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Tools for language learners, e-ink readers and Android, small Unix programs, and Common Lisp. Writing at recentlywritten.com. Support the work at ko-fi.com/truex.

Sites

• subread.space - Line up an audiobook with its ebook. Get read-along subtitles, EPUB 3 read-along books, and subtitled video. Free in the browser.
• honjimaku.com - A library of Japanese subtitles for audiobooks, and Subrep live captions by share link.
• sbm.subread.space - sbm Sync: one plain bookmark file, the same on every device. Free, AGPL.
• hentaibun.online - Reading lists and tools to learn kanbun and kobun.
• recentlywritten.com - Writing on Unix, Lisp, Nix, Esperanto, and language learning. (equwal.com goes here.)
• ko-fi.com/truex - Support.

SubRead

Read along with audiobooks, and mine the words.

• subread.space - Read an .srt one line at a time with the space bar. Works with Yomitan, furigana, and pitch accent markup.
• subplz-web - The aligner behind subread.space. The subtitle text comes from your book, not from a transcript.
• subread-android - SubRead on Android. Times an audiobook against its ebook on the device.
• subread-extension - Show your own .srt over a YouTube video, in time. Chrome and Firefox.
• subread-overlay - Show .srt lines over any Android media player. Tap a word to look it up.
• subread-dictionary - Pop-up dictionary for Android. Reads Yomitan dictionaries, with local audio.
• subread.koplugin - KOReader plugin. The book follows the narration, from an .srt made by subread.space.
• subrep-android - Live captions of the phone's sound, made on the phone by Whisper, shared by link.
• desktop-subtitle-replay - Live subtitles for anything on your screen. Replay a sentence and mine it into Anki.
• honjimaku - The honjimaku.com server. Fork of jimaku.
• kikiyomi - Audiobook player for Japanese learners, in the browser. Fork of kikiyomi.
• Hoshi-Reader-Android - Fork with a subread branch: audiobook read-along in the Hoshi Reader EPUB reader.
• chimahon - Fork with a readalong branch for the Mihon immersion reader.
• dickt.store - Bring-your-own-key Yomitan dictionary converter.
• vibeslop-dickt - Make your own Yomitan dictionary in a few minutes.

Rebind suite

Hardware buttons for e-ink readers and Android 12+.

• rebind - Remap volume keys, Power, page-turn buttons, and the Viwoods AI key. Tap, double tap, hold, and combinations. Free beta APK.
• assistkey - Key remapper for the Viwoods AiPaper Reader: AI key, volume keys, and Power.
• awesome-rebind - Extensions and companion apps for Rebind.
• ink-recents - Recent-apps switcher for e-ink. No animation. Swipe up to close.
• ink-dim - Set the Viwoods frontlight below the lowest system level.
• ink-update - Tells you when Rebind, Ink Recents, or Ink Dim has a new version.

sbm

Fuzzy search thousands of bookmarks, on every device.

• sbm - dmenu bookmarks. Search and plumb them.
• sbm-android - sbm on Android. Share to add.
• sbm-extension - sbm for Firefox and Chrome.
• sbm-sync - Sync server. One small Go program, plain files, AGPL.
• sbm-suckless - sbm before the rewrite. Suckless style.

Tools for AI agents

• ideamine - Idea inbox for Claude Code. /idea saves ideas at zero tokens.
• deploy-handoff - The agent drives the browser to the last deploy, billing, or pull request step. You make the final click.
• memstate - Versioned memory for AI agents in one SQLite file. Fork; contributor to map588/memstate.
• aintitinit - Claude initializer.
• hackermen-neovim-config-file - Minimal Neovim config with optional AI.

Unix and suckless

• tmpl - Insanely simple templates.
• dmenu-scripts - Ask for things with dmenu.
• dsad - dmenu interface for sad, the simple audio daemon.
• dpatchmail - Patch programs from mail with dmenu.
• prompt-mail - Mail questions and mail files with dmenu.
• dmodurl - Change URLs with dmenu.
• tnot - Like tmux, but not.
• tiny-runlevels - Use an init system for many instances of simple programs.
• ii-lchat-metapackage - Get suckless IRC working.
• pass-simple - Minimal pass rewrite, with bug fixes.
• sacc-ebuild - Gentoo ebuild for the sacc gopher client.
• nixtoo-genux - Declarative Nix package manager setup.
• xinput-persistence - xinput settings that survive reconnect and boot.
• encrypted-home-backups - Automatic home backups to an encrypted partition.
• alt-hack0 and alt-hack - The Hack font with a normal zero, made by script.
• minimak-tty-xkb - Minimak keyboard layout for the TTY and XKB.

Common Lisp and Emacs

• font-lock-cl - Better Common Lisp syntax highlighting for Emacs. On MELPA.
• coleslaw - Emacs mode for the Coleslaw static site generator. Also coleslaw-snippets.
• Forthe - Forth-like DSL.
• sl and defsl - Dependency language for Common Lisp.
• sigil - Documentation preprocessor for Common Lisp.
• posix-pipes - Portable pipes from CLOCC.
• tag-gen - Make tags for each directory.
• cores and clapt - Save SBCL cores with libraries loaded.
• asdf-registration - Register ASDF projects.
• CSV - Read CSV into Lisp lists.
• gendocs - Simple document generation.
• len-cmp - Fast list length comparison.
• LispBrain - Brainfuck debugger on the Common Lisp debugger.
• lisp-multithreaded-internet - Multithreaded internet for Common Lisp.
• esperanto - Compress natural language in Esperanto.
• librivox - Automatic YouTube upload of audiobooks.
• cl-yag and clic - Mirrors of Bitreich Common Lisp projects.
• Spacemacs layers: timeclock, rectangle, ediff-spacemacs, slurp, quickurl, common-lisp-sly.

Upstream contributions

• suckless - slstatus: "Not charging" battery status. scroll: typo fix. Patches to dwm, dmenu, quark, and sacc on the mailing lists.
• sad (2f30) - status volume protocol, pause toggle, volume bug fix, simpler config macros.
• SLY - REPL and debugger fixes, xref docs.
• Spacemacs - Layers and bindings, cleanup of deprecated cl and use-package code.
• Coleslaw - URL generation, post extensions, versioning plugin, docs.
• CLX - Composite extension docs and exports.
• quickproject - Restarts for existing target files.
• ivy/swiper, emacs-w3m, Nameless, vlime, Mezzano, usocket, Trucler, Newport.
• make uninstall targets: mle, termbox, wak, grabc, sj, gita, f3, lisgd, moreutils, ames.
• voidrice, the_silver_searcher, github.fish, asyncomplete.vim, Akusento.