#introduction

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a gravel road winds through the forest. on the right, a "private road" sign reads "eratee" (est.)

i'm looking for some boards that already supported by openbsd

i've been thinking to try what is already supported and maybe rk3588 based computers

15th gen has stability issues
13/14th gen—stability issues and possible cpu damage

o_O

luckily i'm ordering 12th gen... should i stock up more thinkpads with 12th gen cpus just in case we completely lost the art of build reliable hardware? or should i try #riscv?

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.

Finished up my post:

"DIY Home Network with OpenBSD, OpenWrt, and Pi-hole"

https://btxx.org/posts/diy-home-network/

#openbsd #router #openwrt #pihole

(PS. sorry for spamming my RSS readers! Had an odd sync issue with my host)

I've finally finished re-written my website generator in Lua. It's a lot more forgiving than C and hopefully more fun and easy to maintain in the future.

https://nchrs.xyz/

Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!

Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS22wEpmU

A little game I'm working on. i'm new to this platform, so using the opportunity to figure out how it all works.

#pico8 #indiedev #indiegame

#Picotron is my game engine of choice and my favorite computer. I'd love for more people to try it, and I hope that creating little tutorials will lower the boundary.

This video is about creating your very own desktop background, feel free to let me know what other stuff you'd like to see. Maybe I'll do a survivorslike next :)

#lexaloffle #tutorial #gamedev
https://youtu.be/iV6Ky3MOFT4

i don't know what happened recently, but all new thinkpads got that camera bump...

#thinkpad classic look is gone completely

let me know if you can recommend anything else.

i wrote a little time log parser in posix shell. it collects from all the files in my todo directory, selects all the lines formated like this...

# start-time stop-time project: task description
- 20260301-085700 20260301-095640 code: add log.sh

code	05:10:44
home	00:22:00
kids	00:42:40
meta	00:40:22

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Spring desktop.

Finally back to Void again.

#unix

sooo this weekend I finally flashed #Meshtastic onto the #pager 🙌

HOT TIP, when they say "check that your cable isn't power-only", THERE'S A REASON THEY SAY THAT. if it doesn't work, check your cable.. swap it out.. try a different one... Ask me how I know 🙃

Anyway, once that was done, I was shocked to find that I was able to see 4-8 nodes online at any given point!

There's still SO much I don't know, but this is a fun little starter device IMHO.

#mesh #LilyGo

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A Lilygo T-Lora Pager, which is a small rectangular device that looks like, well, a pager, placed on a beige/orange desk mat. It has a gray case, black keys, and orange accents. I made the display colour be orange too, to match. 🤓 The device is showing a base Meshtastic screen: 5/5 Role: Client USA LongFast Freq906.875MHz ChlUtil 2% To the right, a light coloured keyboard.

I am always amazed by the expert mode of the SQLite CLI.

You type .expert
Then you paste your SQL query.
And #sqlite tells you which indexes you should create to speed up your query.

No AI, no complex program to install. No expensive database architect to pay for. It's just clever programming.

To my knowledge this is the only database in the world to have this feature.

https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_expert_
https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk&name=ext/expert

new sale, my biggest yet.
"Ok then: 50 pixel fonts for 50 dollars. How about that?"

https://itch.io/s/181080/ok-then-50-pixel-fonts-for-50-dollars-how-about-that

Just published the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for February!

https://100r.ca/site/home.html#feb2026

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a rabbit in a dress standing in front of a black board covered with Uxntal glyphs. An hommage to the painting Blackboard by Winslow Homer(1877)

#shell #cli

unfortunatelly, i don't have lua in #openbsd base and want to keep number of dependecies low. also imagemagick7 hasn't been ported to openbsd and building imagemagick7 from source is a bit tricky.

thinking to write something like ocular in posix shell or c99 with imagemagick6

#keyboard #svalboard

Okay, it's out.

Lena is a handmade framework for making tiny games with palette graphics.

It's software-rendered, cross-platform and comes with constraints that challenge your creativity without limiting your game's size and scope. It comes with batteries-included palette graphics, some novel palette-blending and drawing effects, a simple audio interface, text rendering, and loaders and decoders for assets. It also compiles and runs on:

🪟 Windows (Native)
🍏 macOS (Native)
🐧 Linux (via SDL3)
😖 WebAssembly (Native)

The core functionality of Lena is implemented from scratch in almost exactly 2,000 lines of Odin, and while I designed it as a fun little game jam framework for myself, I hope it can also serve as an interesting learning tool for people looking to delve deeper into low-level system and engine programming for video games.

🕹️ https://github.com/lichendust/lena

I'm releasing this as a version v0.0.0 on GitHub right now, with the hope of getting some feedback before declaring a truly API-stable 1.0.0 release.

#gamedev #programming #gameengine #odin #pixelart

So close to 10k wishlists on Steam!
Help an indie out? 🙏❤️
https://s.team/a/3675940

#indiedev #gamedev

via @cathos@merveilles.town

see also
demo

it's so touching to see real people make magic happen ❤️

see also
x1 carbon gen 11 by reyk
x1 carbon gen 9 by xosc
x1 nano gen 1 by jcs

i found a thread on community.mnt.re about openbsd status, but not sure if it is still valid.

thank you!