Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)
53 points by owickstrom 2 days ago
jolmg 32 minutes ago
Some time ago, I bought a transflective LCD module. Pixel density was high, higher than my phone's, which is weird because reflective LCD monitors tend to be sold with low pixel densities. IDK why this tech is so rare in comparison to eink and why eink's being pursued like this. Eink's still better for e.g. price tags and e-readers, but for coding? for a monitor? a transflective LCD would be better.
zx8080 3 hours ago
It's not the paper (and pen), it's some "paper screen" marketing.
Thank you so much for misleading me to click your link.
jolmg 2 hours ago
> it's some "paper screen" marketing.
Maybe you haven't heard of it before? E-paper (including e-ink) displays are much less rare than actually coding on pen and paper.
spiralcoaster 10 minutes ago
What difference does it make if they heard of it, or how rare displays are vs pen/paper coding? I imagine most everyone at this point has heard of e-paper and e-ink displays, but the author clearly dropped the "e" to make it sound more intriguing.
Would you be asking the same question for a post titled "Drawing with Ink", but it linked you to a page about drawing with an e-ink display? Of course not. It's misleading.
jolmg 2 minutes ago
throwaway27448 an hour ago
Really? Coding with pen and paper is very normal from my perspective. How else to you brainstorm with a colleague?
jolmg 24 minutes ago
pjmlp 14 hours ago
I thought it was actually paper coding, as many of us learned to do before coding right away into a keyboard.
TacticalCoder an hour ago
And paper debugging!
Fond memories of printing programs on continuous printer paper (paper with holes on the side, that many dot-matrix printers used) so that I could take my time to read them to figure out where the bugs where.
PyWoody an hour ago
I've always dreamed of doing that.
Whenever I proofread papers in college, I would always print them out. There's something about being able to physically hold the paper that makes keeping the whole idea in your head easier that just isn't possible on a screen, for me at least.
aselimov3 43 minutes ago
If only I could justify the 2k. I feel like life quality would improve significantly if I had this. Do you use another monitor for calls for work?
t1234s 3 hours ago
While bored in class in the mid 90's I would literally code pascal on paper.
jbuzbee 2 hours ago
My first job out of college in the early 80's was working on diagnostics for an old NASA computer. "What language do I use?" I asked my boss. "We don't have a compiler". OK, I thought, assembly language. "No" said my boss "We don't have an assembler". "OK" I guess I'll write machine language. "What's the development environment?" "We don't have one. There's no editor. There's no network. There's no keyboard or monitor" I had to write my diagnostics in 96 bit hex using pencil and paper and then enter my program into the computer using toggle switches on the front panel. Kids today have no idea :-) And get off my lawn!
nomel 31 minutes ago
History class in high school, because I couldn't use my TI-83 without suspicion.
allenu 3 hours ago
Similarly, I'd write code in BASIC in notebooks before I had a computer. Later on I remember writing up assembly code in my high school library on loose leaf sheets when I had a neat idea and my friends were busy studying. Nothing like solving a problem the old fashioned way.
lordleft an hour ago
I had no idea Boox made these. I have two of their tablets and one of their e-readers. I can't wait to see e-ink progress as a technology.
evgpbfhnr 3 hours ago
I'd definitely love to see more screens like this sold (and getting better & more affordable with time)!
The mira pro color is marked as sold out and I can't even figure how to check non-color version on their site, so this doesn't look like something they sell a lot of though...
maxdo 2 hours ago
i seriously thought it is https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip about this :) it's the complete opposite lol