serprex/nobox
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11 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2011-07-04 · latest 2025-05-06
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…know how much the language would feel like it is getting in the way of "expressing" my thoughts. https://github.com/serprex/nobox/blob/master/nobox.c is definitely terse. :D I get lost just by looking at it; a little bit of refactoring…
comment by johnisgood · 2025-05-06 · in Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu -
…http server. I don't think Rust is particularly more verbose. Rust code can be artistic too[2] 1. https://github.com/serprex/nobox/blob/master/nobox.c 2. https://github.com/serprex/Kelxquoia/blob/master/src/main.rs
comment by __s · 2025-05-06 · in Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu -
…to stack-based control flow of most programs using functions. I used the same pattern in nobox: https://github.com/serprex/nobox/blob/master/nobox.c Idea is that using goto your program can be mostly a loop where you make forward jumps to…
comment by __s · 2023-07-19 · in Show HN: Gemini web client in 100 lines of C -
https://github.com/serprex/nobox would make for a good baseline, it uses about 12K resident memory It was my desktop environment for years until I switched to wayland & sway. My desktop had 512MB ram until I got a new desktop in 2019
comment by __s · 2022-12-12 · in Linux Desktop Environments System Usage -
I also used a more minimalist self made WM based on reading dwm's source: https://github.com/serprex/nobox The "I don't want to spend time configuring my desktop environment" argument misses the point with these things. Everyone had to…
comment by __s · 2020-06-06 · in Why I Use Suckless Tools -
I prefer https://github.com/serprex/nobox (which isn't on wiki's list) Only using 3 pages of RAM is pretty good
comment by __s · 2019-10-18 · in Comparison of X Window Managers -
This was a reference for me while initially developing nobox: https://github.com/serprex/nobox/blob/master/nobox.c
comment by __s · 2018-08-16 · in TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C -
Here, have a window manager I wrote, maybe it'll make your skin crawl right off: https://github.com/serprex/nobox/blob/master/nobox.c
comment by __s · 2017-07-09 · in Elevate your C programming skills by exploring the SQLite codebase -
…sxi: https://github.com/serprex/sxi & dwm served as the base from which I learnt to create nobox: https://github.com/serprex/nobox" Any screenshots of nobox that I could see ?
comment by rsync · 2015-11-15 · in Suckless conference 2015 -
…sxi: https://github.com/serprex/sxi & dwm served as the base from which I learnt to create nobox: https://github.com/serprex/nobox Good stuff. Though seeing dwm have a null-check-before-free made me squirm. Have been using st for awhile…
comment by __s · 2015-11-15 · in Suckless conference 2015