November updates

Hey everyone!

Pino and crew are doing well. We are in Victoria still, working on new tools, and doing some improvements to our floating home. 

Noton

This month, we launched Noton,  a live-drawing playground. Noton works by drawing cables between  timers, logic gates and instruments inspired from pepepépepe's Color Computers to explore binary logic.

Seconth & Firth

We also created some terminal utilities like Seconth, a calendar, and Firth, a calculator.  

Seconth was created to overlay events on pages of the gregorian calendar. We use it to track, and share events with each other.

Firth is a postfix calculator for fractions. It is stack based rpn calculator, created to be an improved version of Unix's dc, written in ANSI C. It supports most basic math operations, variables, and basic branching.

No more Electron

This month, we reached an important milestone: we almost migrated each one of our tools out of Electron. Nasu, Dotgrid, Moogle, Orca and Noton are all written in pure C with only SDL as dependency. They're now incredibly lightweight, and more resilient.

Nasu now has UI for the various drawing modes. In December, we've got plans to add some basic UI to Dotgrid and Orca as well.

The North Pacific Logbook

We've also begun working on an extended edition of the North Pacific Logbook. It will feature more stories, as well as some recipes and artwork.

Pino's garden 

We continue with our sprouting experiments! After the initial soaking, we put the seeds in jars, with the mouths covered with a screen (secured with an elastic band), and hang them upside down using paracord above the sink to drain. The jars used to house olives, they're tall and narrow, and the 3 we've got fit well above our sink. 

GrimGrains now has a Sprouting Guide, as we've been getting many questions. Our favorite so far, are fenugreek seeds (pictured above), brown lentils and wheat berries. I add brown lentils to almost any dish I make, as a topping, I also cook them into pasta sauce. I like to add the sprouted wheat berries to my quick flat bread. I grind them up, and mix them into the batter. 

If you can make enough sprouted wheat berries, you can make 100% sprouted wheat bread instead of using flour. This is useful for people—like us— who don't have grain mills. Sprouted grains are soft, and easy to grind using simple tools, like a meat grinder, or other food processor. 

That's all for this month! You can view the full list of updates on our website. 

Hope you're all doing well :)!

Cheers!

Rek & Dev