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Xteink ereaders do (available on Amazon) but just make sure to get the “developer edition” and you can flash the hardware.

Reposting because more need to know and the original one only has 12 points.

I love these kind of projects. M5Stack Cardputer Zero launched on Kickstarter last week and already hit their goal

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m5stack/cardputerzero

Works well for me. I'm on desktop (Macbook Air M3) but have a decent amount of RAM

Very cool! The magnitude of how tiny we actually are...

Yes exactly! I did this kind of thing too for a little while. I ended up using the Gist to access the bookmarks but figured it would be nice to have an optional viewer to search/sort. Also having it across all devices is a big plus. One of the features I miss now that Pocket used to offer with their bookmarklet.

Thumby has a 3x5 but I do like this 5x5 better

https://thumby.us/API/Text-and-Font/

One of the benefits of graph databases is that you can measure strengths of connections and also infer connections that don’t actually exist (edge prediction) among many other path traversal techniques. It’s not always just about the connection itself. Many have these algorithms built in so you don’t have to reinvent it.

Timely article for me! I just went through this in my little SimCity remake for MicroPython:

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity/blob/6c3a7337788655b5...

Very cool! We need to get this on M5Stack Cardputer ASAP

Following up here, I just added a game interface abstraction to make it easier to support more devices. Planning on getting a few MakeCode-compatible devices to adapt for them.

definitely agree

This is cool thanks for sharing! I'm definitely be digging into these. It would be neat to support some of these devices too. I didn't know about MaplePad (+1 to Dreamcast VMU projects!)

This is for 72×40 display right now but I was also working on an interface layer to abstract Thumby specific functionality in order to play on potentially other platforms running MicroPython/Python. Going to try and add that in the next iteration.

Thanks!

Thanks I'll post when it's available. Still waiting on the PR to merge in their Arcade repo.

Thank you!

Congrats! Unplayable by most means but absolutely incredible how tiny it is so I love it.

Yeah great catch. So I mentioned this in the README but much of the mechanics were heavily inspired by jhhoward's MicroCity. This is the same way he calculated taxes and I figured to test it out to see how it worked in game. I really liked the flow of how his game played and seems like there are some pros/cons to that inbalance.

Pros: - Makes residential population more valuable for taxes, which helps early‑game cash flow. - Encourages zoning residential since it has outsized budget impact. - Offsets the fact that residential growth can be more constrained by pollution/unemployment.

Cons: - Skews the economy away from industrial/commercial impact. - Makes budget feel inconsistent with “total population.” - Can mask balance issues by injecting extra money, making difficulty tuning harder.

Haha thanks! Definitely adding that during map generation in next release.

I originally had sim but HN autocorrected it. I tried to edit it back to what I had but can't seem to now.

Thank you!

I came across this app recently. It's cross platform which is nice.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app

Definitely agree. It’s not “the code has been deprecated”, it’s “your attitude has been deprecated”. One of the big challenges with technology is staying current because it moves so fast. We’ve all seen trends come and go, even outside of software. If it wasn’t evolving we’d be doing something wrong.

The best internet connection in the world can’t help crappy software.

Nice work! I wish I would have come across this sooner or I might not have started building https://webden.dev for the past year haha. PLAYCODE is definitely more robust as far as features (courses, virtual file system, pro version, users, node.js, transpiled projects, etc) but it's cool to see your big focus on speed. The rest of the ecosystem felt so heavy and bloated when I originally started looking.

Also, thanks for sharing your story! Very inspiring!

Shameless plug: this is exactly why I built SimpleStore. An easy way to manage a small store without worrying about the platform changing the rules on you. https://chrisdiana.github.io/simplestore/

That’s what I’d like to think too…but why not then say something about competitors or same industry, etc? It’s so wide reaching the way it’s stated.

Thanks for the tip. Yeah that’s exactly what I was concerned about. I’ll definitely try pushing back and see what happens from there.

I’m more concerned about if I were to join a new company. How would that work? Would I have to disclose that work for 3 months at a new employer?