you could always substitute the blurry bits for the online version of the book

I think I need to buy a new kindle. It’s about 10 years old. I love the paper mode style of it.

Plus the online version of the book has some errors fixed.

ok, I will try reading the code from my phone. I didn’t think of that. Cool.

I put all my books on my kindle. 80+ and got rid of my books. But now I am regretting it. I was trying to be minimalistic 🙂

When the kindle first happened I felt the same way. Then I realized there’s still value in physical books, so I use a combination depending on accessibility and subject matter.

Also, if you’ll forgive a shameless plug but I put together a small library tool one can use to take notes when learning Clojure from books and create interactive, well documented examples to make it easier to revisit. https://github.com/eccentric-j/book-report

I would get a kobo rather than a kindle personally if you're looking for a new ebook reader.

@UHZ9UUT7H How come?

@UHZ9UUT7H is better than a kindle?

Kobo is Japanese? I love things built from Japan.

kobo are mainly better from the software side, they're a lot more open than the kindle. (support for books from any store without needing jailbreaking, doesn't rely on amazon for stuff etc)

hardware is about equal on both imo

https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/02/kobo-japan/

The kindle has gotten better about supporting other sources, most ebooks I download I can send to the kindle.

It’s just weird because the display works fine on my kindle. But not the italic or code fonts. It seems more like a software error.

that's the original kobo but they've made a lot since then. And it is japanese made although a canadian company originally. I also love how easy the kobos are to mod (mine runs koreader) compared to kindle but I'm a bit of a customisation addict and that appeals to me

the only issue I had with brave and true on my kobo was line numbers in the code blocks displaying slightly weirdly but that is down to epub and not the book or kobo itself

I don't have too much experience of kindle beyond ~2015 though so they have probably changed a lot since then, I've just stayed a kobo faithful because they've always worked best for me

@UGQJZ4QNR perhaps try the kindle desktop app? If it displays weird there too then it’s probably the ePub file itself. If it works then it may be a device issue.

ahhh ok. Maybe I can try re-downloading the epub. Maybe the data has degenerated.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21964709/how-to-set-or-change-the-default-java-jdk-version-on-os-x

are you running the

bash configure

yes

what version do you get when you type java -version in your top level dir?

my first thought is… it’s confused about which java open jdk version to use? bash doesn’t know. It’s searching your paths for Java.

check your JAVA_HOME env var

export JAVA_HOME=~/Downloads/jdk-12.jdk/Contents/Home did the trick. I think it didn’t understand my --with-boot-jdk option

ya, you needed to change JAVA_HOME?

yeah

OSX gets confused about paths very easily

thanks

I could try to get you to switch to Linux. Less path problems. hahahaha j/k

more driver problems 😉

I use Linux and OSX, both are great

ya, you are correct. Nvidia is a challenge on Linux.

there is jenv, works like rvm but for java versions

not sure if that helps

I’ll check it out, thanks

I'll just have some entries in my .bash_profile like alias jg="export JAVA_HOME='/Users/bla/Workspace/graalvm-ee-1.0.0-rc9/Contents/Home'; java -version" on my mac

have you encountered any issues with readline when running Clojure? on OSX

my Clojure version is looking for readline version 7 but I have version 8 installed. I am trying to get brew to install both versions. I suspect that my Ruby install which also uses readline, changed the versions on me.

I symlinked 7 to 8 and now it works again

I had to for I believe psql

@borkdude if I understand, you're trying to build OpenJDK - have you read https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk12u/blob/master/doc/building.md#boot-jdk-requirements ? I don't remember the details but it could help to use older JDK as the "book jdk" (maybe as old as Java 8 - but definitely not 12 if you are trying to build 11)

It worked when I set JAVA_HOME to JDK 12. But not with the --with-boot-jdk option

as regards to switching between different java versions I second the jenv tool recommendation - handling JAVA_HOME on Mac OS is such a mess 😞

so for now it’s solved

thanks for recommending jenv, I’ll def look at it

Personally I would go the webapp route given that the libraries for visualizations are in wide use, well documented, and likely well maintained.

I wonder if building a front end in js with the jvm's js rather than electron would make sense. I didn't enjoy electron's server/client setup last I checked it.

Like, would a whole react app work in a webview in javafx?

@U050PJ2EU Eh, rn I don’t think you can cross write for javafx and the browser at all - last time I checked the libs they all had incompatible APIs, only conceptually similar in a re-framy way. You can’t have shared libraries or components, alas; so you’d have to choose between javafx and js.

Hmm, okay

Vega/Vega-lite seem the way to graphs these days, and they are easiest to reach from cljs... https://github.com/metasoarous/oz

how about html5 canvas?

That was my backup plan, but if I could find something premade with interactivity in mind that would’ve saved me some thinking (I don’t personally enjoy the frontend part and will gladly throw libraries at the problem 😅) that would be nice.