👋 hi! i'm ben - new here, though i've been enjoying the podcast for a little while now current special interest: i've been experimenting with homebrew software for the remarkable tablet (for those unfamiliar: it's an e-ink tablet, with low-enough latency that it's also nice to write on) and i'm curious what a good programming environment for that sort of paperlike interface would look like

i'm curious what a good programming environment for that sort of paperlike interface would look like

Yeah! I've also been thinking about this a lot. It certainly feels like there's some latent potential here.

I'm very curious about the Remarkable. Do you have anything written up about your experiences and experiments so far?

Did you see this https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1633083728143300?thread_ts=1633083728.143300&cid=C5U3SEW6A

@Jack Rusher here is a reply from one guy who's using it:

TL;DR: I'd entirely recommend it. It's expensive, but I get a lot of pleasure from it, and it's nice knowing I'll never lose notes etc. It has a whole range of features that I don't use, but could see myself using in the future (when I get more freedom from my laptop).

In terms of 1 vs 2, the 2 is better than the 1 for sure. I marginally preferred the case/stylus holder in the v1 though. It's a bit annoying the way that the pen sits on the outside of the 2 in transit. And also my v2 case scratched easily which made me sad as it's expensive. So if I was doing it again, I might not get the leather case for it and get either a cheaper one or a material one. But in terms of the hardware, v2 is much better - battery life especially is a huge step foward, and USB-3 charging.

@Chris Knott - exactly the sort of thing i was hoping to find around here... thank you!

@Alex Bender @Ben Kirwin Thanks! I've heard good things about the hardware. My main interest was in what it's like as a target for software development, as I'd certainly want to build my own tools. 🙂

I bought the PineNote with the idea of putting Squeak (or even the original Smalltalk-76 on it) as a portable pen computer. Still looking into the best approach to achieving this (probably the interpreter running on a stripped down linux like Alpine)

@Naveen Michaud-Agrawal looking forward to the experience report 🙂 also, you might be interested in what Tony Garnock-Jones has been up to: https://twitter.com/leastfixedpoint/status/1313257692132184069?s=20&t=JVr1cjrr1-7ddLm5IcCX1A

@Jack Rusher Thanks - I had seen that before, but forgot about PostmarketOS. That might be a good candidate to run on the PineNote - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote). I'm taking Alan Kay's idea to heart of starting with a minimal Smalltalk system (basically just the object model and some core classes), and rebuilding everything else. For example, I think this is a good model for handling user interactions - https://twitter.com/sumim/status/1483484229543800833, Just need to think through whether I'll need coroutine support to make it more natural.