@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?
@mauve Yeah, it's on GitHub: https://github.com/trypsynth/paperback and the official site is https://paperback.dev. I create these things called markers, that form a tree of where headings, links, images, tables, etc are. It also ships with a CLI tool as of late, so you can get all its parsers (legacy/modern word, legacy/modern powerpoint, chm, rtf, epub, pdf, f2b, daisy, etc) from the CLI. Or, just pull in paperback-core and call into the parsers directly.
@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.
@mauve Paperback is purely keyboard first, I don't ever use a mouse myself. The Linux support is largely untested though, so please feel free to open issues about it.
@mauve Being a better person. Not selling out. The usual.
@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.
@mauve I have a lot of 'trained' ableism that's still hanging on...that's the big one. Trying to be a bit more introspective, I guess.
No solid goal for right now...just...be a better person. The kind of person that people want to be around. (Which is silly, because I don't really like being around other people. Perhaps I should work on that too?)
I'm anticipating going back to University in the next year, so kind of girding my loins and trying not to overwhelm myself before I even get started. Being kind(er) to myself. I'm told that's important.
@mauve Oh, and I've also been trying to work on my health but that's a whole different thing.
@mauve technical side: an acme/sam-like text editor with a 9p backend. been trying the frontend in uxn but the text rendering boilerplate is taking too long to build out so i am thinkin of trying an alternate frontend stack in go
nontechnical side: writing and designing characters for a yuri manga
@mauve I'm renovating my homelab. It started with the forced migration off Pocket, and now I'm yak shaving on nomad-lsp to deploy services.
But my main yak to shave would be a proxy service to connect Kobo with a self-hosted LinkDing bookmark service to serve articles. I'll get to that yak at some point, after I finish these other 10 yaks haha
@mauve Getting my ebook reader onto mobile platforms! We went from having no mobile support on the start of May 16 to having both iOS and Android with native SwiftUI/Kotlin apps, respectively ,just calling into a shared Rust core on May 30. They're not perfect yet, but that was really fun.