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Still alive

Hi there.

I haven't posted on Gemini for a while. Not for lack of interest, I've definitely been reading a lot of content on Gemini, I just haven't really been dedicating the time to putting words on uhhh... The screen.

The DIY PDA project is slowly crawling forward. I've 3D printed about 6 iterations worth of shell designs and I've soldered all the components together but I haven't actually gotten around to putting the two parts together yet. On the software side I started working on a calendar application and designing the associated file formats around that. The current question mark hanging over the project is around how I'm going to handle keeping time. I'm actually considering an approach which I thought was novel where we don't keep time with an RTC. Instead at boot we pull a Pokemon and ask what the current date is. This would mean that the battery life should be pretty insane because we can totally power off the device when it's not in use.

I've been doing a bit of game developmen