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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Laniakea Journal</title> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/index.gmi" rel="alternate" /> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/atom.xml" rel="self" /> <updated>2023-12-14T22:02:02Z</updated> <author> <name>Anoikis Nomads</name> </author> <generator uri="https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk" version="5.2.1">GNU Awk</generator> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/index.gmi</id> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-12-14-gif-from-screen-recording.gmi</id> <title>record the screen and save as .gif</title> <updated>2023-12-14T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>A relatively simple program to record a section of the screen and store it as animated gif</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-12-14-gif-from-screen-recording.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-12-08-docker-shortcut.gmi</id> <title>a simple docker shortcut</title> <updated>2023-12-08T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I found a simple CLI shortcut for docker.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-12-08-docker-shortcut.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-26-scoundrel.gmi</id> <title>🎲 Scoundrel</title> <updated>2023-11-26T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>A single player dungeon crawler</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-26-scoundrel.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-09-signing-git-commits.gmi</id> <title>signing git commits with GPG</title> <updated>2023-11-09T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I had recently written about publishing this blog through git to make it available offline. Signing commits with GPG makes sense for this, to prove authenticity.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-09-signing-git-commits.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-04-base-conversion-in-bash.gmi</id> <title>base conversion script for BASH</title> <updated>2023-11-04T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I got tired of starting a calculator or wasting energy by doing an internet query to convert numerical bases so I wrote a script.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-04-base-conversion-in-bash.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-03-why-cellular-automata-fascinate-me.gmi</id> <title>why cellular automata fascinate me</title> <updated>2023-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Cellular automata have been fascinating me for a while now. Time to talk about it.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-03-why-cellular-automata-fascinate-me.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-02-better-automata-in-ORCΛ.gmi</id> <title>better cellular automata in ORCΛ</title> <updated>2023-11-02T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>The initial version of cellular automata in ORCΛ wouldn't let me rest, so I made a better one.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-11-02-better-automata-in-ORCΛ.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-28-cellular-automata-in-ORCΛ.gmi</id> <title>1-dimensional cellular automata in ORCΛ</title> <updated>2023-10-28T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Encouraged by randomly discovering a binary counter, I made a cellular automaton.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-28-cellular-automata-in-ORCΛ.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-27-tech-degrowth-is-a-process.gmi</id> <title>Tech degrowth is a process</title> <updated>2023-10-27T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Progressing to a simpler life takes time, more than anything.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-27-tech-degrowth-is-a-process.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-26-binary-counter-in-ORCΛ.gmi</id> <title>I made a binary counter in ORCΛ by accident</title> <updated>2023-10-26T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Pretty much what the title says: I made a binary counter in ORCΛ by accident.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-26-binary-counter-in-ORCΛ.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-22-ORCΛ-and-sunvox.gmi</id> <title>ORCΛ and Sunvox</title> <updated>2023-10-22T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>User Nono on Bubble suggested to share Sonic Pi creations over gemini since it is essentially text. Well I don't use Sonic Pi but I do like the idea so here we go.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-22-ORCΛ-and-sunvox.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-21-read-this-from-git.gmi</id> <title>Read this from git</title> <updated>2023-10-21T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>You can now read Laniakea offline through git, or download daily-updated Markdown summaries.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-21-read-this-from-git.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-06-offline-backups.gmi</id> <title>I finally have offline backups</title> <updated>2023-10-06T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>My brothers company got hit by an encryption-attack the other week. Time to get an offline backup myself.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-10-06-offline-backups.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-09-26-garden-season-is-ending.gmi</id> <title>This years garden season is coming to an end</title> <updated>2023-09-26T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>After a long summer and an unusually warm fall, garden season is finally coming to an end. Time for a look at what worked, and what didn't.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-09-26-garden-season-is-ending.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-09-11-one-year-without-pc.gmi</id> <title>One year without a PC</title> <updated>2023-09-11T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I swapped my Windows 10 desktop machine for a Raspberry Pi 4 around a year ago. Time for a resume and asking “would I do it again”?</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-09-11-one-year-without-pc.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-07-18-so-its-been-a-month-it-seems.gmi</id> <title>So it's been a month, huh?</title> <updated>2023-07-18T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>About time for an update...</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-07-18-so-its-been-a-month-it-seems.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-06-17-i-am-off-github.gmi</id> <title>I am off github — almost</title> <updated>2023-06-17T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I'm not going to go deeply into the “why”, just know that this is part of my getting-off-the-clouds journey and I've grown more and more uncomfortable with the direction Microsoft is taking github as a whole and that they do with the data in there. I encourage you to do your own digging if you haven't heard of it yet, it won't be too difficult to find a few of the more controversial events surrounding github in the last few years.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-06-17-i-am-off-github.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-06-16-c++.gmi</id> <title>world-building in C++</title> <updated>2023-06-16T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>The bug has hit me again, I'm building a world in a C++ CLI program.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-06-16-c++.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-29-summer-is-here.gmi</id> <title>Summer is here</title> <updated>2023-05-29T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Looks like spring is over and summer is now here. Time to have a look at our gardening efforts on the balcony.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-29-summer-is-here.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-26-may-cli-additions.gmi</id> <title>May CLI additions</title> <updated>2023-05-26T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I added a commandline cheatsheet for mutt (my mail client) and updated the one for amforai (gemini space browser).</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-26-may-cli-additions.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-24-dither.gmi</id> <title>dithering photos</title> <updated>2023-05-24T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I made a short z-shell script to apply dithering to input pictures.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-24-dither.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-21-print-and-play.gmi</id> <title>Print and Play</title> <updated>2023-05-21T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I've discovered the world of print-and-play board games. Oh my god, it is full of stars.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-21-print-and-play.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-18-unclouding-report.gmi</id> <title>Unclouding Report - May 2023</title> <updated>2023-05-18T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I've made significant progress to get my data off the cloud.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-18-unclouding-report.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-13-tui-cheatsheets.gmi</id> <title>new section: TUI cheatsheets</title> <updated>2023-05-13T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I've extended Laniakea to include a new TUI section</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-13-tui-cheatsheets.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-01-food-crafts.gmi</id> <title>Attainable food crafts</title> <updated>2023-05-01T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>We were thinking today about food-crafts that seem simple enough to do as “hobbies” or passion projects to supplement and enrich the foods that we eat, given the — for now hypothetical — situation of having a home with a garden and ideally some land.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-05-01-food-crafts.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-29-innovation-vs-improvements.gmi</id> <title>Innovation vs. improvements</title> <updated>2023-04-29T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Too much of what we do in our industries is improving on products that have long passed a threshold of diminishing returns.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-29-innovation-vs-improvements.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-22-soroban.gmi</id> <title>I made a Soroban</title> <updated>2023-04-22T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I built a japanese abacus, a Soroban.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-22-soroban.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-17-garden-season-has-begun.gmi</id> <title>Garden season has begun</title> <updated>2023-04-17T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>A brief overview of our gardening plans this year.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-17-garden-season-has-begun.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-15-retrocomputing-as-form-of-progress.gmi</id> <title>Retrocomputing as form of progress</title> <updated>2023-04-15T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I honestly believe much less power-hungry computers for the average user are the way forward.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-15-retrocomputing-as-form-of-progress.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-12-progress-and-computers.gmi</id> <title>Progress and computers</title> <updated>2023-04-12T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Many of the common microcontrollers available in the maker scene today are clocked at over 100MHz and will have more available RAM and flash memory than the Commodore C64 I had as a boy.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-12-progress-and-computers.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-11-a-good-day.gmi</id> <title>yesterday was a good day</title> <updated>2023-04-11T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Yesterday was the first day in a really long time where I had the energy and the mental headspace to get stuff done.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-11-a-good-day.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-09-progress.gmi</id> <title>Progress (?)</title> <updated>2023-04-09T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Musings on some of the latest improvements on local city busses.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-04-09-progress.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-03-15-i-am-spent.gmi</id> <title>I am spent</title> <updated>2023-03-15T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>About over-extending, Spain and the wonders of stack machines.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-03-15-i-am-spent.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-03-01-caldav.gmi</id> <title>Self-hosting calendars is a mess</title> <updated>2023-03-01T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Here I was, thinking that hosting a calendar for my family would be easy…</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-03-01-caldav.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-21-todo-app.gmi</id> <title>my todo app</title> <updated>2023-02-21T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Instead of why mentioning my todo app every other time, why not just show it?</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-21-todo-app.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-19-text-only.gmi</id> <title>text-only interfaces</title> <updated>2023-02-19T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>I'd like to talk a little bit about how I've changed my private workflow more and more towards text-only interfaces.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-19-text-only.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-12-spring-cleaning.gmi</id> <title>digital spring cleaning</title> <updated>2023-02-12T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Progress report on my efforts to get off the cloud and centralize my data where I have control over it.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-12-spring-cleaning.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-05-two-factor-auth-is-broken-by-our-habbits.gmi</id> <title>I'm doing 2FA wrong and I bet you are, too</title> <updated>2023-02-05T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Two-factor authentication is inherently flawed by the reality we live in. Hear me out.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-05-two-factor-auth-is-broken-by-our-habbits.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-04-quality.gmi</id> <title>on quality</title> <updated>2023-02-04T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Just a quick one today: A big “Dankeschön” to Michael Nordmeyer. He unknowingly reminded me through one of his posts that gemini content is in written in UTF-8 and that this opens up the possibility to use proper typography.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-02-04-quality.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-31-chatGPT.gmi</id> <title>ChatGPT</title> <updated>2023-01-31T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Me and my wife have done some experiments with ChatGPT recently.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-31-chatGPT.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-26-flu.gmi</id> <title>The flu</title> <updated>2023-01-26T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Oh the joys. I felt the first symptoms of coming down with something on Monday. Somehow I coughed and struggled through a four hour workshop that had already been postponed a few times and pretty much collapsed into bed immediately after dinner. You know, man-flu.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-26-flu.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-21-spot-the-mistake.gmi</id> <title>Spot the mistake</title> <updated>2023-01-21T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Simplicity can mean different things to different people.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-21-spot-the-mistake.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> <entry> <id>gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-15-musings-about-simplicity.gmi</id> <title>Musings about simplicity</title> <updated>2023-01-15T00:00:00Z</updated> <summary>In summer last year I did realize how very complex and _off_ my life had become. My password manager listed several _hundred_ entries. I used to have over a dozen gmail accounts. Multiple redundant accounts for services I rarely used. People linked on social media that I couldn't remember how I met them and why we were linked.</summary> <link href="gemini://laniakea.rodoste.de/journal/2023-01-15-musings-about-simplicity.gmi" rel="alternate"/> </entry> </feed>