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If you happen to be reading these gemlogs in sequence, then for you, dear reader, perhaps no time has passed at all between the beginning of this entry and the end of the last one.
But for me, it has been a matter of three months since then.
It is extremely likely that you find all these entries at once, sitting in a tidy little list on an index page, regardless of when I happened actually write them and send them. In such a way do you and I experience a funny sort of time travel.
Such is the nature of the temporal relationship between you and I.
Herein:
1. Mixtapes and Mashups
2. Browsers
3. Voyage
If you are indeed joining me here hot on the tail of my previous post, then you may be interested to know that a grounding feature of these entries--two entries long now!--is the release of the konpeito mixtape, of which the Fall 2020 issue has just dropped, and to which I am listening (for a 2nd time now) as I write this.
That of course means that it has been by this measure a complete season since I last wrote. Summer 2020 to Fall 2020.
If music is to be a recurring theme in these entries, then let me continue by sharing, Mouth Dreams, the latest mashup by Neil Ciciega.
https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/mouthdreams
I had never heard of him or the Mouth series before listening to this album, and now I am definitely interested in hearing more. Some of the mashups are comedic bordering on absurd, and at times distract from the technical skill on display, as well as the carefully crafted thematic cohesion, both on a small scale from song to song, and also the dream / sleep motif spanning the whole album.
It's good.
So why am I here?
One reason is that on a lark I tried once again to install Kristall, the gemini / gopher / http browser.
When I last tried installing it in Summer 2020, I never was able to get it to compile (on MacOS). Some update between then and now must have fixed whatever the issue was, because it compiled quickly, on the first try. And now I am cruising the gemini-verse in GUI style!
I still have a fondness for text clients like av98 and bollux, but it's nice having a graphical client too. Something about how gemini is meant to occupy the space between gopher and http means, to me, that it ought to have a (basic, stripped down) graphical client.
So thanks to ~xq!
https://kristall.random-projects.net/
So why am I here?
The other day I saw yet another post about the text editor Kakoune on lobsters.
https://lobste.rs/s/reaylm/what_you_could_steal_from_kakoune_code
It's meant to be a sort of spiritual successor to vim (I think. It is, at least, a modal editor..) that I hear about from time to time. One thing it does that is attractive to me is that its "language" is in noun-verb order as opposed to vim's verb-noun order.
That is, whereas in vim you might say `caw` for Change Around Word, in kak you might (I think) say something like `wca`. i.e. Word, Change Around. The benefit being that when you start noun first, you get instant feedback and highlighting on your selection. As opposed to vim where you may craft a complex noun phrase, only to trigger it with a verb at the end and realize that you worded the noun part wrong. So, `undo`, try again.
It's the same concept behind the incremental search and replace I love so much in neovim: you can see in realtime if your regex is matching what you mean for it to.
Anyway, all of that is to say that I saw yet another post about kakoune and thought I might install it and give it a whirl. (Daunting! Daring! After being a strict vim zealot for decades now, could I really actually be considering the blasphomy of adopting a new text editor?)
But then I paused and remembered ~tomasino bragging that cosmic.voyage now boasts something ridiculous like 43 and 3/4 different installed editors.
So with the excuse of trying out a new editor, I popped on over and finally registered an account on cosmic.voyage. Something I had been idlly interested in doing for quite some time now.
So now I have the self-appointed task of coming up with some kind of new space faring fiction to write about, in a new text editor.
I've settled on nothing more than the name of my fictional outpost: Dodecapolis.
Dodecapolis::
:: a group or confederation of twelve cities
So far the idea is include stories about some or all of the twelve individual ships / outposts confederated under Dodecapolis. Which will require some planning and outlining prior to writing. So we'll see how that goes.
Okay! That's it! This is gemini! Where we have music, browsers, and fiction!
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