Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@sirlan whoaa. Is that samsung dex or sonething? Or is it raw linux for arm?

@TheQuinbox epic. Yeah I need to find some time to dig into it 🥳

@TheQuinbox That makes sense. I usually navigate by chapters then skim through paragraph by paragraph until I get where I want. It'd be neat if indexes in books referenced line numbers or paragraph numbers for extra quick nav. IIRC Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein had markers like this for easy referencing when I read it.

Ty for the info! 🙇

@TheQuinbox Have you considered getting rid of the concept of pages entirely? I find they tend to be more annoying than helpful, especially with PDFs enforcing their own constraints on what a page is outside of the raw contents I actually care to listen to.

@TheQuinbox Cool so you have the usual tree nav + app specific shortcuts? I ask cause I've been thinking about the UX for the reader I plan to make. I was thinking more along the lines of having "fuzzy search" over the tree and having it be global to the entire desktop so I can hop around quicker. Or adding "navigational bookmarks" to hop back to. Kinda like jumping around the filesystem using zoxide which is my main way to navigate my pooter right now. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

@TheQuinbox Cool will do! I don't use flatpak much so I'll probs start by just compiling it 😸

Do you navigate the app primarily with the screen reader accessibility tree?

@roknrol Nice. "better person" is a good goal. I had a similar approach like a decade and a bit ago and it's been nice to reflect on the progress since then. I found a lot of books helped me sort out how to put it into practice. It'll be neat to check in on it in a year or two and see what worked best for you.

Whatcha gonna do for Uni? I've been wanting to go for bioengineering but sadly I gotta keep the family fed with my full time job.

What sort of health? I (mostly) quit soda pop recently 😅

@nilix Neat! What got you into making the editor? Got your own twist on it or just practicing? I've been meaning to tinker with an AST level text editor but haven't had the time.

Is your manga stuff published somewhere? 💜

@TheQuinbox Epic! I don't have a go-to reader on Linux yet. I'll give it a shot some time. 🙇 I find a lot of readers aren't great for keyboard navigation which is essential for me since I use weird input devices and barely have a mouse.

@roknrol What's your current strat for the bettering part? Aiming for a concrete goal? I'm working on talking to strangers outside of my usual go-tos more.

@TheQuinbox Oh wow! That sounds great. Is your project published somewhere I may read?

Rust core + RPC for UIs is a fun pattern IMO. Are you parsing the books into a tree and rendering using the raw Text nodes instead of rasters?