Glodot == Godot + Gleam. It's a way to run Gleam code inside Godot.
\n"Who discover this?" - Me!
\n"Glodot is for whom?" - It's for people who like FP (Functional programming) and want to use it for gamedev.
\nGlodot is ideal for the domain logic (like writing complex algorithms). Even for simple stuff like handling result from swipe gestures in a 2048 game, writing in Gleam is way more breathable compared to GDScript.
\nHowever, it's hard to interacts directly outside of domain logic from the Gleam code (like interacts heavily with the node tree and handling physics for exmaple)...
\nGodot is a great game engine but GDscript is not a good language to do domain logic stuffs. And yes, C# is better but not as good as a real FP langauge.
\nGleam is the savior that fill the gap in the Godot ecosystem. Its syntax is beautiful, modern, familiar, easy to read, to manage and to learn (can be learn in a day). Plus Gleam's tooling is convenient, more than its of Lua, Python, C#...
\nTherefore, this is the perfect combination:
\nThe road to connect from Godot to Gleam is as follows:
\n.js file.Your Glodot files structure should look like this:
\n. (Root of Godot project)\n├── core (Root of Gleam package)\n│ ├── gleam.toml\n│ ├── manifest.toml\n│ ├── package.json\n│ ├── src\n│ │ └── core\n│ │ ├── core.gleam (The file that contains all functions to be accessible from outside Gleam)\n│ │ └── ...\n├── project.godot\n├── project.csproj\n├── core.txt (Bundled Gleam-to-JS code)\n├── core.gd (Util to execute bundled code in Godot)\n└── V8.cs (Util to execute JS code in Godot)\nFirst create a Gleam package inside your Godot project's root:
\ngleam new core # It's could be named anything.Then write your domain logic stuffs here. When you done, make a signle file that contains all functions to be accessible from outside of Gleam (name it core.gleam):
import core/a_stuffs\nimport core/b_stuffs\n\npub fn fn_a(input: String) -> String {\n a_stuffs.fn_a(input)\n}\n\npub fn fn_b(input: String) -> String {\n b_stuffs.fn_b(input)\n}\n\n// ...⚠️ WARNING! BIG WARNING! You cannot use custom Gleam type as input/output outside of Gleam, at least it's not behaved as you thinks. You can only use Int, Float and String. Even List and Dict is not the same as JS's Array and Object. The best solution is to warp input and output as JSON string.
So after you write you fancy code in a Gleam package for your game, make sure to set the target to JS in the gleam.toml config file:
name = \"core\"\n version = \"1.0.0\"\n+ target = \"javascript\"\n\n...Then bundler the JS codes after each time you compiler:
\ncd ./core\nbun build ./build/dev/javascript/core/core/core.mjs --outfile ../core.txtYep it's end with .txt so that Godot can detect and read the texts inside that file.
And remember to remove the export part inside the bundled file so that V8 don't warning.
First install ClearScript to your system:
\nnuget install Microsoft.ClearScript.CompleteThen add it to the project.csproj file:
<Project Sdk=\"Godot.NET.Sdk/4.4.1\">\n <PropertyGroup>\n <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>\n <EnableDynamicLoading>true</EnableDynamicLoading>\n <RootNamespace>project</RootNamespace>\n </PropertyGroup>\n+ <ItemGroup>\n+ <PackageReference Include=\"Microsoft.ClearScript.Complete\" Version=\"7.5.0\" />\n+ </ItemGroup>\n </Project>\nWrite an util name V8.cs in your project to execute JS code:
using Godot;\nusing System;\nusing Microsoft.ClearScript.V8;\n\npublic partial class V8 : Node\n{\n private static V8ScriptEngine _engine = new V8ScriptEngine();\n\n public static string eval(string code)\n {\n return Convert.ToString(_engine.Evaluate(code));\n }\n}Finally, make an util to execute Gleam-to-JS bundled code (name it core.gd):
extends Node\n\nconst _v8 := preload(\"res://src/V8.cs\")\n\n\nfunc _ready() -> void:\n var core_file := FileAccess.open(&\"res://core.txt\", FileAccess.READ)\n var core_code := core_file.get_as_text()\n _v8.eval(core_code)\n\n\nfunc fn_a(arg: Variant) -> Variant:\n\treturn _invoke(&\"fn_a\", arg)\n\n\nfunc fn_b(arg: Variant) -> Variant:\n\treturn _invoke(&\"fn_b\", arg)\n\n\nfunc _invoke(funcName: String, argument: Variant) -> Variant:\n var code: Variant = &\"{funcName}(\\\"{argument}\\\")\".format({\n &\"funcName\": funcName,\n &\"argument\": JSON.stringify(argument).json_escape(),\n })\n\n var result: Variant = _v8.eval(code)\n\n var json := JSON.new()\n var error := json.parse(result)\n\n if error:\n if result != &\"\":\n printerr(result)\n\n return null\n\n return json.dataAs said in the Godot document:
\n\n\nProjects written in C# using Godot 4 currently cannot be exported to the web. See this blog post for more information.
\n
However you can fallback to use JavaScriptBridge to run JS code instate of C# + ClearScript when export to web.
Here are some Gleam libraries that are useful for gamedev:
\ngleam_community_maths: A basic mathematics library that contains some of the most fundamental mathematics functions and utilities.prng: A lib to handle PRNG (Pure Random Number Generator).vec: A vector library, has almost everything that can be done in Godot.vec_dict: This is to represent and handle a 2D, 3D and even 4D grid.The Godot Mono - ClearScript route mentioned above seems quite roundabout, but it's currently the most "official" way. Godot Mono is an official version of Godot, and ClearScript is a library from Microsoft (the creator of C#), make this approach quite stable.
\nGlodot could potentially be made by using GodotJS to replace the route above, connecting Godot to compiled Gleam code purely through JS/TS.
\nBut that is a shortcut, because at the time of writing, GodotJS is quite buggy/janky. I hope it will improve soon, because if GodotJS becomes as stable and easy to set up as Godot Mono, it would be an ideal method.
\nBut if I could wish, I want a Godot plugin that could automatically compile a specified Gleam package and then provide an API to easily run it.
\nWell that's all fork, stay gleamy~!
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-19T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/18/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/18/", "title": "Convenient IRB methods", "content_html": "Below are a bunch of snippets to add to your IRB config for convenient scripting / personal use. But don't put this directly into any codebase, that will be a bad practice.
\nclass Array\n # Returns the union of `array` and Array `other` minus elements in both.\n def ^(other)\n (self | other) - (self & other)\n end\nendclass Random\n # Return a random boolean value.\n def self.bool\n [true, false].sample\n end\n\n # Returns a random string containing `size` characters from `characters`.\n def self.string(size, characters = [*'a'..'z', *'A'..'Z', *'0'..'9'])\n Array.new(size) { characters.sample }.join\n end\n\n # Return a random boolean value.\n def bool\n self.rand(2).zero?\n end\n\n # Returns a random string containing `size` characters from `characters`.\n def string(size, characters = [*'a'..'z', *'A'..'Z', *'0'..'9'])\n Array.new(size) { characters[self.rand(characters.size)] }.join\n end\nendIf you want to securely generate random strings, check out SecureRandom.
# Clear the terminal.\ndef clear\n print \"\\033c\"\nend$null = File.open(File::NULL, 'w')<3
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-11T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/17/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/17/", "title": "Stop Linux from freezing", "content_html": "Since I first switched to Linux, my computer always freezes every time I do heavy work. At the beginning, it froze a few times a month. When the laptop froze, I have to turn it off, no different from when I used Windows. Then its became more and more frequent, to the point that my computer froze almost daily. After researching, I found that my computer seems to freeze every time the RAM is nearly or completely full. My laptop have 2GB of RAM, I tried adding a 4GB swap partition, but it doesn't seem help. "Maybe it's because my laptop is so old" I thought to myself.
\nI got a better laptop when I go to college. With 8GB of RAM, the condition no longer occurs daily, but its frequency is still every week... Quite annoying, I can't open a lot of tabs on the web browser because I fear that will cause freezing. When I want to play 3D heavy game, I have to turn off every thing else. Et cetera...
\nI saved up money from competitions prizes, and finally bought a laptop myself! The device still has 8GB of ram, but the CPU and GPU are much more powerful. The condition was improved... It freezes about 2-3 time a month. There are times when I often play heavy games, and it quickly freezes every week...
\nThings really got worse when I switched to BlendOS, it freezes almost every day, for the first week I installed Blend. I quickly checked the system monitor, and realized that: For some reason BlendOS doesn't have swap!
\nI decided to add a swap, this time I gave it 16GB just to be sure:
\nbtrfs filesystem mkswapfile --size 16G ~/.cache/swapfile\nsudo swapon ~/.cache/swapfileThen add this to /etc/fstab:
/var/home/USERNAME/.cache/swapfile\tswap swap defaults 0 0\nSince then, my PC never freezes ever again, like a dream come true! Now I can open more than 20 browser tabs with game and heavy application, all at the same time. In the past, I had to use my laptop carefully because I was afraid it would freeze, Now I can freely open as many applications as I want!
\nThe lesson here is: If Linux often freezes due to full RAM, try increase swap, lot of swap! It seems like I almost solved the problem a while ago when I tried increasing the swap a bit, If I tried to increase it more, I might not have to upgrade my laptop~
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-10T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/16/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/16/", "title": "Debunking allegations about Flappy Bird", "content_html": "A decade ago, at the end of 2013, the world witnessed the rise of Flappy Bird - a mobile game with simple design yet a high skill ceiling, piquing the desire to overcome challenges in many players. Thanks to that, Flappy Bird became a worldwide phenomenon and trend at the start of 2014. However, not long after, on the same date as today (February 8th) 10 years ago, Nguyen Ha Dong - the father of Flappy Bird - couldn't handle the overwhelming negative public opinion anymore, and took the billion-dollar game off all app stores.
\nThis historic event, despite happening 10 years ago, still left many suspicions and misunderstandings in many people's memories. Today, I want to deny some false allegations that were made towards Flappy Bird.
\nBefore that, I want to thank SoullessPuppet for helping me check and translate this entire article into English. Thank you and happy holiday!
\nNo one is completely free of bias, nor perfectly neutral. I, myself, am a Vietnamese, and also an aspiring game developer, so I have a lot of sympathy towards Mr. Dong. I just want to clarify that, although I try to be as fair as possible, I still have a bias towards Flappy Bird. But the points I will make do come with evidence.
\nPLEASE DO NOT HARASS ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION MENTIONED IN THIS POST !!!!!
\nI know there will inevitably be some readers who feel the need to punish those who victimized Mr. Dong. But I'm asking every reader not to do so. Harassment is the same thing the media and internet did to the man, and we should not stoop so low. Moreover, it has been 10 years, so we should let the past stay in the past. Those who made mistakes 10 years ago are likely very different people today.
\nMost news articles point to "Flappy Bird's Smoke & Mirrors - Is Something Fishy Going On?" (on Bluecloud) as the source when mentioning this allegation.
\nThe argument presented by the post is as follows: Games that DotGears released during mid 2013 all became popular during November of the same year - roughly the same time. Yet there were no cross-advertisements in the games, nor were there any marketing campaigns ran at the time.
\nQuoted from An interview with Dong on Chocolate Lab Apps:
\n\n\nElaine: Is your success due to organic downloads only, or did you use any other methods?
\nDong: I didn’t use any promotion methods. All accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram about Flappy Bird are not mine. The popularity could be my luck.
\n
These arguments may sound suspicious, but if DotGears used bots to inflate their numbers, then wouldn't it be super obvious? Apple would have intervened and deleted it from the platform. During the 2012-2013 period, botting was a prevalent issue on the App Store, and Apple worked on resolving this problem to some success. Apple and Google would have taken some actions, if an extremely trendy game often accused of cheating was actually cheating.
\nThe official twitter account of the App Store even made a post about Flappy Bird:
\n\n\nWe got to 99. What's your high score?
\n
The "Smoke & Mirrors" article then provided some evidence to back up their argument: There were some suspicious reviews...:
\n\n\nHere’s another nice little tidbit. Read through the reviews. Check the word count. Do an analysis on how many times the word "glitch" "pipe" "addicting" are used relative to the review length. Also check how many negative reviews give 5 stars.
\nHere’s a quick snapshot from a 3 minute scroll through Flappy Bird’s reviews.
\n\n
I don’t think there is any app on the app store that has this many consistently morbid reviews that use the same words over and over and are posted in such regularity.
\n
On the image provided by the article are 9 reviews. The term "addicting" appeared twice, "pipe" appeared once and "glitch" never appeared... All 9 reviews are very different and had no signs of being copy-pasted. I'm not sure if the author is being ironic or not? These reviews are less like bots reviews and more like an example of groupthink, more specifically, a joke where everyone pretend they are a victim of this frustrating game. Almost everyone was in on the joke, except the author.
\nIn a data research, the author of "Flappy Bird by the Numbers" bởi Zachwill concluded:
\n\n\nI was originally planning to focus on the December/January Flappy Bird reviews — I thought it’d be fun to prove that they were most likely bots. After loading the reviews into
\npandasand playing around with the data, though, it became pretty clear those had little to nothing to do with the success of Flappy Bird.
In the article "Is Flappy Bird Cooking its iTunes Rank?" posted on February 4th on Newsweek, an article putting Flappy Bird's ranking into question, Reporter Joe Kloc asked Dong on Twitter about the legitimacy of Flappy Bird's download count:
\n\n\nJoe Kloc: @dongatory Hello. I'm a reporter at Newsweek. Is there an email address through would I could contact you directly about Flappy Bird?
\nDong: @joekloc Hi Joe, I think press should give my game some peace. Its success is really overrate! I'm sorry, I refuse to answer questions.
\nJoe Kloc: @dongatory I'm just curious about the post going around saying the download stats are false. Can you definitively say they aren't?
\nDong: @joekloc It doesn't matter. Don't you think? If I did fake it, should Apple let it live for months?
\nJoe Kloc: @dongatory If it doesn't matter, did you?
\n
Dong's line "It doesn't matter" implied that it didn't matter what his answer to the bots question was, because the press and the internet community are going to find a way to hate on him regardless. The question asked by the reporter was a double bind:
\nDespite having a solid argument: "If I did fake it, should Apple let it live for months?", that argument could still be seen as the third case above.
\nWhen Flappy Bird became popular, many experts found it hard to explain what led to this success. An article named "A 'Dark Pattern' In Flappy Bird Reveals How Apple's Mysterious App Store Ranking Algorithm Works" on Business Insider proposed a theory that Flappy Bird used "Dark Pattern" (a clever design to trick users into doing something):
\n\n\nIn earlier versions of the game, there was a "rate" button at the end of each play session, and this button was placed in the same location that the player would tap to play. As a result, when the user wanted to continue playing, it was easy to hit the rate button instead.
\n
Below is a photo taken from a video on IGN's Youtube channel demonstrating an older version of Flappy Bird on IOS:
\n![\"IOS](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/ios_title_screen.png\")
\n ![\"IOS](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/ios_game_over.png\")
\n And below are the same screens in later updates:
\n![\"Android](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/android_title_screen.png\")
\n ![\"Android](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/android_game_over.png\")
\n On both screens, the Play button was consistently on the left, and the Rate button isn't even on the Game Over screen. Tricks such as using colors to draw attention, or swapping placement of buttons are nowhere to be found.
\nIf you think it's suspiciously not user-friendly to put the Play button on the left side, and that this was done in hopes of getting people to click on the Share button, then here are some counter-arguments:
\nWhen Flappy Bird became popular, many people deemed it to be too simple and hollow - there wasn't even any music, and sounds were minimal too. Therefore, it was undeserving of its popularity:
\nQuoted from "Six Ways Flappy Bird is Actually Pure Evil":
\n\n\nOnce you've passed one gap in Flappy Bird, and scored one point, that's the game. There's nothing else to be gained from it.
\nAfter that it is nothing but a repetition of that first successful act for as long as you can muster.
\nThere is no escalation, no alteration in the size or regularity of the gaps, and it offers no sense of fun either in its visuals or its sound design. Flappy Bird is a simple evil, like stubbing your toe, kneeling on a piece of Lego or a swift kick between the legs.
\n
The writer of this article used pretty strong language. Perhaps they were feeling extreme, or perhaps it's just an act to bring in more views.
\nA critique of Flappy Bird often cited and praised was "The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird" from The Atlantic. This article was passionate and detailed, though also a bit too lengthy. The author recognized Flappy Bird's design as simple - even simpler than Tetris or Go, but without the depth found in the latter two. They also deemed the game flow to be too static, lacking ups and downs.
\nI can somewhat understand where the author was coming from, but I still disagree. For simple games like Flappy Bird, having depth is ideal, but a lack of fluctuation in flow is not always a downside. Because the design is as minimalistic as possible: no music, no special effects, and very little sound - the game easily puts the player into the state of flow (highly concentrated mentally, or "the zone"). The difficulty of the game works to its advantage: it forces players to focus harder on every action, which then leads to them entering "the zone".
\nRather than comparing it to Tetris or Go, Flappy Bird should be compared to skipping rope or juggling in real life. These games are difficult at first, but once you get used to them, the difficulty starts to stem how long you can stay in the zone and not make mistakes. Judging from this point of view, Flappy Bird has an advantage over other, more complex endless runners like Jetpack Joyride.
\nThe legendary game developer Benett Foddy, creator of classic "Getting Over It" even said:
\n\n\n\n
We all know Flappy Bird is a hard game, but many people think the game is hard because the game's physics are not realistic. This is both true and false, according to a scientific article on Action-Reaction that delves into the physics of the game:
\n\n\nTL;DR: Is the physics in Flappy Bird realistic? Yes AND no.
\n\n
\n- YES: The gravitational pull is constant, producing a constant downward acceleration of 9.8 m/s/s (if we scale the bird to the size of a robin).
\n- NO: The impulse provided by each tap is variable in order to produce the same post-tap velocity. In real life, the impulse from each tap would be constant and produce the same change in velocity.
\n
But being realistic or not doesn't really matter much, because fun is always more important than realism. Why does Mario, a human, jump 3-4 times as high as their own height? Why do we have floating dirt blocks in Minecraft? It's all because that made those games more fun, and the player experience smoother.
\nAround the start of 2014, Flappy Bird spread everywhere as "the simple game that was somehow addictive". Of course, most people only exaggerated it as a joke on social media. However, the press and media didn't get the joke, and presented this phenomenon in an absurd light, treating Flappy Bird as some kind of new addictive drug. Worse still, a few news publishers even accused the game of being intentionally designed to negatively impact players...
\nQuoted from "Why Flappy Bird Was So Addictive" from Esquire:
\n\n\nFlappy Bird has a relentlessly habit-forming quality that's hard to explain.
\n
\n\nThere's got to be a psychological explanation for Flappy Bird's massive success.
\n
More than a few have tried to crack the code, usually pointing to the just-one-more effect (it was even printed on shirts!!). The just-one-more effect is when we tell ourselves "just one more bite/episode", or in this case, "just one more round". But when that round ends, you still want "just one more round", and the cycle repeats itself... With Flappy Bird, this effect was more pronounced, since each round is only a few seconds, and the player can easily retry immediately. The player's flow doesn't even have to end before a new round starts. But claiming this to be intentionally designed to cause addiction is far-fetched.
\nIt is unfair to label a game as "intentionally creating addicts" just for its design of short rounds and simplicity. As mentioned above, Flappy Bird should be compared to skipping rope or juggling - the length of each round is short, and starting a new round is near instant. Would you say that those traditional games were also designed to be addictive?
\nIn an exclusive interview with Forbes, Nguyen Ha Dong said:
\n\n\nFlappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed.
\n
Mark Griffiths, Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Gambling Studies at Nottingham Trent University wrote an article named "Flappy Bird obsession is not necessarily an addiction", explaining that being attracted by Flappy Bird doesn't necessarily mean being so addicted it negatively impacts your life.
\nDuring the Flappy Bird craze at the start of 2014, more than a few news sites saw this as an opportunity to publish articles with shocking and dishonest titles about it to generate views. For example, many English news sites published about a teen stabbing his brother to death because he played Flappy Bird too well. After some digging, I've tracked the news back to the blog Huzlers, an obvious fake news site.
\n![\"Huzlers\"](\"https://web.archive.org/web/20240208080617im_/https://media-cdn-v2.laodong.vn/storage/newsportal/Uploaded/luuthienhuong/2014_02_08/game_GZAC.JPG?w=660\")
\n This article was debunked by more trustworthy sources. A video by TheGamerFromMars: "The Flappy Bird Murder - Internet Mysteries" debunked the article in great detail from an overview perspective.
\nDespite almost all stories of "Flappy Bird ruining someone's life" being fake or overexaggerated, Nguyen Ha Dong seems to have believed some of them. In the same interview with Forbes as above, Dong said:
\n\n\nFlappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed, but it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird.
\n
Quoted from his interview with RollingStone, from the perspective of the reporter
\n\n\nHe hands me his iPhone so that I can scroll through some messages he’s saved. One is from a woman chastising him for "distracting the children of the world." Another laments that "13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it’s addicting like crack." Nguyen tells me of e-mails from workers who had lost their jobs, a mother who had stopped talking to her kids. "At first I thought they were just joking," he says, "but I realize they really hurt themselves." Nguyen - who says he botched tests in high school because he was playing too much Counter-Strike - genuinely took them to heart.
\n
On Twitter, Nguyen Ha Dong had shown to be a bit gullible to overexaggeration jokes from the internet, advising players to take breaks and play Flappy Bird in a more healthy manner:
\n\n\nTwitter User: lol im never gonna get some sleep now with these games 😭
\n\n
\n\nTwitter User: i have been flappy bird for 3 hours straight its the most addicting thing ever
\nDong: That is too much. Please give yourself and the game a break :D
\n
\n\nTwitter User: FLAPPY BIRD HAS RUINED MY LIFE! I'VE BEEN PLAYING IT FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT AND I SWEAR MY AYS ARE BLEEDING
\nDong: It's just a game. Take care of yourself first. I don't make game to ruin people lives.
\n
He often had to receive such messages, and they all added pressure to his psyche. Eventually, he couldn't take anymore. As we all know, Mr. Dong had removed Flappy Bird from all app stores, hoping to end the "addiction" of his game.
\nWe have arrived at the important part. This allegation what motivated me to write this blog post. Most news sites cite Kotaku's article "Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000 A Day Off Ripped Art" when making the copyright argument. Reading through the article, we can easily see how sensational the author is being:
\nFirstly, the author mentioned how Nguyen Ha Dong made a lot of money from the game:
\n\n\nFlappy Bird has gotten so big that its creator, Dong Nguyen, told The Verge he's making $50,000 a day on ad revenue. $50,000 a day! That's $18 million a year, FYI.
\n
This is a manipulation tactic to create distance between the reader and the target that the article wants to criticize. By first mentioning how much income he was making, the readers would feel like Mr. Dong is nothing like them, and therefore would empathize with him less. Then the author added:
\n\n\nMost people acknowledge that it's a terrible game - which it is.
\n
As elaborated in the Allegation 2 above, this is debatable. And at the end of the article, the author concluded:
\n\n\nLet this be a life lesson: if you want to make $50,000 a day, put ripped art in a terrible game.
\n
By doing so, the author seems to want to hammer in the fact that Dong is an unethical game designer who did not deserve his success. Overall, this article wants to cause anger. A research from MIT showed that posts that caused anger were 3 times as likely to be shared on social media compared to other emotions. I think it's safe to assume that the author was intentionally trying to achieve the same effect by presenting heavily biased claims.
\nNow let's take a closer look at the arguments stated in the article. Most of them revolve around Mr. Dong stealing art and sound assets from Nintendo's Mario series.
\nQuoted from the article from Kotaku:
\n\n\nThe twinkly sound effect when your bird flies between pipes is heavily inspired by Mario's coin-collecting chime, to the point where they sound nearly identical.
\n
This is the collecting coin sound effects throughout the history of Mario games:
\n\nAnd this is Flappy Bird's:
\n\nThey are both chimes, but they are definitely not identical. Many platformer games like DuckTales or Shovel Knight use similar sound effects. For example, this sound plays when collecting rings in Sonic:
\n\nSounds in Flappy Birds were not only not taken from Mario, but also had a different style. This becomes even clearer when we hear Dong's comment. A month before releasing Flappy Bird, Dong posted on Twitter:
\n\n\n\n\n
This is common practice for indie game developers who don't have enough resource to hire sound effect artists, and also what's recommended for most beginners. Mr. Dong also has a Soundcloud account where he posts sound effects that he makes and uses, you should check it out!
\nQuoted from the article from Kotaku:
\n\n\n\nThe backgrounds also appear to be heavily inspired by Mario.
\n
![\"Flappy](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/flappy_bird_background_day.png\")
\n ![\"Flappy](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/flappy_bird_background_night.png\")
\n I also managed to find every background of Big City in "Donkey Kong" (Game Boy) and Mario Toy Company in "Mario vs. Donkey Kong", both also rare appearances of modern cities in Mario:
\n\n![\"Big](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/big_city.png\")
\n ![\"Mario](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/mario_toy_company.png\")
\n And they don't look similar to Flappy Bird's background at all. The only commonality is that they're both pixel art modern cities. That hardly counts as "heavily inspired", because if so, then games like Mega Man, Kero Blaster, River City Ransom, etc. would all be "heavily inspired by Mario"?
\nQuoted from the article from Kotaku:
\n\n\nLook at the pipes, for example:
\n\n
On the left is Flappy Bird; on the right is Super Mario World.
\n
To reiterate, the only commonality between these images are that they are both green pipes. Flappy Bird did not steal from Mario. I even gathered images of pipes in almost all 2D pixel art Mario games for comparison:
\n(You can choose other Mario games to compare.)
\nFlappy Bird's pipe matched none of them. Next, we have the bird, Faby:
\nQuoted from the article from Kotaku:
\n\n\nWhat about the bird itself? While the eponymous Flappy Bird isn't a direct ripoff, it appears to be a cross between the Spike and Cheep Cheep enemies in Super Mario Bros. 3. See if you can spot the similarities:
\n\n
(Left: Flappy Bird. Right/Top: Spike. Right/Bottom: Cheep-Cheep.)
\n
Here, the author did admit that it wasn't "direct theft" so I won't be compiling similar assets from Mario.
\nFlappy Bird haters (if they still exist) might be thinking: "Not stealing directly doesn't mean free of plagiarism, Dong admitted himself that he was inspired by Mario!"
\nIt is true that he took some inspiration from Mario.
\n\n\nThe year before, he’d drawn a pixelated bird on his computer that riffed on Nintendo fish, called Cheep Cheeps. He drew green pipes - a homage to Super Mario Bros. - that the bird would have to navigate.
\n
When the internet suspect him of copyright violation against Nintendo, he answered:
\n\n\nDong: I think I stole their games' spirit but I didn't rip-off their work.
\n
He's right. Those who claim copyright infringement between Mario and Flappy Bird are ignoring Fair Use. Fair use allows the use of a copyrighted work or components of a copyrighted product for educational purposes or for evaluation purposes. Fair use also considers the quantity and quality of the work used to determine whether a product infringes the copyright of other products.
\nThis law exists to limit individuals and organizations that may use their monopoly to limit the development of science and art, and at the same time, allow others to be inspired, transform, and improve products that already exist. Let's compare Flappy Bird with Mario:
\nFirsly, Faby. I won't be comparing it to Spike because honestly, the only thing they have in common are think beaks. Comparing it to Cheep-Cheep, here are some commonalities:
\nAnd for the differences:
\n| Faby | \nCheep-Cheep | \n
|---|---|
| Is a bird | \nIs a fish | \n
| Yellow body | \nRed body with white belly | \n
| Have no tail nor fins | \nHave tail and fins | \n
They are not only two entirely different species, but even the parts that they have in common have slight differences:
\n| Faby | \nCheep-Cheep | \n
|---|---|
| Thin, long beak | \nThick, round lips | \n
| Small wings at low position | \nLarge fins at high position | \n
| The eye is 1/4th its size | \nSmaller eyes | \n
It's not enough to compare only looks. They are also used for completely different purposes, and interact with the world differently:
\n| Faby | \nCheep-Cheep | \n
|---|---|
| Player-controlled character | \nHostile enemy | \n
| Flies infinitely in arcs | \nSwim straight underwater or hop in and out of water | \n
What about the green pipes? Well, you know, those actually exists in real life:
\n![\"Green](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/green_pipe_irl0.jpg\")
![\"Green](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/green_pipe_irl1.jpg\")
![\"Green](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/green_pipe_irl2.jpg\")
![\"Green](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/green_pipe_irl3.jpg\")
Pipes that are big, bright green, and has thick edges like Mario exist in real life, not just a brainchild of Nintendo. But if you think about it, the concept of "green water pipes" is very general and has existed or been applied in many fields. It itself cannot be copyrighted by any individual or organization. But just to be sure, let's compare the pipes in Flappy Bird with Mario:
\n| In Flappy Bird | \nIn Mario | \n
|---|---|
| Player character dies on contact | \nBlocks the player's movement | \n
| Can't be interacted with | \nCan sometimes go into and out of or warp between worlds | \n
Once again, the way pipes are used is very different between the two games. So why did Mr. Dong use pipes like Mario and not something else like a brick wall or laser?
\nNo art exists in a vacuum, neither does Flappy Bird. Flappy Bird is a video game, video game is art, and art is a conversation. A conversation between artists, from generation to generation, to learn, cultivate, grow. Nguyen Ha Dong used the image of a green pipe like in Mario not to piggyback of Mario's popularity or because he was lazy to create another image. He uses it precisely because it is a symbol of video games in general in the childhood of his generation. He seems to want to give players a ticket back to childhood, taking them back to simpler times. Simple like the design of Flappy Bird it's self. Remember, simplicity is what he really aims for.
\nThere are many games on the market that are much more strongly inspired by Nintendo games than Flappy Bird, yet have not received much criticism, or are even praised for bringing back nostalgic memories. Classic examples include Braid, inspired by Mario Super Mario Bros:
\nAn enemy in Braid, Monstar, has almost identical sprite and behaviors to the Goomba from Mario:
\n![\"Monstar\"](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/braid_monstar.webp\")
\n ![\"Goomba\"](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/mario_goomba.svg\")
\n The same is true with Claw (Braid) and Piranha Plant (Super Mario Bros):
\n![\"Claw\"](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/braid_claw.webp\")
\n ![\"Piranha](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/mario_piranha_plant.png\")
\n Level 4-2 in Braid is heavily inspired by the game Donkey Kong, and the level's name is also "Jumpman" (nickname for Mario before Mario was renamed):
\n![\"Braid](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/braid_4_2.png\")
\n ![\"Donkey](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/mario_donkey_kong.png\")
\n At the end of each world in Braid, a character will appear to tell the player that "the princess is in another castle", a reference to Mario:
\n![\"Braid](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/braid_1_4.png\")
\n ![\"Super](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/mario_1_4.png\")
\n Both games are even from the same genre (Platformer). But Braid is absolutely not a copycat. This game focuses more on puzzle elements with time manipulation mechanics. It uses many images from Mario because it wants players to quickly understand the basic mechanics of the game, then focus on the puzzle element. Not only that, it also creates a feeling of nostalgia, fooling players into thinking that the game is just a simple, fun game, then twisting that expectation. I want to avoid spoilers so I won't go into more detail.
\nMario wasn't the only product that became inspiration. 2nd example: TUNIC inspired by The Legend of Zelda, both are action-adventure games that focus on the player's exploration of an open world:
\n![\"Tunic\"](\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Tunic_cover_art.jpg\")
\n ![\"The](\"https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/zeldawiki/images/2/27/TLoZ_FDS_Box.png\")
\n ![\"The](\"https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/zeldawiki/images/c/c7/ALttP_JP_Box.jpg\")
\n Tunic is heavily inspired by Zelda, but once again it's not just a clone. There are three videos on Youtube that elaborates this point quite well:
\nThere are lots of other examples: Digimon inspired by Pokémon, Axiom Verge from Metroid, Antonblast from Wario...
\n(Also, all of the games mentioned above are sold on eShop, Nintendo's own game platform for their console line)
\nBelow are some videos listing the times when non-Nintendo games were inspired by, reference, easter eggs or parodied Mario, whether officially collaborating with Nintendo or not:
\nOther games from Nintendo also get reference:
\nSteve Jobs once mentioned an interesting quote:
\n\n\nGood artists copy. Great artists steal.
\n
Nintendo have a lot of great talent, so of course they also "stolen" from elsewhere, such as the game Donkey Kong (the first game in which Mario appeared):
\n\n\nDonkey Kong was heavily inspired by 1930s American media. It was originally conceived as a Popeye game, based on the 1930s comic and animation, with Bluto being in the role of Donkey Kong, Popeye being Mario, and Olive Oyl being Lady.
\n
Nintendo at that time owned the license to make games with characters from Popeye but for some technical reason, they had to change.
\n![\"Jumpman\"](\"https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/6/63/MarioInDKArtwork.jpg\")
\n ![\"Popeye\"](\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Popeye_the_Sailor.png\")
\n \n\nThe 1930s film King Kong would serve as another inspiration and the setting of the game was New York City.
\n
Like the movie King Kong, the villain in Nintendo's game is also a giant gorilla.
\nAnd in the game Super Mario Bros: In an interview with Geek Culture, Toru Iwatani (father of Pac-Man) recounts:
\n\n\nI worked on the sequel "Pac-Land" and "Pac-Mania" and my favorite is "Pac-Land," which is the pioneer of action games with horizontally running background. Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto, who developed "Super Mario Bros." told me that the game was influenced by Namco’s "PAC-LAND".
\n
![\"Super](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/super_mario_bros.jpg\")
\n ![\"Pac-Land\"](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/pac_land.jpg\")
\n After announcing the "death" of Flappy Bird on social networks, Nguyen Ha Dong wrote a disclaimer:
\n\n\nDong: It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.
\n
Because of aftereffects from Kotaku's allegations, many people were skeptical of Dong's statement. But that is true. In an email to The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa reiterated the company's previous statements, saying that Nintendo has not complained about Flappy Bird's similarities to the game Super Mario Bros:
\nQuoted from Nintendo's spokesperson on an article from The Wall Street Journal:
\n\n\nWhile we usually do not comment on the rumors and speculations, we have already denied the speculation.
\n
If you thought Nintendo just said that because it wanted to avoid petty drama and maintain its image, you're wrong! Nintendo has a scandalous history of abusing copyright laws to satisfy an antiquated view of intellectual property:
\nNot to mention there are many other cases, EmpLemon's Video "Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo" summarizes many cases where Nintendo abused copyright law. And they didn't even sue the billion-dollar app Flappy Bird. This says it all!
\nOn February 8th, two days after Kotaku's accusatory article was published, another author of the news site wrote an article "The Flappy Bird Fiasco" apologizing to Nguyen Ha Dong:
\n\n\nNguyen also wound up receiving some negative attention because of the art in his game. That's where Kotaku comes into the story more than I'm comfortable with. And that's where I believe we owe Nguyen an apology. I'll say it now...
\nDong Nguyen, I'm sorry about what we wrote about your game's art. And I'm sorry if what we wrote contributed to any harassment you received about your game. Even if it didn't I wish we could do that one over.
\nThe author of that piece, Jason Schreier, has also asked to say the following...
\n"Over the past couple of days, I've spent a lot of time reading reactions and feedback to the article I published last week, and I've spent a lot of time regretting it. The post was rash, and hasty, and below my usual standards. To Kotaku I apologize for allowing that to happen. To Dong Nguyen, I apologize for my poorly-chosen words, and I hope that you find peace."
\nMuch has been made about that article we ran last Thursday, which originally was headlined "Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000 A Day Off Ripped Art." The word "ripped" was too strong, and the article's author has come to regret it. I do, too, and wished I'd caught it. The headline's been changed since then.
\nI wish that partially because I disagree with the opinion of the piece. I see Flappy Bird as being inspired by Mario art. I think it's as fair an inspiration as the many inspirations we've seen of classic Nintendo art in games from 3D Dot Game Heroes to Guacamelee to Braid. There's room for debate there, but that's where I stand.
\n
During the time Flappy Bird was being taken down, the video "Flappy Bird - Message From Developer Dong Nguyen" appeared on Youtube, attracting a significant number of viewers:
\n\nIgnoring the fact that the person in the video doesn't even look like Dong:
\n![\"Nguyễn](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/nguyen_ha_dong.webp\")
\n The title of the video is also very unusual compared to videos announcing serious issues on social media. The title is stated in the third person. The video content is just a reread of what Mr. Dong said on Twitter about removing Flappy Bird...
\nMany people (including myself back then) thought that Flappy Bird was just a sinking game, that was luckily featured by the most famous YouTuber at that time - Pewdiepie. New gold spreads its wings and flies. The video "FLAPPY BIRD - DONT PLAY THIS GAME!" posted on January 28 on the PewDiePie Youtube channel is believed by many netizens to be the direct cause of the Flappy Bird became famous.
\n\nBased on Google Trends data from January to April of 2014 in America:
\n![\"Google](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/google_trends_27.png\")
\n![\"Google](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/google_trends_28.png\")
Statistics show that the Flappy Bird keyword had already reached 9% of its popularity compared to its peak. And the keyword Flappy Bird did not have a sharp increase following Felix's video.
\nNot only that, the data table below also shows that Flappy Bird has climbed to the top 1 on the App Store rankings since around January 15th:
\n![\"Store](\"https://codeberg.org/NNB/blog-images/raw/branch/main/16/store_rank.webp\"){kind=icon}
Not to mention, Flappy Bird was still mentioned a lot before the 28th on Twitter, made popular thanks to everyone joking about Flappy Bird being too difficult and "addictive". There is also a parody video of Twitter posts called "FLAPPY BIRD RUINED MY LIFE" posted on January 25, released 2 days after Felix's video.
\nIt becomes even clearer when you actually watch the video of Felix playing Flappy Bird, starting at minute 4:02 in the video.
\n\n\nThere's another game that you bro brought up...
\n
Later, he also said:
\n\n\nI kind of know what it's about, but I never actually never played it myself.
\n
Flappy Bird wasn't chosen by Pewdiepie by dumb luck. It was chosen because it was a famous rage game and many of his fans wanted him to play. PewDiePie's video, more or less, made Flappy Bird even more famous. But it is not the main or direct cause, and certainly not the core reason why Flappy Bird became a phenomenon.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-08T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/15/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/15/", "title": "CLI, TUI and GUI", "content_html": "GUI or Graphical User Interface is user interface type that allows users to interact through visual and graphic such as images, buttons, tabs, scroll bars... It's everywhere, it is like the default type of interface, the definition of user interface is self. All websites, smartphone interfaces, and the default file manager on your computer are all using GUI.
\n\nTUI or Text-based User Interface is like GUI but instead of having visual and graphic, everything is displayed in text. Characters can be bold, italic, underlined, uppercase, lowercase, blinking, with any foreground or/and background color... But the text must always be mono characters (on grid). We will mainly see this type of interface on software run on terminal such as text editor, media player, task manager...
\n\nCLI or Command Line Interface is an interface where the only way to interact is to write commands through a prompt and send it, the software will then return a results, and the user is allowed to type and send commands again.
\nSoftware that uses CLI typically includes shells such as Bash, Zsh, Nushell... Some REPL (read-eval-print loop) for programing languages like Python, Ruby, ... And other tools like nmcli, bc, fend, clifm... But note that software that uses the CLI interface to display content inside it is not CLI software, but it is TUI.
CLI software is software run as command inside a shell, for example ls, cp, mv, rm, cal, neofetch, ... The general pattern of CLI softwares are like:
![\"The](\"https://web.archive.org/web/20140204122641im_/http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/reviews.jpg\")
![\"Kotaku](\"https://web.archive.org/web/20140207080213im_/http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19evahld5d6ydpng/ku-xlarge.png\")
![\"Kotaku](\"https://web.archive.org/web/20140207080214im_/http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19evahlcyexmmpng/ku-xlarge.png\")
command parameter --flagstdout (standard output) of a software and used it as stdin (standard input) for another software. We call this pipe/piping. Two or more software connected together in this way is called a pipeline.Here is an example of a pipeline (the echo command prints a string. rev reverses the input data. figlet turns strings into large ASCII letters. tee read from standard input and write to standard output and files, which a "files" can be a terminal output. Finally, the command cb copy input data to the clipboard):
$ echo '!dlroW ,olleH' | rev | figlet | tee /dev/tty | cb\n _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _\n| | | | ___| | | ___ \\ \\ / /__ _ __| | __| | |\n| |_| |/ _ \\ | |/ _ \\ \\ \\ /\\ / / _ \\| '__| |/ _` | |\n| _ | __/ | | (_) | \\ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_|\n|_| |_|\\___|_|_|\\___( ) \\_/\\_/ \\___/|_| |_|\\__,_(_)\n |/\n[✔] Copied 336B\nI never actually use 4chan before, but I found the greentext format to be quite interesting for story telling. So this time I will try writing a blog in this style, hope you enjoy!
\n\n > be me
\n > just switch from windows 10 to kde neon
\n > fall in love with it customizability
\n > discover xah blog about emacs
\n > also pp say that its the most customizable text editor
\n > fitting with the linux spirit that i desire
\n > install it
\n
\n > emacs also come with a shitty tui and a clutter gui
\n > i minimize and customize the gui
\n > emacs is now as good as the default text editor that come with the de
\n > try out spacemacs
\n > dont like it
\n > its slow and way more bloat
\n > decide to rice emacs from scratch
\n > drown myself in the awesome emacs list
\n > install a LOT of packages to emacs
\n > spent months configuring emacs
\n > loving it
\n
\n > emacs have a ton of features
\n > too much features
\n > humongously bloat!
\n > not just ide level of bloat
\n > but os level of bloat
\n > even have a builtin file manager
\n > and tetris
\n
\n > slowly feel overwhelmed and exhausted in the emacs config rabbit hole
\n > still feel somewhat dissatisfied with the config...
\n
Learning about Emacs from XahLee's blogs, I discover Xah Keyboard Guide, then of course learn about XahLee's ErgoEmacs Keybinding and Ergoemacs-mode, it's try to bind frequently used actions to easy to reach shortcut and use the commonly bound keys familiar to industry standard (e.g: Ctrl + z to undo, Ctrl + s to save). But it's heavy and breaks regularly, some of the binds I feel like missing or can be improved. So I decided to create my own bindings, unknowingly kickstart a length journey...
\nBecause I want a better Emacs keybinds instead of except it's legacy design, I couldn't stand the default keybinds and spent way too much time and energy to learn as much about Lips and Emacs's actions to config... That is the reason why I feel exhausted and dissatisfied with Emacs. And also at the time, I didn't know about Doom Emacs, an Emacs framework that doesn't bloat.
\n\n > watching some linux stuff on yt
\n > saw some cool hackerman-looking text editor
\n > its vim
\n > pp love vim
\n > specifically neovim
\n > try it out
\n > its very fast and light
\n > feel like a hackerman
\n > config nvim
\n > just week later
\n > i was able to config nvim to become a more ideal editor for me than emacs
\n
Emacs keybinds are weird, but Vi binds are otherworldly strange! Many keys feel redundant, some frequently used actions are place in awkward places...
\nVim introduce me to modal text editing. Simply put, it divides writing, editing and selecting and so on into separate modes, and so the user just need to press buttons to perform actions instead of holding down multiple keys combination. it took a few days to get used to, after that, ... [Enlightenment~], editing feel like dancing my fingers on the keyboard!
\nVi binds ecosystem is huge with a lot of popular tools implementing it in one way or the other, one that learn Vi keys will benefit a lot by it's ecosystem. I of course ignoring it and continue my own keybinds saga.
\nThis time I decide to turn the keybinds from my custom config into a big project, I create Bkey its a universal keybinds system design for almost all applications. By define each key on the keyboard with a meaning, the applications can bind their own set of shortcuts/actions to fit those meanings. And come with it: Bkey-Vim a Bkey implement for Vim.
\n\n > saw a video about kakoune by dt
\n > skeptical at first
\n > then realize its genius design
\n > switch editor for the third time
\n > kakoune is extremely minimalistic
\n > and have better default
\n > plus easier to config than previous editor
\n > its build from the ground up with its philosophy
\n > e.g: object followed by verb (like how thing should be)
\n > multiple selections is the best things ever introduced to text editors
\n > its easy to understand, fast, convenient, orthogonal, flexible and powerful
\n > boy i can never go back to those non multi selections editor every again
\n
When switching to Kakoune, I decide to overhaul the Bkey project, rebrand it to Bmap and create Bmap.kak a Bmap implement for Kakoune.
\n\n > i also try out other tui editors later on:
\n
\n > helix is like kakoune with builtin lsp and tree sitter
\n > written in rust
\n > blazingly fast
\n
I also wrote a lengthy features requests and changes to an issues on Helix's Github, of course it got rejected.
\nI try to make Bmap-Helix (unfinished).
\n\n > probably the best designed tui text editor that i know of
\n > its building up upon Kakoune philosophy
\n > but use caret style cursors
\n > (cursor is not a block in a characters but a thin line between two characters)
\n > like cursors on any other gui apps
\n > its keybinds actions are elegantly and convenient
\n > pepper is bloat free
\n > its doesnt having any feature that could instead be implemented by integrating an external tool
\n > its more minimal than nvim and helix
\n > but still have enough features (like lsp support) out of the box unlike kakoune
\n > the downside its although pepper is open source
\n > its not free
\n > at the time i try it still very buggy and unpolish
\n
And of course I ertend to make Bmap-Pepper (unfinished).
\nNormally when I'm moving around the file system in the shell, if I want to edit some files, I want to open the editor in a new window and leave the shell in the back, so latter I can do other things on the same path rather than replacing the current shell with the editor. I could write a script/alias/function to do that, but isn't a GUI editor like VScode already opened files in a new window by default?
\n\n > thinking about switching back to gui editor
\n > then a desperate thought appear
\n > maybe vscode
\n > the normie editor
\n > is the answer
\n > ...
\n > i have take a look at vscode in the past
\n > saw it have made a lot of right design decisions
\n > and used it as a standard to improve my other editor config
\n > maybe i should give it try
\n > ...
\n > install vscode
\n > probably the editor that come with the best default setting
\n > its not slow or heavy as pp said
\n
\n > its keybinds is industry standard
\n > multi selections in vscode is not as good as powerful as kakoune but still extremely good
\n > switching back to non modal editing feel a bit slow
\n > but for me its not a drop in productivity at all
\n > i still have my skill navigate with my trusty arrow keys
\n
\n > its have the best lps support
\n > and ton of other features
\n > yet none of it feel bloat
\n > vscode plugins ecosystem is the biggest
\n > easy to learn and config
\n > start spending more time to code than tweaking the editor
\n > seem like its the most popular editor for reasons
\n
\n > while everyone share about how they switch from vscode to neovim and emacs
\n > i do this:
\n > emacs -> neovim -> kakoune -> helix -> pepper -> vscode
\n > now that is a rare $EDITOR hopping
\n
Update! After writing this blog for a while, Zed was released.
\nZed is a GUI editor written in Rust. Compared to VScode, it is fast, minimalist, and at the same time has many built-in features that in VScode must be installed through extensions. Not only that, it also comes with Vim bindings! I don't care about Vim, what matters is that Zed has first-class modal editing that we can personalize, once again opening the door to the Bmap saga! That said, I'm pretty exhausted with making a massive system like Bmap, maybe I'll do something simpler...
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-25T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/13/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/13/", "title": "My ideal distro", "content_html": "I choose Linux over Windows and MacOS because:
\nMy dotfiles is quite flexible, it can be easily adapted to almost any distro. But I still have preferences (in order): Arch-based > Ubuntu-based > Ubuntu/Debian-based > other.
\nFedora seems to be more stable and up-to-date than Ubuntu, but it doesn't have packages that aren't strictly open source, a few can still be installed but it's annoying.
\nArch has the most packages if including the AUR, which can sometimes be quite janky. Arch has a reputation for being easier to break than other distros, but I find all distros to break equally easy...
\nNixOS is very competitive to Arch in terms of package quantity and quality. But I find Nix to be is quite janky after ricing it!
\nAfter using window manager for a while, I decided to go back to DE (detailed explanation here) because I wanted to find an easy and stable experience that "it just works".
\nSome DEs like LXDE and XFCE are very light, too light in fact, it is not suitable for me because it is not as customizable as I want.
\nDEs like Pantheon and Deepin have a pretty good out-of-the-box experience, but it's quite limited when it come to customization. I recommend this DE if you love it at first sight and have no need for customization.
\nKDE Plasma is easy to customize out-of-the-box, from the simplest things to the most advanced. Plasma is easy to configure, suitable for Linux newbies who want to rice. KDE apps are also feature-rich (e.g: Dolphin) but its interface is a bit cramped.
\nGnome design is very harmonious, consisted, minimalistic and elegant. Switching from Windows or other DE to Gnome initially feeling strange, but after a while you will understand the beauty of the design and a great workflow that Gnome brings to you. GNOME is actually no less than KDE but actually better when it comes to customization: Although GNOME is not officially supported, you can install extensions. Gnome extensions are very diverse and extensive, it integrates well into DE. Gnome has extensions like Unite while KDE can hardly config to do the same as convenience as Gnome.
\ngnome-browser-connector or Extension Manager.Vanilla OS is a immutable distro that allows users to install applications from any Linux distro from Arch, Fedora to NixOS. It checks a lot on the list but when I tried it early 2023, it didn't seem to be ready yet... Vanilla was very janky, it freezes when I wake it up after suspend...
\nBlend OS is similar to vanilla but It's Arch-based, it's a bit bloater than Vanilla but also more stable. It also allows users to choose other DE than Gnome and Users can easily access CLI tools inside a container by write command-name.container-name in the terminal.
Bazzite has all the goods of Blend OS, but it is Fedora Atomic Desktop, and it is much more stable because it is based on Fedora. At the moment, I find Bazzite to be the closest thing to "the representative distro" because it meets all the criteria I set, except for a few:
\n![\"Berry](\"https://i.imgur.com/7DWRz1Z.webp\")
While writing Image viewer/media player for minimalist about the five stages of rice image viewer, I realized that those five stages are not just about rice image viewer, it's about minimalism rice as a whole. So I wrote this blog post to dive into the five stages of minimalist rice.
\n![\"KDE](\"https://i.imgur.com/NTHZScu.webp\")
These newbies have just installed Linux, specifically Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based with a popular DE like Gnome or KDE. They installed some extensions, themes, icons and felt quite satisfied with their setup, thinking that they would never thinker with the OS ever again.
\n![\"BSPWM](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/104730274-50495600-576c-11eb-9520-890cb45815d9.png\")
After installing Linux and everything, that newbie must also watch a lot of Linux videos on Youtube, so his feed shows quite a lot of Linux Youtubers, he clicked on it and suddenly heard the three words "I use Arch" (four if you count "BTW"). They back up everything and distro-hop to Arch or an Arch-based distro. It wasn't long before they also discovered r/unixporn, their eyes light up, they quickly install BSPWM + Polybar or Hyprland + Waybar and spend 2-3 weeks to rice it.
\nUsing tiling WM is dedicated to following the keyboard workflow, but the keyboard workflow on Linux can't be perfect without the terminal.
\n\n\nGUI != Cool
\n
\nTTY == Hackerman
They started learning how to use the shell, replacing most GUI apps with TUI/CLI apps and replacing the main shell with anything but Bash. They rice their prompt with Starship, installs Exa and other Rust-replacements CLI tool. Wouldn't be surprised if they've spent months learning and configuring NeoVim at this point.
\n![\"Cool](\"https://i.imgur.com/Sb9iZcz.webp\")
\n![\"HerbstLuftWM](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/172338839-482602d7-d57b-4152-a368-2333cf4c0d79.png\")
I used to use an advanced tiling WM but after I read this post. When I first reading the post, I hate it, I think it is stupid, he just using the wrong way... But then I realize that my workflow rarely need tiling windows in a complex way to begin with:
\nTime to move to floating WM. The thing is that minimalist WMs like SOWM and Berry are pretty janky (at least at the time of writing this) so go back to tiling WM we do, we just need to set the rule to make windows automatically float.
\n\n\n*Sniff sniff* I smell bloat, and that smell comes from the bar. Switch to a lighter bar like Lemonbar or even turn the terminal into bar is unlikely to get rid of the stinky bloat smell.
\nThe problem is that it takes up precious space on my screen, a 16 to 24 pixel-wide space that stretches from one end to the other of the screen is wasted to display: the clock, workspaces, and some crappy information that I really don't need to check constantly. Unacceptable, throw the bar away!
\nYou can show the list of workspaces and the clock only when switching workspaces or using keyboard shortcuts to display it through a notification.
\nOr go the hardcore route and ditch it altogether, check the time on your watch, wall clock, or use the
\ndatecommand XD. Workspaces are really not necessary when I always maximize windows and rarely tile them anyway. Just use a workspace-less desktop, no need to config, no need to display.
![\"TTY](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/218121026-2d2ddb94-5105-4df8-a6a9-8ab632b69ce3.png\")
WM... is Bloat. We can also get rid of WM and login manager altogether. Use full TTY from Linux Kernel and type the command to open GUI app... NOWM or [wms] will make the experience less miserable without WM.
\nRemember those TUI/CLI apps we installed at the beginner stage? We realize we don't need 80% of it, we would rather use the tools available in the POSIX standard to make the script more portable. Then we even removed the file manager!
\nThe shell prompt is now just "$", pwd is the only torch that lights us the way in the file system.
The rice is no longer minimalist, it has become a black hole. Few are brave enough to go beyond, but some legends continue, The few features that identifies them is that they do Linux From Scratch and know what Linux framebuffer is.
\n![\"Gnome](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aylur/dotfiles/gnome43/assets/rose.png\")
After a tiresome period of extreme minimalist rice, they have a different view of minimalism. They realize that using DE is very minimal in terms of time and effort. To be honest, DE is not that bloat, It has some features that although we don't always use, but having it is still very convenient in some situation. "And if I don't install or configure anything but just use the default stuff from the DE, the dotfiles will be a lot more minimal!"
\nAnd so they decided to go back to installing DE. But this time, with more experience and skill, their rice is better than ever. They even installed more fancy features, more personality, going against the previous minimalism... Finally they felt quite satisfied with their setup, thinking that they would never thinker with the OS ever again...
\nCredit to Kazoku for the Rice images!
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/11/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/11/", "title": "Window's title", "content_html": "Window's title is the most underrated aspect of a desktop when in fact it's very useful:
\nBut what is the best way to display window's title, let's take a look at some method.
\nsmart_gaps on so a tabs workspace will not have gaps.This is the method that being used in Windows OS and most Linux's DE, it's display window's title both attach to the window itself and then show a list of windows on the information bar.
\n| Busy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|
![\"bothBusy\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809472-7ff54480-75db-11eb-8bef-8cd640e1072a.png\") | \n![\"bothTab\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809474-808ddb00-75db-11eb-8dbb-35b9fa59878f.png\") | \n
Only show a list of windows on the information bar.
\n| Busy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|
![\"taskBusy\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809488-84b9f880-75db-11eb-8015-2729e907d094.png\") | \n![\"taskTab\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809489-85528f00-75db-11eb-9974-0956ba00ec1b.png\") | \n
CPU, MEM, DISK, TEMP, PLAYING...Show window's title attach to the window itself.
\n| Busy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|
![\"titleBusy\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809490-85eb2580-75db-11eb-8900-7c81a2f22a28.png\") | \n![\"titleTab\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809492-8683bc00-75db-11eb-8fb7-8dbe4442787f.png\") | \n
win4's title bar (on image) take more space in the middle of the screen unlike Detach method.Show window's title attach to the window itself but with a twist:
\n| Busy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|
![\"loveBusy\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809479-82579e80-75db-11eb-94de-e3f790ce07e4.png\") | \n![\"loveTab\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809480-82f03500-75db-11eb-9302-94b3ab8c127b.png\") | \n
| Busy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|
![\"hateBusy\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809476-81267180-75db-11eb-93d1-cb540b6fab66.png\") | \n![\"hateTab\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/108809478-81bf0800-75db-11eb-946a-6dd00a3b11fd.png\") | \n
CPU, MEM, DISK, TEMP, PLAYING...), then collapsed most of it to an arrow icon when switch to a tabs workspace.| Method | \nBusy workspace | \nTabs workspace | \n
|---|---|---|
| Legacy | \nCramped | \nCramped | \n
| Detach | \nConfuse | \nBest | \n
| Attach | \nGood | \nOkay | \n
| Dynamic | \nGood (best if have gaps) | \nBest | \n
In 2021, I wrote a wiki article on my dotfiles repo called: Windows manager Utopia. TL;DR it's the idea of using a web browser as a windows Manager. In it, I explain its benefits and features and theory how it might work...
\nThen one day I saw this post on r/unixporn:
\n\n\n[Kera Desktop] Forget it, I just made my own desktop environment
\n
![\"Kera](\"https://i.imgur.com/Ad1YsFW.webp\")
Kera Desktop is an independence DE, not only that, it also based on web technology The more I read the website of the project, the more I see that it has many great features and ideas as I expected!
\nI don't even have anything to add here because the project's website has already done a good job explaining it, I recommend everyone to visit their website right away!
\nMany people when they hear "web-based" immediately doubt the project's performance, don't know if it will run on the Thinkpad with 0.5gb ram... I recommend you take a look at the project's FAQ. I guarantee it will answer most of your skeptical.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-09T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/9/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/9/", "title": "Image viewer/media player for minimalist", "content_html": "Here are my five stages of rice image viewer:
\nThese newbies have just installed Linux and use the default image viewer that comes with the DE. Since it already there, why not use it, right?
\nAfter installing Arch Linux (or Manjaro and pretending to use pure Arch) and setting up WM. The average r/unixporn enjoyer decided to install SXIV after hearing that it was better than FEH from a Youtube video. But soon they realized that to configure SXIV, they had to edit the source code, and compile it themselves. Some continues to use it and adopts the Suckless philosophy, others noticed the Suck**** inside of it and go on their journey to find a faster, lighter and easier to configure image viewer.
\nMPV is a media player that is as powerful as VLC but extremely lightweight/minimal. It's also secretly a good image viewer, use MPV Image Viewer to turn MPV into a perfect image viewer.
\nOf course if you only use MPV as then it's pretty bloat, but if you already used it as a media player then it's definitely lighter than having a dedicated image viewer (also who have an image viewer but not have a media player, right?). You can think of an image as a video, but it has no sound and only have one frame, so use the media player to view image still satisfies the UNIX philosophy "Programs that do one thing and do it well".
\nYou can drag and drop media files into your web browser and it will play it. Realizing this, they quickly uninstall MPV and follow the path of suffering, path of extreme minimalism. There are a few formats it doesn't accept but it still be an acceptable solution... Or not, Using the browser can only view images in a very basic way, its experience is quite annoying. "Have I gone too far?", "Is this too minimalistic?" they thought.
\nAfter rice Linux - minimalist style for a while, they start to get tired and have a different view of minimalism. They realize that using DE is very minimal in terms of time and effort. To be honest, DE is not that bloat, It has some features that although we don't always use, but having it is still very convenient in some situation. And if I don't install or configure anything but just use the default stuff from the DE, the dotfiles will be a lot more minimal!
\nAnd so they decided to go back to installing DE and use the default image viewer that comes with the DE. Since it already there, why not use it, right?
\nImage Glass: It's only run on Windows but it's is the best image viewer for Windows, it's well design with enough feature to even do some light modification but not too bloat.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-07T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/8/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/8/", "title": "My graveyard of projects", "content_html": "List of projects I abandon. Some is finished, other left unfinished. But it's all pointless, or I don't feel it's useful to me anymore.
\nkakrc:hook -group 'clipboard' global WinCreate .* %{ evaluate-commands %sh{ printf '%s' 'set-register dquote %sh{ cb }' } }\nhook -group 'clipboard' global FocusIn .* %{ evaluate-commands %sh{ printf '%s' 'set-register dquote %sh{ cb }' } }\nhook -group 'clipboard' global RegisterModified \\" %{ nop %sh{ printf '%s' "$clipboard" | cb & } }\nmkparents options in Micro editor).hr() {\n for text in \"${@:-─}\"; do\n printf '\\033[?7l%*s\\033[?7h' \"${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}\" | sed -e \"s/ /$text/g\"\n done\n}Around February, after I posted rice v3.5.0, I promised to make a blog to explain how I use Ruby as a shell. Initially I want to explain it on an article, then it expanded into a website! Then a mountain of college work and internship job drop into my schedule... After all of that, I finally have time and energy to blogging again. So sorry and thank you everyone for waiting to follow my blog, I will try blogging more frequently!
\nBack to Ruby. As mentioned, the website that I created is Ruby on Shell and you can read it right now. This blog post will focus on how I discovered the power of Ruby and the process by which I created Ruby on Shell.
\nI was a naive programmer back then, thinking that I should just master one programming language and use it for everything (and that language was Python, a very normie choice...). I used Xonsh (in short, it is a fusion between Python and Bash) as my main shell for a while, its interactive experience is quite good but scripting on Xonsh is a bit annoying. Because of Python's off-side rule and list comprehension, it's hard for me to scripting as short as I'd like.
\nI want a full-fledged programming language like Python, Perl or Lua but with good scripting features like Nushell or Elvish.
\nThen one day I saw this line on an article by Xah Lee about list comprehension:
\n\n\n\n(0..9).select{|n| n.even?}.map{|n| 2*n}Note that this is not list comprehension, because it does not use a special syntax. But it captures the
\nmap(f, filter(list,predicate))in ruby style.
I've seen Xah Lee mention Ruby a few times, but that's the first time I've read a Ruby code and understand what it does. Its syntax is very compact, I feel that I can script on this language easily. And I was correct, I've dived into why Ruby is a perfect choice for shell scripting in Ruby on Shell so I won't repeat it again.
\nHere are my few thoughts on Ruby before moving on to the next section:
\nNot difficult but very time consuming:
\nIt was hard work, but it was worth it in the end. The process helped me increase my understanding of Ruby, plus now I have a pretty useful cheat-sheet.
\nI'm currently working on a project called Shell on Ruby to make scripting and using shell commands on Ruby more convenient.
\nI'm also occasionally peeking Crystal, its syntax is ~90% similar to Ruby but faster and has some better design than Ruby, but scripting on it isn't as convenient.
\nAnd that's all, I will continue my adventure on making a perfect scripting environment. See you in the next blogs.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-06T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/6/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/6/", "title": "Tabs vs Apps", "content_html": "If you want to access a platform like YouTube, Facebook, Discord, Messenger... and it requires an internet connection to access it, 95% of you don't need to download its app, just use it directly through the browser. Whether on a desktop or a mobile.
\nYes, very good, in fact!
\nMost of us have been using web browsers to surf social media sites on the desktop. However, the same cannot be said for communication apps like Discord and Messenger. With these applications, people tend to download its own app because they think that they have to do so to use features such as notifications, toggle the mic when voice-call. But do you know that you can get these features even when using it on the web:
\nBefore 2014, most social medias website is unusable on mobile web browsers, often too laggy, and the interface are terrible compared to the apps. But over time, phones are now much faster now and websites have also significantly improved on browsers. Now day, accessing these platforms on a browser is even better than using apps:
\nThis is a follow-up to "Things to note when design a minimal CLI utility", but this time it's about window manager.
\n![\"Pixel](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43980777/134518773-1862d6a4-3dea-4af7-a3aa-71cc79b91c71.png\")
I have covered this in detail on my previous blog, it just also applies to WM.
\nWidgets like bar, menu don't need and shouldn't be built-in to the windows manager. Because there is already tools out there that handle these widgets far better\n(EWW, Conky, bars, menus).\nThe exception is if the WM has a whole widget's system like AwesomeWM that can be used to config everything from wallpaper to window decorations.
\nWM should not go out of it's way to handle wallpaper, leave it to the wallpaper setters.
\nThe same go for hotkey, hotkey daemons exist!\n(SXHKD, Kanata, KMonad).\nThe only exception are to config mouse buttons (with mod keys) to focus, move and resize windows.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/4/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/4/", "title": "Things to note when design a minimal CLI utility", "content_html": "The UNIX philosophy is emphasized when it comes to designing CLI tools because it helps to tie together disparate tools into a unified TTY ecosystem. Each tool just "Do one thing and do it well", which makes it possible for all tools to be harmoniously connected with each other. However, I still see many old and new CLI tools that have some redundant features. These features are included with the intention of making the tool more convenient to use, but users can already achieve it by piping to existed tools relatively convenient. Redundant features in a CLI tool only make the tool more cumbersome.
\nIf your tool works with strings and not specifically with files, it doesn't need flags to read files like -f, --file, -i, --input... Because it's unnecessary and makes your tool a bit more complicated. You should instead allow your tool to read stdin, this syntax can be used uniformly across tools and most shells have support for redirecting data from a file into tool:
tool < input.txt\ncat input.txt | tool\ncat input1.txt input2.txt | toolSimilar to reading files, most shells have support for redirecting output to files:
\ntool > output.txt\ntool >> output.txt\ntool | tee output1.txt output2.txt\ntool < input.txt >> output.txtYour CLI tool should not have the features to get or set to the clipboard because people will use your tool in all kinds of environments, and you can't support every clipboard manager out there. But if users want your tool to interact with the clipboard, they'll be more likely to pipe it to the clipboard manager they're using:
\ncb | tool\ntool | cbDon't invent a new format or new language just to config your tool:
\nIf your tool supports color rendering, please use 3-bit and 4-bit color as the default! I know TTY's default color isn't pleasant, but most terminal users use themes, and when they use themes they want all programs to display with the colors in the theme, not a bunch of random colors. A lot of CLI tools out there that don't follow this and choose to use Monokai, Gruvbox or their own (often really odd) colors!
\nI highly recommend everyone to read Command Line Interface Guidelines, the article is not only have a guide but also gives philosophy when designing CLI.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-02T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/3/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/3/", "title": "Pick a web browser", "content_html": "Chrome is currently the most popular browser, but that doesn't mean it's the best. It used to be the best, but now there are many of other browsers that are better in every way, from features to security (Chrome collects a lot of user data!).
\nIf you are using Windows, using Edge is better than Chrome because Edge is also a Chromium-based browser, and it comes pre-installed anyway. Although, I wouldn't recommend using Edge because there are so many better options like:
\n![\"Firefox\"](\"https://i.imgur.com/8HtSanJ.webp\")
Firefox-based browsers are the most secure. But more importantly, Firefox is extremely customizable:
\n![\"Zen\"](\"https://i.imgur.com/xowuE7A.webp\")
Zen is also Firefox-based but has been heavily modified to increase performance, privacy and security. It has good default settings, without the need to spend a lot of time configuring like Firefox. Zen takes all the best of Firefox's customizability and x10s it: It has vertical tabs like Arc, and accent colors... But Zen's killer feature, the thing that makes Zen stand out from other browsers, is its theme system:
\nIn Firefox, users can personalize it further by writing CSS to intervene deeply in the browser, these are quite complicated to install, but then it is still quite limited. In contrast, Zen has a JS and CSS theme system built into the browser, even allowing users to upload themes to Zen's theme store so that anyone who wants it can download and use it. Furthermore, Zen also allows users to use multiple themes at the same time, each of which can customize individual components so that the user can choose and combine them to create the best experience for themselves.
\nZen is the best in many ways, but it's not a Chromium-based browser. This can be seen as a good thing because it breaks the monopoly that Chrome and Google hold in the web browser market. But some still need to use Chromium-based browser for a variety of reasons.
\n![\"Firefox\"](\"https://i.imgur.com/ba0rBQ6.webp\")
Brave is second in terms of privacy and security, but its default setting is the most secure (it has a built-in ad-blocker), which is great for those who want security without the hassle of setting up.
\nUnlike Firefox on mobile, Brave on mobile is also very secure, using the same browser on all platforms is also very convenient for data synchronization, open tabs, etc.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-01-30T00:00:00Z" } , { "id": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/2/", "url": "https://nnb.codeberg.page/blog/en/posts/2/", "title": "Become a Hackerman", "content_html": "As a programmer, you need to master a lot of skills, one of which is to look cool. Here are some TTY tools that can help turn you into a Hackerman.
\n\n\ncool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
\n
![\"Default](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070717-16708784-ba42-11e7-8572-a8fcc10d7f7d.gif\")
\n![\"Default](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070715-163a1c94-ba42-11e7-80bb-41fbf10fc634.gif\")
| > Default Amber | \n$ Default Green | \n
|---|---|
| \n | \n
\n\nA cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.
\n
![\"eDEX-UI\"](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GitSquared/edex-ui/master/media/screenshot_default.png\")
\n\nTheDraw font parser and console text renderer.
\n
![\"Tdfgocast\"](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/digitallyserviced/tdfgo/main/assets/tdfgocast.gif\")
\n![\"Tdfgo](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/digitallyserviced/tdfgo/main/assets/tdfgo-print-user.png\")
Some alternative:\nFIGlet, TOIlet\nwith\nXero's fonts collection.
\n\n\nResource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
\n
![\"Btop\"](\"https://i.imgur.com/eDvgKsI.webp\")
\n\nPython script to simulate the display from "The Matrix" in terminal.
\n
![\"Unimatrix\"](\"https://i.imgur.com/BHeqwCQ.webp\")
Some alternative:\nCmatrix, Neo.
\n\n\nThis project provides a command line tool called
\nnmsthat recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers. For reference, you can see this effect at 0:35 in this movie clip.
![\"Screenshot\"](\"https://www.brianbarto.info/static/nms/nms.gif\")
\n\nAlso included in this project is a program called
\nsneakersthat recreates what we see in the above movie clip.
![\"Screenshot\"](\"https://www.brianbarto.info/static/nms/sneakers.gif\")
\n\nPretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of
\ngenactand watch the show.genacthas multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.
![\"CC\"](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/svenstaro/genact/master/gifs/cc.gif\")
\n![\"Memdump\"](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/svenstaro/genact/master/gifs/memdump.gif\")
\n![\"Cargo\"](\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/svenstaro/genact/master/gifs/cargo.gif\")
\n\nA curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols).
\n
Notables are:
\n\n\n\nMapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console.
\n
Try it out:
\ntelnet mapscii.me\n\nBash script which rickrolls your terminal by playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
\n
![\"rickroll](\"http://i.imgur.com/yDLaZna.png\")
To start rickrollin’ immediately:
\ncurl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keroserene/rickrollrc/master/roll.sh | bashHere is the clandestine command you can give to your friends 😈:
\ncurl -sL http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bashThis is just a small list of guides on system configuration from the command line instead of the bloated config app that come with the desktop environment.
\nWelcome to my blog! This isn't really my first time blogging, I've written some articles on my Đotfiles's wiki before, but NNBlog is a fresh start. In the coming month, I will copy most articles from the Dotfiles to this site.
\nBefore that, I wanted to show off a little bit about the technical side of this site. This is a static website generated using 11ty (Eleventy). 11ty is a light, simple and convenient JS framework. Its most important feature is that it allows the us to write the page in Markdown. Not only that, it also has many features such as creating a table of contents, tag manager... This is quite ideal for a tinker like me.
\nI also use DaisyUI for styling and Alpine.js for a bit of interactive. Although, Alpine.js is a bit overkill at the moment (the only thing that needs it is an image hover effect on the homepage):
\n![\"Hover](\"https://i.imgur.com/KZ93WrH.webp\")
But in the future I can give a small interactive parts in some articles.
\nBefore, I only wrote in English because I wrote it on Github Wiki. But as you can see in the right corner of the Navbar there is a button to change to Vietnamese, I had blog in both English and Vietnamese! From now on, I will write in my native language first, then translate it to English. I'm quite confident about my English listening/reading skill, but I'm still a writing newbie, so LanguageTool (an open source grammar checker) has become an indispensable tool for me.
\nThe common way to support multi-language in 11ty is to split it into two directories en/ and vi/, the same post has separate files of each language on each directory. That method is fine, but I want more flexibility in managing and reusing the elements of the article. So I let 11ty paginate each Markdown file into two pages in English (with lang = 'en') and Vietnamese (with lang = 'vi') so I can write in a single file like this:
---\ntitle:\n en: \"*First post!\"\n vi: Blog post \"đầu tiên\"!\ndescription:\n en: Made with 11ty\n vi: Khai bút đầu năm bằng 11ty\ntags:\n - update\n - web_dev\ndate: 2023-01-22\nimage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1674240660273-a3496c4604fd\n---\n\n{% if lang == 'vi' %}\n Xin chào!\n{% else %}\n Hello!\n{% endif %}That's all folks, I hope you all look forward to reading my next blog posts, bye!
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