Cassidy Williams

I recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device! I thought I’d try hacking around on it, and it’s been fun to tweak. Custom firmware The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.

Jun 30, 2026 There’s some new default whitespace handling in the latest version of Astro! I noticed that when I updated my blog template (this blog! Right here!) to the new Astro 7.0, a bunch of words and spacing were broken up in weird ways. Turns out, in the brand new Rust compiler, there’s some very specific JSX changes. Before, if you had two elements one after the other, like so: <span>Howdy</span> <span>y'all</span> It would render as “Howdy y’all” on the page.

May 24, 2026 I’ve been experimenting with a human-friendly way to cluster list values using reversals of sub-lists. Or, in normal human words: I was playing with my toddler’s Magna-Tiles and got into a pattern with how I was sorting and grouping them, and turned it into a little… algorithm? Heuristic? Anyway, look! Here’s a video I made for reference: But if you prefer words over video: Let’s say you have a list where node values can be b, g, o, or r.