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Re: Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

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I find getting stuff up on the rM2 screen a hassle. The challenge comes from the way the e-paper works. To turn a pixel from white to black (or vice versa) it needs multiple actual frames. The pixel data must also be packed in a specific format. Instructions for how many frames a single operation requires are coded in a wbf[0] file, which comes included with the OEM firmware. The most commonly used approach is hookin…

My reMarkable is still stuck on a super old version (v3.3 I think), precisely because of xochitl being closed source and there's no stable and efficient way of driving the display. It's super sad because I would love to have much more things appearing on my tablet yet I cannot develop reMarkable apps easily. I'm not talking about browsers, but more like my Linear TODO list, calendar, etc., so I don't have to reach fo…

Appload and Xovi open up a range of options. You can build a simple frontend in QT and have a backend in a language of your choice serve as an API. Appload handles the display / xochitl for you. I've built tons of little apps like this - and bigger ones.

https://github.com/asivery/rm-appload https://github.com/asivery/xovi

Installing these used to be a bit of a hassle, but ReManager and Vellum make it a breeze: https://github.com/rmitchellscott/reManager

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