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Today I recorded just short of five hours of
SomaFM's "Groove Salad" radio stream
to a single MiniDisc using the LP4 recording mode. Interspersed with listening to other discs, I think such a recording is probably viable for use as chill background music for working to for at least a few weeks. Maybe I'll make this a monthly weekend ritual?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh hard drive disaster aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!1
I was very envious reading about flow's UK wild camping adventure! I've never camped near an ocean before, but I'd love to.
Over at tilde.team, Easeout made a nice post about making sure numeric indices of links in Gemini pages have consistent behaviour to facilitate rapid navigation based on muscle-memory in clients which use such indices for navigation. That's definitely my preferred kind of client (I think my VF-1 Gopher client was one of the first to use such a system, but could be wrong), and I *have* memorised the indices of certain links at certain sites, so this is definitely a design consideration I appreciate. The idea of next/previous links in gemlog posts is a good one, and if I weren't so lazy about writing tooling for *logging I'd adopt it!
Easeout's gemlog post "Link Navigation in Gemini"
Via Mastodon I learned of Bear, a web service offering "Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging", with "No javascript, no stylesheets, no trackers. Just your words". I guess it's a close as you can get to a Gemini/Gopher type experience on the traditional web, and I'm glad to see more efforts in that direction. The homepage makes reference to the "website obesity crisis", so I'm guessing somebody else found Maciej Cegłowski's essay as motivational as I did.
The bearblog.dev website (why .dev?)
Cegłowski's "The Website Obesity Crisis". Read it at least once a year.
As the first step of my move toward "offline first" computing, I've turned both my gopherhole and gemini capsule into git repos on their respective hosts and cloned them locally, so I can maintain them offline and synchronise with pushes. If you're reading this, it worked! I'll also try to move my Atom feed generating process from a server-side cronjob to something I run locally at the time of "publishing" a post. This should prevent any repeats of yesterday's surprise...
Whoops, I accidentally briefly pushed everything I've ever published in Geminispace to the top of CAPCOM! Sorry, folks. After my own misadventures with gemfeed and several other people's, I think I'm about ready to adopt of principle of "never use filesystem timestamps for anything important ever" in all future development.
Minulla on Suomalainen ystävä joka asuu samassa Ruotsalaisessa kaupungissa kuin minä, koska hän opiskelee Ruotsalaisessa yliopistossa. Hän oli Suomessa kesälomalla koko heinakuun, mutta eilen hän tuli tänne takaisin, siksi minä ja minun vaimoni söimme burgeria ja joimme olutta hänen kanssa. Oli hauskaa!
(Kiitos to those who provided corrections!)
Hannu's post about baking various Finnish breads made me really miss saaristolaisleipä, one of my favourite Finnish foods! I had assumed I would be able to find something simliar in Sweden under a different name without too much trouble, but it hasn't happened yet. :(
I am happy to see that a gemlog has appeared at comf.moe! I have admired their ASCII art campsite ever since the domain first showed up on Gus a while back:
rmgr recently wrote about a happy return to climbing:
rmgr's post "On returning to climbing"
I myself took up climbing a little over two years ago:
phlog post "Getting high" (2018-04-12)
When I lived in Finland there was a climbing gym right next to where I worked - literally, I could see it from my office window. It was a very cheap and cheerful affair, built into an old water tower and clearly operated out of a love of the spot and not any desire to make a lot of money. The cost of hiring shoes and a harness was so cheap that for somebody climbing casually once or maybe twice a week, there was no incentive to buy your own. And all you needed to do to be allowed to climb there was an informal instruction session when you first arrived. Extremely low activation energy on all fronts, so I did it, and enjoyed it.
Here in Sweden, there is a gym in my city but it's about a 20 minute bike ride from work, and not on the way home. It is a fancy "real gym" kind of operation, with an on-premises cafe and gear store, hypercommercial. The cost to get in and rent gear is more than twice what I was paying in Finland, unless I buy a monthly pass - which would immediately turn going there into an obligation I would feel I have to do even when I'm not in the mood in order not to have wasted my money. Worst of all, you are not allowed to belay anybody without getting certified, which involves going to multiple classes over the course of a few weeks and then being examined. I totally understand this, and in retrospect it's a bit shocking how casual my last place was (although they did use much fancier, "idiot proof" gear). But overall these are much higher barriers, and because I enjoy climbing but don't *love* it, I will almost certainly not bother continuing even if/when the Covid situation changes enough that it would be possible. Especially not while the weather is so conducive to cycling as an alternative kind of exercise.