[knowuh]

Orca is amazing, and it's creator Devine Lu Linvega is inspiring too.

Listen to this future of coding podcast where he is interviewed about Orca: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045 and about making your own tools: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

The Future of Coding podcast is a treasure.

Edit: excerpt from the Devine Lu Linvega's intro:

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Devine Lu Linvega and his partner Rekka live on a sailboat. He makes art, music, software, and other cultural artifacts. When Photoshop’s DRM required that he maintain a connection to the internet, he wrote his own creative suite. When his MacBook died in the middle of the ocean, he switched to Linux with hardware he could service. His electricity comes from solar panels, and every joule counts — so that’s out with Chrome and Electron and in with Scheme, C, assembly, and maybe someday Forth.

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[hutzlibu]

"His electricity comes from solar panels, and every joule counts — so that’s out with Chrome and Electron and in with Scheme, C, assembly, and maybe someday Forth."

I used to live and program off grid, too. With a setup, I could carry all in my backpack ... so I can say, it mainly depends on the hard- and firmware in use. So my pure linux laptop did not last very long. Even with allmost only texteditor use

But my optimized rugged chromebook does last a long time, and with only modest sunshine -> unlimited worktime - with extensive use of chrome and electron.

[NackerHughes]

What rugged chromebook do you use?

[hutzlibu]

Acer C201.

But it might be not avaiable anymore but I think the successor is similar.

I put it in dev mode and worked mainly with chrome dev tools as IDE and a simple texteditor for node scripts. That worked well and I did not needed more.

There is in theory a linux vm, but last time I tried, it was buggy and performance intense, so no option for my days work, but good to have the opportunity to have more powerful tools at hand at times, like inkscape, because chromeOS as itself is not so nice to use and very limited in every way, but what works, works.

[CRConrad]

Think I've read somewhere that those can be reloaded with pure Linux to replace Chrome OS. Not saying you should, only nothing that one probably could.

[raffomania]

Most recently, he's actually rewriting all his tools in a forth-inspired language he's designed himself: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html

[metasyn]

I made an online environment for UXN programming, assembling, and emulating the CLI environment using emscripten

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-uxn/

check it out if you're learning uxn or just want to try loading a rom and seeing the source or modifying it to learn

[austinl]

I'd recommend checking out their YouTube channel — they document sailing from Vancouver to New Zealand and back! A lot of this work was done along the way.

https://www.youtube.com/c/HundredRabbits/videos

[kragen]

I'd like to point out that Rekka is also a creator of Orca.

[vanderZwan]

Here is another nice short interview on esoteric.codes:

https://esoteric.codes/blog/100-rabbits

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

Heh, Forth isn't a write only language if it can be recognized. Happy accidents.