Next release of Janet should have native Plan 9 support :D

#plan9 #janetlang

What is a terminal?

Consider #Plan9
Consider #TidalCycles #Strudel
Consider #Mathematica

What is a text interface with support for math, graphs, tables/matrix, signal capture, analysis, generation, vector graphics, UI-objects, etc…?

#Question

I read these descriptions of ideas behind #PLan9 : “An ‘early catch phrase’ of Plan 9 ‘was to build a UNIX out of a lot of little systems, not a system out of a lot of little UNIXes.’” and “computers would handle different tasks: small […] machines […] would serve as terminals providing access to large, central, shared resources such as computing servers and file servers.” I wonder whether anybody uses #Plan9 this way. I hear only about self-contained system. Computing servers anyone?

“Thief is probably pretty perplexed anyway” after stealing your smartphone that's running #Plan9/Inferno…

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-20/dc-20-presentations/Floren/DEFCON-20-Floren-Hellaphone.pdf

Day 9 of Advent of Type brings a font i've mentioned before but have now renamed Peter (it sits alongside Clive forming the "boring man-names" collection). It's Pellucida (from Plan 9) with Peter's face as the pixel (that's Peter J. Weinberger). At U+2400 is SYMBOL FOR NUL which in this Pellucida is a tiny version of Peter's face.

Download from https://drj11.itch.io/advent-of-type-2025 and please Boost!
#AdventOfType #AdventOfType2025 #Fonts #RetroComputing #Plan9

I gave my “Intro to Plan 9” talk this past Thursday and I think it went pretty well. The video is now up on YT if you’d like to check it out.
#plan9

https://youtu.be/AobkPcfZ8xM

notice me

#bell #glenda #plan9 #9front #go #gopher #unix_surrealism #rabbit

@chakuari

I think once you get into #Plan9 / #9front, there's nowhere further to go in the hierarchy of nerdieness but to write your own OS:

https://polymaths.social/users/rl_dane/statuses/01KB0JWFT7R02NJMQ5MA0XM2QV

(Plan9 isn't in that poll, because silly me forgot it, but if it were, it would've been either between Haiku and Workbench, or between Workbench and "I wrote my own OS.")

https://apl.pmikkelsen.com/

> #APL on #plan9

Uu that's hype I'm gonna have to spin up a vm to try it out

I think I improved it
#9front #plan9

Seen on a #Plan9 mailing list: "If folks want graphics, it's time to start reading docs and producing semicolons."

got a really cool #plan9 thing

I've got /n/shithub.us mounted over 9p , where the user directories for this git server are served- and since it's the server it only has .git folders exposed it desn't have HEAD laid out

But we have git/fs, so I can go to that folder and mount the .git folder as a filesystem, where I will see a read only view of the HEAD in .git/fs/HEAD/tree

This is read only but that's not a problem, unionfs can redirect file creates to another filesystem!

so we run ramfs, which makes a ramdisk on /tmp
(in our processes namespace)
and then
> unionfs -m . /tmp .
sets up the union to it! I can run mk right in the directory and compile the code!

On Plan 9, the copy operation and the copy buffer are called snarf! You snarf text, and the text get snarfed to the snarf buffer!

I just cranked out a little snarf manager for #plan9 and #9front

https://codeberg.org/penny64/snarflog mounts itself over /dev/snarf and proxies it, sending messages out to a new file/dev/snarflog that you can read and block on to get a continuous stream of snarfs!

It was kinda hard to do this in go without much example code but I learned how to create 9p filsystems, attach them to pipes and post them to /srv for sharing across namespaces and how to do binds and mounts from go code, great stuff!

@darkuncle

Yeah, total #DanesLaw event, missing #Plan9 like that. 🤦‍♂️

I did a small writeup of my exploration of pq, a plain-text database connector for #plan9.

https://mccd.space/posts/pq/

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.