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Old Computer Challenge 2024 Goals

2024-07-15

I'm typing this on my ipad in the iSH terminal emulator, running Vim in Alpine Linux. I am away from home and this and my phone are my only computing devices. This keyboard isnt ideal but it's fine for now.

My goals for this week:

use the command line for most things
use only my ipad with ish and maybe the chip computer when i get home later this week
keep making my forth language and build out more functionality. I'd like to add simple graphics capabilities, but not sure if that's TUI, ascii output, or a drawing API with SDL yet. So I think I'll try out a little of each approach and see how they feel.
stretch goals: make a simple zine (idea borrowed from steve lord)
stretch goals: build simple zine making software, ideally using my forth

Today I set up my ipad environment a bit. I downloaded offpunk and links and w3m. I added a few more packages. I tried out the 3 browsers and founds links the fastest and easiest for me to navigate.

I read the news, some blog posts, read other folks' blogs about their goals or ideas for the old laptop challenge. I did all of this on those 3 browsers. Then I read some articles on Forth. Then I opened vim and here I am writing.

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