Edsger
Dev tools
handwritten repl
SHOW HN2026
264points
34comments
#180of 4,366 in 2026
Top 5%of 2026 by points
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LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
10 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.49.
Idea: 7 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Fun, cool concept
From 4 comments
This awesome! I actually had no idea I could ssh into my Remarkable and do neat stuff like this! > Why do it? It's so impractical! Because you can and it's fun is always a…
LandR on HNGreat work. The experience programming with handwritten code in tablets keeps being a pain, when it would be ideal as digital executable paper.
pjmlp on HNOk this might be the coolest thing I've seen all month. You must be a Recurser, right? This is so very Recurser.
paultopia on HNI use my reMarkable daily for notes and never thought of it as something you'd run a live REPL on. Really neat build.
tylerhackbart on HN
Clojure a great choice for a REPL
From 1 comment
Impressive, and a great choice of language. The REPL in Clojure is unmatched.
arikrahman on HN
Objections
Latency of about 14 seconds from pen stop to result
From 3 comments
A fun experiment, and cute if not for the lag. A full 14 seconds between the pen stopping writing and the result, What I'd find interesting is the trace of that 14 seconds. How…
xnorswap on HNThe author mentions that in the blog. The majority is the delay of the updated file actually being written to disk by the device. The author did not find a solution to trigger…
jcattle on HNThey said that, but they described it as "Several seconds", so I assumed there was plenty of other lag too. Searching the article again, I see in the FAQ: > Xochitl takes…
xnorswap on HN
Requests
Use a local OCR model such as PaddlePaddle for faster handwriting conversion
From 1 comment
Amazing! I'd recommend using PaddlePaddle OCR models if you want to make your handwriting conversion local, it's definitely fast enough. Probably faster than the Sonnet call. I…
deivid on HN
Questions
How is latency between handwriting recognition and REPL evaluation?
From 1 comment
How do you handle latency between handwriting recognition and REPL evaluation is there a noticeable delay before you see the output?
esanyapi on HN
Did foo(42) really output 44?
From 2 comments
Did foo(42) just output 44 ?
j_leboulanger on HN(+ x 2)
exitb on HN
Alternatives named
Supernote Manta plugins API
From 1 comment
I wonder if this would be easier on the Supernote Manta with the new plugins API that they've introduced recently…
jwr on HN
Appload and Xovi for reMarkable apps
From 1 comment
Appload and Xovi open up a range of options. You can build a simple frontend in QT and have a backend in a language of your choice serve as an API. Appload handles the display /…
okuntilnow on HN