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Love it! I'm fascinated by all things Spirograph and built my own digital version of the more traditional toy here: https://nathanfriend.com/inspiral-web


Very cool!


This is fun!


I use FreeCAD! https://www.freecad.org/ It's a bit rough around the edges but now that I know its quirks I'm pretty productive with it.


QBasic was my first language! I recently stumbled across all my old QBasic programs from my childhood and resurrected them with DOSBox: https://origins.nathanfriend.com/


I had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro! I thought it was done for but it seems to have recovered over the last few months and I don't see it anymore.


> And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.

Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw this book recommended in another thread and have been checking over the last several months in hopes that it has been restored, but no luck yet. Tempted to just buy it from another platform.


Oh no! You're right - I just checked and luckily it's still in my Audible library, but indeed, searching for it on the store yields nothing :-(

I see it's available for sale here at least:

https://www.audioeditions.com/the-invincible?sp=378507


How bizzare, I expect this from streaming services, but I suppose I never considered Audiobook distribution "gatekeeping"... Delisting from Audible must be a massive hit to any audiobook's sales numbers


ChatGPT makes a great regular-English-to-Death-Metal-English translator when prompted with the examples from this article: https://chat.openai.com/share/261034ff-f5d5-404c-b354-c9d58e...


https://nathanfriend.io/

Very infrequent updates on my latest side projects.


Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed).

I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite happy with!


Good point, but IMO mechanical programmable keyboard with hardware shortcuts are the way to go. That way you can remap to one-handed, or even one button, or whatever you like. You can even take it with you between machines. It's like a portable "human interface" that stays with you.


On Mac, you have the "Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘" layout which retains QWERTY shortcuts.


I used to love this, eventually just took the plunge and learnt the shortcuts though and I'm more productive because I can use non-Mac Dvorak layouts.


I'm a dvorak user and never really found a way around the shortcut issue. Mac has a native option to use Dvorak with QWERTY shortcuts which is what I prefer, but on windows you have to use buggy programs to map the shortcuts over. Never found anything that worked great. Linux is even worse since you have to mess around with the OS to get it to work, and is a bit different between distros / flavors.

In the end I use a Ergodox keyboard that switches the layout to QWERTY if you hold down the control key, works flawlessly and haven't had to deal with it since.


15 years on dvorak and shortcuts are the primary impediment. The mac tweaked shortcuts work nicely, but they're not consistent. Swing based UI ignores them. It's also still a bit confusing dealing with ctrl-* vs anything that has a cmd, including cmd-opt-shift-* etc. Seems like re-implementing the mac tweak but in a more complete way manually in qmk would be the ultimate cross-platform solution.


For me it was the burden of typing 'ls'. I'm in the shell a lot, and the dvorak layout is very much _not_ shell friendly.


This depends on taste. I find it very easy to type "ls" on Dvorak, where it is typed with the same finger on adjacent keys.

Moreover, the variant of Dvorak that I use is much more shell-friendly than any QWERTY layout.

While for the alphabet and for the punctuation signs that are used in natural languages I use a layout closer to the initial Dvorak layout from 1932 than to the modern Dvorak layout, for the other non-alphanumeric symbols I have made a few changes that I consider best for typing shell commands or other kinds of programs.

The pre-WWII Dvorak layout does not say anything about most non-alphanumeric symbols and there are no suitable standards for them (i.e. any standards than are based on rational criteria, not on preserving a random historical layout), so anyone who wants an optimal keyboard for programming or work with a command-line interface should design a custom layout for the non-alphanumeric symbols, according to taste and experience.


Sorry, I don't follow: `ls` is dragging your right pinky downward. How is that not shell friendly?

(I mean, to each their own, I use dvorak because other layouts hurt my hands, but I would presume there are better non-shell-friendly examples -- but interestingly, I couldn't readily find them since `mv` is also just the right hand, unlike its qwerty friend)


"ls -l" is a bit awful as it's all with the right pinky finger. Compared to pretty much everything else I type on Dvorak, it's terrible.

I have "alias hh='ls -l'" in my .zshrc.


I've been using dvorak exclusively for over 20 years. Best investment of my career. I don't bother remapping keys and just learn them however they land on the layout.


For Emacs controls, I found that Dvorak is not much of a problem after remapping it a tiny bit:

    (keyboard-translate ?\C-c ?\C-n)
    (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-c)


I ended up with the following[0]

    (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-t)
    (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x)
Along with a quick function to make sure I don't forget :)

    (global-set-key
     (kbd "C-t") 
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (run-with-timer 
        0.3 nil 
        (lambda ()
          ;; Assuming these are the default values
          (setq visible-bell nil)
          (setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)))
       (setq visible-bell t)
       (setq ring-bell-function nil)
       (error "Don't press that button.")))
[0]: https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.o...


I use a TypeMatrix keyboard to get around the moved keyboard shortcut keys for copy paste.


Think I found a bug! Left the tab (on Firefox mobile on Android) and then revisited it, and now it says: "Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this" with a score of 102.3 (I'm assuming 100 is supposed to be the max score?).


I think this means you “landed” at 0mph. No idea how this would have happened in the background though…


If I understand correctly, I think they mean that the bug is that they achieved a perfect landing by leaving the tab. I think.


Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids. Nice tutorial at the beginning, too.

Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.


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