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(#xwn45gq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, I used SnipMate years ago (until 2012). IIRC, itās more than just āinsert a bit of text hereā, it can also jump to the correct next location(s) and stuff like that. Donāt remember why I stopped using it.
Then I used nothing for a long time. Just before Christmas, I made my own plugin (ā¦ of course ā¦), which does everything I need at the moment (and nothing more).
It can insert simple templates and then jump to the next location:
(#j5s5khq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Iām toying with the idea of making a widget/window system on top of Pythonās ncurses. Iāve never really been happy with the existing ones (like urwid, textual, pytermgui, ā¦). I mean, theyāre not horrible, itās mostly the performance thatās bugging me ā I donāt want to wait an entire second for a terminal program to start up.
Not sure if Iāll actually see it through, though. Unicode makes this kind of thing extremely hard. š«¤
(#p4hxpnq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ā¦ I was about to write āit really is worse where you liveā, then I heard the first bang out on the street. š¤£
(#gslvc3q) @prologic@twtxt.net That might be a challenge, at least in 16-bit Real Mode: The OS follows the model of COM files on DOS, i.e. the size of the binary cannot exceed 64 KiB and heap+stack of the running program will have to fit into that same 64 KiB. š (The memory layout is very rigid, each process gets such a 64 KiB slice.)
And in 64-bit Long Mode, there is no ākernelā yet. The thing in the video is literally just a small bare-metal program.
My little toy operating system from last year runs in 16-bit Real Mode (like DOS). Since Iāve recently figured out how to switch to 64-bit Long Mode right after BIOS boot, I now have a little program that performs this switch on my toy OS. It will load and run any x86-64 program, assuming itās freestanding, a flat binary, and small enough (< 128 KiB code, only uses the first 2 MiB of memory).
Here Iām running a little C program (compiled using normal GCC, no Watcom trickery):
Mastodon has a āWrapstodon 2025ā now, showing you a āwrap upā of the year. Of course, a pointless funny shitpost was my most āsuccessfulā post in 2025. š
(#c6rrdzq) @prologic@twtxt.net Iāve been awake at that time, didnāt notice anything. š¤ Where was that BGP analyzer again ā¦ š Thereās a tool that keeps track of these things, right? I forgot what it was.
(#jta6w7a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org These tables get shuffled around every time your OS switches to another process. Itās crazy that so much is going on behind the scenes.