Recently a friend reached out for help installing the excellent Notecase Pro on his new favorite mobile Linux distro, Droidian. It can be done, but a few extra steps are needed.

At one point in my life, I was on a road bicycle racing team, working my way up the categories, while developing a low-cost 3D training simulator where none existed. Things happened. Fifteen years later, I pulled my bike out of the basement.

NoteCase Pro is a fantastic tool for managing notes in my preferred way, as a hierarchical tree. Yet for some reason I never dove in. When a friend reached out for help getting the app to run on his Pinephone, it was just the excuse I apparently needed.

Now that we have Dropbox syncing, it’s time teach the Painphone Beta 2 how to talk to the Alphasmart Neo 2 I use for drafting. To do that we’ll set up NeoTools, and troubleshoot a few hiccups.

DropBox is not natively available for aarch64/arm64, which presents a pain point for Pinephone users. Bananas, right? As a workaround, these instructions walk through setting up Rclone with Rclonesync to create a bidirectional sync with Dropbox on demand. Assumes a Pinephone Beta 2 running Manjaro.

I have always loved writing, though I never seem to make time for it. I have participated in several NaNoWriMo events (National Novel Writing Month), where 50,000 words are written in one month. This page details my effort to move to a more sustainable pace and find/make the right tooling, where I’ll continue to share story updates and tooling, from bash scripts to Vim tips. Graph is no longer active :-(

Originally released around 2007.

It’s time to warm up that pickup truck, take the safety off the big honkin' cannon in the bed, and save your town from the biomechanoid invasion! This was a game I worked on around 2001, targetting DOS before the retro revival made it trendy again. That’s me future proofing this post for DOS development becoming trendy again! Top-down action game, mouse and keyboard, mod music, and the completed Forest Act 1.

I’m Hollis Potter. No, not the radiologist. The other one. I’ll grant you we look a bit related. We’re not. I create things. Then I put them here. Some say I am magical. Others, a full walking catastrophe. At best, I’m a magical catastrophe waiting to happen. You’ll find technical notes I write either for myself or for friends, that assume a lot of specific criteria you, the hapless wanderer, might not meet.