Welcome to my Gemlog! I write about all sorts of things, but recurring themes include: decentralism, minimalism, privacy, simplicity, and sustainability/environmentalism (most frequently in relation to technology, especially computers and the internet, but I'm interested in these things in all spheres), cycling (especially with simple and/or old bikes), photography (especially with simple and/or old cameras - are you seeing the pattern?) and outdoor recreation (especially if I got there by bike and brought a camera with me).
A brief note on my early gemlogs, now merged into this one
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Atom feed of 10 most recent posts
2024-11-10 - More info on VF-1 updates
2024-10-23 - Blazing Star updates and more
2024-10-03 - ROOPHLOCH 2024 round up
2024-09-28 - A late September life update (ROOPHLOCH 2024 entry)
2024-09-01 - Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2024
2024-08-11 - Assorted updates on a Sunday evening
2024-07-21 - Velouria blogs again!
2024-07-17 - Hostname pedantry II and farewell to the Red Consensus
2024-06-05 - A mostly offline May
2024-05-08 - I'm here, I'm glad you're there (they were St.GIGA)
2024-04-29 - Smol Earth in five cold points (resp. to adiabatic again)
2024-04-24 - Differentiating myself (and Smol Earth) from the Amish (resp. to adiabatic)
2024-04-22 - A smol.earth update on Earth day
2024-04-19 - Embracing the universe like a blazing star
2024-04-14 - Akebono, Musashimaru and Konishiki
2024-04-14 - OFFLFIRSOCH thoughts and observations
2024-04-02 - OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 round up
2024-03-29 - An offline city database
2024-03-01 - Announcing OFFLFIRSOCH 2024
2024-01-31 - Radio 28 in the cabin
2023-11-26 - Metabolism in architecture
2023-11-19 - Lunatic drivetrains
2023-11-05 - A quick autumnal update
2023-10-01 - ROOPHLOCH 2023 round up
2023-09-30 - ROOPHLOCH 2023 explanation post
2023-09-10 - Announcing the Smol Earth Compendium
2023-09-01 - Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2023
2023-08-26 - Talking about the weather
2023-05-20 - Spring time, nature observations and lo-fi log
2023-05-19 - Ascension day ponderings
2023-05-10 - Six years of gopher
2023-04-22 - An Earth Day rant against class warfare environmentalism
2023-04-08 - Penguin Green Ideas, simple graphic art
2023-04-01 - Cloud spotting blues (resp. to tfurrows)
2023-03-10 - Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
2023-03-05 - Capsule relocation
2023-01-31 - One billion, one continent
2023-01-22 - Do you even compute, bro?
2023-01-21 - Orphans of Netscape, part II
2023-01-19 - Permacomputing II
2023-01-12 - The Earth is not for us
2023-01-11 - Orphans of Netscape
2023-01-08 - Reading list added
2023-01-06 - ThinkPad thermal paste replacement
2023-01-01 - Micro album reviews 04
2022-12-31 - "Stray" is a great game
2022-12-29 - Gardening decrescendo
2022-12-28 - More binocular astronomy
2022-10-07 - Binocular observation of Jupiter and the moon
2022-09-18 - Franken-Peugeot updates
2022-01-01 - Gemini mailing list down
2021-11-10 - Green days in Brunei
2021-10-20 - Vodka and cigarettes sustainability
2021-10-23 - Low budget P2P content distribution with git
2021-10-11 - Smartphones vs real cameras (resp. to Alex Schroeder)
2021-10-09 - Micro album reviews 03
2021-10-08 - Been an even longer time
2021-03-07 - Micro album reviews 02
2021-01-02 - Gemini client navigation (resp. to mozz.us)
2020-12-26 - SSH apps and accessible Gemini publishing
2020-12-20 - A new circumlunar colony
2020-11-28 - Mac mouse madness
2020-11-08 - The short-lived browser
2020-10-30 - Micro album reviews 01
2020-10-21 - Digital audio on tape
2020-10-07 - Video tapes and helical scan
2020-10-04 - 2020 gardening wrap-up
2020-08-16 - Progress toward "offline first"
2020-08-14 - Album review: Kikagaku Moyo's "House in the Tall Grass"
2020-08-12 - Books and pockets (resp. to bouncepaw and rmgr)
2020-08-09 - Computing less, but with more focus
2020-08-08 - Keyboard hegemony
2020-08-02 - The standard salvaged computing platform
2020-08-01 - Gemini aggregation, curation, etc.
2020-07-26 - Discussions toward radically sustainable computing
2020-07-15 - Resisting, and not resisting, photographic purchases
2020-07-14 - Hostnaming schemes (resp. to dctrud)
2020-07-13 - Reimagining the internet
2020-07-07 - Unification progress
2020-07-06 - July 2020's music purchases
2020-07-06 - Album review: Sungod's "Sungod"
2020-07-02 - Album review: Scattered Purgatory's "Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean"
2020-07-01 - Extensive Molly Brown updates
2020-07-01 - Album review: Dhidalah's "Threshold"
2020-06-20 - Happy birthday, Gemini!
2020-06-18 - Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?
2020-06-16 - A vision for Gemini applications
2020-06-06 - June 2020's music purchases
2020-06-01 - Microblogging via Gemini: a sketch
2020-05-31 - Replies in Geminispace
2020-05-31 - Album review: Sungod's "Wave Refraction"
2020-05-26 - The Mercury Protocol
2020-05-25 - Album review: Majeure's "Mass Awakening"
2020-05-21 - Album review: Jake Schrock's "Tropical Depression"
2020-05-17 - May 2020's music purchases
2020-04-23 - Nearly back on the bike