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Still poking at a tablet pen input method. It's starting to feel really nice. Writing 'e' and 'o' still trips me apparently XD. I was tired of having to toggle modes, so I've removed the toggle and split the interface into three sections(uppercase, lowercase, symbols) so I can draw direction in the mode I need!  @neauoire just made me think, what is happening with potato, is it just being deprecated or salvaged into parts for porporo? @neauoire a tiny bit of history, aligned to both this tablet stuff and the data flow stuff… the rand corporation created a system called GRAIL that was a data flow visual programming language whose primary input method was tablet gestures. youtube has a demo film (from 1969) For our upholstery projects we needed a longer ruler than the longest one we had. To make a ruler: First, get a ruler. Reading the december adventure feed, nearly halfway into the month, you'd expect people to have started to play with stuff, but the feed reads like most are lost in the weeds of setting their servers or environment and whatnot so they can finally begin. For a chillout event, it looks exhausting af @neauoire What feed? I am pushing through the Alpine Linux Issue tracker as my #decemberadventure, and it's so much fun! Added punctuation to my little shorthand recognition engine(yes, like palm's graffiti). The idea here is to assign to each one of these glyphs, a reduction into arrows that can be input easily with a d-pad, and then replace the orca glyph input system with this on instead, so I can "draw" livecoding. https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/grail/tree/main/item/src/grail.assets.tal
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 Went to a reception organized by the local athletics club, met some folks at the event that have been training there for over 50 years. Octogenarian goals right there. For the past two days, I've been experimenting with making an input method that allows me to draw glyphs as keyboard replacement. To reduce mistakes, I've added alternative shapes for some of the characters so if I miss a direction or two it still understands what I'm trying to type. The whole whole thing is a tiny 1.6kb rom.
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 Uxntal lambdas to build quick data structures  @neauoire It still makes my head spin that you made a stack machine do lambdas. I just have so much trouble wrapping my head around that. It looks like I might be able to add basic support for cursive, or at least characters with ligatures.
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@neauoire hah i remember a story that came out about a guy who wrote so much Graffiti that he lost the ability to write properly with paper and pen. he couldn't sign checks properly. ...remember checks? @neauoire wow first time i'm seeing this! so one had to write exactly in this format or the Palm Pilot wouldn't recognise the input?  @neauoire common stackoverflow nerd: there are almost never bugs in the compiler, its usually user code I've been scratching my head on how to handle capitalized letters and special characters. I think a shifted mode is a better option than learning twice as many glyphs, or disambiguating for all these similar characters(w,W,m,M,o,O, etc) I'd like to leave space for the uxntal alphabet I freakin' got it!! Text recognition from drawing letters in #uxn!
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 It's a slippery slope from making a flow-based operating system, to why do I even have a keyboard to do computing at all, to I could do it all with my pencil, to fuck it let's implement GRAIL.
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 @neauoire coincidentally, I was doing something similar a few months ago. It was aimed to dislexic people doing math. So only supports numbers, it recognizes flipped gestures (you can draw a 5 looking to the left), and aligns to the grid. Wip, hacky implementation, etc. Everything is in the page source code, no dependencies. |
@neauoire my favourite use of Graffiti was in Z machine based text games, on Palm III -- it felt just right not to type but to write with the stylus, it fits perfectly into the book/diary logic of text games
@neauoire hi! I found you in the mermaid hashtag! I’m writing a #mermaid book series! If your interested you should follow me! I’ll follow back! 👩🏻💻🧜♀️💬📚
@neauoire IMO that looks slower than typing it all out, but it's still pretty cool