i don't know how any of this works

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Famous last words, on both counts :)

2026-03-15 12:41:22 UTC

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Nice but why work on fossil at all? (serious question)

2026-01-26 09:34:17 UTC

@npub15cw…3agq Sorry to hear about what happened. I hope that you find some relief very quickly and that repairs go smoothly and without any additional problems. Don't lose hope.

2025-08-16 00:26:04 UTC

Appropriately drunk at the Blue Shell in Köln, highly recommended club for anyone passing by -- they're the only ones in Germany doing vaporwave and one of the only places doing synthwave/cyberpunk -- but also poetry reading, and tons of indie stuff

2025-08-15 23:21:30 UTC

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\o/

2025-08-15 22:31:40 UTC

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Please make stickers of this

2025-06-04 20:01:41 UTC

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Mentioned in the proceedings *and* the talk :) I was actually going to link them to you once some small formatting bugs in the proceedings' pdf was fixed, there's a temp version here: http://nopenopenope.net/up/main.pdf. You can find a recording of the talk on youtube (day 2) in case you're interested. Cheers and thank you for your work :)

2025-02-23 16:03:28 UTC

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Thanks :) My site, cat-v.org and a bunch of others use werc (https://code.9front.org/hg/werc), some hosted on 9front, others on openbsd/freebsd/linux; it's fairly simple and still being maintained. It's just mostly awk and rc scripts with some css, probably not hard to lift for your own stuff.

2025-02-23 05:40:11 UTC

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It has been my daily driver for over 7 years at this point. I do all of my music production and work stuff on it, it handles my email stuff, i host my site and vpn stuff on it, and a bunch of other things. I essentially learned C, audio processing, networking, threading, graphics and a myriad of other programming topics through it all. Your questions are difficult to answer in two words, but to give you an equally loaded answer, out of all of the linuxes, bsds, windowses and other stuff I've tried, it's the only OS that doesn't piss me off and that I don't have to constantly nurse to do actual work on it. I guess to add to that, it's unique in spirit and in the fact that it's easy for anyone to modify in any way and to shape to one's needs. Even an idiot like me can just sit down and write a device driver. There's no 30 layers of abstractions and subsystems, everything is laid bare, readable and accessible. What's more it's trivial to share your work and seeing these contributions ending up in the system is actually easy. For a C programmer, it's probably the best existing environment to work in and with. I'm not the only one using it on bare metal, there are dozens of others or more, not counting the many more that use it through a VM. The thing is, it may look and feel like a weird niche hobbyist project, but it actually *works*, on current hardware, for real world applications, right now. In fact I'm replying via mothra, the default 9front web browser. The community is relatively small, there are things missing, but the list of available stuff keeps growing. It's just easy to do things; some personal examples: http://nopenopenope.net/posts. The fqa (http://fqa.9front.org) has a brief overview of some of the history and available stuff, in the style of the openbsd handbook. There are a bunch of other docs out there if you're interested. Hope that makes it clearer...

2025-02-04 14:31:15 UTC

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Hah nice, reminds me of Wolfenstein RPG, the j2me game following Doom RPG, a favorite of mine

2025-02-04 02:31:11 UTC

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You could also try wl3d(1) on 9front, it's not based on wolf4sdl and doesn't inherit any of its bugs, it's one binary for all engines, etc: https://shithub.us/qwx/wl3d/HEAD/info.html

2025-02-02 18:57:08 UTC

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my bag is always half full of 'just in case' shit...

2025-02-02 02:16:42 UTC

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Nice, congrats :) Amusingly there was a booth at FOSDEM with a team of two advertizing their own open source console platform, and they had a playdate with a game their were demoing, but a far less complex one. I thought it was one of those diy educational things...

2024-08-25 01:39:08 UTC

I've made a bandcamp for my music, such as it is -- https://qwx9.bandcamp.com
I'd call it mostly retrowave or something, almost all of it is made with synths using real ym262, ym2612/ym3438 and MOS 6581/8580 chips, plus effects and accompaniment.
All made on 9front, live recorded and spliced together with pplay ([https://shithub.us/qwx/pplay/HEAD/info.html).](https://shithub.us/qwx/pplay/HEAD/info.html )
The rest was done with a fork (of a fork) of the ft2-clone tracker, again on 9front.
I consider the "albums" as rolling releases, they're just categories for whenever I upload something.
Everything is available for free at http://nopenopenope.net/mus as well (in opus format only).
Take a listen if curious, share if you like, but in any case I hope you enjoy some of it.
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