Over the years I have typically used nano/Geany to bash out code for my site, blogs, etc. this is sometimes a pain in the ass or generally inconvenient so I wrote this little editor that outputs pre-formatted HTML for my blog articles, good times.
Why? Because I was never a fan of micro-blogging platforms or all-in-ones like WordPress and I usually learn something doing it all myself.
A new gallery for the official xteink user wallpapers.
Xteink hosts its own user submitted wallpaper gallery via its cloud app, some of us don't (want to) use this app so a cool guy called Megabit_Omega decided to write a tool to download and sync (automated daily updates) all of this media, he then came to me for a place to host it and so I built this lovely new gallery, enjoy.
Some notes; most of this media was uploaded by Chinese citzens to their localized platform, keep this in mind when viewing through a western lens. I do not support and therefore will not take part in censorship for a global audience. Buddha, Spongebob, Mao, Pooh and a man with a little mustache may reside in the gallery, but you don't have to use any of them on your device if you don't want, use this cute pair of pussies instead ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎
Changes in v1.3 (x3 update)
The X3 uses a slightly wider and shorter resolution than the X4 (528x792 vs 480x800). The scaling is done server-side on demand, so no separate image library is needed. As with the X4, the dither and invert toggles apply before the rescale, so what you see in the preview is what you get on the device.
u/basvanderploeg made an awesome generator for Pokédex wallpapers formatted for the xteink x4, I wrote a scraper to catch them all and offer them for download, good times!
| Generation | About Cards | Stats Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gen 1 Kanto | Download | Download |
| Gen 2 Johto | Download | Download |
| Gen 3 Hoenn | Download | Download |
| Gen 4 Sinnoh | Download | Download |
| Gen 5 Unova | Download | Download |
| Gen 6 Kalos | Download | Download |
| Gen 7 Alola | Download | Download |
| Gen 8 Galar | Download | Download |
| Gen 9 Paldea | Download | Download |
Just a quicky post announcing x4Later, a web article to EPUB converter.
> x4later.lowio.xyzTODO: Seamless uploads to device, via crosspoint/wifi? Bluetooth? We will see, the idea is to have options for web → device workflow.
Changes in version v1.2
Settings for dithering are the same used in the Crosspoint firmware for book covers, as of writing Crosspoint doesn't apply dithering to wallpapers/sleep screens where as the stock fw does. Test to see what works for you.
A month ago procrastinating on reddit I saw a comment mentioning this wonderful little device, the xteink x4. I fell in love with the device and then the community r/xteinkereader
Rallying around this device a bunch of very fine folk have given us custom firmware and many tools to make life with this beautiful piece of hardware that much better, I wanted to give back too so I have written a wallpaper/sleep screen tool and discovery site.
The plan was to have a site where you could potentially browse for as long as you want finding and curating the perfect collection of wallpapers for your device. So I built an asset pipeline in Go to ingest images, convert them to the format recommended for the x4 and display them as cleanly as possible while offering both original grayscale and an inverted option + one click downloads.
Note that in gallery view and tap to preview the images are lower resolution webp to keep page loads snappy, hit download to get the full resolution x4 ready bmp files.
To-do: gather feedback, review image formats, optimize for performance at scale.
I recently picked up a cheap retro emulation handheld, my 3rd.. I told myself I'd do something else with this one, other than flash the latest r/SBCGaming OS recommendation, load it with 50,000 roms I'll never play and let it collect dust on my shelf. So let's turn it into a portable server.
Some Specs — SoC: Rockchip RK3326, CPU: Cortex-A35, GPU: Mali-G31 MP2, RAM: 1GB DDR3L, DSP: 3.5" 640×480 IPS, NIC: 2.4GHz, BAT: 3000mAh.
Think Raspberry Pi 3 with a screen, battery & USB-C in a nice case all for $35 delivered.
Much of the heavy lifting has already been done here, (the r/R36S community have even built Android for the platform!) so I flashed armbian-r36s-bookworm-xfce to a new mSD card, got lucky having a "panel 4" device and a few minutes later land in a fresh xfce environment!
Navigate the on-screen keyboard, enable ssh, a little apt-get, nginx is installed and ready to serve some pages. Now to build something fun for the community....
Additional logs: Running stable on RC5 build. Power consumption profiles idling under Nginx optimization sits roughly around ~140mA. Headless modifications can be configured safely via standard configuration files.
Stay tuned!!
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