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Seems like Superblocks

Xteink ereaders do (available on Amazon) but just make sure to get the “developer edition” and you can flash the hardware.

Reposting because more need to know and the original one only has 12 points.

I love these kind of projects. M5Stack Cardputer Zero launched on Kickstarter last week and already hit their goal

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m5stack/cardputerzero

Works well for me. I'm on desktop (Macbook Air M3) but have a decent amount of RAM

Very cool! The magnitude of how tiny we actually are...

Yes exactly! I did this kind of thing too for a little while. I ended up using the Gist to access the bookmarks but figured it would be nice to have an optional viewer to search/sort. Also having it across all devices is a big plus. One of the features I miss now that Pocket used to offer with their bookmarklet.

Thumby has a 3x5 but I do like this 5x5 better

https://thumby.us/API/Text-and-Font/

One of the benefits of graph databases is that you can measure strengths of connections and also infer connections that don’t actually exist (edge prediction) among many other path traversal techniques. It’s not always just about the connection itself. Many have these algorithms built in so you don’t have to reinvent it.

Timely article for me! I just went through this in my little SimCity remake for MicroPython:

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity/blob/6c3a7337788655b5...

Very cool! We need to get this on M5Stack Cardputer ASAP

Following up here, I just added a game interface abstraction to make it easier to support more devices. Planning on getting a few MakeCode-compatible devices to adapt for them.

definitely agree

This is cool thanks for sharing! I'm definitely be digging into these. It would be neat to support some of these devices too. I didn't know about MaplePad (+1 to Dreamcast VMU projects!)

This is for 72×40 display right now but I was also working on an interface layer to abstract Thumby specific functionality in order to play on potentially other platforms running MicroPython/Python. Going to try and add that in the next iteration.

Thanks!

Thanks I'll post when it's available. Still waiting on the PR to merge in their Arcade repo.

Thank you!

Congrats! Unplayable by most means but absolutely incredible how tiny it is so I love it.

Yeah great catch. So I mentioned this in the README but much of the mechanics were heavily inspired by jhhoward's MicroCity. This is the same way he calculated taxes and I figured to test it out to see how it worked in game. I really liked the flow of how his game played and seems like there are some pros/cons to that inbalance.

Pros: - Makes residential population more valuable for taxes, which helps early‑game cash flow. - Encourages zoning residential since it has outsized budget impact. - Offsets the fact that residential growth can be more constrained by pollution/unemployment.

Cons: - Skews the economy away from industrial/commercial impact. - Makes budget feel inconsistent with “total population.” - Can mask balance issues by injecting extra money, making difficulty tuning harder.

Haha thanks! Definitely adding that during map generation in next release.

I originally had sim but HN autocorrected it. I tried to edit it back to what I had but can't seem to now.

Thank you!

The company behind a phone app for determining a food’s nutritional value has amassed $32 million in debt and still owes back pay to two dozen ex-employees as it shuts down.

Opsis Health, of Highlands Ranch, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy March 15, less than one year after it launched Plateful, the company’s signature phone app. Chapter 7 requires a company to liquidate its assets and distribute them among those it owes money to.

Plateful allows users to scan 1 million foods, then assigns those foods both a nutritional value and an “eco value” for determining their environmental impact, according to Opsis.

“We were unable to secure additional funding,” Opsis CEO Kevin Grundy said in a text message Monday. “I can’t comment on anything else while the bankruptcy proceedings continue.”

Kevin Johnson, a Boulder man who was Opsis’ vice president of machine learning, wrote in a November lawsuit that Opsis thought Plateful “would revolutionize diet planning and nutrition tracking.” But days before it released the app last April, Opsis’ chief operating officer “announced via a pre-recorded video that Opsis would be unable to timely pay salaries.”

During an all-hands meeting the next day, April 13, “Opsis leadership induced Opsis employees to continue working with false promises that the company would secure funding right away and pay employees,” according to Johnson’s lawsuit, which seeks $42,500 in back pay.

Edward Wiley, the former chief technology officer at Opsis, wrote in a separate November lawsuit that Opsis “continually experienced cash flow challenges, which it attempted to address through third-party financing and loans from employees,” including Wiley.

“As a result of Opsis’ cash-flow issues it, on multiple occasions, chose to withhold earned compensation from its employees,” according to Wiley, who is owed $54,000.

Johnson’s case is scheduled for trial in July. Wiley’s is scheduled for trial in September.

Opsis also owes $17.9 million to the founder of CardWorks, a subprime lender in New York, and $2.3 million to the CEO of Barry’s Tickets, an online reseller, according to bankruptcy filings.

Twenty-five other people, companies and trusts are owed a total of $6.2 million that they loaned to Opsis, primarily in the form of simple agreements for future equity, or SAFEs, an investment strategy popular with tech startups that doesn’t require selling a stake in the company.

Twenty-four former Opsis employees are owed $372,000 in back pay, the company’s bankruptcy paperwork says. Opsis also owes three law firms a total of $100,000.

In total, Opsis has $31.8 million in debt and $1.2 million in assets. Its assets are patents and computer code for the Plateful app, according to Opsis’ bankruptcy paperwork.

Its bankruptcy lawyer is Jonathan Dickey with Kutner Brinen Dickey Riley in Denver.

I came across this app recently. It's cross platform which is nice.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app