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Plan 9: Key Visualizer

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Simple key visualizer for capturing keystrokes during a screencast using kbdfs, awk and statusmsg. #!/bin/rc fn notify {     scr=`{awk '{print $4, $5}' /dev/screen}     w=200     h=60     ws=$scr(1)     hs=$scr(2)     minx=`{echo $ws - $w | bc}     warg=`{echo -w  $minx,0,$ws,$h}     font=/n/ttf/mine/32/font aux/statusmsg $warg $1 } {     tee /dev/kbdtap |     tr '\000' '\034' |     awk -v 'RS=\034' '     BEGIN {         esc   = sprintf("%c", 033)         tab   = sprintf("%c", 011)         bksp  = sprintf("%c", 010)         del   = sprintf("%c", 0177)         enter = sprintf("%c", 012)         shift = "\357\200\226"         ctl   = "\357\200\227"         alt...
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Plan 9: Emoji

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  Noto Emoji Font Note:  Noto Color emoji needs Color Bitmap Data (CBDT) or COLR/CPAL support.   Four independent bugs, spanning truetypefs.c , hint.c , and head.c : 1. assert(gs[i] != nil) crash in compilesub ( truetypefs.c ) ttffindchar returning glyph 0 for a rune inside a declared cmap segment (a genuine gap, not just the NUL special-case) skipped the retry-via-notdef path entirely. If the font's own .notdef then also failed to rasterize, the assert took the whole fileserver down. Fixed by replacing the assert with a synthesized blank placeholder as the last resort in the fallback chain. 2. No bounds checking on glyph geometry before blit() ( truetypefs.c ) blit() has zero validation of its own; compilesub sized the destination strip from the font's declared ascentpx + descentpx but never checked that an individual glyph's actual rendered width/height/vertical position fit inside that buffer. A decorative font ( architectsdaughter ) reporting ink extents...
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Plan 9: Dynamic HTML

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  Render Dynamic HTML using plot and qjs. Render a simple website   Font zoom   E-Book Reader eBook is a collection of HTML files in a ZIP archive. Follow same steps for Comic Book reader which are collection of JPG/PNG images in a ZIP/RAR archive. For columns, pure HTML solution involves column-count CSS property. However, this works only for designed screen sizes. For non-standard sizes, the first column might span multiple pages before continuing in the second column. Hence, the page mode manages the split without relying on the column-count.   Keymap t                          Table of Content -/=                     Font zoom 1,2,3                  Column s                         Toggle scroll/page mode  ...
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Plan 9 Plumber

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Plumb Zip file   View files inside a zip compressed file via Plumber without extraction. Zip file contents are accessible at /n/tapefs. (Note: sam displays the UTF Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) as is - the garbage in the beginning of the first line). #zip file content in a new window type    is    text data    matches    '([a-zA-Z¡-ï¿¿0-9_\-.,/]+)\.zip' arg    isfile    $0 plumb    start    window fs/zipfs $file; cd /n/tapefs; ls; rc   Plumber process, usually running in the parent process, does not have visibility into the folders mounted by the child process because of namespace isolation. Hence, you need the following changes: zipfs (or 32vfs, cpiofs, tapfs, tarfs, tpfs, v6fs, v10fs etc.) must expose a service in the /srv directory. ( fs.c ) plumber must mount the zipfs for paths starting with /n/tapefs before checking for file existence. ( match.c )   
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Plan 9: Tiled Map

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  Use plot(1) to display tiled maps. The zoom factor decides the grid dimension. osm.js: Download tile images from OpenStreetMaps using hget. Cache the images. Convert the PNG image into Plan 9 format using png. Display the images using plot. Plot script   ra 0 0 200 200 m 0 100 im /file :Note - must end the script with a newline     Plot tries to center the drawing. Hence the origin is at the bottom with a slight offset from the left. However, image uses origin at the top left.     Interactive Plotting and Maps Use plot command in server mode (-s option). plot -s a.plt  mount /srv/plot /mnt/plot echo li 0 0 100 100 > /mnt/plot/ctl echo erase > /mnt/plot/ctl Usage as an interactive map.   OSM API Tiles https://tile.openstreetmap.org/zoom/x/y.png   The World map at zoom 0 https://tile.openstreetmap.org/0/0/0.png     Geocoding (Name to geographical co-ordinates) https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=hebba...
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Browser in Javascript

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  A Proof-of-Concept Browser written in Javascript for minimal Web 2.0 browsing experience. This DOES NOT depend on any browser engine like Blink, Gecko or Webkit. Use an existing HTML rendering engine like netsurf or roll-out your own . This uses QuickJS-ng for JS runtime, Linkedom for DOM API and curl for network downloads. Font decoration uses Terminal ANSI escape codes . Since linkedom is an npm module, it needs to be converted to ES6 module for use with quickjs.  sudo apt install npm  npm install linkedom npx esbuild node_modules/linkedom/esm/index.js \     --bundle \     --format=esm \     --outfile= linkedom.bundle.js \     --platform=neutral \     -- main-fields = module,main           Code https://gitlab.com/atamariya/quickjs/-/blob/dev/ldom.js https://gitlab.com/atamariya/quickjs/-/blob/dev/net.js https://gitlab.com/atamariya/quickjs/-/blob/dev/render.js   Lessons Learnt st...
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Plan 9: Network Printer (HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 3545)

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Internet Printing Protocol Printing with  Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)  involves sending a Unirast   Format (URF) image with appropriate protocol headers to port 631. It is the basis for standards like  Windows Mopria Alliance , Apple   AirPrint , and IPP Everywhere .  It is also called  Driverless Printing   since this doesn't involve installing any printer specific driver. On Plan 9, printing involves three steps: Convert the document to PDF using lp Convert the PDF to URF using  gs  (use urfgray, urfrgb or urfcmyk device) Send the request to the printer using hget IPP header ( req.bin in the below script) contains page output options like paper size, margins etc. This is generated   using ippenc.c .        #!/bin/rc HOST=$1 FILE=$2 TFILE=/tmp/a.pdf URL=( http://$HOST:631/ipp/print/ ) if (! ~ $#* 2)    echo 'Usage: $0 <printer-ip> <file>'     lp -d stdout $FILE > $TFILE...
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