2023(fall)
challenge 1 — login, screenshot, and homepage it!
I started off by using drawterm from a few different Linux and BSD machines to connect to 9p.sdf.org. After getting myself all set up — running /sys/lib/newuser, preparing my site with mkhomepg, chatting a bit in bboard / com, and finding /dev/theme while poking around — I decided to make my first submission a bit fancy by messing with colors and setting the rioback value to the absolute path of an image. I grabbed a random wallpaper from my local machine via /mnt/term and converted it from a .png to the native format as described in image(6) with the following command:
% png ‐9t <bridge.png >bridge.img
The screenshot was taken with:
% topng </dev/screen >$home/html/screenshot‐fall‐2023.png
score: 29/29
bonus points: +3 — for presence at Tea Note #1
challenge 2 — face off? neinbook!
By this point I am using rcpu(1) to connect to 9p.sdf.org from a bare‐metal install of 9front on a spare laptop I had kicking around. I used a drawing[1] that my best friend made for a Drawtober challenge as my face(6); it was converted to the native format with:
% png ‐c blobstance.png | iconv ‐c m8 | resample ‐x 48 ‐y 48 >bubstance.1
and checked using tweak(1). After starting upas/fs and running faceoff, I ended up being the one to break the ice for this season on the plan9‐l mailing list. Luckily, white seems to be transparent, meaning I get the full effect in my windowshot[2] taken with the following command:
% topng </dev/wsys/n/window >$home/html/neinbook‐fall‐2023.png
where n was the window number for neinbook.
score: 26/26
bonus points: +3 — for presence at Tea Note #2
challenge 3 — you've got the look!
Since the final challenge involved creating themes, I decided to make a finalized version of the one I used in the first challenge. The colors[1] are from rosé pine and the wallpaper is from Stardew Valley. This time around the screenshot[2] was taken with vshot from my local 9front machine, hence the border. Also themed are acme(1), faces(1), and winwatch(1).
score: 28/28
bonus points: +9 — for presence at Tea Note #4
