Hello child. Have you heard of the Rapid Riter? Oh it's a grand old thing... I look at it fondly from my desk as I code...
Really, it's one of the things that convinced me Recurse was exceptional: I've been to many hackerspaces with cool gizmos, but very few—none I can recall—where the gizmos actually work. And here is a large gizmo, with many failure modes, working excellently day in and day out. Right above the retro computing laboratory, no less, where machines that most think had gone extinct still work decades later! Remarkable. But we've gotten sidetracked.
At this point in my batch, it is a weekend and I am between projects. I'm looking to do something Recurse-oriented to pass the time. What is more noticable, more community-facing, than projecting my name onto the wall of the Hub? With an inside joke no less!
So: "Benji has missed his daily check-in times this batch."
And some interesting technical challenges:
- How to get a dynamic message onto the Rapid Riter? (
p5.js) - How to calculate the number of missed check-ins? (
main.tsx)
We shall yet see.