As someone that likes to build and think about stuff. I would try to ask myself a few questions:
What problem(s) are you trying to solve? Has someone else already solved or is working on solving the problem? What's the hardware needed to solve the problem? It's rare that there isn't already a lot of ground work already done for the second question. You might fair better in finding discourse on a place like reddit, albeit at the hazard of their user base. After grazing your blog, plan 9 might be for you and I would highly recommend booting up 9front in a VM and checking out 'acme', mouse cording and plumbing. It takes a minute to get used to the system but the ability to click on any text like it is a button is a pretty neat UI. I believe a lot of basic programs are in `rc` the plan 9 shell interpreter, and the concepts of namespaces, (r)import, (r)cpu, and everything as a file are extremely flexible and simple. Yet, so is the game Go and that simplicity leads to complexion. On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 2:03 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, the blog is kind of a crap show stylistically, to say nothing of the > content. I hate blogger. If I wasn't flat broke right now I'd go back to > hosting my own Drupal, and I hated running my Drupal blog. For what it's > worth the recommended read order is in posting order, not the blog-standard > recent-first. At minimum, start with the first article, because that's > where the highest-level summary is. > > I just finished writing a reply under Red's thread that explains why > there's no code; the short version is that I'm losing my damn mind. I want > to, my brain just won't cooperate, and it never did. Even when I was > working on my BSCS, I was never great at just laying things out and getting > to work on them. Either my brain solves the problem in two minutes and I > spend hour transcribing it, or my brain is a whiny baby who refuses to eat > their peas. I absolutely agree that when you get down to actually working > on something, many things become clearer. But I am not sure that I can > work on the details while keeping the whole machine in my brain; that's why > I want to get it all out of my brain first. Maybe then I'll be able to > actually zero in on some of the pieces. > > I understand the instinct to point me to this or that technology for > inspiration or to use for implementation (someone else did something > similar the other day), but for right now I'm looking for people to help me > corral the tidal wave of cats that is my brain so that I can explain the > things that I have already thought of. What would be most helpful is > directed questions, even if it's just pointing at some random thing I said > and asking, "No, seriously, what are you trying to say here?" And feel > free to do that as comments or emails if you don't want to tie up the board > here. > *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4b6cbcbd1021df9b-M672801582cb652445e0fbf0d> > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4b6cbcbd1021df9b-Me5c4e20c530733b4fede766f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
