro with @grapheneos.org installed.

Is @playbalatro.com doing some hardware checks they don't realize is locking out modern phones for being de-googled?
search result for "balatro" from the google play store. result: "Looking for Balatro? This app won't work for your device"
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Tip for programming in small chunks!
Git status CLI message. Untracked files: (in caps lock) To do: add help controls
May 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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YES LOOK AT THAT. Text input!!!

Add tasks on the fly!!! Pause and log what your interruption was!!! Record mode for generating routines!!!

It's all just opened up!!!
Accordion Task TUI with the debug panel pulled up. There is some keysmashing with a cursor at the end of it overlapping the border of the debug panel.
May 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Help menu because I keep adding commands :)
Menu from a TUI in the command line: labeled "Help" with a list of controls and what they do. Enter: Complete S: Skip J, K: Navigation Question Mark: Help Menu D: Debug Panel Q, Esc: Quit Accordion Task
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Oh dear a bug. Probably because I don't have a GUI on this computer? Probably quick to fix.
Lua error message upon opening NeoVim. In my init file: invalid value for option 'mouse': expected string, got boolean false
May 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Another:

(I love that BlueSky lets you inspect the alt text visually.)

I think that I tend to use a lot of interesting verbs? Like the use of "inhabit" here.
Tiny pink worms inhabit a pixelated subterranean network of caves. One of the worms is wiggling.
May 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I've gotten a little more artsy in a storytelling way, but haven't showcased them in my new website at Quin10Ko9.com

Example:
Porygon is rendered with flat lighting across each triangle: a red body, cyan accents, and dramatic dark blue shadows. The big eyes and tiny pupils stare blankly at you, but it's a little cute.
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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My friend and I are making a little UI library in Rust because we wanted something fancy with pixel-level control.

This week we made it possible to chain commands to build quads.
Source code with a program window partially covering it. The window is titled "Hello Pixels". It contains a main area and a sidebar. The main window says "Icecube can render text!!" in a bitmap font at the top, with the rest empty. The sidebar contains some stacked elements: empty red boxes and "hello world" text, alternating a few times. The colors are weirdly arranged. The source code shows a commented-out block defining a struct "quad_1" manually by setting its elements width, height, and style. Below, the current code defines quad_1 instead with a constructor that sets the size, chained with methods fill, border_thickness, and border_color. Below is partially cut-off code showing a few variables being defined that are copies of quad_1, each being used to construct a new instance of the Node struct.
March 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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We had like 5 of these and they were my first non-edutainment video games. Where's the video game history about cheap game bundle hardware.
Packaging: Plug and play tv games namco ms pac man packaging: 5 original arcade classics including galaga, a racing game, a top down shooter, and mappy. Jakks Pacific brand
February 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Look they match now :,) after a big detour into improving my assembler so I could copy-paste the example!
Two identical grids of squares. The squares have a little four-color design that is the same for each, but with the colors swapped around. The colors are swapped in exactly the same way for each of the two grids.
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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YEAH
A "hello world" program in UXN assembly shown in three ways. 1: The output "hello" in the console. 2: The assembly code. It defines an "EMIT" macro (801817 in hex) and then uses it for each letter. 3: The assembled binary shown with a hex reader. The macro's contents (801817) appear six times-- one for each letter.
January 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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first multi-colored band on the inkle loom
a narrow band with stripes and dots running lengthwise is half-woven on an inkle loom. it has dark purple, reddish browns, and teal.
December 30, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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new toy (inkle loom) new skill (weaving)

doesn't count as a new hobby, though. all of fiber arts is counted as one hobby. experts agree.
A narrow woven band is wrapped around an inkle loom, in the process of being woven. It is a plain weave and a solid color.
December 26, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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I have no idea where I'm going to end up wanting the symbols, but the digit, decimal point, and enter locations are important.
keyboard layout: 0 and backspace are on thumb keys. numpad centered on the middle finger. enter and decimal point are near the pinky. arithmetic operators are haphazardly placed on either side of the numbers.
December 25, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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three animal-people busts roughly sketched in pen on the back of an envelope. the puffin has sunglasses. the shark has a lot of teeth. the seagull glares.
December 24, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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I say I'm not much of a pixel artist but I did make this cute mouse
An adorable, low-detail brown mouse. It has cute wispy ears. Its eye is just one pixel big. It is in the same pose as the mouse from the Windows 3D Maze screensaver. It is against a garish orange background, and some of the shading is inexplicably purple.
December 6, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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More fun with TURBO Pascal
Red dots tracing out a twisting figure with two interlocking loops in the middle Red dots tracing out the outline of a 10-petaled flower. Red dots in a donut-shaped cloud.
December 1, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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This is what my drawing code looks like, which is called in a loop as fast as it can. (Though I'm limiting the cycles of DOSBox-X to reasonable historic values.)

Basically, I'm redrawing the line from the previous frame in the background color and then drawing the new line.
TURBO Pascal source code. The "Frame" procedure takes in a variable "t", draws a static line, draws a line that varies with time in the background color, draws the same line that varies with time but using "t+1" where the previous one used "t", and then draws moving text that says "AAA".
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Okay so I've got graphics working, but I'm getting some classic single-buffer flickering going on and I can't stand it.

Is there a way around this in either TURBO Pascal (v3) or DOSBox-X? Was this an issue in the past that people had to work around? Or did monitors being different smooth it out?
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Well... It was a little more complicated than that, because .pas is not a file extension that neovim uses for pascal. I figured out how to add it though, and we're all set now. Plus, syntax highlighting!
Code snippet in Pascal. Some keywords and built-in functions are a different color. In the status bar, it says "dos" and "pascal". There are no longer any visible ^M or ^Z characters.
November 25, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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The problem is that DOS expects these little ^M's after each line, and then a ^Z at the end. I wonder if I can put something in my config to add (and hide?) these characters at the appropriate spots. Anyone know if neovim has this as an existing feature?
Part of a file in neovim, written in Pascal. At the end of each line, a gray ^M is displayed, and there is a ^Z on the last line.
November 25, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Okay I moved to DOSBox-X (way better user experience) and got the version of TURBO Pascal that has "IBM PC Goodies" like graphics functions. I stripped down one of the examples, and now I have a program that draws a line and leaves it on the screen until you press escape!
DOSBox-X window that says it's running the program "TURBO". There are menu items at the top (Main, CPU, Video, etc). In the window there is a little green line. At the bottom it says "Press ESC to stop" in a bitmap font.
November 25, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Here's something I couldn't find on google: during the "installation" of the IDE, you select your "terminal". What does this mean?? I know it has to do in part with the dimensions of the screen in rows/cols?
Text in DOS: Choose one of the following terminals: [then a list of 32 names] Which terminal?
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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I would rate Turbo Pascal as having a quick zero-to-hello. I would rate DOSBOX and/or DOS as making the process much more painful, but we got there.

I will definitely need to be writing down the exact DOS commands I used to get it running. The Turbo Pascal manual is nice, though.
November 23, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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ok I'm seeing enough diagrams
arxiv.org/abs/2202.12390
science diagram. reversible drag: green rounded rectangle with an eye and a tongue. some arrows beside it with mu lat and mu long showing symmetry. non-reversible drag: now the same snake with big scales along its belly and a new set of arrows where one of the mu lon arrows is much longer (the one pointing backwards)
November 22, 2024 at 11:50 PM