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A Quick Update And My Summer Plans
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A Quick Update And My Summer Plans
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Itās been a while since I wrote something. I donāt get a lot of time to write or browse Geminispace as it is, but thatās been exacerbated with back-to-back finals seasons from my schools. Fortunately, itās summer now, which means I have a day off each week.
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In keeping with the ethos of āalmost everything here is under construction right nowā and ā[pushing frequently with little-to-no regard for log-quality] forces me to work on the site because otherwise I have poor-quality files accessibleā,Ā¹ Ā² I decided to let you all know what Iāve been working on and whatās to come.
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Object oriented programming in POSIX-compliant shell
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I made a <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~u9000/shell-oop-poc">proof-of-concept</a> and <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~u9000/shell-oop-utils">a few utilities</a> of Shell OOP, and Iām going to write a post explaining how it works. If youāre interested, you can check out the repositories now (I still have to license them, make READMEs, and etc; theyāre going to be AFL 3.0).
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Simple, transparent, useful, and robust Gemini fragments
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I remember a discussion of URL fragments for Gemini on the mailing list, and I think Iāve figured out a solution which checks all of the boxes and doesnāt break anything.
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Fully mechanical vending machine
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I love building mechanical vending machines. Iāve built plenty in the past, but theyāve always been one-item, one-price. This summer, I want to make a ānormalā vending machine that also happens to be entirely mechanical and transparent. I have most of the individual parts sketched, but I still need to formalize how theyāre going to work together, determine the parts and budget, and actually build the thing. As I donāt have a good track record with series on my blog, I wontāt promise that Iāll write about the whole process. I will definitely write about it at the end, though.
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Various accessibility things
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Iām of course still working this summer, which means that Iāll still have accessibility on my mind all the time and Iāll still attend conferences and whatnot. Therefore, Iāll also continue making incremental improvements to this site/capsule and Iāll likely continue writing articles about ideas I think are interesting.
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The current accessibility improvement Iām working on is a site search engine to cover <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/multiple-ways.html">WCAG SC 2.4.5 (Multiple Ways)</a> conformance. <a href="https://dj-chase.com/cgi-bin/search.sh">The current version</a> is available in /cgi-bin/. My Current Gemini server doesnāt support CGI, so itās only available over HTTPS right now. I will, of course, switch servers at some point in order to get it working over Gemini too.
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<li>DJ Chase; āDJ Chaseās Siteā. 2022-10-13. <a href="/">//dj-chase.com/</a>
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<li>DJ Chase; ādj-chase.com READMEā. 2022-06-10. āDJ Chaseās Siteā; <a href="../meta/readme.gmi">//dj-chase.com/meta/readme.gmi</a>
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