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Just pushed a little update to my personal site (which, to my shame, is still not on Gemini). I also updated my /now page with some deets of my recent retreat to the beautiful town of Hoi An here in Vietnam. https://martinrue.com
This is awesome. An effort to dedupe AP bridges to break looping bugs:
De-dupe across different bridges · Issue #800 · snarfed/bridgy-fed · GitHub
I’m so embarrassed that I thought this was so deep and true when I was younger:
Finished the login / auth portion today. now onto the game itself. the rules are going to present the biggest hurdle so I'll need to plan this one out.
Getting a bit more comfortable with Pascal now as I don't have to look up as much stuff.
Håller med, tycker såna korkar är jättestöriga.
Anledningen till att dom finns är för att det ska vara tydligt att flaskan har öppnats så ingen häller gift i, men då borde hellre hela ringen gå av ist för att gångjärna sig.
That there are around 10⁸² atoms in the universe is a great example of how we can’t think well about large numbers. That looks wrong to me at first glance.
working on a new dice game. This time it's fully in Pascal. I'll be reusing some code from Farkle! but converting from Python code, so it'll be slow going.
What sort of grade A a-grader picks up a new fear at age 44? Me apparently because I seem to have become scared of dogs (after never having a problem with them since I became an adult in the late nineties. More into dogs than cats even).
And that’s causing a vicious circle because apparently “they can smell fear” is a real thing because they’ve started barking like crazy at me. 🤬
Controversial opinion(?) I'm sick of finishing books with a strong sense that they were 300 pages just to appease the publisher/market, not because the author couldn't have been just as effective in 100 pages. I consider Derek Sivers a perfect counter example of this. Few books should need 300 pages.
But the video actually showed the opposite — Palestinians evacuating in a southerly direction toward Rafah in November 2023.
It’s a li’l messed up that Sarah Bernhardt, a vegan, had a super creamy dairy cake named after her.
Coldwave, I don’t have an email address to reach you but just FWIW you can submit your entire front page to Antenna and it’ll find the posts (since your frontpage happens to be in the gmisub format, with dates in the post links). You can do that from a script so you don’t have to do it manually for every post.
Or you can submit your /gemlog page, maybe that’s a more robust solution.
Internet age is (going to be) bad, and good.
I don’t know about that. All I know it that I hate being online. I hate how it feels. Like ersatz living.
"Impatience is an argument with reality."
I like this. I think it's even more useful with the qualifier: "You can win the argument, but not always."
Impatience can be useful, but only when your odds of changing reality are high enough. Otherwise embrace it. Patience brings presence.
One of the many ways I’ve ruined Netrunner is that even though my Replicating Perfection deck is undefeated, I’ve built a new corp deck with a much worse identity (Harmony Medtech) that keeps losing and isn’t very fun to play again since it’s so bad and has way too little ice and way too many Hedge Funds and Celebrity Gifts.
But today I managed to get in a win against Halo with it. He went 1–1 with Maxx against it. After bouncing off a Himitsu-Baku, he rebirthed into Quetzal, only to learn that behind every great Himitsu-Baku there is… another Himitsu-Baku. I was five points behind but after scoring a Mushin-no-Shin’ed Future Perfect I could Fast Track into a winning Global Food Initiative.
(The preceding game I got steamrolled. Indexing is a helluva drug.)
On the runner side, I played Kit “Holy Shit” Peddler vs New Angeles Sol and won two, sandwiching one early scoop after bouncing off an R&D glacier after keeping a hand with two Notoriety and no breakers. So a 3–2 record overall. Fun fun fun.♥︎
I’ve been trying out a sucker/Yog.0 rig and it’s not great. MU is too tight. But I also put in the Scavenge/Test Run/Femme Fatale combo and Halo pointed out that Scavenge could be used to move the “flies” (our pet name for Cyber Cypher).
My fave card in my green “Whole Lotta Nothing” Kit deck has always been Inti, and this was a match where it really shone. R&D, HQ, and one remote were all double iced (R&D was triple iced) but the inner icies were Resistors and Wraparounds. GG♥︎♥︎♥︎
Thank you Halo for making a bad day really fun♥︎
Inti Illimani - Fiesta de san Benito - YouTube
Alanis Morissette - My Humps - YouTube
Sit down, you’re rocking the boat:
The camera has really been getting its exercise lately. The fact the camera even survived this one is actually a miracle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvZ5amwkvRc
I’m usually not a fan of The Chicago Manual of Style (I have my own style) but when it comes to interval dashes, our recommendations happen to overlap for once.
One drawback of POSSE is that you’re bolstering the value of the silos. Instagram grows more powerful with your pictures on it and GitHub thrives on your repos.
Bought a new Android phone and want to remove the bloat, spyware and tracking? Check out Universal Android Debloater Next Generation desktop app that makes this process easy with it's built-in debloat lists for various manufacturers. #android #privacy #bloatware
Github
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/wiki
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After many visits to Sivers's /now page, I realised his new book (https://sive.rs/u) is in early access. So, naturally, I read the hell out of it. Loved it. Really appreciate the short, provocative style and it left me with plenty of things to mull over.
getting closer to implementing the monthly standings "tournament" board for Farkle. I just need to get the monthly reset working and test it and I should be good. Daily points for the top three finishers:
also need to squash a scoring bug.
drama on gemini aside, @clseibold is a machine. He's made a new protocol (scroll protocol - wrote the spec) based off gemini, gopher+, and I think nex, made a server, reference client, and is working on a gui client to try and rival Lagrange. this, on top of the misfin work and all the stuff on auragem. That's some dedication, especially after I thought for sure he left after the fallout on Gemini's two social platforms.
Finally recorded a new video about life in Da Nang. 📽️ https://youtu.be/4J2uZqipzfY
OK, det verkar vara fixat från och med 3.8. Gillar den här lösningen:
How do I use a C-style for loop in Python? - Stack Overflow
Alla andra lösningar på den där sidan är dåliga.
Seriöst?!
How do I use a C-style for loop in Python? - Stack Overflow
Svenska: “Vi har världens dåligaste språk.”
Python: “Håll min öl.”
It just cost me £1.58 to fill up my bike, which is now good for about 200km. Now that's a version of capitalism I can get behind.
Expo magazine finally created an RSS-feed for their news articles (complete with a rel alternate from their news category sub page) but then they’re throwing “Client error: 401 Unauthorized” errors when trying to access it 🤦🏻♀️
Photos from a recent trip to Hartebeespoort Dam #photo
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Delay delay delay 🤦🏻♀️
Trump v. United States (2024) - Wikipedia
Today was peak life: Had a great sleep. Jumped on the motorbike and shot over to the coworking space. Finished a new vlog edit. Met some new people. Got stuck due to the flash storm. Hung out chatting to cool folks. Cruised home on the fumes of petrichor. Dinner and a book.
Maybe the GQP majority on the SCOTUS shouldn’t introduce presidential immunity while the dems hold the executive office. They’d be legalizing their own assassination.
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
Travel by itself doesn't change you much. What does change you, however, is an openness to engage with the sometimes huge differences in culture, attitudes, daily life, etc., that you often find via travel with that mindset.
Vietnam has been a great teacher so far.
A Swedish company is working on a solution to decrease the immediate methane emissions from bovines.
That’s a li’l bit pound-foolish since it doesn’t address how inefficient meat is, using many more times the resources for the same calories.
Oh, there’s a source repo, awesome! 🙋🏻♀️
Oh. They use CMake. 🤦🏻♀️ This is gonna be a long day.
“We found a more precise version of your address, use instead?”
Proceeds to show lines mangled and out order and partially concatenated, all letters upcased…
Swedish dept of finance proposes lowering the flight tax. What in the heck!? Can’t the bean counters count some actual green beans and just not moolah? Economy should take the entire ecology into account and not just pretend that externalities don’t exist.
This CVE in less is intriging:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32487
When the environment variable LESSOPEN is set and less opens a filename with a newline '\n', it will execute the text after the newline as a shell command.
This is because less uses the shell (with popen) for globbing and didn't escape newline characters.
This security issue is fixed in commit 007521ac3c95bc76e3d59c6dbfe75d06c8075c33 (2024-04-11).
https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/007521ac3c95bc76e3d59c6dbfe75d06c8075c33
It was introduced in commit 5a9639f09c138cb489ef5d8f8b20fc28b542e37f (2002-01-14).
This weekend was one of those that’s just good for the soul. I spent it on a remote island with a bunch of new friends I’ve made here in Vietnam. 10/10.
My IBM Thinkpad laptop from 2003 stopped working 2 days ago. I changed the power supply and it was still not working. Finally, I removed the battery and now it works again! Before the battery died, the laptop could run 5 minutes without power supply enough to move it around plug it again.
Men varför är det en sån kapplöpning mot botten mellan rassehögern och rassevänstern?
“Vi måste ta debatten” (genom att göra oss lika dåliga och avhumaniserande 🤦🏻♀️)
Socialdemokraterna vill satsa 700 miljoner kronor på att punktmarkera ungdomar på väg in i kriminalitet.
Pengarna ska användas antingen till att en ungdom får en följeslagare dygnet runt eller till elektronisk övervakning med fotboja.
Dom menar alltså folk som inte är dömda för brott. Verkar det som iaf:
Det här är ju dubbel-plus-obra, 2+2=5, frihet är slaveri, jag orkar inte.
Dom vill förråa samhället och trissa upp utanförskapet och segregationen.
—Sverige har blivit farligare och vi måste göra saker vi aldrig gjort tidigare, säger partiets ekonomiskpolitiske talesperson Mikael Damberg.
Botemedlet mot fara är inte att själv göra sig till den farliga.
Torn between doing free labor for proprietary hellsites like BGG and Genius vs letting a bunch of fake junk info remain on those sites. Starting to wake up to the possibility of doing the latter. Of letting go a bit. xkcd://386. I wanna reclaim my time a li’l bit.
once I find time I'll add a "all-time high-score" to my Farkle game here in gemini. skyjake also had a neat idea of monthly point leaders.
Извините, но мне пришлось удалить подкаталог время года, ибо линки картинок не линковались, а заметил только сейчас и никто мне ничего не говорил.
damn IT band. all this sitting and not exercising made it flare back up again. Time for strengthening and stretching exercises to get rid of the knee pain.
This bitlbee setting is such a match made in heaven for rcirc’s various ways to send multiple lines at once:
Tomb of Annihilation was exactly 100 sessions. The various campaigns before it (Lost Mine was 12, The Lost City was 24, then Princes I’m not sure but maybe six or so, and I don’t know about our Glitchworld homebrew either, maybe that was also 24 ish? And something similar for CoS? Then for the Corsair Council campaign, I dunno... over a dozen maybe? Or if you count the alternate ruleset sessions (we ran side stories using Microscope, DitV, and Cthulhu Dark) then probably around 20 total. And then ToA started.) So roughly 500 total is my super rough guess?! 🤷🏻♀️ I could maybe try to sift through our old calendar files for a closer estimate.
Some of y’all know this but we restarted the campaign numbering when we went back to the rule that new characters start at level one. During Curse of Strahd, we were using milestone XP (that sucked 🤦🏻♀️) and during Tomb of Annihilation we used the rules that replacement characters start at the party level. In #boatmode the rule is that replacement characters come in as level one characters.
Tonight was session 300 since we moved the campaign to the new leveling system and to the Pearl Cities / Crowded Sea region. #boatmode
110 since coming to Arden Vul.
People who have a hard time getting dressed in the morning or who sometimes forgot to brush your teeth, do not fret and do not feel bad because that’s apparently the morning routine of some productivity bloggers:
How I Simplified My Morning Routine for Better Results - Chase Jarvis Photography
No shoes, no clothes, no toothbrush, no hairbrush, no towel, no making the bed, no nothing. Just clean simple living.
Troupe play is so wild! 🤯
In #boatmode the biggest threat to the player characters in Arden Vul is… their own alternate party! You can definitively tell that they’ve played Microscope and Hillfolk and Fiasco a couple of times.
Found by an autofuzzer according to the best guesses of peeps on irc://irc.oftc.net/debian 🤷🏻♀️
Li’l known fact: you don’t have to JOESKY tax if you’ve drank beer or otherwise can’t be arsed! As per last paragraph here:
HOUSE RULE FOR OSR AND NOT-OSR GAMES + PEOPLE (BLOGS | Joeskythedungeonbrawler’s Blog
So fight on, keyboard warriors!
Something weird just happened with my Emacs after restarting it today.
I got Symbol’s function definition is void: s-concat when calling a function I’ve made, but then when I ran that function again, it worked that time. So s.el musta gotten loaded in between. I called describe-function on s-concat, but I’m not sure that made the difference. Autoloading flakiness I guess.
Wayland not super ready for remote yet, according to:
what_ever_happened_to_krdp_the_waylandcompatible at Reddit
A hundred and eighty bugs in one DSA?
[[SECURITY] [DSA 5658-1] linux security update](https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00066.html)
What happened?
Visiting Home: Visiting home for a few days, flying out tomorrow.
Great essay on The Question:
“The Question” of Revision; Or the Difficult Case of Renee Montoya | The Middle Spaces
Here is current canon:
Renee Montoya (Prime Earth) | DC Database | Fandom
Admirable restraint:
Bob the Angry Flower - Disputed Territories
Someone made an auto-lifepath creator off the tables in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything:
Xanathar’s Backstory Generator - Chartopia
Fun fun fun♥︎
Fick lära mig när jag var liten att “röka som en borstbindare” är fel, det är skorstenar som röker medan borstbindare svär (för dom sticker sig på halmen). Men tydligen är “supa som en borstbindare” ett mycket mycket äldre uttryck—på tyska!
I didn’t know that Tabitha King contributed to The Sudbury Devil:
366 UNDERGROUND: THE SUDBURY DEVIL (2023) | 366 Weird Movies
Awesome movie.
Unfortunately, it’s not possible for me to hate Discord more than I already did, so this changes nothing:
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers - The Verge
My hatred levels for them were already satiated at the fierce fires of 10⁶⁵³⁵⁵ burning suns.
I was talking to a friend and a couple of times I’ve brought up that Trump is in the lead and that I’m a li’l worried about that.
President: general election Polls | FiveThirtyEight
And everytime he goes into denial mode, “enh that’s not what I saw lately”. I’ve never understood the mindset of trying to read polls wishful-thinkingly. Like the GOP did with Romney in 2021, refusing to believe that he was behind.
I’m a born pessimist so I can’t get behind this mindset but won’t it breed complacency?
I’m more provoked by bull and bad faith behavior in Swedish language than in English, I’m realizing. I get more angry when people are behaving badly in Swedish. It hits closer to home. One more reason to stay off the svolternet.
Does anyone of y’all have Kevorkian’s PMID 3277000?
“Men vad kan väl vi här i lilla Sverige göra?” är lite snett tänkt.
Vi behöver ta vårt ansvar precis som alla andra på jorden. Vi ligger efter mot vad vi behöver göra:
ny-analys-sverige-bommar-alla-klimatmal at Www
On an overcast day in hell you and I had been resting on the shores of the Lḗthē. Suddenly you scooped up a handful of its water and offered me a drink of oblivion, a cup of kindness. You saw me hesitate and wondered what I had to hold on to. I was just surprised, that’s all. Don’t worry. Thank you, let me rinse away the bitterness. One more stamp in my Samsara merry-go-round ticket. Enlightenment and hard-earned–lessons all over again.
HTML5 tries to accomplish commendable goals and one could use it to create a rather minimal web pages. How? Go back to roots: write it in a way it can be understood by a human being, properly mark the content within it, and keep the hierarchy shallow.
Yes, that’s great. That’s the way to think.
However, adding one more layer of syntax on top won’t solve the issue at all. Believe it or not, it will only make it worse.
I disagree here. Once you’ve handwritten enough HTML, and believe me, I have for a lifetime in my day, having a li’l helper to cross those t’s and dot those i’s is pretty dang welcome.
Back in the nineties, after having written less than slash p greater than for the thousandth time, and with Ward’s wiki still being a few years out in the future, I even used a filter to convert RTF to HTML. That’s how sick I was of open angle bracket slash i close angle bracket. (Only for the body part of my own handwritten templates. I was never onboard with the gross muck of Dreamweaver and its ilk, never used that, always hated that. Always look at the HTML. A computer should not make managerial decisions.)
In the end I can get behind hating HTML. Use gemtext. Gemtext is great. Gemtext is robust. Gemtext is truth. And I generate mine from Markdown.
I disagree with this:
I use Markdown as a tool to help me write HTML. I use it as a way to not have to write every <p> and every <br/>. I use it along keyboard shortcuts and other preprocessors and filters. It’s a big beautiful shortcut.
It really shines as a syntax to describe comments, short plain-text documents or messages like e-mails
That’s when it is at its weakest because of the em/i/cite issue. It’s good for blog posts when I can freely mix in HTML. I don’t use a lot of extensions. I don’t even use the three backticks fence, I use four spaces. I prefer reference links. I use a pretty old-school, traditional Markdown. I don’t see it as a format. I see it as a way to generate HTML.
I sent a patch today to a project that ran my code through a TypeScript linter. I agreed with some of the linebreak and indentation choices (+ I had also majorly borked up something unrelated to indentation but that the linter caught, so that’s good) but I don’t like that it added unnecessary parens. It wanted to turn
```Code
foo && bar || baz
```
to
```Code
(foo && bar) || baz
```
Promoters of infix languages that then can’t deal with infix’ own orders of operations. I’m so spoiled over in Prefix Sexp Land that everytime I take a visit to Infix City I get clobbered by the gratuitious parens their linters wanna slather all over my elegant li’l typewriter gothic.
If something in the deli aisle makes you cry, of course I’ll put my arms around you and walk you outside. Why would I mind?
But I then never ever again wanna hear someone promote infix over prefix and say that infix is better or more intuitive or whatever. That right has been permanently wavered by the application of these grubby linters.
I implemented the dice game Farkle in Gemini. Feedback welcomed (gritty@smallweb.space)
Added ewhen, eor and eand to brev. They are anaphoric versions of when, or and and that treats empty things as falsy. Not always what you want but sometimes pretty dang nice. We already had eif and econd.
```Code
(eand -1 (add1 it)) ;; #f since it treats zero as falsy
(eor 0 (add1 it)) ;; 1
```
From brev-separate version 1.96.
That said, this is an easy way that works 🤷🏻♀️ sometimes keep it simple keeps it simple
Je fais un test de tinylog
Watching boosted videos from PeerTube isn’t the best from a bandwidth sharing perspective since that’s just a hotlinked mp4. Instead going to their site and using the web interface is a WebTorrent system that shares the load and you can also find .torrent files in the JSON metadata of each video.
Bra av Alonzo:
en-fascist-lajvande-opposition-gynnar-ingen at Www
Tyckte sossarna började med det här långt innan valet. Deras gullande med Paludan var vidrigt att se.
What a great game:
I only got 44%, I’m pretty out of tune with the pulse of the canaille I guess.
I think Dan’s take is spot on:
Why it’s impossible to agree on what’s allowed
Not so sure about this anymore:
How I significantly improved my sleep schedule - Issa Rice
I’ve been a pretty extreme user of redshift for the past fifteen years and lately I’ve been developing a li’l bit of aqcuired tritanomaly later in life. We were playing 1889 and I could not tell apart the blue and green action trains.
Great thoughts on how autoconf is vulnerable:
autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
One reason the autotools are still around is how horrible many of the alternatives are. Like CMake. So awful. Or hecking Cargo.🤬 Autotools does something that apparently is not very easy to do.
I think I just need to figure out my cron job issue and my game for gemini will be done.
I just learned about recency bias and it's already my new favourite.
A house rule we don’t use anymore since the players always hated it so it was my Christmas present to them one time to remove it and I ask them about it every now and then and they’re like “yes! It’s great that you removed it!!” but I loved it, it was this:
If they asked for silver but you wanna pay with gold, each gold coin is worth eight silver.
If they asked for gold but you wanna pay with silver, twelve silver is worth one gold.
This made both coin types more valuable since having the right type for the right situation would be a more efficient way to pay. It also really fit the flavor of the different currencies in use in the region, that gold really is another kind of money and not just a shiny tenner.
If the book or module said a hemp rope costs 1 gp, I’d have them ask for 10 silver. So on that end the 1:10 ratio still existed. Some OSR books in the wake of Delta and LotFP ask would say “1 sp” there; that would mean 10 silver in our game world, basing our prices and economy roughly on the Cairo edition of The Thousand and One Nights, and 2e’s “50 coins is one pound” rule. A “silver standard” in the sense that people usually deal with silver and gold is something really special, but not in the sense of slashing all values by ten.
Whenever I smell asphalt I think of Maureen.
The road to hell is paved with asphalt | devonzuegel.com
Session 298 of #boatmode devolved into a hidden movement game with the players writing down their characters’ movement room to room so my NPCs couldn’t know where they went
The watch -g option doesn’t seem to be very reliable? As part of trying gradually to get back to a li’l healthier relationship w the internet, I set up a shell script to notify me, but it hasn’t been working very well. I swapped out watch -g with my own reimplementation and it has been much more solid. Not sure what’s going on there.
I don’t know how to influence “browser defaults” for super old sites that don’t have any CSS, like how the “default” link colors are blue and purple and how the “default” background has gone from gray to white, but I have a proposal for a new change:
A max-width for body text.
I have to use reader mode (or narrow the browser window) on super old, unstyled web pages and there’s something that feels kinda ironic about that.
Someone’s practical guide to combining eurorack with traditional rack mounting:
Fitting eurorack modules in a 19“ rackmount audio case. - MOD WIGGLER
Just reading about it for curiosity’s sake, I don’t have this kinda hardware.
A few years back I ran some sorta “TLDR to man” script I made and generated a bunch of man pages from the TLDR project but I pretty much always need to go look at the real one after trying my luck at the short one. I don’t meant to slag ‘em because I know there’s a lot of work behind that project. It’s just sad that it usually ends up a detour for me most of the time.
Duh! I was struggling with git send-email being like “Hey baby you’ve got some 8-bit characters in your patch, what coding system do you want for them? UTF-8 is cool, right?” and I was like “Now hold on mister! Whaddaya mean 8-bit characters? I’ve kept it 7-bit poppin’ over here!” and I went cuckoo trying to sort it out, thinking I’ve had an Emacs mistyping in the commit message with some invisible character like a stray ZWJ or something, finally running the buffer through iconv -c -t ASCII with mediocre success.
Turns out the patch itself, the code, is what had the 8-bit char because the code touched printing of some glyphs.🤦🏻♀️
I had to come crawling, saying “Yes, git. UTF-8 will be fine. Sorry for doubting you and Emacs.”
In my campaign gnomes are SUPER TINY so our party’s gnome is 7 inches tall! She’s a real scrapper! She used to be a black mamba but she’s had an awakening spell and a reincarnation spell. She’s al-Toril’s tiniest kahin now!
D&D got pretty intense and confusing! Into it!
I tried two things differently.
Number one is that I can’t have the video app open at the same time as the PDF app. So they can’t see me nor can I see them. But today I tried really hard to switch back to the video app as often as I could! Since my memory is /dev/null, that meant making notes of some of the baboons’ stats. (They were fighting large baboons.)
Number two is something that the DMG tells you to do (p247) but which is usually too much of a chore to do. It’s to give each monster a trait, like “the one with a helmet”, “the one with a scar” and so on. That’s difficulter than it sounds for pretty small rewards (we’ve been getting by just fine for ten years with just “the one that’s fighting Nanna”, “the one over by Nechta” and so on) but those rewards, though small, are non-zero and since I wanted to give 110% today, I tried it. It’s difficult but the difficulty is up front and then the payoff of doing that lasts throughout the entire fight.
Fun fun fun.♥︎
Also the session today was #blorb at its finest and most distilled:
I’ve got the rooms, I’ve got the features, I’ve got the monsters, I’ve got the traps, what do you do? And what ensues are totally fair shenigans like “OK we’re stuck down here and we don’t have a rope but if we polymorph the elf rogue into a giant hornet (other “giant fliers” are too big to fit the passage) she can carry the gnome and they can go to the Horus Head barbershop and buy ropes.” Two explorations turns later: “Whoops we can’t unpolymorph ourselves and the bard is 200 feet under the ground and don’t know whether we’ve landed and we didn’t come up with a plan. So we’re hiding on the ground until the polymorph runs out.” One hour later: “Whoops we have no money and there are only three ropes for sale here. Let’s head down to Gosterwick, maybe we can sell this figurine down there.” Two hours later: “Whoops we wore out our shoes and we are getting attacked by boars!” And so on. Love it.
One Hour Later... | SpongeBob Time Card #122 - YouTube
Less intricate method of purchases and acquisitions
GQP coming for our cigarettes and potato chips?
Birth Control Pill Causes Abortions? | Snopes.com
Einstein making a pretty banger case for socialism:
Did Einstein Warn a Time Will Come When the Rich Control Means of Communication? | Snopes.com
For me it’s becoming a wider question than just means-of-production. Production affects both sides of the transaction. If the people are being beaten by a stick, they aren’t much happier if the guy wielding the stick owns it.
(That’s quickly becoming my favorite snowclone. Thanks, Bakunin!)
I block ads usually so seeing some of the ads (in the context of this Daily Show monologue) was shocking. 😭
Charlamagne Tha God Has An Issue With DEI | The Daily Show - YouTube
Not on board with all the implications (“DEI programs are bad”??) but definitively with the main one (“Corporate America is bad”!!).
I got the pro tip to catch up on Culpin’s earlier “Crazy for You” first but that’s not been printed in Swedish, French, or English. Reading the digital version now.
Hey there are new Kimi Ni Todoke* volumes coming in English! “Kimi Ni Todoke Soulmate” is the subtitle for the new numbers (and they start over with a new numbering). Kimi Ni Todoke is only one of the best comics of all time. Although there have been so many ripoffs and inspired-by that maybe it doesn’t hold up? I haven’t reread it even though like a third of my book collection consists of the thirty Kimi Ni Todoke tanks (and I’m never getting rid of them!).
Six years ago when v30 just came out I had heard there were some sorta “sequel chapters” and I wrote Viz** to ask them to please publish that and they say maybe and now I dug out that old email thread to write thank you thank you thank you to them!
My belief is that the only way this Strange Stars campaign is gonna work is if I leverage the SWN toolbox fully. Fully lean into the fact that the game is a SWN game, just in a different setting.
Rolling up some NPCs with “W5 Persons of Interest” and the second I started rolling up I kept making the exact same rolls as the first one. 🤦🏻♀️
Blursed dice. Taking a break now. Prep is going slow on this thing since I don’t know the #StrangeStars setting as well as I know Zakhara and the Crowded Sea. But I did shake loose some blocks I was having. Fun fun fun.♥︎
Also I was working off the PDFs and switching between them was fiddly; I have the books but I was just too laz to go get them off the shelf and go set up lamps and stuff.
m455 linked to these flags for GCC to perhaps consider sometimes:
Bakuman is such a weird comic in the sense that the main character doesn’t show up until the fourth tank. Mr Hiramaru, mr Kazuya Hiramaru.
Therr are a couple of other comics like that, like Blondie or Archie. Veronica is my fave there and she didn’t show up until years in. And Nancy is another example as is Popeye, and the uncanny X-Men. Ah, well, there is a bunch. Didn’t mean to get sidetracked from the legendary hero Hiramaru.
Starting Icelandic Level 5 Tonight: I am beginning Icelandic level 5 tonight. I am 2 hours ahead of Iceland, so the class runs from 9:40 PM until midnight. This will go on twice a week for the next two months. I am a masochist. But also excited.
1+1=3
I'm shutting down a project I built and ran for 7 years, serving ~3,000 people. It's bittersweet. On one hand it's amazing to contribute something valuable for so many. On the other, our attention and focus are so important, and we have to allow them to take on new things fully.
Found a bug in Gempost: Today I found a small but important bug in Gempost.
Gempost was not escaping XML characters properly.
Gempost generates an atom.xml feed, but it was not escaping characters like < or >. This broke gemfreely when it tried to sync the post about removing dynamic dispatch from the AI text adventure game to the Fediverse, as it couldn't parse the XML. It was fixed within a few hours by the author.
I found 2 FPGA GPUs (hobby projects):
still thinking about doing a dumb / flip phone challenge
left my phone bedside all weekend. it was nice. I missed basically nothing important.
Sun is shining, spring has arrived: The sun is shining, and spring has hit northern Europe. The ambient temperature is not very warm, but in the direct sun, it's comfortably warm with a slight cool breeze.
Gemfreely 0.1.7 and Roadmap Update: Small update to 0.1.7 integrate underlying library bugfixes and ideas for syncing comments back to the fediverse.
Blog Post: Gemfreely - Bugfix and Roadmap Update
The root race conditions of all evil are.
This Mega65 (Commodore 65) made of FGPA looks good:
Even the FPGA core is open source.
Another FPGA based toy in the shape of a Gameboy: the analogue pocket
https://www.analogue.co/pocket
Analogue pocket has a Commodore 64 core now:
https://github.com/markus-zzz/myc64
A computer we can assemble at home:
https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
My favourite part of last night was having a BBQ with everybody at the coworking space in the dark, because the electricity burned itself down. If you know life in SE Asia, this makes total sense.
Gemfreely 0.1.6: Gemfreely 0.1.6 is released with a small bug fix regarding emojis in Gemfeed titles.
Statically compiled releases are now available!
Gemfreely Project Page: There is now a page on the capsule for the gemfreely tool.
gemini://agnos.is/projects/gemfreely/
This contains an intro to the tool and basic documentation.
Switched to Forgejo: I have now switched the self-hosted Git server to Forgejo, as they are moving towards not being a soft fork anymore.
Gemfreely - GPL compat check and bugfixes: I've added cargo-deny to the gemfreely build process, and it explicitly allows only GPL-compatible licenses, to make sure as best as possible that the code stays GPL-compatible, since the codebase itself is licensed under the AGPL and makes use of a bunch of GPL dependencies. I have also fixed a few bugs related to parsing Gemfeeds:
Gemfreely also now mirrored to GitHub: The gemfreely command is also now mirrored on GitHub, to facilitate greater accessibility and exposure to a wider variety of users.
https://github.com/ProjectMoon/gemfreely
Gemfreely - Synchronize Gemlogs to the Fediverse: I have created a tool to synchronize gemlogs to the Fediverse using WriteFreely (federated blogging). It's still very rough around the edges, but it does work. My main gemlog is now automatically synced to the fediverse.
What I'm doing now: https://martinrue.com/now
Yesterday, I tried accessing one of web server from my mobile phone and it didn't work.
I use http://freedns.afraid.org/ for the DNS, I checked it and it was ok (I have to log on freedns regularly every third month to keep it working).
I connected to the web server from a computer and I was ok (2 days ago wifi was down for the computer).
At this point, the issue is either the mobile network or the modile phone.
I switched to plane mode and then disabled it to reset the modem in the phone.
After that, I could access my web server from my phone again.
It is the first time this happens in 3 years.
Not doing much of anything. Taking a break from my computer activities. Just reading a blog/phlog/gemlog here and there and enjoying my retirement. Let's see how long this period takes this time. 1 Week? 2 Weeks? A month? Of course it doesn't matter. It's the slow web of course for a reason!
Today, I logged into my text environment and came across an article discussing surfing Gopher on the Commodore 64 machine. What a delightful concept.
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/d1337/assorted/c64-001.txt
Page Templating Complete: I have forked Gempost and made an enhancement to it to allow templated pages. This version of Gempost is now powering most of this capsule. The PR to integrate the changes into mainline is open for review on GitHub, but the functionality already works very well.
A few weeks ago I moved to Việt Nam. Why? 1: To challenge myself and experience life somewhere very different. 2: To live more cheaply and have more time for Yakk and other projects.
Since 13 is so lucky in Asia, here are 13 reflections from my Vietnam experience so far: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/7a45d3d5fcd47f643993be4dbb7ac272/raw/f710acdbe0dd16d309ff219c7740687c39bf8b8d/Vietnam.txt
So, after spending the first 2 weeks of this adventure in Hanoi, we're finally in Da Nang. The contrast is massive. Da Nang is like the LA of Vietnam – miles of beach, lots of newer buildings and a very chill vibe. Air is way cleaner too. Loving it in this city and planning on staying a good amount of time.
It's almost 10pm and I'm sat in a little coffee shop in the middle of Hanoi writing code as part of a little experiment. Could not be happier. Passing along the positive energy. ⚡️
I might stop my spartan server. There's really not anything I'd post there and not here. and cross posting seems redundant for redundancy's sake. plus no user certs.
welp, the drama may have resolved itself. strong opinions all around. i just don't participate.
looks like the BBS drama moved over to Station. I wonder how that platform will react.
Navigation Breadcrumbs: I am experimenting with "navigation breadcrumbs," and making them more or less consistent across all pages. Currently, a link to the parent page can be found at the bottom of each page, along with a link to Home.
A little video update from Dubai. https://youtu.be/WdNrDEDMvhM?si=Dwv1Sk8E4CHNvDuD
After 33 years of excessive smoking I today celebrate the 4th month without even one cigarette! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Podcast recommendation: Darknet Diaries. Amazing story telling about tech scams and hacks you should know about. #podcast
Darknet Diaries
My site now supports webmentions. I won't publish them anywhere at least for now but it's another step towards IndyWeb.
Arriving into Hanoi after being in Dubai is, well, different! Happy to finally be here and looking forward to seeing what Hanoian life feels like.
Fountain Pens: I just got a (left handed) fountain pen, and I had no idea I was missing the best writing experience ever. It requires basically no pressure, and glides straight across the paper. Wrote an entire page with it. No smudges, just beautiful blue ink flowing on paper. It is still a bit finicky regarding positioning, even with the left-handed nib, but I am getting better at it even after just one page of writing.
Today's the day. I'm leaving the country. I made a video about what's in my bag: https://youtu.be/qGASvcfcQUg?si=XUgmK_EGhl78ywpP
this is why I'm not in the software development business
I don't know if this exists, but I wonder what an "all-in-one" capsule setup solution. For instance, some script that installs a server, creates a directory structure, and gives you a static site generator for publishing. It would come with a couple of prepackaged CGI scripts for a guestbook, tinylog update, and titan for automated file and gemlog upload.
just discovered SSHFS, which is a way to mount a remote filesystem/direcory over SSH.
I've successfully reimplemented my tinylog updater in Pascal, which I did as an exercise to test my knowledge of writing Pascal. I recently started dabbling in the language and find it kind of cool to be honest. There's a few gotchas like a 255 string character limit if you forget the right compiler option, but it's fun nonetheless.
Belief is a funny thing. Sometimes you need to hold onto one against all further examination simply because it helps you. Belief doesn't always have to correlate with the known facts – some beliefs give you focus and direction, and that's a useful reason to keep them.
I've got a response for my Tinylog entry from 4 Feb on 6 Feb. Thanks Cyberwolf.
The next thing I'd like to mention is the new #geminiprotocol hashtag on Mastodon. The old one was took over by Google and their new Bard-like brand.
I'm observing that the new hashtag is fully working now and people are writing there.
I posted a new gopher phlog post in my brand new gopher hole:
gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2024-02-16-Part_of_the_smolnet.txt
Off on a business trip. I'm not a fan of travel, but it's nice to do something new for a while.
Kotlin and Junit 5: Public service announcement: It turns out that if you have JUnit 4 on your classpath at all, Maven will attempt to use the JUnit 4 test runner by default. This leads to a weird situation where none of your Kotlin-based JUnit tests are running! The JUnit 4 dependency was brought in by kotlin-test-junit. It seems one must include kotlin-test-junit5 instead!
Listening to a new reggae album in Esperanto with my neighbours (probably). No, *you're* weird.
interesting post of the week:
No Job: I am on the hunt for a backend software development job. Hopefully can find one soon.
An old man sat next to me in the coffee shop. He ordered a coffee and just sat there drinking it. No newspaper, no phone – just sat there on his own with his thoughts. Honestly, that's goals. I feel bad even writing this now.
A consideration when reaching for GPT to write some code for you: yes it'll save time, but it'll take from you some problem solving. It's that same problem solving – sitting with a challenge and working through potential solutions/trade-offs – that made you a good problem solver.
I installed a misfin server. you can message me at:
gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
I miss proper patern matching: After working with both Scala and Rust for so long, I miss the proper full pattern matching of these languages when working with Kotlin. Never thought I'd say it.
Micromobility Thoughts: I own an electric kick scooter. Riding it (with proper safety gear, of course) is thrilling. It's a very good way to get around with a compact vehicle. But it does have downsides. It can only safely carry me, and it doesn't really have room for cargo. Are there ways to make it better?
Lack of Mobile Gemtext Editors: There are no proper text editors of any sort on mobile (Android at least) that support editing Gemtext. That means I must currently use the computer for any heavier content editing. Perhaps using Markdown and converting that to Gemtext will allow a wider use of editors when wanting to add a short post when I am not at my laptop.
Emoji and Gemini: I normally don't use emoji that much (except for a few specific smilies), but the lack of inline images in Gemini presents a compelling opportunity to use emoji in a sparing, tasteful way to spruce up your capsule.
Planting Seeds: I decided to create the digital garden page in the capsule. Rather than using the backlink approach that defines the digital gardening movement on the Web, I will centralize my random thoughts here, and update the entries with links to gemlogs and pages that have spawned from them.I decided to create the digital garden page in the capsule. Rather than using the backlink approach that defines the digital gardening movement on the Web, I will centralize my random thoughts here, and update the entries with links to gemlogs and pages that have spawned from them.
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I can't believe it's already Friday again. This week I got started on a new new project with a short launch window, and I'm ~40% done. It feels great to be in the zone for 5-6 hours daily! What has been your biggest achievement this week?
I tried Serenity OS today.
After compiling in Debian Bookworm, I get the error:
```
Warning: ldconfig not found in PATH, assuming virgl support to not be present.
# Solved with:
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
```
Then I get another error:
```
qemu-system-x86_64: multiboot knows VBE. we don't
...
```
And it doesn't start.
Me: perfection is the enemy.
Also me: that loading state causes the button height to increase by 1px, which must be fixed immediately.
Re: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space 2024-02-04 13:29 PM CET
A great game for all times. At the beginning of the year, the fan-made global add-on Horn of the Abyss was updated to version 1.7.0 for «Heroes of Might & Magic III». The authors already call it the largest in the history of the project. Added a new city called «Factory». My surprise was that many people play it online.
My new SmolNet TUI client of choice: "telescope" by Omar Polo.
https://telescope.omarpolo.com/
It supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher and is very lean/fast.
Today's blog post was inspired by my hair cut. https://martinrue.com/tune-in
I'm still not in the writing mood. I've catch up several games recently. Yesterday I played in Heroes of Might and Magic II on Linux. I ran the fheroes2 open source engine on the top of my GOG original version copy.
Honey shrinkflation
So, the girlfriend and I quit our jobs to follow our own path and work full-time on our own ideas. We're sharing all the details over at: https://thediscoveryfund.com. Follow along!
The one where the gf and I debate which side of the street to walk on and visit Colony – one of the nicest co-working spots in the city. https://youtu.be/Tir4H2-zWTA?si=82xhiNVexTMYuDLF
I added a phlog to my gopherhole. There is only one post for now but I have to start somewhere. Here are the links:
Link to the gophermap of the phlog
Link to the RSS feed for the posts
1300 people on Station. That's cool!
I just want people to know that I definitely haven't just spent an unspecified amount of time trying to remember a good solution to a problem that I forgot because I got lost for too long in the joy of having had it.
Some small C compiler information:
- cproc doesn't have a preprocessor
- chibicc takes only c files as parameters
- tcc (tinycc) can compile libsheepy programs (C11) but they crash on execution and debug symbols (dwarf and stabs) are incorrectly generated so they can't be debug in GDB
It would be good if tcc could compile sheepy programs because it compiles 10 times faster than gcc.
Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
- Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.
- Rule 2. Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
- Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)
- Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.
- Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force.". Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart objects".
https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
I love home made bread, even if it's out of a bread machine. Just pure ingredients.
Smelling it bake, and then eating a warm buttered slice, is so satisfying.
I also set up a gopherhole on my server. There's not much to see on it for now and I'm still not sure what to put on it. But as a smolnet enthusiast it's a good supplement to my online home.
If you have any comments or suggestions drop me a line.
I set my local timezone to Madrid to test some timezone code I was working on last night. Unsurprisingly I totally forgot, and I've only just realised! Massive win. I just got a whole hour of my day back!
Spent my Saturday evening coding a little static web app in vanilla JS with no build tools whatsoever. It's so nice having such a simple workflow, rolling everything myself, and having a lightning fast feedback cycle. That's exactly what "the zone" is made of. ⚡️
Finger me! 👈
finally beat the 29 and 32 year olds at racquetball today. we play weekly and this was the first time in a couple of months. I was double their combined score.
it's a good feeling.
So BBC removed the RSS feeds and now I remove my BBC pages.
Old geocities webpages
https://geocities.restorativland.org/
I created a user certificate registration script in python that detects if a user is in the database and if not, asks to register. when they select a cert, it writes it to the sqlite db, refreshes the page, and says thanks.
It was a bit more python code than I thought it would be, for a seemingly simple task.
Language learning is dangerous. I’ve just nearly fallen off a treadmill while trying to check a conjugation in Spanish. Ironically it was the verb “morir”.
This ship has sailed for me but it's nice to see someone turning a leaf and really enjoying life and work.
Martin's /now/ update for January.
I have an almost 6 year old planet computer gemini. The battery is now dead, it shows 100% and it turns itself off. It is still ok to use it when it is plugged in.
Here's the latest vlog of my trip to the Dominican Republic with some 2023 reflections + 2024 plans: https://youtu.be/VGUgoV-Cro0
running a fever. bleh. not covid, at least not yet.
I use yt-dlp to download and save videos. I watch them offline.
http 0.9 is simple.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/http_0.9.gmi
looks like DSN Antenna broke after the system upgrade. I think it's Python 3.12 breaking things with pip and installing system wide. will investigate later.
If anything makes me want to buy a new MacBook, it's definitely editing 60fps/4k video. On the other hand, with it being minus wtf today, there are certain advantages to my CPU being on fire the entire day.
I created a min viable product for @bacardi55's gemini-mention RFC in python. I'll clean it up and post the code.
I modified the gemlog.sh script to generate an atom feed with web links to the gemlog entries besides the one with gemini links. My gemlog can now be read with a normal rss reader without gemini support.
started messing around with regexes again today. I forgot how finicky they are.
Hey, I have a little /now update: https://martinrue.com/now
Today someone allowed me to ride a powerful buggy around a muddy mountaintop. It's a miracle I'm still alive. Nice try, Darwin.
Shower thoughts but from aimlessly wandering up and down Caribbean beaches.
Today's: it's not about doing the thing, it's about doing the thing often enough that your results can accrue. It's about knowing how you'll stay consistent.
Consistency: https://martinrue.com/consistency
I was putting it off, but I successfully upgraded my system's server to the newest supported Ubuntu. Now I'm just getting all the services back up and running
How to Build a Small Solar Power System: an in-depth article that goes into all the details and nuances of running devices and small appliances off solar panels. Well worth the read if you want to DIY your own solar solutions. #solar #maker #diy
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/
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I've never stumbled across a bird that has died, apparently, from natural causes. where do the dead birds go? do wild animals eat them? what about in cities?
New birds spotted around my house: two Spotted thick-knee that laid eggs, and a Greater striped swallow. #birding #photo
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I enjoyed reading this, a lot! Actually the whole issue is an awesome read, check it out! #ai #chatbot #humour #future #dating
Emotional Intelligence Amplification
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/03/emotional-intelligence-amplification
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As a language learner, there's nothing better than being in a place where 1) speaking the local language is unusual, and 2) locals are delighted that you're trying and help you.
This is a Commodore64 demo with graphics which nobody had imagined years ago. Happy New Years for everyone!
I wish 2024 will be a more active one for Gemini tinylog.
I also wish the best for Gopher in 2024. If you've been wondering about my inactivity on Gemini, it's because I recently completed a three-month marathon of daily phlogging on Gopher.
Best wishes to #Finger protocol users in 2024:
```
$ finger szczezuja@szczezuja.space
```
It will also operate this year.
In 2024, it's the first year when Google withdrew support for Usenet in its products. Nevertheless, I hope Usenet remains as active as it was in the past year. Best wishes to Eternal-September.org.
Happy New Year. 2024, the year of ____ ?
I started spinning up a spartan:// server last night, because, why not? I'll eventually be using spsrv since it seems more than a toy project. The interesting part was that the best list of spartan software I could find was in spartan itself, so it's a good thing Lagrange supports the protocol out of the box.
There is web to gemini proxy looking like Netscape 2.0:
https://www.obsessivefacts.com/gemini-proxy
I have corrected the /member/ script to manage pollux.casa members capsules
Favourite word of 2023: aibohphobia – an irrational fear of palindromes. As cruel as the "s" in lisp. Hit me with yours.
Had an annoying workflow in Yakk. Considered writing a little Go tool to help, but a couple of lines of bash later and it's fully automated. Bash still delivering in 2023.
I'm testing out a comment system on two of my more recent gemlogs: gemlikes. I tried nimlike but couldn't get it to work.
let's see if I regret my decision and end up removing it.
Finally watched the Barbie movie last night. I'm not sure what to think of it. It was good overall.
I had some breakfast food that was so tasteless I thought I might have COVID.
Merry Christmas from the UK to those who celebrate. Hope everyone is taking some time to rest and recharge regardless. 🎄
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## Fri 15 Dec 2023 18:19 UTC ### author: martin Who remembers the first place 64k demo winner Heaven 7? I think I still have "heaven7.exe" on a drive somewhere. Somehow it just came back onto my radar. It's still impressive now, but to think it was released in 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqpD3Mg9hY => gemini://station.martinrue.com/martin/b10795630042461e8c5e8c0b83be2e45 · 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs ## Fri 15 Dec 2023 13:07 UTC ### author: martin It's Esperanto day! Here's a little post about why I think it's cool (and useful) https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18 => gemini://station.martinrue.com/martin/587469bfacc343dea0892d8f36725a3b · 3 Replies · 2 Thumbs ## Wed 13 Dec 2023 22:30 +0200 ### author: 🐑 @remy
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- Space Invaders
- Manic Miner
- Jetpac
- Berzerk
- This post breaks tinylog (it adds a space character before the last ```)
An underrated kid's movie that's also for adults:
Ron's Gone Wrong
I've watched it at least 3 times without my kids.
Random observation: I've seen far more women coding in the various Brooklyn coffee shops I've been working from this week. 👏
Hello from 37001ft above the ocean. I'm on a flight to NYC and wanted to see if I could make it to Gemini :)
played racquetball today after not playing for two weeks. pitiful games on my part against two other players: 3, 6, and 2 points across three games. they are ten years younger than me but I was holding my own before I took a break. I'll just mark it up to a bad day.
need to start running more.
Today I'm launching my new business called Nextcloud Hosting. It is for those looking to move their private data away from Big Tech and onto their own server, as well as those who have sensitive customer data or PII that needs to be kept within country borders for POPI-compliance. It's a great open source alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, etc. at an affordable price. Perfect for families (shared grocery lists, calendars, photos), companies (HR data, employee webmail/chat/file sharing, customer data) and other organizations like schools or NGOs.
Nextcloud Hosting
https://nextcloudhosting.co.za/
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"As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
"I don't. I make sure we don't."
https://www.ntietz.com/blog/forefront-of-innovation
I wrote a little post about my top 5 good-energy feelings doing the work I do.
1: When you fix a hard bug
2: When you find your voice in writing
3: When you break through creative resistance
4: When you receive good feedback
5: When you see traction
https://martinrue.com/creativity-top-5
I'm very curious to hear others' additions. This is definitely not an exhaustive list. 🙏
“People respect you more when you’re chasing something than when you have it.”
What are you chasing?
We had a barbecue outside today near a lake. It was sunny and -2 degrees, the bag of coal was just enough for 6 chicken sticks, the coal burns faster in this kind of weather. Next time I will make a bigger fire.
spent the afternoon removing wallpaper.
it's quite satisfying when a huge piece rips off, kind of like that feeling you get from popping bubble wrap. #oddlysatisfying
Happy capitalism day
Black Friday: The perfect opportunity, whether you like it or not, to discover who has your email address.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google ASNs and other clouds
- AS14618 Amazon.com Inc 69,684,224 ipv4
- AS16509 Amazon.com Inc 45,181,952 ipv4
- AS8987 Amazon Data Services Ireland Ltd 815,872 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as14618
https://www.ip2location.com/as16509
https://www.ip2location.com/as8987
- AS8075 Microsoft Corporation 51,657,216 ipv4
- AS3598 Microsoft Corporation 4,450,816 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as8075
https://www.ip2location.com/as3598
- AS19527 Google LLC 1,661,696 ipv4
- AS16591 Google Fiber Inc 2,244,608 ipv4
- AS396982 Google LLC 14,545,664 ipv4
- AS15169 Google LLC 2,251,776 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as19527
https://www.ip2location.com/as16591
https://www.ip2location.com/as396982
https://www.ip2location.com/as15169
- AS16276 OVH SAS 4,464,128 ipv4
- AS35540 OVH SAS 131,072 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as16276
https://www.ip2location.com/as35540
- AS14061 DigitalOcean LLC 3,083,776 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as14061
- AS31898 Oracle Corporation 2,786,816 ipv4
- AS43894 Oracle Svenska AB 210,432 ipv4
- AS4192 Oracle Corporation 193,536 ipv4
- AS14506 Oracle Corporation 172,032 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as31898
https://www.ip2location.com/as43894
https://www.ip2location.com/as4192
https://www.ip2location.com/as14506
- AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH 2,664,448 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as24940
- AS29447 Scaleway S.A.S 1,507,328 ipv4
- AS12876 Scaleway S.A.S 564,991 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as29447
https://www.ip2location.com/as12876
- AS55990 HWCSNET Huawei Cloud Service data center 938,240 ipv4
https://www.ip2location.com/as55990
Copy the network list to a text file and create an ipset and iptables rules.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2023-11-22-using-iptables.gmi
The real question among all the recent news is "which filing cabinet at OpenAI contains the USB stick labelled 'AGI code'?" Silicon Valley nailed it.
It's my last day at my job today. Some exciting changes for me coming up. Wrote about it here: https://martinrue.com/carving-my-own-path
My history of side-projects is not great, I stop working on them within a couple of months almost all of the time. https://yums.email/ is the one that I have kept with, and still have the same passion for, as I did in the beginning. I'm going to see this one through.
Cool to see @marginalia on HN number one spot repping Gemini (a little). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276951
prediction: Taylor and Travis have 2 kids, and go through a messy divorce in 5-8 years. Travis' career will be over, Taylor will write an album or two about him and make millions. All will be right in the world again.
That's the last you'll ever see me write about this topic.
This is not a photo of an old CRT screen, it's cool-retro-term! It's such a convincing emulation of a CRT display, after a few days of using it, I'm amazed at how good modern LCDs are! I also enjoy how the retro look takes me back to the 90s and makes me enjoy text-based programs a whole lot more. #nostalgia #retro #terminal
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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I have a bit of good news to share, but for once I'm sitting on it, telling nobody, and enjoying the presence of it. I never let things truly sink in, so I'm trying something new.
As the weather is getting a bit colder now, don't forget that laptops easily double up as portable radiators. Just fire off enough background "yes > /dev/null &" processes until your legs are nice and toasty, then "killall yes". You're welcome.
Speaking of vlogs: I just uploaded another! Here's what I got up to in Valencia and Barcelona last week: https://youtu.be/A-2fu2JAhMw
Downside of going from 1080p to 4k in my vlogs: now I desperately want a better laptop. Upside: I'm a bit warmer.
I sometimes go to a fast food chain restaurant near my work for lunch. out of curiosity I looked up their nutritional information. big mistake - sodium content for even the most basic items was crazy. I may never eat here again. currently chugging water.
2023 is 84% complete. Who feels like they achieved their goal(s) so far this year?
Table grapes that I can't eat in one bite are freaks of nature.
Last night I was at Barcelona's monthly Esperanto social event (in a bar) and a 10 year old boy came along with his Mum. He'd started learning on Duo a few months back and could already speak well enough to us to tell us about himself and how he discovered Esperanto. Really cool.
I had dinner with my friend and her Mum last night. Her Mum (80) speaks only Spanish and my friend and I only have Esperanto in common. It was amazing. Absolute chaos... y creo que mi español mejoró al menos un poquito por eso!
I hope everyone's having a great start to the week. I've taken a little break to hang out in Barcelona and make some progress on some personal projects. What's everyone else up to?
Визуализирующая разницу в высоте между LEC HAM VER на Гран-при США по итогам обоих дисквалифицировали.
New vlog! This was a fun one to make. Hugely impressed with the quality of the video captured by the DJI Mini 4. https://youtu.be/QK4wTZM0-24?si=e_93-d3GWscSQkmX
My iphone battery lasts 2 days and before iOS 16 it was last 4 days, so I started change settings to save power.
The system (software updates, Apple ID,...) uses most of the data, since yesterday my iPhone transfered 34.9MB (using it less than 5mn), the system transfered 26.1MB and my apps the rest of it.
- Setting power save mode doesn't change how long the battery lasts
- Turning off mobile internet and wifi doesn't change how long the battery lasts
- Turning off GPS doesn't change how long the battery lasts
The SoC is idle and only bluetooth is on. Maybe the battery loses power just by itself, according to the phone the battery is at 85% original capacity.
Neal.fun - a bunch of absolutely delightful interactive apps. Be sure to check out Space Elevator!
Neal.fun
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Mechanical Watch - an incredible interactive blog post detailing the mechanisms and workings of a mechanical pocket watch. Simply mind-blowing.
Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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Немного подредактировал внешний вид.
Yearly reminder that The Mummy (1932) is Dracula, but in Egypt. It's the exact story.
Photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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More photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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Podcast recommendation: The Art of Manliness. Interesting topics, awesome guests, and great production. #podcast #recommendation
AoM Podcast
https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
I found a telegram channel listing websites under DDOS:
They are DDOSing institution, transport and banking services in countries supporting Ukraine.
Something I wish I knew long ago: homemade jams are super easy to make (fruit and sugar, mostly) and are so much better tasting than the store bought stuff.
any recursive function can be reimplemented as an iterative function?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/531668
I find the explanation of "tracking your own callstack like the compiler does" mesmerizing
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack Vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44487
https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/
There is a map of DDos attacks but the data is not updated, it shows 2021-05-16.
https://www.digitalattackmap.com
This is what happens when you have too much free time. Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto: https://martinrue.com/esperanto-writing-systems
It seems like every house in the suburbs around here was built in 1950 or newer. I know there was a baby boom but did all the older houses just get demolished?
Also it seems like new housing developments are going up all the time yet COVID curbed population growth. Are we building just for building? I assume not since these homes are being bought.
I feel like humans have paused their own natural evolution due to modern medicine and will replace it with self-defined "upgrades"
Today's shower thought: creativity is a muscle https://martinrue.com/creativity-muscle
Foundations are a Solution to an Imaginary Problem
I looked at a box of diapers for my kid. it says "up to 100%" leakproof.
What relief I didn't buy the ones that topped out at 70%.
I think highways should be called fastways instead.
Or maybe trafficways.
Or roadconstructionways.
good to see regular users of DSN Antenna. much thanks to @Idiomdrottning for also posting there.
spread the word if you think other folks would be interested.
took some time off from work to work on the house. been doing some electrical - replacing old lights and switches. it's nice not being in front of a screen all day.
bought six new fish for the aquarium last weekend. two are just simply missing. I have no idea where they are. I have a cap so they didn't jump.
Watching Scooby Doo.
I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
I make my own popcorn on the stove with peanut oil. I wonder how many other people do this. my dad showed me and it was a staple of ours growing up.
Small talk is the worst.
"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
I saw a place of worship that housed 3 different religions. it got me wondering... how does this work? I guess the place /really/ doesn't matter all that much.
So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
Let's try positivity this week.
45 days until Halloween, lfg.
I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
I actually liked The Craft: Legacy quite a bit.
In recent years I think that The Craft has been my favorite halloween movie.
I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
I created Patate, an ascii art editor for the terminal (linux) using the latest unicode 15.
Available at:
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/patate/
This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
Here is a mandelbrot fractal viewer for the terminal
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/mandelbrot.gmi
I just found out that wikitionary offers full database dumps in json format. time to update my dictionary with more words.
Been watching Invasion on Apple. pretty engrossing show. There are some areas of the plot that I don't agree with but overall I like it.
Iced tea is the best. Never was able to get into hot tea.
Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
Sweaters are great.
There's nothing wrong with making quick drastic decisions on a repo when it's your own personal project. But when there's a community, and you openly solicit contributions, you owe it to contributors to give them a heads up and a chance to voice their opinions.
Whether you are a BDFL or not. It's not about whether you can or have a right to make a decision, it's about being a *considerate human being*.
Here is something I am working on: a solar powered UPS for routers (for my friends). Uses original router power adapter as 'pass-thru' while falling back to LiFePO4 battery during loadshedding. #solar #diy #ups
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
words I learned from yesterday's spellbinding:
ABACA ABBE ABELE CABALA CABBALA CABBALAH HEBE LABLAB LEACHABLE
I've never heard of hebe, which is apparently a derogatory name against Jews.
cabala and cabbala are variants of each other meaning
abbe is French and has an accent on the e, making me wonder if this should even be in spellbinding.
I’ve got my librem 5 phone today. I ordered it on the 2021-07-08. I used it for 5 minutes and on startup it asks for disk encryption key and unlock code, it is both 123456.
The password for the purism user is also 123456.
The default interface of Pureos (debian based) is good, it runs Gnome and Wayland.
Source code:
https://source.puri.sm/explore/
https://source.puri.sm/explore/snippets
Forum:
My capsule Setup HOWTO is finally finished v1 and is linked on the official Gemini FAQ (section 2.5.4)
Ship faster.
Here's an old gemlog I came across today on discogem. I, too, went with a dumb phone for a while but it was years back. I wish I could do it again without my partner being really upset with me, mostly because we have a family and need that connection.
gemini://caolan.uk/desk/2021-02-04_re_the_dumbphone_experience.gmi
Greg KH: Kernel Recipes 2019 - CVEs are dead, long live the CVE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeoTE9jLjM
I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
If having a coffee in the morning isn't working for you, take 2 weeks of leave and then check your email.
I recently spent a few days in Venice (in the cool neighbourhoods). Here's what I got up to. Spoiler: it's mostly me being lost and tortured by mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/_caD0XnBNfI
Wordle 791 6/6*
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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
22,700 steps today. might be a personal record. treadmill, volleyball, racquetball.
I tried to capture some difficult thoughts: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters
The older I get the more I love Halloween.
Interesting capsule of the week from #discogem
where I live we have mass transit but also a lot of people have cars because mass transit isn't everywhere. I have an electric car but I know trains are best for moving folks.
well, today I have an occasion for an hour long rail trip, avoiding traffic and congestion of the roads that run alongside the rail line. it's nice to just sit instead of being alert and aware in the driver's seat.
although I left my book at home...
Someone connected to my radio station (see below).
I'm not alone :)
I wanted to find out what the minimum hardware for running a reasonably good Large Language Model at home would be, so I bought a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q with AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE CPU. It's a 2018-era machine costing only around $200. With no upgrades, I was able to run llama.cpp in CPU-only mode on the smallest Llama 2 7b model (q2_K) generating 5.2 tokens/sec! Very impressive! I can also run Vicuna 13b (q4_1) at over 2 tokens/sec after upgrading the RAM to 16Gb. All this while consuming around 40W of power. One trick I had to employ is to use "LLAMA_AVX2=1 make" to compile, as it doesn't detect AVX2 by default. Anwyay, I love this ThinkCentre machine, it is amazing bang-for-buck and will be my main dev machine for the forseeable future. #llm #thinkcenter #llamacpp
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Real world onion sites
https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites
Do something different.
I wonder if 2FA / totp could theoretically be used on Gemini for logins...
I updated my gemroll list with new resources on gemini and added a HOWTO for creating your own capsule
kids toys have to be some of the biggest wastes of unrecyclable plastic. they break in a month or two and go straight to the landfill. how is something made of such thick plastic so fragile?
Figuring out Matrix Chat. To make my life harder, I'm of course using the TUI client "gomuks". The whole encryption thing seems a little bit complicated and the version packaged with FreeBSD (0.3.0_6) is a little bit buggy.
https://maunium.net/go/gomuks/
I already found my way to the #geminiprotocol:matrix.org room. A lot of people hanging out there. On the same time it seems a low frequency room - I like that!
Venice is such a unique city.
🚙 No cars.
🏍️ No motorbikes.
🚲 No bicycles.
Everything is a boat.
🛥️ Bus? Vaporetti.
🚤 Taxi? Also a boat.
🚣 Moving house? Do it on a boat.
⛴️ Dump truck? It's a boat.
🚓 Have cool boats!
It's rather nice not seeing a single car.
I have an idea for a game for Gemini, I just need time to write it...
Okay, I'm off to live with with 220 Esperanto speakers from 52 different countries for a week. Give me another language where I can do that – where everyone experiences the language equally and fairly – and I'll give up Esperanto¹ :)
¹ This is a lie as I have way too many t-shirts.
Black beans & rice is extremely underrated.
Productivity hack: there's no hack. It's hard. Confront it. Take responsibility. Make time. Get started any way you can. Stick with it, even while it feels uncomfortable (creative resistance). Don't expect it to always feel good/happy. Stay focused. Don't quit.
"Brian, do you have an unpopular opinion?"
"Besides cooking salmon in a dishwasher?"
It's quality content only on the GoTime podcast!
I’m in Venice and it’s hot. Charming. But hot. Carrying my life in a backpack probably isn’t helping though.
poking around on Gopher again. Started digging through the random archives that is Quux and found a fun Usenet archive about movies. Dated from 1982, they were speculating on whether Spock dies in Star Trek II
I've seen 3 episodes of Secret Invasion and I have no idea what's going on.
🎥 I made a new video! It’s about making time for your projects and goals, and contains a little preview of what I’ve been working on recently. https://youtu.be/EwE3RkJOFV4
Here is the radio program, it is a chat system using UDP on port 1886 to transmit the message.
The messages are encrypted, each time radio is turned on, new secret/public key pairs are generated and exchanged with the server (radio station).
If you are behind NAT, you should forward port 1886 to the machine running radio, without this you won't get any signal from the radio station.
The UI is in the terminal and works with the mouse like a GUI.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
http://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
To start radio, run:
```
wget http://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
gunzip radio.gz
chmod 755 radio
./radio
```
Screenshots:
txt screenshot (download the txt file and use `cat` to view it)
The source code is available at:
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/radio.tar.gz
It is written in C, it depends on:
my sheepy build system and library
The main file is `radio.c`, `radioStation.c` is the server and `radioSignal.*` implements the protocol.
The `twid` (terminal widgets) is the TUI built on my version of termbox.
I was reading about the gas stove ban in the US and was thinking "what if a law maker says all new homes had to have bidets in order to reduce paper waste"
Perfect topic for an online troll.
I wonder if anyone has submitted someone else's gemlog to antenna.
For the people who still thought that "Web Environment Integrity" is just a proposal and still not officially approved, WEI has already found its way into Chromium:
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
Thanks to @szczezuja for pointing out that I forgot the link to my version of #Antenna, DSN Antenna, on my gemlog. I'll fix that in a bit. If you haven't seen, I made a version of Antenna for non-tech related gemlogs. Currently the best way to contribute is to have separate tech and non-tech gemlogs.
Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna
Make the web great again
https://koshka.love/mwwwga.html
I had a shower thought and now it's a blog post: https://martinrue.com/doing-your-best
What do we want?
Now!
When do we want it?
Race conditions!
I like this story over on cosmic voyage (gopher)
Today is the "Internacia Tago de Esperanto" (Esperanto Day). The "Unua Libro" (first book), which introduced the language and its grammar, was published 136 years ago today.
For anyone curious about why I like Esperanto so much, I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsHxQcZbQU
wordle keeps adding more and more self-advertising BS. instead of a small "hey play our other games, there's now a 1/3 screen banner that tells me I can download their app.
If they start charging I'm out. if they add a ton of ads, I'm out. I'm just waiting for the day it's less about the game and more clicks.
You know how normally when you do a redesign / rebranding you do it all at once and don't just throw up a new logo on the old design? Thinking about that today for no real reason.
Shoutout to @eph for the amount of exrta glyphs I've installed in Lagrange so far due to your language pursuits :)
Productivity hacks.
1: Never waste 20 minutes doing something by hand that you can fail to automate in 8 hours.
2: Never waste 20 minutes solving a known problem when you can spend 2 weeks finding the general version of it, failing to abstract it, and burdening everyone else.
I dislike buying new shoes. there's a million options and I rarely like any. and they're expensive.
Am currently ready 4 books at the same time. But it's a week or more between picking up any one of them. Which is challenging...
Why not build an email client for a very specific use-case? Like for example, let's say you know your users receive emails from a specific mailing list. You could build a client that organizes the messages that best serves what that list is for.
Sad to hear Mitnick has passed. A hero of curiosity and intellectual pursuit that defined an era. FREE KEVIN.
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 2.
---
If you want to hear my ICMP joke, ping me.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD.
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD who?
I'll tell you at a random point in the future.
I had a bunch of HTTP 301 jokes but I've not been able to find them for a long time.
There's a funny story about RFC1918, but it's a bit of an insider joke.
The hardest kind of joke to tell is an NTP joke – it's all about timing.
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Okay, FIN. I couldn't come up with a good DNS joke though, so whois going to give us one?
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 1. If you get all of them, you're officially old. And awesome.
---
I have a joke about TCP.
Oh yeah, what is it?
Want to hear it?
Yes.
Okay I'll tell it.
I'll hear it.
I've now begun telling it.
I've begun listening.
Three UDP packets walk into a bar.
First: I'll have a whisky
Third: Vodka for me.
Second: Just water.
Bartender: What you lads having?
If you don't get that last UDP joke, nobody cares.
My best joke is about token ring, but I can't tell you that one as it's not my turn.
The sheep was too close to the camera.
The next time you forget a word for something, say “Ah, what’s the word for that in English again?” People will assume you’re bilingual instead of stupid.
Couldn't find anything to watch so we put on White House Down from 2013. What a laughably terrible movie. watched the whole thing because it was at least action packed...and just really really Hollywood.
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says “You’re in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?”
The horse replies “I don’t think I am”, and immediately vanishes from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes’s philosophical first principle, commonly known as “I think, therefore I am”, but to explain that part first would be putting Descartes before the horse.
Stop saying "mental model" all of the time.
Got my home charger installed this week for my new electric car. I have less"range anxiety" now and don't have to pay at overpriced charging stations. I love that it's a quiet and smooth ride.
Crazy weekend. had our daughter's birthday at our home, with lots of people. spent the entire next day doing basically nothing. nice change of pace but I like my old routine.
played racquetball tonight with two others. won one, lost the others. drenched in sweat. felt great.
I've unfortunately come to learn that if you're going to build something around email you pretty much have to just use AWS. Setting up postfix isn't that bad. It's once you find out that to reach Gmail you have to implement dozens of anti-spam measures only to learn that reverse cname (PTR record) is not supported by most hosts these days.
AWS SES took me like 30 minutes.
The EU is going to water down the GDPR.
1100 folk on Station as of today! I’m pleased people are still finding Station useful in an ever growing Gemini world. Very happy to keep the lights on while people still find value in this community. 👏
I had a dream in Esperanto last night. It still feels surreal when that happens. Ege mojose ankoraŭ, tamen.
Compiling spartclient in alpine:
```
apk add gcc
apk add musl-dev
gcc spartclientudp.c -o spartclientudp
```
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/spartclientudp.c
Added anonymous feedback today to a few of my gemlogs. All future entries will have it. I got the idea from @morgan and Bubble. I hand craft my capsule so this is one of those times I wish I used a SSG with templates so I don't have to retro-fit my gemlogs.
Virt manager: Error starting domain Requested operation is not valid network default is not active
Run:
```
sudo virsh net-start default
```
Here's a Threads-inspired coding joke for you this glorious Friday. If you know, you know.
Knock knock.
Race condition.
Who's there?
Tired of the rain.
This is another test.
This is a test.
So far so good.
Giving Threads a chance.
My magnum opus:
https://github.com/matthewp/is-night/tree/master
Been cooking a lot recently. Tonight, huevos rancheros.
Automating sending articles to Kindle with forlater.email
gemini://space.matthewphillips.info/posts/automated-for-later/
I've been gradually making my way though PG's latest essay "How to Do Great Work". Very motivating, and full of great points. Here's some I noted.
Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
Notes: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/1db57ae5d5b37d8b92ae23566dd100f6/raw/637301496c089620a3df535fee330deeae003b7d/great-work.txt
Announcement: you can view as many posts here per day as you damn well please.
“Nobody supposes that the knowledge that belongs to the good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book.”
Cool to see a LangFocus video about Esperanto, which does a typically stellar job of breaking down the language and explaining why it exists and why it's cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6FCzqAiwI
A cool "read it later" like service that works by sending you an email:
Having talked with a lot of people who believe client-side routing is *always* the right thing, I'm pretty sure it comes down to simply disliking the flicker of white that occurs with MPA nav. You'll hear a lot of reasons given but it really boils down to an aesthetic preference.
Which is totally fine. Technology choices are often (I'd argue *usually*) made based on aesthetics. I'm glad that view transitions are coming and fix this preference without forcing the downsides that come with a pure CSR approach.
Finally tried out rsync to create and push a gemlog to my capsule. I have a quick script to help me now.
Puppy Linux is a bit odd in that you use root as your login and then there are a couple of users just for when root is a bad idea.
Aaaand it's out! Here's the next episode of the podcast with Siru Laine. What a great conversation about languages, language-learning, translation, and tons more. Enjoy!
Kaj finfine nun haveblas la 4a epizodo de la podkasto. En tiu ĉi, mi estas kun la kara Siru Laine kaj babilas pri ĉio de lingvoj kaj lingvo-lernado al tradukado, kiom mojose estus havi etan kafejon en Skotlando, kaj kompreneble pri Eŭrovizio (kion vi atendis‽) Ĝuu!
La mp3-dosiero: https://hazardaj.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/umado-kun-martin-e04.mp3
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1YjRzCkReWSs2v06xOLpx8?si=58a9e99a9fa646e4
Aliaj apoj: serĉu "Umado Kun Martin"
How to generate a qrcode in utf8 to be displayed in the terminal?
```
qrencode -t utf8 "text"
```
My personal laptop (Macbook) crashed hard so now I'm installing Puppy Linux on another. I choose the distro for the name.
recently got promoted. now I step further into management. there's no going back.
I'm using gneto. Gneto is a personal HTTP proxy for the Gemini protocol.
I use gneto because I have an iPad 2 and there is no gemini client.
The source code is available at:
There are pre-build binaries at:
https://paulgorman.org/software/gneto/
Start the proxy like this (default port is 8065):
```
./gneto -addr 192.168.1.1
```
On the web browser, enter the address:
```
http://192.168.1.1:8065/
```
and start browsing gemini pages.
This seems cool.
It seems Red Hat (IBM) goes after Alma Linux and Rocky Linux with a new decision to restrict access to the RHEL sources - which makes it difficult for Alma and Rocky to keep up with their binary compatible distros. Like they killed CentOS which was the most used OS on internet servers. Alma and Rocky told users not to "panic" because they are certain to resolve the issues, but we'll see what impact this has on RHEL clones this time.
https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-restricts-access-to-its-source-code/
How to build dukling-proxy:
```
sudo apt-get install golang
git clone https://github.com/LukeEmmet/duckling-proxy
cd duckling-proxy
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out duckling.crt -days 10000 -keyout duckling.key -subj "/CN=duckling.proxy" -newkey rsa:4096
make
```
I run duckling like this:
```
~/bin/duckling --serverCert ~/bin/duckling.crt --serverKey ~/bin/duckling.key --port 1966 --address 192.168.1.1 --emitImagesAsLinks
```
With emitImagesAsLinks, the images are viewable in lagrange.
Haven't made an update to my gemini site in a while. It's hard to think about some topic to write about. I recently have digged a little into Nix and NixOS but I think this is a huge topic to cover if I want to write about it. I also finally found my way to bbs.geminispace.org. I am sceptical if I'll use bubble in the long turn. On the other hand it's a lot of fun :)
In designing stuff I use diagram software all of the time. Like, all of the time. I didn't used to do so. But especially when collaborating, it helps explain ideas so much better than either code or prose.
Murder She Wrote holds up so well.
This evening I recorded a new episode of my Esperanto podcast after a little break. This one was super fun, and all about language learning from someone who really knows what she's talking about (she speaks 15). Looking forward to releasing this one soon. 👏
I've never had a taco and felt regret.
Mastodon and the fediverse is unnecessarily complex. I like the culture but hate the tech. All you really need for distributed social media is RSS or similar.
It's cool how in Go when you're just prototyping you can loosely use panic() a lot and then when you're happy with the code, go back and add proper error handling.
Anyone else following this Titan story? Crazy! I hope they're found alive, but that's looking very slim. Insane to imagine yourself in the same position in terms of how you'd behave, what you'd do.
Bought an electric car yesterday. I know batteries can harm the environment too but my opinion is that batteries are easier to deal with than getting CO back out of the atmosphere. I also like the car, so that helps. And to hell with paying for gasoline and oil.
The thing about getting upset at someone is that they also get upset with you. I have the opposite of anger issues but sometimes I feel like I can never be angry, never be upset at anything. I just have to take deep breaths and look at it with a different view, consider their side, and see if I'm unreasonable. Sometimes I don't want to do all that, I just want to be upset because I never am.
My favorite arcade games:
https://matthewp.lists.sh/favorite-arcade-games
In today's episode of Random Uses of ChatGPT: asking it to go from IPA to an approximation of a phonetic spelling in a given accent. Not bad results!
PS: if you're about to ask me "why‽", don't – I'll just make you dumber and you'll never get the time back.
Re: I just want to play fucking Call of Duty on my day off
this had me in stitches. thanks for the lol.
Happy Father's Day for all the fathers out there, and for those that celebrate it.
Here's my first list, books I've currently reading. Also works really well for recipes.
https://matthewp.lists.sh/what-im-reading
I discovered this really cool service that is a simple microblogging service for lists. Upload a list as a text file and have a dedicated URL for it.
It works by SSH, so no login required. Very interesting concept that I'd love to see more of.
The advantage of building more slowly but with a big focus on keeping it simple is that I’m returning to some code without any doubts or desire to change it to keep up with some trend or major version release of a framework. Good feeling.
Use plaintext email.
I've used name.com forever. It is secretly bad and I didn't know about it? Never hear it being discussed.
I was at a creative networking event last night for the first time in ages. I forgot how good it is meeting and chatting to new people and finding out about their lives, goals and challenges. Need to do more of that!
I get a warning on FreeBSD when I compile a C file which include a precompiled header.
```
sorry, unimplemented: PCH allocation failure
```
I use gcc:
gcc version 12.2.0 (FreeBSD Ports Collection)
It doesn't compile successfully, lots of symbols are not found.
When I delete the precompiled headers, it is ok.
🎬 New video, complete with guest appearance by a PB!
This one's about what I get from the gym and why it has been part of my life for the last 10+ years. I had to eat especially for this one, but it was worth it. 👏
https://youtu.be/Nf_4mABFh9w
strlcpy is in glibc!
commit 454a20c8756c9c1d55419153255fc7692b3d2199
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jun 14 18:10:08 2023 +0200
Implement strlcpy and strlcat [BZ #178]
These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.
The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
All new projects of mine will be in sr.ht going forward.
I created a spartan TUI browser for terminals in linux.
bato.gz (gziped elf executable)
bato displaying a markdown file
Use gemget to download bato:
```
gemget gemini://gmi.noulin.net/bato.gz
or
wget http://gmi.noulin.net/bato.gz (works from networks not infested by botnets)
```
It can display gemtext and markdown (.gmi and .md) on remote servers and in local paths.
(it is an alpha version, not tested, I have only time to correct bugs)
I've been away for the last week. Excited to be back home and work on some of the projects I haven't touched in a while.
Welcome back to the desk, USB fan. It was a long winter, but your services are once again required.
I found an interesting article about GNUnet GNS (distributed DNS)
gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2023/06-11-introduction-to-gnunet-gns.gmi
I know that titan isn't an official spec but I think it'll help me post gemlogs and better formatted tinylogs from my phone, so I'm taking the trade off. heck I guess tinylogs aren't official either but that's ingrained now too. I'm a 98% phone user of Gemini so this will definitely help me
Some folks are in a tizzy over on #station regarding @morgan's suggestion on #bubble about user verifications on Gemini. I'm on the fence about jumping in but it's interesting to see such a strong feeling here in geminispace, to the point of using expletives. On the one hand I see @skyjake's point about impersonations but on the other it is more centralization and tracking across sites. I see both sides, but it definitely is going away from the original essence of Gemini. I think our Benevolent Dictator For Life, @solderpunk could jump in and clear things up before other people start making decisions around here.
The phrase "can't swing a dead cat without hitting xxx" has always struck me as odd
East Coast of the U.S. is getting a preview of the future if we don't switch off fossil fuels.
creating per-site certificate entries for Amfora is frustratingly manual when I'm so used to automated in-app options.
Daft Punk likes the Apple Vision Pro.
split my tooth in half playing racquetball last night. No blood and not a lot of pain so I didn't qualify for emergency dental work. appointment today in a little bit. I got too close to the person I was playing in order to throw them off, but ended up taking the back swing to the mouth. spat out the tooth and promptly ended the game.
Long time no see, huh. I'm in middle of something big. Stay tuned!
Configuration of the email to tinylog tools:
- getmail to download the email
Create the file ~/.config/getmail/getmailrc, with this content:
```
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = example.com
username = user@example.com
password = !@#$@#$
[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/mail/
[options]
read_all = False
```
- ripmime options
```
ripmime -i ~/mail/emailFile -d ~/emailParts
```
The email parts are written to the ~/emailParts directory.
- imagemagick options
```
convert sourceImage.jpg -auto-orient destinationImage.jpg
```
This rotates the photo 90 degrees when it is taken vertically.
- exiftool options
```
exiftool -EXIF= image.jpg
rm image.jpg_original
```
This removes the exif data: location, time,...
When I feel like I need to escape my current reality for a bit, switching language really helps hit that spot. Anyone else experience that? 📚
with the creation of Bubble, I'm wondering about two things: 1) when Station will cease to get at least one post per day and 2) when the community will press forward without @solderpunk on Gemini spec expansions. Browser writers have a lot of sway on what new and unofficial spec enhancements make it into common use, and with all the specification talk on Bubble these days, I feel like it's inevitable. prediction: an unofficial specification group is formed.
We take the bus boat today 🛥️.
I found an arcade machine in my hotel.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/tinylog/4/image.jpg
Feeling great after a perfect weekend of enjoying the beautiful weather with the best company, lots of cycling, sticking to the gym routine and many hours with the compiler. Hope you all had a similarly refreshing weekend. 🙌
I don't understand fighting in ice hockey
I wish Ted Lasso had to work with a truly difficult person that wasn't won over with Midwest charm.
Finished Ted Lasso. one of the best shows I've ever seen. Glad they stuck to the original 3 season plan. Bravo.
Now for a spinoff since they need to ride that gravy train.
I dislike open wifi hotspots to that block vpn.
Chart of the Week: Housing marker risk indicators (IMF)
There is a higher risk in: Canada, Australia, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and USA.
Go is a really good language.
Feels like there's been a slight backlash against serverless (for web hosting) recently. Reminds me of when people first started questioning if GraphQL was worth it 3 or 4 years ago.
Innovation never goes backward; but you do bring back old ideas and mix them with new.
For GraphQL, a lot of people realized what they really liked about it was that it was RPC. That has survived into present.
What are those things for serverless? My guess is that it's *not* the fact that you spin up a new instance (ish) on each request.
Traveling for work next week. Not going to be checking social places for a while. Looking forward to some projects for when I get back.
My tinylog has been added to the aggregator
Is it automated?
I use a string of tools on the server to post tinylogs by email:
- getmail to download the email
- ripmime to extract mime parts for the email, I get one file per part
- imagemagick to rotate the images
- exiftool to remove the exif data
My tinylogs posted by email support photo attachments.
My first tinylog created by email.
I have a pretty exciting Gemini project in the oven at the moment. My schedule is pretty hectic for the next couple of weeks so I'm not expecting much movement, but hoping by the end of June I have something I can share.
I'm curious: among the cycle crowd, do you guys have a word for the pain of having a bicycle seat shoved up your ass for the first time after a long break? Asking for a friend.... 's ass, obvs.
@textmonger and @circadian are my two favorite gemlogs these days. it's like a frequent /daily gemlog review digest.
My wife loves the F1 show.
Interesting read of the day
I changed gmnisrv to accept control codes in queries.
Now it is possible to post tinylogs with new lines in CGI
The CGI posts have to be on one line for now.
Lets post a tinylog from CGI
I post logs from the terminal
A log with multiple lines.
I write the text with vim and then call a script to update the tinylog
Now I'm using gemget to download files from gemini site, it works like wget
https://github.com/makew0rld/gemget/
Tinylog is interesting
Hello.
I'm getting used to this vlogging thing! https://youtu.be/TDuXWAIS4cY
So I finally got around to hacking together a script that allows me to post right to my tinylog via a Gemini input. This will hopefully allow me to update this tinylog much more often from my phone.
An inspiring talk by Kartik, like a TED talk for programmers.
Using computers more freely and safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6fjjaq8JCI
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Anyone here ride a Onewheel or an EUC? I'm very tempted to buy one, but would love to hear others' experiences.
Renfield was ok.
Dogs.
Damn, the new Mortal Kombat looks good.
In about 6 hours, I'll be giving a talk about my journey to learn Esperanto through building things. The talk will not be in English though, of course. Details here, if anyone's interested: https://eventaservo.org/e/3c6a62
TGIF... long week. What's everyone upto this weekend?
Sourcehut is nicer than GitHub.
Make a Batman Beyond movie with Michael Keaton, cowards.
Just in case you need a reminder of how bad the web is (it's a joke, but not far from some real web UX), try and fill this form in as quickly as you can! 🤣 https://userinyerface.com
Yup, I'm still alive. Life doesn't let me sit down and log into my capsule as much as I'd like. In the meantime I still engage the geminiverse via Lagrange on mobile on a daily basis.
Random thought of the day: people in the geminiverse like to compare Gemini and Gopher to the old days of the web... but I definitely remember porn and illegal software all over the place but I've yet to see that here. I've seen people use the free gemini capsule hosting as file servers when I was poking around there, and maybe some sexy ascii art, but nothing like the mid-90s or what the web has become today. Let me just say that I'm NOT looking for these things, but merely had a thought that poked into my head as I read about people comparing gemini to the old web.
Does this ever work out for the person in power that pulls this kind of move (the unfortunate answer is 'yes it does')
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/americas/ecuador-president-dissolved-parliament-intl/index.html
Reached feature parity with my Python prototype on my foodbot in Go today. Might be breaking things up into too many modules. The project structure feels a bit off to me, anyway. Here's today's bit, building on my nutrition module.
https://codeberg.org/lykso/recipes
Really happy to keep finding the energy for this project. Here's episode 3 of the podcast, this one with my good friend Rico.
Mi tre ĝojas, ke mi daŭre trovas la tempon por kreskigi la podkastan projekton. Jen la tria epizodo, en kiu aperas ĉies plej ŝatata italo de Reading, Rico.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xp2ZPix04wKLRAL9UQzDe?si=7261fcc3ebf44e0d
Se vi bezonas RSS, jen: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
AWS Copilot seems useful:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/getting-started-aws-copilot-cli.html
Trying out Fargate and am having an "i don't know what I'm doing" dog moment.
It's been a while since my last /now update, so here's what I'm doing now: https://martinrue.com/now
Hello fellow capsuleers! I have a new Gemini project that may interest you:
💬 Bubble
It is a Gemini-based bulletin board system that combines elements from Station, Reddit, WordPress, and Git-adjacent issue trackers like on Gitea and GitHub.
It has some cool features like email notifications and a draft composer for making longer posts. Here's the announcement:
gemini://geminispace.org/u/skyjake/1
APIs focused on appearances (aka "winning the code snippet") will always get most of the attention. But basing your product on fashion inevitably sets you up to go out of fashion. Well-made things stand the test of time.
Pac & Pal is criminally underrated.
Don't trust any API where testing is an afterthought. If you've ever attempted to test a Node.js HTTP route you know what I mean. How many person-hours have been wasted fighting with that one.
I predict I'll make it half way through the Laravel tutorial before I decide to create my own version in Bash. I have a disease.
Just released my efforts toward making something I can use from the USDA datasets.
The resulting SQLite3 database
Decided to add a Markdown renderer to LML in order to write the README for a new project in it while still playing nice with Codeberg.
Just finished recording my next podcast episode. I'm mega busy with creative stuff lately and it feels ace. 👌
This one took a while, but my second vlog is out! https://youtu.be/-QsHxQcZbQU
I hacked together a prototype of the previously-mentioned handheld portable computer, using a Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 inch LCD touchscreen. So far it is really nice to use! I like how I can use a full desktop OS while walking around. The keyboard and trackpad allow me to use a regular OS without having to worry about touch affordances, mouse-overs, and right-clicking. There is scope to make this much more compact if using a 3d-printed enclosure. #diy #raspberrypi #handheld #portable #computer
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This DIY handheld computer build blows me away with how well it's done. I think this is my dream portable computer. Pity they don't sell anything like this, so I'm gonna try DIY'ing my own. #handheld #portable #computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdsdrqA-50
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Finally booked all my travel to this year's IJK (https://ijk2023.tejo.org) and I can't wait. I will also be spending some time in Venice again after far too long. ☀️
I have the best dry rub recipe. It's mine and no one else's.
That's a lie, I found it on the internet.
cgi-bin is serverless done right.
I posted an off-the-cuff commentary on serverless yesterday that went semi-viral. Can't express how little thought went into it. 😂 The fact that many people responded just shows how much frustration there is with serverless architecture and the hand-cuffs it puts on us all.
Editing my second vlog and realising how easy people who are good at this make it look.
Serverless: "what if we made basic things like connecting to a database as hard as fuck?"
Today is Derby day, time to pick a horse at random, or possibly by its name.
Just landed back into Manchester with such a tailwind that we bounced off the runway and had a second go. That was fun!
Reminder that `edge` is a marketing term. There's no difference between edge and multi-region. Some edge providers have double (or more) the number of locations than others.
The Velma writers continue to not understand why people have a problem with their show. As I said previously:
https://matthewphillips.info/social-spooky/statuses/01GQBQ3B23QJB4CTBCMT221G1P/
Под забил про капсулу месяц май уже нужно снова начинать дублировать статьи с основного сайта.
I love the Esperanto community. Simply because I'm here in Barcelona, 12 of us are getting together for dinner this evening. It's been said before, but if you want to make friends, learn Esperanto. 😌
I've moved my old GoToSocial instance to archived static pages which can be viewed here:
https://matthewphillips.info/social-spooky/
I will be taking down the instance in the coming weeks. Plan to write about my decision to move back to a regular Mastodon instance eventually.
The problem with Mastodon in my opinion is that it's just so damn complicated to implement. it's too big. an open protocol that's simple to implement is magical and freeing. Mastodon is not that.
I can't stand the Worms level of Golf with Friends.
My DIY battery-powered wireless driveway visitor detector, take 3! A much harder problem than I anticipated. Attempt 1 was using a cheap and low power PIR sensor. Too many false alerts. Attempt 2 was a radar presence detector. Doesn't work outdoors, way too many false alerts. This one uses a commercial outdoor PIR sensor, which seems to work quite well so far. On the down side, it uses quite a bit of power (20mA continuous), so I've had to add a lithium battery with solar charger. Nice thing about a LiFePO4 battery is that I don't need a fancy solar charge controller, I just use a buck converter set to about 14V. The grey box houses a microcontroller with a LoRa transmitter, mounted on an aluminium bracket that I can hang on my driveway pre-cast wall, so that the PIR sensor looks across the driveway. I put the battery and charger into an ice cream container and placed a roof tile over it to protect against rain and sun. The receiver side is an ESP32 connected to a LoRa receiver and buzzer that plays a ding-dong chime and also sends an MQTT message for futher automation. #diy #lora #pir #motion #sensor
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After 9 months of head-down hard work, I'm finally taking a little break. The Fernweh is strong.
So with the little influx of folks coming into Station these past few weeks, I'm curious how this looks now:
[POLL How long have you been using Gemini?] A few weeks | A few months | 1 year | 2 years | Old guard
So, what's everyone doing this weekend?
Quarterly reminder that there's no reason for a movie to be longer than an hour and a half.
What a great weekend. Heading home after spending the last 3 days in the world of Esperanto with 80 other crazy people from all over the world. The escape from normality (and English) is such a nice change. Really looking forward to much more of this in the summer!
Back after one week in Copenhagen. 😴
happy belated new year, 2023 can you believe it? oh look, it's already April!
I should *definitely* update my gemlog soon
I'm spending the weekend at La Brita Kongreso in Cambridge and there are 80 people here this year. It's been too long since I had the pleasure of hanging out with so many Esperanto speakers for a few days. Always surreal, awesome, and just lots of fun!
There's nothing better than going back to being a beginner again. Making something from scratch – something you've never made before, and something that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Here's the result: https://youtu.be/wAe0rhT-Gvooo
It wasn't easy to produce this, and took a lot longer than the 7 minutes of video that came out. But it was fun, and very rewarding to lean into that feeling of "I don't know what I'm doing but let's figure it out!" I'm looking forward to doing more!
A delayed flight has led to a day hanging out in NYC. Not the worst outcome.
A smarter CAPCOM is on the way, with support for regular Gemini feeds:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/2023_04_16.gmi
This is great news and should improve the liveliness of the feed quite a bit.
Some photos from a recent camping trip to the bushveld. #photo #camping
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One of the ways that docs really helps in API design is that it brings together APIs that make sense in isolation, but start to break down when thought of as a whole. As engineers it's easy to miss the big picture some times and documenting APIs exposes shortcomings.
Three years ago today I finished the weirdest translation ever: from Yorkshire to Esperanto. I'm especially proud of my use of "elŝuskatoliĝi" – to get out of the shoebox. https://kvar.martinrue.com
I finally found all the words and took the top spot on #spellbinding yesterday. There's a lot of good players on there and I really like the competition. I certainly wouldn't play as much as I do if there weren't a leaderboard. I used to play #wordle every single day but this has taken its place for the most part.
I really need to find a way to post to this tinylog from my phone without having to use termux. I just need to find the time to convert my capsule into a dynamic one and write a CGI script that adds to the top of this file. Seems simple enough if I had the time. Too much else to do.
Oh look at that, Fitbit is now part of google and requires a google account. Oh goody.
I'm spending the weekend writing bash. Imagine if you were having as much fun as me.
I've been busy – the second episode of my Esperanto podcast is already out. I really enjoyed chatting to Andy Hernandez Martínez about everything from travel to eating and living more healthily.
La dua epizodo de mia podkasto jam haveblas. Mi tre ĝuis babili kun Andy Hernandez Martínez pri ĉio de vojaĝado, de kiel manĝi kaj vivi pli sane, inter aliaj temoj.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oQKyzMH0a3vHS0rEWiLSp?si=f4184a6d74e843aa
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
The hill in the background is shaped just like an Elephant's silhouette, hence the name Olifantsnek. #photo
Olifantsnek
https://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsnwp/olifantsnek.php
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Just for fun, I guess.
I'm building a framework in Bash and I'm not sure why. I have no use-case.
Recently spotted: Meerkat, Cape Glossy Starling sunbathing, African Hoopoe #birding #photo
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It will happen some changes in my personal life and I don't know if I will be able to continue to serve pollux.casa hosting :-( So, I have put account opening on standby.
I still believe you could create a startup around GitHub workflows. Not exactly sure *what*, but there's something there.
love cast iron skillets
Building a toy framework in bash (deployed to AWS lambda) and it's currently working pretty well, but I'm nervous that perf is going to suddenly crater.
I started a podcast. In Esperanto. Enjoy! 🎙️ https://spotify.link/vHmuqRmaGyb
I just want to chill at home and play Ms. Pac-Man
It grinds my gears when JS programmers think they are writing functional code because they don't use classes. If your functions are mutating state galore, it's imperative.
The definition of functional programming is nuanced, but what you're writing isn't it.
Side effect free functional code is probably the most testable you can get. Imperative code with just functions is probably the least testable. Either you mock modules and implementation details (cumbersome) or you just only do integration tests (slow, brittle).
You don't have to like classes to realize that they are just a thousand times easier to test for imperative code.
Go code is extremely easy to test. That it's based on interfaces is why. You don't have to have Java style classes to get the testability benefits!
To me Mastodon is just another overly complex place to post short messages. It should not *own* my data. Open source or not the data is inaccessible. So I treat it as a place to crosspost to.
So what if I want to watch 🎄 movies in April, what's it to you?
Book recommendation: The power of fun by Catherine Price. A serious and well-researched look at having True Fun (a state when playfulness, connection and flow happen). #book #recommendation
Catherine Price
http://catherineprice.com/books
I need to get back to reading more.
prefer feature work on a friday over bugs
Why is the 'pause AI' crowd completely unaware of game theory?
One thing bash is really good at is printing a help message.
I now have a pretty elaborate setup that lets me post status updates to my own site which then gets distributed to Mastodon. It's elaborate but also pretty elegant. I'm happy with it. Need to write up how it works.
Browsing https://sr.ht/ feels like what GitHub used to feel like before they implemented hybrid server/client routing. I have no idea why anyone would prefer client side routing over this.
Good morning to everyone except those building AI that will destroy humanity.
Don't indicate me bro
I HATE being at a bar or somewhere it's loud and attempting to have a conversation.
If this works I'll be excited.
Testing directly in production. 🙌
This is just a test message, ignore.
Automating things is fun.
I've never seen a dog reject someone for the way they look.
Having looked into every 'post a status' social network out there I've come to the conclusion that they are all wildly overengineered. I think the web has really produced a culture of overengineering everything. Not every web service needs to be built to scale to millions of users and thousands of features. A status log is just a text file with a date and a message. Start there, add on top.
Look, is AI going to exceed our intelligence in the matter of a few years and then decide we're in the way and eliminate the human species in the matter of minutes / hours? Yeah, probably. But that doesn't mean we can't have a good time until then.
I bet Batman is a self-hosting kind of person. Can't see him intrusting his criminal research to AWS.
If AI decides to kill us all it could do it death star style and blow up the planet with itself safely off-Earth. On the other hand that would be a waste of resources. So I think Terminator style hunting down humans one by one is the more likely scenario.
Trying not to let the threat of the end of civilization get to me.
So glad to see so many AI experts in my timelines
There is no scenario in which we "stop" or "slow down" AI development. Prisoners dilemma prevents that from happening. So we have to assume that it will continue at minimum at the current pace.
Having accepted that, whether we like it or not, we can now set about the goal of creating AI that will benefit humanity and not destroy it. We have to operate under the assumption that others are out there creating AI not to benefit humanity in general. And we have to beat them. Otherwise we are truly fucked.
I'm enjoying WSL a lot but they have some cryptic errors when they want you to upgrade:
Wsl/Service/0x80040326
I don't think people realize you can't stop AI. It doesn't matter if the whole world agrees (it doesn't), no one will cooperate to "slow down" because it's a classic prisoners dilemma situation.
Whatever is going to happen will happen. Just enjoy the ride.
The main reason I still use iTerm is that the font isn't tiny by default. And has a dark background. Rather than figure out how to configure terminal to have sane visuals, I just install iTerm.
Located a keycap puller for my housemate to borrow in about five seconds and was able to retrieve it in less than thirty, thanks to my inventory system. Feels good when a system works so smoothly!
I've wasted so much time on social media. Yet keeping a permanent record of my throwaway thoughts is still somewhat important to me.
Everything I know about bash I learned from Googling specifics like "How to do X". I never probably learned the language, I can't say I "get it", except I know to do things like always quote variables. Everything else is copy pasta.
I want to write a web app in bash.
What use cases is the web trying to be really good at? Not adequate, really good. Attempting to perfect. This is a question for the maintainers.
It seems like Steam wants to update every time I open it.
Bugs
The Munsters holds up extremely well.
Learned more about UTC offsets this morning than I'd care to know.
Woke up too early
I see a lot of folks posting about emacs. I tried it and I'm just not a fan. Maybe I didn't give it a good shot but I'm still learning Vim and don't need another.
I posted about this over on my station tinylog, but I found a capsule implementing the #gempub specification[1] by converting public domain ebooks to gempub [2].
I occasionally think about playing current-day music to people in the past and gauging their reactions. I'd pick something that wasn't highly offensive or entrenched in current-time vernacular. For some reason "I get a good feeling" by Flo Rida reminded me of this when I was channel surfing on the radio today.
Not a whole lot to report on in the past month or so, just work and the kids. It's starting to warm up so we can bring them to the parks around here, but of course getting out the door is always a process and by the time we do I sometimes wonder if it's worth getting out, but staying inside all weekend is not an option if it can be avoided.
I did, however, come across the gpub specification yesterday and it piqued my interest a bit. I found a capsule on ~bacardi55's Discogem that had a bunch of gpubs listed from the public domain, and I was a bit surprised that Lagrange just supported it natively (which I really shouldn't have been surprised at). I think I may want to list a few here myself.
Cool! I just discovered that someone's used my Esperanto speech synthesiser (https://parol.martinrue.com) to play the role of an Esperanto robot in an audio book. It's always a delight when people use stuff you've built. 👏
After decades of using Linux I finally check out Emacs for the first time - what a rabbit hole. But it's fun to learn some new concepts and OrgMode is really amazing. There is sooo much stuff. At the moment I'm learning to build up my configs from scratch with vanilla emacs (but I installed evil mode) from this tutorial:
Emacs From Scratch (Youtube playlist)
I always thought Emacs is kinda overkill (some people saying it's an OS on top of Linux) without knowing anything! I'll try to develop a complete working environment before I decide if I stay in Emacs or go back to neovim. I'm really fascinated.
There should be a word for that awesome moment when you have a coding problem like "I know what I need to achieve, but I'm not sure about these three things in my way..." and some deep part of your brain pipes up and is like "you seem like a nice guy, I'm going to help you out."
TIL: words such as "i18n", "a16z", "K8s" and "a11y" are officially called numeronyms. Or n8s, if you like.
The four stages of developer grief:
1. Not sure how to solve this one so I'll just wing it.
2. Oh wait, if I do this, oh yeah, and that... nice.
3. I should make this into an open source lib for others.
4. One day I'll find time to solve that problem!
Took a stroll down a charming little street in London last night only to find the house that Agatha Christie used to live in. What a delightful evening.
Good read, but I would argue that it was worth adding an obvious 11th: therapy. 10 Web Development Trends in 2023: https://www.robinwieruch.de/web-development-trends/
Had fun hanging out with some Esperanto friends in Oxford today. Even after 5 years of this thing, I still find wonder in the fact my brain can encode any thought I have into a language invented by a crazy Polish eye doctor in the 1880s.
I’ll be speaking about ChatGPT in Esperanto. Should be fun! https://twitter.com/Stela_Bee/status/1629496293025280001/photo/1
Today I'm going to fill a coffee shop with background murmurs in Esperanto with some local speakers & learners. Our little group is growing, which is great to see. Topics will likely range from the insanity of natural language grammar to how speaking Esperanto has ruined any expectation of progress in other languages for us all :)
It's a cold, rainy and dark saturday. A good day to stay in my warm and cosy bed with some X-Files episodes - and leave the heating off to save some money.
Finally updated my /now/ page. If you're curious check here:
switched back to my Pixel 4. I had switched services and they offered a "free" pixel 6 so I jumped on it thinking I could just put a custom ROM on it. wrong. I stupidly forgot about carrier locking. how could I? so, I used my 6 for a while but didn't use google play only fdroid but it didn't feel right. the phone is bigger, riddled with tracking, and is heavier. so I got home today and swapped the SIM. my only problem is that the charging port doesn't work so well and I don't have google maps but other than that, I feel better.
reading stuff on gemini can sometimes be depressing. While I agree with a lot of views here, reading post after post about the evils of the internet, big corporations, and humans in general, I long for lighter posts in nicer topics. I can't say it's all like that but I see a lot of it...my capsule included. time to start posting some sunshine.
In my Spanish class I just volunteered a very confident answer to the confusion of everyone else. Turned out I said it in Esperanto. This happens annoyingly often. 😂
Successful launch this morning! 🚀
https://social.martinrue.com/@martin/109846199596112358
In my predictions for 2023, I never expected to see the term "AI jailbreaking", but let me tell you, I'm fully onboard. Long live DAN.
I'm working on a terminal client to query ChatGPT in python. It's in pre-alpha and I just uploaded it. I'm not sure if python is the right language, but I wanted to get a Mock-up quickly. I plan to add editable configurations, a session system and predefined prompts later. It's nothing spectacular but you can already tinker with it, if you like.
pychatgpt git repo on Codeberg.org
I got invited to speak + do a Q&A with a bunch of people from Indonesia who read a novella I wrote in Esperanto. I love how unexpected life can be sometimes.
Always difficult determining if you're about to over-engineer something.
I've just heard someone be introduced as "an individual who defies summary". Two things. 1: That's going right into my personal phrase book for a few wise people I know. 2: Goals.
NeoVim is the greatest editor I've ever used. Today I switched from Coc to LSP as IDE tool and added the telescope plugin, which is excellent for fuzzy finding in files. A fantastic piece of software. I like it!
still haven't tried dvorak. I did, however, code a bit today. I'm a hobby programmer, and don't have much time for it, nor have been interested, but I was today and it felt good. working on a console version of farkle in python. nothing crazy, just entertaining. getting the hang of vim...starting to be a bit natural.
Nothing sets you up for a good night's sleep like 58,603 deletions in your commit.
YAY! After the Verdi strike is over, finally my new gaming PC rig arrived. Just need to get rid of Windows 11 and install Arch Linux and steam and then have a lot of fun! 😃
I hope everyone's week has started well. Mine certainly hasn't. I was just accused of plagiarism. Their word, not mine.
Look! I now have a tinylog! I just implemented it out of curiosity. Not sure, if I post regularly - but now that I've discovered bacardi55's gtl I have an easy way to follow other people's tinylogs.
And so it begins. After a few months of eating whatever I like, I’m starting another 3 month period of Time Restricted Feeding. Each year I aim to have at least two 2-3 month stints of strict, daily (17-18h) intermittent fasting. It gives my body a rest from the constant energy input that we’re not really meant to get like we do in the modern world. Not to mention some of the other huge benefits (hey autophagy). Looking forward to enjoying hunger and appreciating food again. 👊
I'm thinking about trying the dvorak keyboard layout. I think this will be difficult to not abandon it in favor of qwerty, which I'm pretty fast at.
A starry night. A reminder of the shortness of things. We’re all destined for the place we’ve already been for 13.7 billion years. Make it count.
💡 Idea
Mobile coffee stand. Cups have your name on them. Obvious branding of cup signals: I bought this coffee as I'm open to chatting to a stranger – you already have my name, feel free to talk to me.
Sell it at train + bus stations, subways, places where people spend time waiting and want some human interaction over HTTP requests.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible one, but it would at least make a fun experiment.
My first MAN/LON train of the year and I've drawn the "due to a points failure" card. Proceed directly to cancellation. Do not collect £200.
The train system in the UK is shockingly bad. Burn it to the ground and start over.
But in all seriousness, please don't set fire to it. It's so hopeless it'd just make me sad about the tragic waste of fire.
The results of my recent side side project: cadet – a Go library for creating minimal HTTP-RPC servers.
https://github.com/martinrue/cadet
There have been a few games now on #spellbinding where folks have gotten all the words. I find thst impressive.
I really need to work on that /now/ page. Also, I really like Amfora - it's a really clean TUI Gemini browser
Sometime last week I asked @skyjake and @bacardi55 on #mastodon if either of them would consider a mobile version of a tinylog aggregator. My reasoning is that while I enjoy the TUI version that @bacardi55 made, most of my time is spent on mobile, and if there were a stitched-together timeline of tinylogs in a clean looking app, it would be much easier to read. I think tinylogs would be more accessible this way as well. To my surprise, both of them responsed fairly quickly. Skyjake said he liked the idea but that it might be feature-creep, but would think about it. Alternatively, Bacardi55 pointed out that #gtl can output into gemtext, so if I just setup a cron job to output my subscriptions every say, 6 hours, I could just use #Lagrange on Android to view them. Liking this idea, I set it up in no time. However, when I subscribed to Bacardi55's tinylog list, I found a lot of them were dead. So what I did was go through the logs one by one and then add the ones that worked and the ones that I liked. Next, I went over to a gemini search engine and started looking for some interesting tinylogs. The result is now what's on my aggregated tinylog page, linked off my main page.
This was almost enough for a reglular gemlog post...
Note that this command writes to the terminal, so you'll have to redirect to a file, like this:
gtl --mode gemini --limit 50 > /path/to/capsule/tinylog-aggregate.gmi
this will use your default settings in ~/.config/gtl/config.toml and subs
PSA: The OST from the movie The Social Network is a perfect coding playlist. 👍
Since about 2015, smartphones have been getting increasingly user-hostile and locked down. It started with Google Play Services, a permanently running auto-installed, auto-updated service that has full access and control of your device. One a new Samsung Galaxy phone, I found 262 packages pre-installed, which were mainly from Google, Samsung, Facebook, Microsoft, and the cell provider. I tried disabling some of them, and at some point the phone locked with the message: "Your phone is locked because the Device Service was uninstalled without authorisation". Ok, so I enabled all the apps again, but that didn't unlock it. Tried a full factory reset and reboot, and now the phone says: "Phone Locked. This phone can't be used without authorisation." Just, wow! We are no longer allowed to uninstall the surveillance and bloatware on our phones. #smartphones #bloatware #surveillance
"Almost every idea you have is downstream from what you consume." 💡
Unpopular opinion: I don't like Taylor Swift's music all that much.
Just found out that someone else found the "gemlog response" concept interesting! Funny to read that literally the day I removed the gemlog mention at the bottom of each articles… But Maybe I'll put it back then :)
gemini://gmi.derschwarzestrahler.at/en/gemlog/gemlog-responses.gmi
It's a new year – a nice time to reflect and focus on goals for 2023, and I'm wondering what's on everyone's agenda.
So, what's your main focus for 2023? What do you want to achieve? Let's share our plans/ambitions/dreams and create a little thread full of inspiration and encouragement. Bonus: we can review it next year in 2024 :)
Parenting is: seeing your small child between the curtains while you shower.
I've updated kiln (capsule generator) and my gemlog / blog config without that many tests, please let me know if you find anything broken :]
My New Year's resolution is 5120 x 2880.
👋 2023. Looking forward to another year of setting goals, meeting them, spending time with friends, making new friends, going on new adventures, finding new inspirations, failing, laughing. Happy new year, folks. ☺️
What a lovely surprise!
I just received a copy of the book my novella is published in. During the pandemic, a friend inspired me to enter a writing competition to write about the pandemic experience (fiction or non) and I wrote a fictional story called The Hug Club (la brakumklubo) which was selected and included in the final book. 🙏
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The internet makes you believe everything is burning and all life choices contribute to such. anything you do is futile.
even if true, i'm tired of living in a place that is screaming at me that everything is fucked.
Got My Time at Portia a few days ago. It has soaked up all my free time since then. It often happens that I spend the holidays playing more video games than usual, and this year seems to be no exception.
Pretty happy with this little interaction. 👏Con
Context: as readers progress through my app's interactive language-learning books, this component lets them collect flashcards for key things they've learned.
https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/602/013/633/560/869/original/b3228153180d8cf4.mp4
Anyone else code in their head while doing something else, such as walking home? I catch myself doing it fairly often.
I like to think about what I need to do next, how I might go about it, potential issues I’ll run into. I find it really helpful to keep the context, and sometimes the entire program, in my head.
```
()
** (exponent)
+x, -x, ~x (unary plus, unary minus, bitwise NOT)
*, /, //, %
+, -
<<, >> (bitwise shift)
& (bitwise AND)
^ (bitwise XOR)
| (bitwise OR)
==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, is, is not, in, not in
not
and
or
```
I finally deleted my Twitter account. After many weeks of playing email tag with the helpdesk, I was able to get in. For some reason my MFA SMS messages weren't coming through and I couldn't get in. I then used an auto-tweet deleter (free one), changed my profile pic to a gray background, unfollowed everyone, prevented follows, deleted everything in my profile, and deactivated my account. Good riddance.
My house got struck by lightning *again*, taking out the alarm system *again*. This time I decided to #diy my own alarm system with an #arduino. It's a bit of a rat's nest right now (prototype), but it works! Controllable via Telegram and standard remote. Gotta solder it up on a board next and add some lightning isolation/protection. There's surprisingly little info on the internet about replacing a commercial home alarm system with custom Arduino one. The biggest challenge is that the long wires to sensors can pick up noise/EMF so I had to do some filtering in software to avoid false triggers.
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Merry Christmas everybody. 🎄
Shamelessly stolen from Mastodon (because it's an important question):
[POLL Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?] Yes | No
Happy Festivus to those that celebrate it :)
Bert Wagner's "jurn" ("A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work") is pretty cute.
```
$ echo $((10#02))
2
```
Do any of you do any live coding via Twitch? I'm tempted to do some for my current project, and I'm curious about people's experiences. 🤔
Until now I didn't get time to play with Lagrange on iOS, but after only a few mins it's easily my favourite mobile iOS Gemini client. Awesome work, as always, @skyjake. 🙏
For fellow iOS'ers who haven't checked it out yet, grab the TestFlight release here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjdtSEhu
Does anyone else start new projects by writing out a readme detailing how you want the tool to work? I think I've come to depend on this technique to help me clarify what exactly I want to build.
Had a rough weekend, but I'm starting to feel quite a bit better. I have a never-ending chest cold that won't go away, but after finally taking some decongestant medication I started feeling better.
One thing that was contributing, I think, to my mood is that I was becoming addicted to Mastodon. With the influx of Twitter users, I was really starting to engross myself into all the people, connections, and inside jokes that were starting to fly around. None of this reading or scrolling is any type of meaningful, long-term learning and I was in the endless refresh-for-more dopamine cycle. It wasn't until I read ~Shufei's most recent gemlog [1] that discussed the shortcomings of such platforms, as it relates to human interaction and real life. Shufei, of course, is MUCH more eloquent than I - I felt like was reading a psych/philosophy paper - but it was what I needed to shake of the cycle. I promptly deleted the app off my phone and resolved to just stick with what works - Gemini. I'll probably go back, but for now, I needed to take a break.
[1] Shufei - Miscellaneous - Tech - Of AI's and Men
Wow, you can no longer even mention other social media platforms on Twitter or it’ll be a considered a violation and they’ll suspend your account. Twitter is definitely in a death spiral at this point, no? It’s now by far the least free platform I still (for now) have an account on.
I don't even know how this happens, but I just discovered:
In Braille each rectangle of up to 6 raised dots encodes a character (so 2⁶ values).
So "just do it" is the following sequence of 10 blocks (unraised gaps acts as spaces to separate words):
⠚⠥⠎⠞⠀⠙⠕⠀⠊⠞
However, Braille Grade 2 supports special free-standing single-character combinations to stand in for common words.
"Just do it" consists entirely of such special words, so it can be written like so: ⠚⠀⠙⠀⠭
⠧⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇
`>/dev/null 2>&1` is my new best friend as I set up cron jobs for backups, gemfeed updates etc.
I've been reading a bunch of RSS feeds recently for the first time in years, using Newsboat on the command line. So calming: keyboard-only, single-tab, visually minimal, speedy loading if I do visit a page directly in Lynx.
Most people don't know this but completely removing caffeine from your diet, at least in some cases, can give you up to an impressive 80% boost in your will not to live.
Moving my mid-noughties music writings on to Gemini. Decided this wasn't quite the right project with which to learn sed (just wanna get it done), so sticking with trusty Python.
Got all the parts of my capsule and and running again after migrating to Digital Ocean droplet. Final touch was getting the atom feed generator running again; I use the one made by ~solderpunk: gemfeed. I put it into a bash script and just manually run it everytime I make a new entry. Not the most streamlined, but it works for me for how infrequently I post.
Woop! A new milestone! Station just reached 900 users. Who'd have thought this micro community would stick around long enough to even reach 1/10th this number. I wonder if/when we'll hit 1000. 👏
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon al vi ĉiuj. Kia ĝojo esti parto de tiu ĉi monda, mojosa komunumo de frenezuloj (vi ĉiuj – ne mi, kompreneble). Kaj dank' al Esperanto, ĉiuj aliaj lingvoj nun ŝajnas multe tro pezaj, do vi neniam forigos min.
Happy Esperanto (Zamenhof) day! What a joy to be part of this global, cool community of crazy people (you all, not me of course). And thanks to Esperanto, every other language is just way too weird and demanding, so you're stuck with me now.
LOL, `man hollywood`.
Figured out installing gtl from source and adding to my path.
Having conducted much research on the subject lately, it appears that Kevin seems to know an awful lot about temperature and has achieved fame online for his knowledge.
Shout-out to Podgrab, an excellent self-hosted podcast manager/downloader written in Go. #selfhost #podcast
Podgrab
https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab
Bought this ESP32-based Esplay Micro V2, and it is sweet! Not only is it a great form-factor and fairly priced, but it comes fully assembled with an SD Card loaded with some music and cool retro games. It's a #DIY #maker dream as I can turn this into almost any device I can think of! #esplay #esp32 #retrogaming #diy
ESPlay
https://www.robotics.org.za/MES32PRO
CW: ChatGPT
I asked the OpenAI GPT-3 chat bot about Gemini:
I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any protocols or technologies called "smol net" or "Gemini" that have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.
Looks like the Eye of Sauron still averts us…
I then proceeded to ask about my other project, the Doomsday Engine (a Doom port), and it promptly gave a brief description and named me as the author, using my real name. 😱
Of course, as a long-term project it must have been picked up into the training set from some wiki, but still feels weird to be part of the AI’s data model.
I attempted python solutions daily, with most ones having golf solutions.
Some have shell, golang, and lua solutions too.
https://github.com/hedyhli/adventofcode
https://sr.ht/hedy/adventofcode
Currently up to:
2022: day 7 (ongoing!)
2020: day 9
2021: day 2
I keep forgetting!
no splits - current window as [o]nly window
ctrl w o
swap windos
ctrl w x
split opened buffers (horz)
ctrl w s
split opened buffers (vert)
ctrl w v
go to split
ctrl w h/j/k/l
open new file as split
:sp <file>
:vsp <file>
Could be fun to develop a micro TUI app to display status from people via the finger protocol… If there were enough finger users to even do so.
Sometimes engaging the discipline to “follow the plan” is really tough. Today most certainly is one of those days, but despite every reason not to train today, I’m on the way to the gym! The harder it is to get into motion, the more being in motion feels good. 💪
I was out with two Esperanto friends having dinner last night and a couple sat next to us interrupted to ask us which language we were speaking. They had actually heard of Esperanto but thought it was dead. Nope. Definitely not dead.
The new satisfies operator in TypeScript 4.9 is pretty neat. I'm a fan. Demo here: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/95934a12a18fb0816c62bfb6424c2692
Random trivia for you:
Among Esperanto speakers, there's the word "kabei" (ka-bay-ee).
It's named after Kazimierz Bein, who in 1911, having been a very active speaker and translator of the language, suddenly disappeared and never used Esperanto ever again.
One day I'd like to kabei from English, pero todavía hablo español como un bebé. No, en realidad, lo hablan mejor.
Started getting a sore throat during the week but assumed my body would fight it off easily enough. Woke up today feeling like death. Nothing like getting sick to remind us how easily we take being healthy for granted. 🥴
I like Gemini but I'm not very active on this domain. The only thing I do is hosting capsules for anybody wants to have one easily. And, I keep on reading some capsules and Fediverse discussion about Gemini and other smolnet protocol.
TIL: There's Esperanto written on the official World Cup football: https://www.adidas.co.uk/al-rihla-pro-football/H57783.html
So I spent my evening turning a little idea into reality: https://vk.martinrue.com
It live pulls the locations of folks signed up to a big Esperanto event this weekend to show how everyone really is spread out all over the world. 👏
It has been a while (April), so I've written a little /now update: https://martinrue.com/now
I'm hanging out in the Canary Islands again this week. I spent the first few months of the year here, so it’s really nice to be back. Also deeply enjoying the fact it’s 20° to 24° reliably every single day again – I feel so much better in good weather.
Today's project: #diy battery for my 2015 phone. Original battery down to 6% of it's original capacity. Replacement battery costs only R90 and is readily available at hobby shops. Had to make an adapter plate using my favourite material: masonite board. Sealed it with a polyurethane coating. I've avoided buying new electronics and am still sticking with my 2015 phone and 2015 tablet as my main mobile devices because they are hackable in this way, and the software (after disabling all the bloat) is still running sweetly.
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If you're part of the #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus to #Mastodon then you can follow me there on @tobykurien@mastodon.social - I've been there since April 2017. Heck, you can even just stick the URL https://mastodon.social/@tobykurien.rss into an RSS feed reader. #MastodonMigration
Nothing like a warm drink after a walk in the cold.
Чередую техническую литературу с художественной чтобы не надоедало сейчас из новых почитываю серию книг - «Fanzon. Светлячок.»
The UK (Universala Kongreso) is the largest annual Esperanto event and has run every year from 1905 with gaps only during WWII and Covid.
Since 2020 there has also been the VK (Virtuala Kongreso), which for 2022 will happen in 2 weeks time. 🤗
I just checked and there are already almost 900 people registered!
Esperanto is a small corner of the world for sure, but it sometimes sure feels "big enough". 👏
My home timeline on mastodon has become way too active.
Also, some of the pinned hashtags I have are becomming to fast to follow asynchronously…
I think I need to use the upgrade to v4 as an excuse to limit pinned hashtags and maybe remove some people I'm following (that I usually read anyway via the pinned hashtags that made me found them in the first place).
В Emacs не за один день и не без труда всё это настроил клиент для habitica.el далее клиент для mastodon.el и Matrix клиент ement.el практически веб-клиенты заменил не давно подняли Mastodon инстанс emacs.ch понравился.
I've implemented a search for walgot (wallabag tui) :).
I'm close to another release I think, just a few things and it will be worth a v0.2.0
For any folks here using Mastodon, you can find me at: @martin@social.martinrue.com.
Don't forget, folks:
Not everything you read on the internet is true – 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln
My plant on astrobotany is still alive despite my idleness of 4+ months! Damn
finishing up Advent of Code 2020
https://sr.ht/~hedy/adventofcode/
https://github.com/hedyhli/adventofcode
Had to go through each puzzle page, copy its plain-text, paste it in a new file, then apply formatting manually.
There were a LOT of wrapping `code blocks` and **bold** around words. Had to make use of 5 macros (personal record!)
@a = i**<Esc>Eli**<Esc> # bold word @b = i`<Esc>Ei`<Esc> # code word @c = i**<Esc>2Wi**<Esc> # 2 bold words @d = i`<Esc>Eli`<Esc> # code word that ends with a space @i = i`<Right>`<Esc> # single-char inline code
(Note I should probably write that code block in Vimscript syntax, can't remember at the moment...)
A lot of batch string parsing and validation in the first four days.
I've created cleanABag, a small wallabag cli tool to remove old articles from wallabag to avoid "storage waste".
Goal is to give a date and it will delete all articles older than this date (with flags for keeping/removing unread and/or starred articles).
No need to store thousands of already irrelevant articles anymore!
I've started yesterday another wallabag tool… This one goal is to "prune" old articles to avoid wasted storage space…
It's a small thing, so should be available before the end of the week.
Has anybody bought the reMarkable writing tablet? I'm so tempted, but it's also so expensive! Any thoughts?
RE: Sandra Tue 08 Nov 2022 13:27 UTC
Fedi sucks now! 💁🏻♀️
While I do agree that my timeline is "messy" right now, I have good hope that the fedi will go back to a more "normal" state :)
Walgot is now public :)
Any feedback from any wallabag user is welcome :]
So I've tagged walgot v0.1.0 and pushed it to sourcehut¹ (and mirrored on github).
I'm too lazy tonight to write the blog post to make it "official", but I'll do this tomorrow.
¹: I decided to go with Sourcehut because of 2 main reasons: email workflow and ootb build capabilities, but I'll write a gemlog about it later too…
I want to "officially" migrate away from github, but I don't know if I want to use codeberg (and a familiar UI) or sourcehut.
Sourcehut isn't easy, but I like the workflow around emails and public mailing list…
In any case I would support/pay for it but I don't know which one to actually choose.
(I have selfhosted for a long time my git server but I want to keep it private now and use one of these service for public repos, self hosting git repo was more problematic than emails for me)
RE: @szczezuja Thu 03 Nov 2022 21:03 CET
Bacardi55 posted about the Wallabag TUI client. What is the Wallabag?!
The short summary is that wallabag is a "read it later" app, opensource and can be selfhosted :).
For me it works hand in hand with RSS aggregator as I often can read the whole thing, so I save it for later when I have time. Many client exists to read it from mobile or any device. But a TUI was missing (for me :)).
I even have a small script that take the current tab open on lagrange and save it (via a proxy) in wallabag too, so I have a central place for "to be read" content.
I've made some cool progress earlier today on this new wallabag TUI app, quite please as understanding bubbletea workflow wasn't easy^^.
I've shared a short video on the fediverse:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/109275964866137113
I'm spending more time refactoring code for this wallabag TUI (= walgot) tool than adding features…
It is due to the fact that I'm using a very different TUI library than the one I used for GTL.
GTL uses tcell¹/tview², while I'm using bubbletea³ and co for this new one.
Main reason was "to try it" and also try a more "ELM architecture".
Was quite tough at first to understand how it works but I think I'm getting there and to a "ok" state to now add feature :)
I have started the first line of a wallabag TUI client… Not sure it's a good idea but here we are…
A toot with a screenshot (HTTPS)
Now I have atom feeds with gemini and http links!
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/atom.xml
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/atom_http.xml
Edit and translated my capsule to English (but not gemlog). Take a look!
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/index.gmi
I'm looking at my 3 screens right now, and all 3 have emacs open on it. Emails via mu4e on the left, code on the right and writing a gemlog post in org-mode in the middle…
What happened to me…
But this tinylog entry is still written with vim (as it's still my $EDITOR).
I like cooking without recipes. Tonight I decided to make a "fall-inspired" stir fry. Started with roasted butternut squash and improvised my way into a dish consisting of apples, chestnut mushrooms, kale, lentils, vegetable broth, butter, curry powder, cinnamon, "chicken-seasoned" seitan, and a bit of milk to keep things moist. I measured nothing.
I’ve been doing spaced repetition for about 4 years and it’s amazing to see the long term results. I now regularly get flashcards over a year old and my brain has no problem finding them. SRS is the best thing you can do to retain information long-term. 🧠
FYI: I mostly use Anki (🐐) and create flashcards for languages I’m learning. SRS work for anything, of course, not just vocab. I do have a few other decks containing ideas, quotes, and prompts I want to retain as well.
I may be suffering from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination
Reading a new book and came across this quote. Sums it up perfectly for me:
Once, when a friend asked him if he envied the ever-growing wealth of the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, Muir quipped: I am already richer than Harriman. I have all the money I want, and he hasn’t.
Among all the advice for achieving your goals – "wake up at 5am", "read this book", "do this one weird trick" – what's often missing is:
Being great at something requires time. Put in the time. Not just when you're motivated, but also when you're not. Crack that and you stand a chance.
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New tinylog by Sandra (idiomdrottning.org):
Always nice to see new addition to the tinylog list!
You're rich. You don't need to think about making money anymore. You can work on whatever you want. What do you choose to work on? Share you dream day-to-day.
Been stuck on my FoodBot project (now PyMeal) for a while. Have finally come unstuck after reading a couple detailed papers on the problem. Now the problem seems to be that I've been doing everything with shell scripts for so long that I've lost my intution about how to organize Python projects. 😬
I recently watched WeCrashed and I really enjoyed it. Despite some obvious creative additions for the sake of TV, it was a fun to get a sense of the craziness that went on during WeWork's unicorn days. Definitely had "Halt and Catch Fire" vibes. Curious if anyone, having seen either, has any recommendations for similar shows?
I'm sick… Every freaking years at the exact same time, I get sick… I have to figure out why and how.
Finally got access to my server back. Turns out OpenSSH 8.9 breaks the software that interfaces with my signing dongle. 🤦
It's Monday – the start of a fresh new week (one out of our ~4000). What's everyone working on this week?
Grey go-away-birds (AKA grey loerie) having a party in my bird bath! #birding
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Hey everyone, how you all doing? I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been working non-stop, but good to see lots of cool stuff happening on Station in my absence!
Wow what a week… Wait what? We are only Monday? 😢
Already tired on Monday morning…
Also, I'm flying to Prague tonight for the rest of the week for the DrupalCon event.
Will be great but also long and exhausting… We'll see how it goes!
By design, I can not publish gemlog/tinylog outside of my private network, and I don't have a way to connect from outside (on purpose).
It means no tinylog / gemlog entry until late friday 🤷.
I may try to continue updating it locally via orgmode as usually and see if I have anything to publish, even retroactively, on Friday :).
RE: @bacardi55 Thu 15 Sep 2022 10:19 CEST
I decided to write a bit more about my thoughts to help CDG live long (and prosper):
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/09/18/late-night-thoughts-about-cdg/
Noting down things that had saved me so I (hopefully) don't have to search up stuff every time
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025615/is-there-a-vim-runtime-log
Another cool oh-my-zsh tip: the take command (HTTPS):
https://batsov.com/articles/2022/09/16/oh-my-zsh-fun-with-take/
I created my own "mkcd" function but feels dumb now as it is just built-in…
But wasn't the case when I started using oh-my-zsh, I just didn't follow that news :).
TIL with oh-my-zsh:
Use "omz reload" instead of "source ~/.zshrc", it is better :).
Source (HTTPS):
https://batsov.com/articles/2022/09/15/reload-zsh-configuration/
I quite like the idea of the « Collaborative Directory of Geminispace »
gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/cdg/
But to stay accurate and up to date, it should check for capsule status from time to time and remove capsule that were offline for example the last X tests during the last Y weeks/months.
Otherwise it will become another place where half links are dead.
I have 2 drafts almost ready to be posted and 3 or 4 drafts to start… Feels like I haven't been that "productive" in my writings for a while!
(e)Lisp is a nightmare… Granted I've just started and a total noob… But all these parentheses… I'm loosing my mind 🤣
The fact that life is short has been said many ways, but there's something different for me when you state it in weeks – on average, we all have about 4000 weeks. That really doesn't sound long.
I bought this comically tiny phone in June and it's been my daily driver since. It has some amazing features in it's diminutive package: dual sim, microSD card slot, bluetooth (for calls and music, or to act as headset/dialler for your smartphone), camera for photos and video, voice changer (making it a great burner phone), 4+ days of battery life. Call quality is as good as on any smartphone, and it cost less than R400.
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Неожиданно поднялась матрица спустя пару дней, возвращаю контакты обратно
Weird pre-bed thought: Using tinylog as POSSE¹ source for posting on social media (in my case, the fediverse).
But I guess, it would mean displaying my tinylog on the web too 🤔. Not sure if I would like that tbh…
The other thing is I'd like to do is moving my tinylog to orgmode… I didn't think about this at all until now!
I don't even know if it's a good idea, because I wouldn't be able to use GTL edit and deploy script as is…
I'll think about another day I guess…
The good thing is that it will be even easier to archive things to avoid having huge tinylog…
Mine is actually 1500+ lines long… I really need to archive a big chunk of it…
¹ POSSE: Post on your Own Site, Syndicate everywhere
Матричный инстанс "приказал долго жить", а заводить новый пока нет желания.
Am I really looking into creating an emacs package to automate export from my writings.org file to my gemlog? 🤯
Week end \o/
Was in the office today… Have been there 1 day in July, but last time was during summer 2021 (I went only once last year)…
It's fun to see colleague and discussing, but I'm so much better equipped at home as I said in a gemlog post… And it has a lot less people talking while I try to focus to^^.
I think I couldn't go back to a job where I need to go 5 days a week in the office though. I don't say "never" because you never know what could happen in the future.
Fully re-deployed my blog based on orgmode files as "source of truth" instead of markdown (even though orgmode content does get exported in markdown for hugo). I wrote about the "work" it was:
Moving my posts to org mode (HTTPS)
(Because I didn't fix my gemlog export process, blog posts via gemini are a bit broken right now, so I'm sharing HTTPS links… Sorry, but will be fixed "soon-ish"!)
The childcare place that I've been taking my kids has finally opened up to let us inside. Since COVID we've had to pick up and drop off at the door, but now we can actually see the inside. And since my children only started at this place during COVID, we, the parents, have only been inside once before.
I used to complain that it was annoying to stand at the door in the different temperatures throughout the year, but now that I have to walk in, unpack and unload both kids in their separate rooms, I now realize it wasn't that bad! "here's my little ones, have fun!" was basically what I had to do. It is, however, nice to see their rooms, their teachers, what they're doing, and see the other children... so it's a give an take I suppose.
Wow, not only did I post the blog post about orgmode I mentioned before, but I also squeezed an unplanned gemlog post too about a weird thought I had while deploying that new blog post… :)
If I'm not too lazy, I should be able to post my first blog post about orgmode (and a bit of emacs). I have a few in mind right now, some will be post on my blog, some on my gemlog, because why not :).
This makes me wonder though, because I have some post that I want to be on both… I know they will be visible on both, because I have pages for viewing gemlog entries and blog entries on both my site and my capsule… But that's not the same…
Anyway just a random metaphysical question…
Made a distraction-free audiobook player using a Raspberry Pi 3A. Doesn't even distract me with a progress bar :) #diy
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I wish Lagrange was better at saving open tabs regularly so when it crashes (or my laptop hard reboot or whatever), then it would still remember the open tabs… 😞
I think I've never have so many blog/gemlog drafts posts in parallel at the same time…
Not sure to be happy or sad about that 🤔
Thanks to hugo and ox-hugo, seems quite easy to migrate all my blog posts to org-mode :)
If ox-gemini works well, I could really simplify my {web,gem}log workflow :)
Went for a nice run in a park that's not too far from my house. I dropped the kids off at daycare and headed on over, so there was literally no one in the park. I like going there because it reminds me a bit of being back home, where it's not quite as built-up as it is around here, and you feel like you're actually in nature. OpenTracks, the FOSS activity tracker app I got off of F-Droid, says it took me 37 minutes to run about 4.8km. Definitely not my best, but it was trail running, and I AM a bit out of shape.
Is there a orgmode → Gemtext converter somewhere? 🤔
Issue 33 of smolZINE is done. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-33.gmi
Station just reached 800 people. Another nice milestone for this awesome little community. Here's to the next 800 👏
I'm lacking work motivation today, which isn't good because I have many things to do… 🤷
RE: @deerbard Wed 31 Aug 2022 11:35 CEST
Tinylog for me is writing random smalltalk-like starters, random thoughts but nobody reads except for you.
I wouldn't be so sure about this, there are other readers as well as "lurkers" that only read tinylogs via the aggregator. Not seeing responses doesn't mean no one is reading :).
I don't think it'll ever get popular and known unless […]
Is that the point of sharing thoughts here or on social media? Not for me at least, but I'm in a middle of writing a full gemlog about this (more or less^^).
I have 3 W.I.P. gemlog posts in parallel… Was a long time ago the last time it happened^^.
Read this yesterday:
Dictatorships are good at concealing the problems they create while democracy is good at advertising its defects.
Daily dose of Vsauce wonder
[YouTube] "Is Earth Actually Flat?"
[YouTube] "Messages For The Future"
I dropped off Gemini and Gopher for a while, but I have picked it back up in the last week or so. I debated on moving this site off my raspberry pi and just using my tilde.club account, but I almost feel guilty for having invested this much time into my own Gemini setup. I also kind of wanted to update my phlog, but I barely have the time to update my Gemini capsule here, and I'm not sure what I'd write there and not here...
Most of the time I've just been going to capsule hosting or gopher hosting sites and randomly clicking through people's sites. There's a lot of neglected content out there, but still some gems despite the age. One advantage I think Gemini has over gopher, is the ability to subscribe to capsules... it's possible in Gopher, but a bit trickier and not as intuitive.
Lagrange on my phone has been instrumental in keeping me on the smallweb, because without it, I'd rarely be surfing here. Makes me wonder how @skyjake is doing... I haven't surfed over to his sites in a while.
Wrote several posts. In the autumn - winter I will try to publish everything in the gemlog.
Book recommendation: THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS, Nicole Perlroth. The fascinating story behind the biggest cybersecurity threats like Stuxnet, NotPetya, election interference, etc. Reads like fiction, but sadly it is not. #book
Nicole Perlroth
https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/
Back to work… This is a bit painful after vacations^^
RE: @deerbard Sun 21 Aug 2022 16:27 CEST
I think I should try offpunk.
I, too, thought about trying offpunk many times, but for a reason I don't even know, I haven't yet^^".
RE: @szczezuja Sun 21 Aug 2022 20:33 CEST
@bacardi55 It's interesting idea to put Twtxt into GTL. Although it seems to be less active than Tinylog format.
To be fair, I don't read any twtxt so didn't really know if the space was still active or not, just thought gtl should be about "microblogging over gemini" more than just tinylogs… But you are right, the effort might be useless^^.
I am thinking about something like automatic discovery of Tinylog or Twtxt format. After all, it is a format that could be recognized by one regular expression. It could be function in opposition to manually organized subscription list. Something like SETI project for that. :-)
I'm sure the already existing search engine could add these type of feature to search for particular page format :).
RE: @szczezuja Sun 21 Aug 2022 16:28 CEST
→ gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-32.gmi Is Gemini ready for the applied arts?
I really enjoyed reading it :) Not sure why though, but I knew you were the author after only the first few sentences :) Good job!
Thinking about adding txtwt support to GTL for those who would want a unified tools for readding both microblogging content on gemini 🤔
More and more tinylogs seems to be deactivated or removed… This is a bit sad…
Task complete! I raided merriam-webster's dictionary, and now have an index of all (word . url) pairs -- all 338729 of them. I should've done it in the first place. The index provides metadata I always wished I had - for instance, words "apples" and "apple" point at the same url, which makes it trivial to remove -s plurals! In minutes I created a SpellBinding-appropriate dictionary with 90000+ words, double the size of my current dictionary. Now, there are a lot of Scottish and British-only words, so it's not entirely great.
But I can answer questions like 'give me all words that end in "wood"' that are SpellBinding-appropriate in Merriam-Webster's dictionary! There are 191!
Any of you crazy kids London-based? I'm in the city all week and would be cool to have a little Gemini hangout. 🍻
Got caught up with a simple SpellBinding-related project: find all words ending in -WOOD. Started with 87, but could not stop, and manually dug up more words - 206 now.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-08-16.wood.gmi
Amazingly, there is no reverse dictionary anywhere on the net! There are a few semantically reverse dictionaries, but no literally starting-from-the-last-letter ones.
I've been putting it off, but I have to scrub Merriam-Websters, since it is my reference dictionary. The API does not seem that useful for weird tasks like this one. I think scrubbing will work, as long as I do so respectfully over a few days and randomize my access...
Enjoyed reading @smokey's post this morning about learning Esperanto. Some good observations there, and certainly some truth that it's not all roses (though it is a very nice garden for the most part, IMO). gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-08-14-esperanto-dive.gmi
I 100% agree with this nice gemlog from ew0k :)
"If X You Shouldn't Release Software"
Time flies! I haven't posted here in ages. I've spent the last week messing around with fun things: a vector-graphics game support library. I do love asteroids and looking at some other vector games from the old days makes me feel particularly good. Raylib is a fun backend and coding in C is kind of therapeutic.
A quick proof of concept in a pixel-acurate recording of a few seconds of my display-list-driven prototype:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/data/aster1.mp4
Awesome! My Esperanto story won third prize. Super happy with that. I even get a cool diploma for it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZvjZWVWIAApWys?format=jpg&name=large
Still hot as heck around here. If people don't believe global warming exists now, they never will. Not unless there's a catastrophic event like food shortages or flooding, but even then. I say this while I still drive around every day in a gasoline powered car because I can't afford a new car payment for an electric one...
June / July were quite busy months at work for many reasons…
I've lost track a bit of the gemini space but it is the slow web, so I can take my time browsing it :]
Finally read William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. Glad to have read it, if only because I'd been meaning to for some time now. It certainly suffers from the "Seinfeld is unfunny" phenomenon common to most seminal works, unfortunately.
Поздравляем всех причастных лиц с профессиональным праздником - днем системного администратора!
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Today in 1887 the first book describing the international language Esperanto was published, making it 135 years old today. I'm really glad I became interested enough to learn it ~4 years ago. From travelling and hanging out with like-minded people, to having an international community of friends all over the world, Esperanto has become a fairly big part of my life at this point. AMA!
Here's a pic of my fridge-top Smol Data Centre, which I previously blogged about on gemini at gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2022-05-17-smol-data-centre.gmi #photo #diy
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Feels good to resume my inventory project after a long hiatus. I've identified the bugs in sc-im as a friction point for myself, so I'm working to replace it in my workflow with a collection of shell scripts.
What a crazy week. Started in Poland, then to London during the hottest days in the UK ever, started new job, then back to Manchester. And I still hit my gym quota! Very grateful for some rest time this weekend.
What's everyone else upto?
The short story I wrote in Esperanto for a writing competition (which will soon be published in a book) was read today, for the first time, in a podcast. If you want to listen, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ej1aJs5gY
This weekend I’ve been in Kraków for a friend’s wedding. It’s actually my first time in Poland, and Kraków in particular is a really nice city. I’ll definitely have to come back next time I’m traveling somewhere nearby. The wedding was also awesome. What a purely happy feeling to see your friends find true happiness.
I have to be in London next week, when for some insane reason, it's going to be 37º in the city. Never heard of such crazy temperatures. I'm currently writing a will, just in case.
It's summertime in my part of the world, and while I do enjoy the sun and ability to do things later in the day, the longer days are exhausting because I tend to fill them up so as not to waste any time. On the other hand, I dislike winter because I can't do anything outside... so basically I like Spring and Autumn.
I have noticed a bit more Esperanto being used on Station lately, so I'm taking the opportunity to pimp a post I wrote about the language – about why I love it, how I got started, and it also includes a little chat bot: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18
It's a beautiful day in the city – a rare occasion to enjoy coffee shops that didn’t commit to fully building their walls despite an average rainfall that challenges the definition of the words “under” and “water” taken together.
📢 Station now supports multiple identities! In "Your Account" you'll find a "Manage Identities" link. There's more details in Recent Updates: gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates
Really impressed with how much grassroots work is going on across Gemini. Shout out to @superfxchip, @smokey, @acidus, @krixano, @bacardi55, @skyjake, @gnuserland, @mozz to mention but a few very cool people building new things and extending the reach of Gemini in cool new directions. 🙌
Just did a pretty hardcore run and hit 192bpm. Based on one's estimated max of 220-age, I'm now officially 28. Might have to ditch Station for TikTok at this rate!
A programmer had a problem and thought: "I know, I'll solve it with:"
threads: now problems he two has
regex: now /([ashetprblwoms\s]){19}/g
java: now he has a problem factory
async: now problems problems problems problems
C: now he has two problemsͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱≠ˀ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬ´
What do we want?
Now!
When do we want it?
Fewer race conditions!
254 walks into a bar with a long face.
Bartender: "Why the long face?"
254: "Just feeling a bit off."
Folks, hit me with your number one link on Gemini to wow new users and show off how cool Gemini is.
I have a small window of free time, so I'm doing some Station work. 🙌
So @hiroantag clearly has the best profile image on Station :)
gemini://station.martinrue.com/hiroantag
It's a "file -> new project" kind of day. I love the thrill of building something new. No brush strokes have yet hit the canvas – everything is a possibility.
I mean, sure, 3 hours from now it'll be a bonfire, but I really enjoy these pre-flame moments.
Working on paring back my possessions again and cataloguing that which I want to keep. Having a bit of scotch along with it for the first time in a long time. My hair's going gray and I'm becoming less ambitious, which is probably for the better. I have too many half-finished projects about.
Found this gemsite today:
The author's idea, picking a surname when starting a family, seems like a good one to me. I'd independently come to the same conclusion. Was nice seeing someone else had as well.
Some thoughts on achieving goals: https://martinrue.com/achieving-goals/
What's everyone working on this week? Me: It has been great weather here in the UK, so I've been doing a bit more hanging out with friends than usual. Last night I hung out with a group of local Esperanto speakers which was super fun, and tonight I'm finally getting back to writing some code!
Not the highest level of motivation today… 🤷
Spent the last few days renovating the home office. It was a lot of work, but I'm pretty happy with the final result: https://twitter.com/martinrue/status/1538628931468804109
Keto going well. I'm 8 days in and weight is already down 3.1kg, body fat down by 0.8 percent. Energy levels are good and I'm generally feeling miles better eating no carbs / sugar.
Everything you need to know about #happiness, distilled in one insightful #podcast episode
Evidence-Based Strategies for Being Happy | Laurie Santos | Knowledge Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWxI9clgv8
Hello, I'm not dead.
Of all the things I write as a programmer, I still love writing a little CLI app more than anything else. Handling basic input and output and leaving behind all the web/app UX concerns is just so refreshing.
RE: @deerbard Mon 06 Jun 2022 22:29 CEST
Is there any simple wat to copy paste from Vim to other programs?
"+y copy stuff (with the starting double quote) from vim. Then you can ctrl+v in another program.
FYI, "+p = paste in vim.
I've also done a bit of "cleaning" on my blog today:
GTL v1.0.0 is out:
I love regexp <3.
Didn't know how to solve my issue, turns out 8 lines of code (+ 10 lines of comment) did the trick :).
Going to run on latest version a bit and if everything is stable I'll release v1.0.0 tomorrow or Monday \o/.
Found the last issue I want to fix before GTL v1.0.0… But not sure how to fix it yet… So we'll see.
Objective is to release it before Monday end of day (bank holiday in France)
One of my favorite types of pizza - maybe my all-time favorite - is taco pizza. The thing about it though, is that it's rather hard to find. I have this one retaurant near where I used to live, one town over, that doesn't offer it on the menu, but does a pretty good job of making it without me having to explain too much what I want. There are a few ways to make it, but my favorite is regular crust, taco meat, salsa, cheese, lettuce, and dollups of sour cream on top - all in that order. Some places will also crumble torilla shell in there for that extra crunch, but I could go either way.
In other news, I got a new PR on my Peloton bike this morning for my 30 minute ride, beating my best by 6 kJ. I don't know when I'll be beating that anytime soon since I was SPENT by the end of the ride. I don't exercise a lot, but if this is the start of a new regimine, maybe it'll be sooner than later.
I may have done enough to publish GTL v1.0.0 this week end :)
skyjake.fi is currently offline due to my office/server setup being physically rearranged.
I wasn’t intending to disconnect the server but apparently a network cable must’ve been knocked loose. Oh well, everything should be up and running within 24h.
Productive afternoon and evening, I believe I'm done with the main feature for GTL v1.0.0 :)
Now I think there are some issues on github that needs to be fixed before a release…
But that's from another day!
I have been working on GTL again today on the next big feature that will lead to GTL v1.0.0!
I feel rusty after all this time but it's nice to get back into it :).
Station just hit 700 people! It's really cool to see this place still growing. I should pull out all the sign-up dates and graph it at some point.
Question for everyone: what do you use as your Gemini homepage / daily starting point?
For me it was usually Antenna but now I've switched to Cosmos, after adding the "Show posts newer than this" feature.
Also, would you be interested in a more dynamic home "dashboard" feature in Lagrange that combines and caches information from multiple pages into one home view? It would be a special type of subscription in practice. This might be nice if you regularly check up on multiple capsules, e.g., Astrobotany, Antenna, etc.
I'm not fully convinced such a feature is worth implementing, though, given the added complexity vs. value gained.
I had some writing inspiration so I wrote something new.
10 Slightly Odd Things I Want To Do: https://martinrue.com/odd-things/
Made an extended battery pack for my aging MacBook that also acts as a comfortable base. The 55Wh battery pack consists of cheap and easily replaceable 21700 cells. Plenty of space to add more batteries, USB hub, hard drive, or other accessories. #diy
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“Despite the high cost of living it remains popular.”
🤧 Been having a cold this week, so dayjob productivity has been nil... On the other hand, this has given me the opportunity to design a bunch of (extended) ASCII Emojis for the Lagrange TUI. Check it out:
```
°u° Alien
^;= Duck
_:_ Folded Hands
```
v1.13.5 has a few of these in the new Simple Characters mode.
Just found out some fiction I wrote for a competition will be published in a book sometime this year. Really happy about that! It's something I had never done before, so I had to give it a go. 🙏
I discovered this saying in Latin (from Ovid):
aut non tentaris, aut perfice
Which means:
either do not try it or go through with it
… So Yoda was just a copy cat then 🤣
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anything interesting planned?
```vim
:w !diff % -
```
For my Esperanto speaking friends here: one of my favourite words in Esperanto is "ŝanĝiĝi". Here's why, plus a little glimpse into how my brain works.
https://twitter.com/martinrue_eo/status/1524381880958783488/photo/1
PS: apologies to linking to "the other site", but images.
Testing Lagrange 1.13.4 TUI in a Linux virtual terminal.Looking quite messy still, compared to a GUI terminal emulator! The biggest problem is the Unicode symbols, which are missing and drawn with incorrect widths. The VGA color mode is passable but needs more distinction between UI backgrounds and the page.
Two strings walk into a bar.
The first one says, "I'll have a vodka and coke¶³¾¤§¿ZZüy".
"Excuse my friend, he's not null terminated" says the second.
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Never gets old. No, I mean due to trauma: https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance/
Just finished the show #severance. It's one the the most interestingly odd shows that I've ever watched and I couldn't stop. Binged the whole season. It's definitely akin to Black Mirror. Recommend.
My script that parses this journal page and dumps out the content in tinylog format had hardcoded the year to 2021. Can't believe I'd only found out about this 5 months into 2022, anyways it's fixed now.
The CGI scripts that is supposed to run that ^ on demand and deploy any changes to my tinylog.gmi feed doesn't work still because CGI is run by a single user in gemserv. I'll think about how I can (safely) fix that soon.
Lagrange v1.13 supports spartan!
I always thought there were two list methods to find the index of an element in python - find and index. find would raise an IndexError when the item isn't found in the list, whereas index would return -1 in that same case.
Nope, that's completely wrong.
First, there's only .index for lists:
```python
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].index('a')
0
```
And it raises a ValueError if the item isn't found:
```python
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].index(404)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: 404 is not in list
```
Method signature:
index(self, value, start=0, stop=9223372036854775807, /)
Return first index of value.
Raises ValueError if the value is not present.
Second, the "find vs. index" is for strings, not lists - both find and index methods exist for strings:
```python
>>> 'abc'.index('a')
0
>>> 'abc'.find('a')
0
```
So what are the differences? Turns out my previous understanding of how find/index handles non-existent items had been mixed up. When attempting to index a substring that isn't actually in the string, index raises a ValueError, and find returns -1:
```python
>>> 'abc'.index('z')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: substring not found
>>> 'abc'.find('z')
-1
```
(Note that you can use either to search for "substrings" - i.e: `'abc'.index('bc')`)
Method signatures:
```
index(...)
S.index(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional
arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
Raises ValueError when the substring is not found.
```
```
find(...)
S.find(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional
arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
Return -1 on failure.
```
Just for fun, I also went ahead and tested out the performance of the two methods
$ python3 -m timeit "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.index('p')"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 131 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.find('p')"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 103 nsec per loop
```
For cases where the item isn't found:
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"try: s.index('Z')" \
"except: pass"
1000000 loops, best of 5: 310 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"try: s.find('Z')" \
"except: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 110 nsec per loop
```
```
python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('Z') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 119 nsec per loop
```
Seems like .find() clearly wins on speed.
Here's an example of searching for the index of a substring in a string, then doing something with it:
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'z' in s:" \
" index = s.find('z')" \
" print('do stuff with', index)" \
"else:" \
" print('not found')" |tail -n1
500000 loops, best of 5: 700 nsec per loop
```
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if index := s.find('z') != -1:" \
" print('do stuff with', index)" \
"else:" \
" print('not found')" | tail -n1
500000 loops, best of 5: 686 nsec per loop
```
Interesting! The second method does seem more idiomatic and "clean", but can .find() truly beat python's native operator?
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'Z' not in s: pass"
10000000 loops, best of 5: 31 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'xyz' not in s: pass"
5000000 loops, best of 5: 40.3 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'xyZ' not in s: pass"
5000000 loops, best of 5: 39.6 nsec per loop
```
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('Z') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 119 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('xyz') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 137 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('xyZ') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 140 nsec per loop
Nope :) It does cost a method call.
---
Python version used: 3.8.12
Further exploration:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?list.index
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?str.index
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?str.find
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.index
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.find
https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html
Unfortunately I screwed myself: I pointed out a bug to @Skyjake, and the 'correct' implementation removes the possibility of using session ids via input URLs, as no Spartan server does things 'correctly.
I have to throw away a bunch of code that will no longer work. But I have another trick up my sleeve for managing sessions.
Observation: to be really creative I need time to play – time that other goals or distractions have no control over. It seems like a trivial observation, yet it's so easy to fill your calendar and leave no time for that sort of work/behaviour to occur.
RE: @bacardi55 Tue 03 May 2022 16:49 CEST
@Skyjake released Lagrange 1.13[1]. I'm truly impressed by how regular and efficient he is with all his gemini related project!
That being said, I'm also very eager to start testing lagrange TUI version <3
@Skyjake released Lagrange 1.13[1]. I'm truly impressed by how regular and efficient he is with all his gemini related project!
Lagrange 1.13 has been released:
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-05_lagrange-1.13.gmi
Curses TUI (source build), improved keyboard UI navigation, support for @mozz's Spartan protocol, Unicode 14 Emoji included, bookmarking indicator, viewing pages as plain/styled text, reopening tabs, and ability to embed trusted root CA certificates. I'll use the last one especially in the upcoming mobile builds so they can check CA-generated server certificates.
Please treat the TUI version as a beta for now. It's missing a few settings and has a few rough edges.
Oops, it turns out I never expected Station to last 1 year :)
Sorry about the cert issues folks. We now have a new one that (once trusted) will keep us going the next 10 years. Also happy 1 year anniversary to this cool little corner of the internet. 🎉
PS: Thanks for the heads-up @comatoast @obspogon @haze. 🙏
Seems station certificate has expired :/
I've been burning albums and a couple mixes on mindisc the last couple days and I've got a pretty good stack now. I was also able to fit all of the side A KONPEITO mixtapes onto a single mindisc :-).
After far too long, I spent the whole weekend hanging out with Esperanto speakers at the Brita Kongreso here in the UK (in Wales). It was awesome to be around old and new friends, using only Esperanto for the whole weekend. I forgot how much I love escaping the real world and living in Esperantujo. Really can't wait for IJK in summer, where instead of 60 people it'll be more like 200 . 🙏
I'm pleased to announce that after a swift and relatively easy board meeting, we've voted unanimously to reject Elon's bid to buy Station.
Seen on aioe.news.helpdesk newsgroup:
Some posting about spam on another newsgroup that comes from aioe.org servers…
First response:
Can you not just filter him rather than crying about it publicly. Are you some little crying baby that your mum couldn't teach you manners?
WTF is wrong with people unleashing their hate online for no reason… 🤦
I hate doing laundry, I really do. And kids just seem to make so many piles of it! #screwLaundry
Finally finished Ender's Game, what a great book. The audio story telling was great and I would delay doing things a few minutes to keep listening. Plot also got me thinking and feeling, which is rare these days. Looking forward to the next installment. Still also reading The Furyck Saga.
Everything that becomes popular turns to crap. So now I have to ditch DuckDuckGo and find an alternative. No, I'm not telling you what I'm moving to, lest they get enough users to dictate their terms to us. #rant
Computers were "good enough" 5 years ago, and we're still using them for the exact same purposes. So why do we have gigs of software updates every week, and why do our computers get slow and "out-of-date" every 2 years? Where's the extra value from all this added complexity, compared to 5 years ago? Is it purely aesthetic? I'd argue that we're regressing, not progressing. #computing #philosophy
Birds photographed on a recent trip: Half-collared Kingfisher, Black Swan (in captivity), Giant Kingfisher . #birding
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Photos from a recent trip to Hartebeespoort #photo #holiday
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✅ - Nice article by @szczezuja
Seems that houston¹ (verify a capsule status) has made smolZINE 24² :)
Thanks @kelbot
After decades of Ubuntu use, I've replaced my desktop OS with antiX. It's a minimal Debian system without systemd. Boots to desktop in about 5 seconds and uses only 150Mb of RAM. It's a simple system that I can get my head around easily and administer without unlearning and relearning things all the time like I had to with Ubuntu. It feels fast and efficient, and looks good too. For similar reasons, on the server side, I'm moving from Ubuntu to OpenBSD where I can.
antiX Linux
It's a "long weekend" here in the UK due to the Easter holidays. I hope those with the benefit of the extra time off work have something/relaxing planned. I'll mostly be coding and settling back into life in the UK after a little time spent living in Spain – I'm still saying "¡la cuenta porfa!" in restaurants here!
Testing testing. First time posting from Lagrange in the terminal, running in text mode! https://skyjake.fi/@jk/108109462522530795
Finally got an ethernet cable run to my raspberry pi that's sitting on the top floor of my home, and also running my Gemini Capsule. Not surprisingly my site loads faster. Also had a snafu whith my site not loading, but that seems to have resolved. New gemlog post on my foray into wiring up my house with ethernet and behind-the-wall cabling.
People that are still (or again) using usenet: How do you find interesting group to subscribe? There are so many and so much spam it seems impossible… The only one I'm following right now is the gemini one^^.
"Nearly all of modern computer engineers are working above so many layers that there’s no human way to understand what they are doing."
gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi #computing #philosophy #ubuntu #snaps
The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04
https://kineto.tobykurien.com/x/rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi
Back in the UK after living in the Canaries for the last 3 months. It's great to see people again after so long, but damn, I'm already missing that beautiful weather. It's so rough here that the plane aborted landing on the first attempt.
With zsh, when you are in a middle of typing a command and realize you need to type another one first, just use "ctrl+q", it will delete your command and let you type another one. After it is executed it will paste back your 1st command (before the ctrl+q) :)
This is so useful, for example if you realize the folder where you want to move a file is not created yet.
👍 zsh tips
I'm going to my first in-person Esperanto meetup in a couple of weeks since before the pandemic and I'm really pleased. It has been ages since I was around a bunch of other speakers, and there should be between 60-80 people! I'm even running a few games of "homlupo" (werewolf).
Curious which OS folks are running.
[POLL Which is your daily OS of choice?] Linux | macOS | Windows | Mobile (Android/iOS) | Other
The best thing you can do when learning a new language is to wield it like a maniac everywhere you can. You quickly lose any desire to appear competent and it becomes a lot more fun. It's also amazing how often people will go out of their way to help you when they see you trying.
Nice read about tinylogs (in RU and EN):
Микроблогинг в Gemini: tinylog и gtl / Microbloging in Gemini: tinylog and gtl
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/2022-04-03-MY008.gmi
Changed admin to webmaster because I can and because I like this word more. *cool_face*
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Apr 2022 12:35 CEST
Just learned my tinylog does not appear in Tinylog timeline generated by gtl anymore. Was it too boring or what could be the couse?
Your tinylog is still indexed by the aggregator! What can happen is if during the last check a capsule is down, it won't display any posts from it (there is no a memory, all posts are retrieve at refresh). So if any network issue happened right at the refresh time (could be on my server side too), then you are not in the latest page, but will be at the next refresh (every 15min). I can see your tinylog on the aggregator now for example.
Finished 30 days of intermittent fasting today. It's something I do on and off for periods of the year, aiming to give my body a rest from food intake much more than our normal diets allow. There are some really exciting health benefits associated with 16 hour daily intermittent fasting. If anyone is curious, I highly recommend the documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer.
Station reached 600 users today... another cool milestone for our awesome little microcommunity here. Congrats everyone 🙌
I had a tree removed from my property today, and I was surprisingly and almost inexplicably emotional about it - like loss and remorse. It's just a tree, but I liked it and it was HUGE; however, it was slowly dying and dropping branches which posed a safety concern. It took a 5 person crew almost all day to take it down and the enitre time I kept saying "sorry tree..." I will be planting a new one though, so there's that.
RE: @szczezuja Tue 29 Mar 2022 21:48 CEST
Bacardi55 pointed out to me the Usenet. I was touched by the second illiteracy. I used Usenet in the '90s. And now I haven't even know how to go about it. Ancient knowledge, what are the NNTP server addresses now?!
→ https://sdf.org/?faq%3fUSENET%3f01 [news.sdf.org]
And it already seemed that I do not have a free server at hand.
I'm "browsing" usenet with my mail client neomutt :) I'm also using this server that is free and open:
nntp.aioe.org
I've discovered that many actors attempt to find a common syntax for markdown. You can find more info on
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-beta1.gmi
The next phase begins in the Lagrange for Android prerelease builds. 🚀
Thanks for the Alpha feedback everyone! The work continues but now I’m happy to start calling this a “proper” Android app and not just a platform-agnostic mobile build.
I was poking around gemlog.blue yeaterday and noticed a lot of odd looking usernames. upon further inspection it appears bots have infiltrated the signup process. A lot of the sites are single pages with file download links scattered across the web, and also SEO agencies. Makes me sad to see.
Finding myself trying to pay more attention to how much energy I'm using and when I'm using it. Trying to shift my more energy-intensive activities toward the daytime, when my solar panels are providing most of my electricity. It's proving an interesting exercise. I think I might start carrying a USB stick with media I might want and using that instead of my local NAS in the evenings...
I sent my first message on the gemini newsgroup today! First time for the past 15+ years!
I met the former owner of my home just today, and he was different than I'd expected. I don't know what I'd expected, but he seemed like a laid-back friendly older man, maybe in his 70s. I've only had this place for just over a year, and in that time I've kind of cursed him for the bad wiring job in all the rooms, but now that I met him I felt a little bad. I still have wiring to fix in this place, but it changes things when you meet someone in person, especially when they seem friendly enough.
I've been poking around gopherspace a bit in LaGrange on my Android, and also Lynx and the official gopher software from the linux repositories, and I can't put my finger on it, but Gopher has a different feel to it. For one, it seems to have more content than Gemini...meaning, in Gemini there's a lot of folks talking about how Gemini works, but not a lot of personal projects or thoughts, etc. I think this has to do with the age of Gemini, so I'm guessing there will be more regular content here. Also, and it may just be me, but Gopher seems to center around a few main servers, i.e., Floodgap and SDF, etc., but I have more digging to do.
I stumble more and more on broken links in gemini even from aggregators like Antenna/Cosmos. Either stability has gone down lately in the gemini space or I'm just unlucky ^^.
Finally finished moving quietplace.xyz to new VPS. It takes 6 days of work.
/me tired
Wrote little post about what I selfhost.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/2022-03-20-MY006.gmi
Re: @deerbard 2022-03-19 23:24 CET
I've been wondering about that here on Gemini - will you even see this response if you're not following me? Probably not, unless you look yourself up on Kenndy Search's mentions page.
Discovering usenet after so many years (15?) :)
There is now a specific gemini place there too:
comp.infosystems.gemini
@gnuserland Check it out: 🙂
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-alpha7.gmi
This is also a preview of Lagrange v1.12, with Roboto as the default font, paragraph justification option, bottom URL/tab bars, new "Oceanic" color theme, and improvements for the other themes.
I did notice an occasional problem with the lookup results popup remaining open even after unfocusing the URL bar. Let me know if you find a reliable way to reproduce that.
Started watching Ted Lasso because Apple decided to make it free for a short while to lure folks in. I knew exactly nothing about the show except that it won a LOT of awards. I'm four episodes in and I can say that it's got me hooked; however, I refuse to sign up for another streaming service so I'm just going to binge as much as I can before they pull the plug. I guess I should figure out when that is...
- I like that there are so many things to discover about Gemini. After having figured out how SCGI basically works on the Molly Brown server, I returned my attention to actually making content and surfing around on here. I've seen the debates about how Gemini is kind of centralizing with these aggregators, but honestly, they are only a small part of my time here on Gemini. I'll find a link on a capsule and just go down a rabbit hole of links...which is part of the great thing of Gemini. It's the original stumbleupon.
- The only negative thing about Gemini is that if I don't post to something like Antenna, it's almost like a personal journal here, with my only readers being link crawlers. Not that I have much to say, but isn't that part of writing a gemlog on the internet? So other people might read it?
It's great that after so many years I still love the feeling of sitting down and wiring in for a long evening spent progressing an idea. This kind of creative outlet has been addictively valuable to me since the day I first started coding, and I'm very thankful I can still find it. ☺️
Poll – I'm curious what kind of geography Station covers now with so many more users.
[POLL Where are Station's users?] Africa | Asia | Europe | America (N/S) | Australia
Last night I watched "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda." It's a documentary about a Japanese composer who, at the time, was battling throat cancer. It was a nice, calm, meandering film. I enjoyed it.
Just 2 posts until Station reaches 2000. Nice little milestone!
RE: @bacardi55 Mon 14 Mar 2022 10:44 CET
In theory, using offpunk should be the same as centralizing gemini/web pages I want to read in wallabag (which I already do)…
But I don't know why I feel I need to try offpunk for some nerdy reasons :).
I think I'm going to try offpunk sometime this week… :)
https://tildegit.org/ploum/AV-98-offline
RE: @szczezuja Sun 13 Mar 2022 22:31 CET
Thanks a lot for sharing those info :]
I installed and configured grocy for managing food stock, meal planning and shopping list shared with my gf.
I'm very impressed by the tool so far :)
Goal is to plan better to limit waste even more :)
Is usenet still used? Anyone has good documentation if that's the case?
Or are BBS more still used? If so, which is the more active between usenet and BBS?
Where my minidisc homies at?
I've release GTL v0.7.0 :)
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/13/gtl-v0.7.0/
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.7.0
RE: @szczezuja Sat 12 Mar 2022 22:28 CET
"nb" looks very interesting. Someday, I would like to get into org mode. It seems to be an even more general solution (although it would require a transition from vi to emacs).
I thought about it a few times, but I can not make my mind to move away from vim after all those years…
There are not many ideologies today, it seems, that encourage consuming less in order to reclaim more of one's free time for oneself. Yet I think this is a necessary plank in our transition to a greener future. I feel this could be helped along by encouraging simple, maximally inclusive communal activities. Much of our consumption today seems directed toward compensating for a loss of non-consumption-oriented community.
I say this as one living in a relatively affluent Western country, granted.
Last night I referred to my own post on Station from about a month ago (linked below) to make another tempeh-and-rice concoction. Had to use honey because we were out of maple syrup. Still turned out alright. I think some ginger would've made it even better, though
gemini://station.martinrue.com/lykso/82c7fc62e52a45d48331bf006ae4c370
Did I really miss how awesome "nb" is? 🤯
Listening to Konpeito music over and over again :)
Sometimes all you need is a little momentum. It doesn't matter how you start – the only goal sans momentum is to get going. Do anything. Get into motion. Once you're moving everything else is much more prone to lining up. This has been a note to self.
Kelkfoje oni bezonas nur iom da movokvanto. Ne gravas kiel, nur ke via celo estu moviĝi. Ion ajn faru. Simple ekmoviĝu. Poste ĉiuj la aliaj aferoj emos malkovriĝi. Tiu ĉi estas noto por la estonta mi.
tilde.cafe now has a spartan server! And my spa client is working out pretty well for a minimal client... I am looking forward to using spartan as my playground for a tinylogging server/service...
I had a Raspberry Pi 4 I wasn't using, so last night I flashed LibreELEC to an SD card and set it up to connect to my backup box over Wireguard. Now I don't have to spin up my gaming box to watch things! Haven't plugged it into a Kill-a-watt yet, but I suspect the Pi is using 1/4 to 1/10 of the electricity my gaming box does. Also, no fan noise.
spa, my Spartan browser framework is up and running.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-03-05.spa.gmi
It is my first practical piece of HorseWare, built to Whinam principles (immutable log, indices). It also introduces 4-character `sigils`, durable mnemonic devices to represent URLs.
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone have exciting / unusual plans?
I'm hanging out here on the island of Lanzarote and mostly just coding. Simple pleasures :)
Shit just got real with that nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Have we learned nothing?
Since January, I became team lead, which mean that 50% of my time should be now focused on helping and coaching other people in the team…
I know how to do my job, but coaching others is though… I should try to find some good materials to learn this skill…
Also, now I have many more topics to manage, I need to be better at taking and organizing notes more efficiently…
This work week is crazy, I haven't been this tired for a long time…
Recent discoveries:
What a cunt. Anyone who buys a Tesla is an ignorant asshole, best case, or just a plain old asshole.
Nice summary of the different microblogging option in gemini:
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20220227-microblogging.gmi
Technically speaking, I don't see the difference between sending a "gemini mention" and submitting my RSS feed to Antenna 🤔…
Sent my first Gemini Mention to someone than myself during testing/dev of RFC implementation :].
gemserv of pllux.casa has been upgraded to v0.6.6 !
@gnuserland There seems to be a problem with your Atom timestamps in the gemini://gnuser.land/gemlog/atom.xml feed. The "updated" time of a few entries is missing a date:
<updated>T12:00:00-0500</updated>
This causes CAPCOM to think the item is dated for the current day. (The circumlunar CAPCOM is also not filtering future dates, it seems... 🙂)
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
That's a great post, my thoughts aver /very/ similar to the ones in this post.
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: Pen Thu 24 Feb 2022 10:30 UTC
Could it be, that gtl does not parse yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm, i.e. a time without zone, though it should consider it as UTC?
Just discovered Pen's new tinylog and this message. If you read this (I didn't find any contacts on your capsule), yes GTL consider UTC if you don't precise the timezone. Look below a screenshot of your tinylog in GTL:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/6e7f084bb002
Received my first gemini mention this morning, it's great to see it working! Thanks Paulsnar!
Seems the other responses I got were less positive, which I understand as it might feel too complex for gemini… But maybe it isn't as big as a problem than I thought? 🤷
This isn't at all a mandatory thing, it provides just a way to tell the other authors "hey look here" in a more standardize way.
It might die on its own in the next weeks as I said, or be used by just a handful of people at the end, like for tinylogs, but I least I tried* :]
(*"Do or do not, there is no try" said Yoda… But I can say I actually did it with the implementations :p. And yes, I'm quoting Yoda :D).
Have a great Sunday everyone and stay safe!
After some teasing, I've finally posted my thoughts and ideas (and implementations) for gemini response via gemlog…
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/02/27/my-take-on-gemlog-replies/
Gemini mentions status:
Missing pieces:
The golang server side implementation is the remaining big thing before I can share all this with everyone. I was hopping by end of the week end, but being realistic probably mean end of next week^^.
After a period of low-energy, of the sort I'm learning to ride out by taking some time to relax and play games or read things (rather than trying to force myself into "productivity," which really never seems to work), I've spent today almost entirely productively. Wife has termed this "business mode." It's been nice.
I've put in written my idea for gemini mentions (aka replies, backlinks, …). The content seems ok-ish right now for a draft proposal.
I've started a very simple bash implementation (but I really don't like bash :p) that should be ready this week end.
I'm also planing to write a better software for it (probably in go to provide binary files) that will have more advance feature.
Providing tools with the proposal will, I hope, help geminauts want to try it on their capsule (granted they agree to enable cgi scripts, if their server allows it).
I'd like to publish the proposal with the 2 tools at the same time but if I don't have enough time I may publish the proposal with "just" the bash script in the next few days 🤷.
Anyone using a Gemini client on iOS they'd recommend? Ideally looking for something easy without having to compile myself.
@skyjake While I'm on the subject, do you have longer-term plans to have an App Store release for iOS? Might be a nice way to support development. I'd happily pay premium for it.
Thinking about the backlinks again… I started a draft of my I'm thinking that I'll publish when ready, but if I'm being realistic, the main blocker will be the need for cgi scripts that capsule owner will have to setup.
Even if given the said script, it might not be easy for everyone and some user might be against the idea of having these kind of scripts on their server.
I also think that not every server allow them.
I have been thinking about replies in the gemini space and backlinks…
It isn't an easy problem as the solutions could be very simple or horribly complex…
But I want to give a shot, so my plan is to write a small concept and one or 2 implementations (eg: a very simple in bash and a more advanced as a go binary), so that's it is not "just" a concept but actually giving the tool to help the community embrace some kind of backlinks/pingbacks/refbacks
I really like the gemini community :) Thank you all!
My Spartan client is finally getting close to working, kind of. The client itself is trivial, but the URL sigil bookmark/cache system that gives every URL seen a 4-letter shortcut has been an interesting animal to code. Also, trying out the Whinam datastructure of using an immutable log with an index as a generic datastore is hard work in an entirely uncharted territory. Anyway, moving slower than anticipated, with much procrastination and uncertainty about my actions.
Offpunk¹ browser seems very cool and bring very interesting changes to the way one would browse the web…
I really need to take the time "someday" to test it out!
I find my engagement with video content and text content is different. Video content "goes down" easier, but tends to not engage my thinking as deeply. Reading text *feels* more difficult, but I also feel like it forces me to consider every detail more thoroughly. I could easily spend all day consuming visual content, and I have in the past, but I find myself working to cut out that kind of content lately. I must be getting old. 😜
@Acidus¹ is managing a great search engine for gemini (Kennedy) that now can show cached results too³!
I find it so cool to have real good search engine now, thanks a lot @acidus for the great work!
RE: @deerbard Mon 21 Feb 2022 20:55 CET
Sick, weak and unable to work but at least learned it's not covid. And there is one positive side of it all - I read more. Always look on the bright side of life.
Wish @deerbard to get better soon!
I've just lost 10 minutes to a wonderful version of the I-can't-find-the-sunglasses-that-are-on-my-head problem in which I've been debugging code that randomly stopped playing sound, except it didn't, I just didn't have my headphones on my actual head.
Happy Monday folks. Hope everyone has an awesome week. I'm working on my own stuff this week, and I'm super excited to have only that as my sole focus. Single-tasking ftw.
Back in 2015, I predicted that once ad-blocking became common, we would be faced with server-side tracking:
You know what will happen once most of us install ad-blockers? Server-side ad SDK's, that's what. Unblockable ads, unstoppable tracking.
https://twitter.com/TobyKurien/status/628227819076775936
Well, it's here in the form of Server-side tagging in Google Tag Manager, and it's easier than the SDK I predicted. #adblock #privacy
Server-side tagging
https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html
When I was a kid, Myst looked amazing. I never got a chance to play it, but I really wanted to. Now I'm on a resource-constrained laptop with ScummVM... seemed like a good time to finally give it a go. I'm stupidly excited about it. 😂
Read this on station:
Hey Station! I've been looking for some "affiliate" capsules to link on the main page of mine. My capsule is at xxxxx if you want to take a look at it. Drop your capsules here if you'd like to be an affiliate, lol.
It feels to me like a very web oriented way of thinking. There is nothing to gain and no real SEO on gemini…
Start writing content and maybe add links to other capsules you like, and people will do the same if/when they like your capsule…
I could say a lot more but I'll stop there.
I also removed the actual link (but you can find it easily by going to station), because it is not against this specific geminauts but more for our community to start thinking differently.
Wordo is now on full auto. A cron-driven script selects a new random word from the dictionary of ~6000 word and sets up a new game at 08:00 UTC.
gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/wordo/dev/cgi?
Добавил пачку черновиков, возможно я сделаю из них нормальные записи и опубликую, но ничего не могу обещать. Если вы вдруг хотите туда заглянуть, то держите ссылочку.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/drafts/
"You've already been dead for 4.5 billion years." 👊
I love being shit at something. No ego, no embarrassment in trying and failing repeatedly, progress is obvious to see, everyone can help you. Holding onto this mindset once you really start to make progress is rare. Rare and valuable tend to overlap often.
[POLL 🐶🐱?] Dogs are the best boys/girls | Cats are cool | Rodents are adorable | Horse! | I'm a fish
I've added search (more like filtering) capabilities to GTL :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/commit/1343c80595cd5e2253ab4b46189e77156cf8236b
Upcoming version moving on nicely :]
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 17 Feb 2022 17:39 CET
I find it pretty cool and easy to customize, you did a great job!
Thanks a lot for testing and the feedback :) I have a few other feature I want to add before the next release so it's nice to see this one work :)
Damn, the re convention is a little cumbersome! Am I even doing it right?
Acme editor... I keep trying to eliminate the mouse, but find that I really can't - even when I use vim (poorly) I wind up switching to another terminal or something that is more easily mouse-driven. And copy-paste with the middle button (linux) is a godsend.
So I wonder if I would just love Acme, paradoxically. I have some intimate experience with Project Oberon which has a similar ad-hoc button-making capabilty, and that's _fabulous_. Sadly I don't like Oberon much as a language, perhaps unfairly, but even the idea of, for the rest of my life, typing capitalized POINTER TO seems dumb.
I don't know why the idea of placing contact information into a well-known place scares the crap out of me! It's not like I am hiding my email, but the idea of a spider harvesing all the emails in gemini space so easily just sits wrong. It's not that hard to get - just look for email addresses at index.gmi, or just scan all tildes for usernames (which correspond to the emails there). So I don't know what I am scared of.
I am also pathologically afraid and annoyed that gemini content is being proxied to the main web. I don't want them reading our shit! Well, at least they can't play SpellBinding...
Another one takes the red pill and wakes up from the Matrix - "I think the internet is broken - Chris Hawkes"
Chris Hawkes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EB0hG32DSMc
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Tue 15 Feb 2022 20:48 CET
Happy to see @adele posting again in the gemini space (:
The custom theming feature for GTL has been moving nicely:
GTL screenshots in 3 theme (HTTPS)
I'm not that happy with the code that added a lot of mess I feel… But I like the feature.
I would love some testing though as it might differ in other systems and setups…
Gemini is a bad idea because you need a specific browser ?
Using a classical browser to access lightweight web sites is not secure ?
No problemo :
gemini://adele.work/gemlog/2022-02-15_Double_posting.gmi
I'm using more antenna and cosmos than my own commitium (feed agregator) right now… I don't know if it's good or not and if I should shut down the aggregator?
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io
New smolzine #20 is out :-)
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-20.gmi
Hello gemini tinyloggers!
Now I'm part of "Tinylog timeline generated by gtl" thank you @bacardi55!
Also gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/ [1] now part of "Fediring" [2]! If you have account on fediverse you can join us.
[1] gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/
Got bogged down in URL normalization. I should've just written the code to do it from the start instead of wasting a couple of days looking for a library and trying to adapt it, then realizing it has a gaping hole (and is designed by an ignoramus). Remember the Forth way:
The speed increase on Station is really noticeable. Good job @martin !
I've made quite good progress on implementing custom themes in gtl¹ :)
More messy than I would have prefer… But seems to work well!
I may rework it a bit, but I'll push something this week (and would love more tests than me and my different terms)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/44
Sorry if you see tests in my tinylogs, I use my own tinylog feed for testing 🤷 :)
But happy to have fixed a couple of issue in GTL to get back on the horse, now I can start working on real improvements :).
@bacardi55: You go!
I started coding a few patch for GTL in the train on Friday and today… Clearly rusty as I had to re-read some of my code to understand what I did a few months ago :D
But happy to start again, a few patches will be pushed soon to the main branch
Reflecting on an amazing year and I'm thankful for so many things. Here are some short (subjective) observations from "life" so far.
Добавил RFC: TinyLogs format и RFC: GEMPUB format в коллекцию.
2021-06-08 RFC: TinyLogs format
Hey Stationeers! Today is my birthday, so I made a few updates to our station (it was getting a little rusty). Station is now faster, and you can add polls to posts to get more structured feedback. All the details are in "Recent Updates" gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates
So, here goes – first poll on Station:
[POLL How long have you been on Station?] I'm really new | A few weeks | A few months | I'm an old guard
I'm spending the day in a very hot Arrecife, so hello from the beach where I'm pushing this update from 👋
В данный момент моя статья об Scuttlebutt мне не нравится. Надо будет её переделать, если получится.
These 3D printed computer terminals are simply gorgeous! #3dprint #retro #terminal
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
So I have a prototype that loads and renders a page, and databases the links. But I hit a snag: a brower can just send the links to the server as they are written in gemtext, but since I am databasing the links, I need to normalize them. This is not hard, but is nasty business full of corner cases.
Cool! I have several modules working:
All I need is to tie them together. I could probably string it together in the shell, or monolithic for now. Links can be navigated as numbers from the current page, 4-char codes via the mapper, or typed in as full urls. Suckless-style configuration can work - just change the colors and recomple, which is instant with a 20K executable...Sticking to spartan for now to avoid dealing with TLS... Will have a working browser with a link database tomorrow (I hope).
Finally got to work on my old idea of a modular browser. Starting with a URL mapper. It maps URLS to 4-character codes, allowing up to 1 million URLs to be 'shortened'. This code will be presented in my CLI browser (before each link), and the user can go to any link encountered by typing in 4 characters. Not just a link on this page -- any link ever seen! This works as a URL shortener, a way to navigate links, a history cache, and a 'bookmark' system of sorts.
I'm motivated to take back working on GTL soon :]
I have a few ideas to implement and bugs to fix, and I miss writing go :P
Feel free to send any ideas or submit ticket to github/gitlab projects too (:
What the...? Is this really "Buy Instagram Followers" spam on Midnight Pub, in Persian? 😄
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/793
Apparently there is another security fix for gemserv, please update geminauts!
I wrote a spartan 'client' toy in C. It's a start.
https://tildegit.org/stack/spb
I am not sure how I feel about Pleroma, or the Fediverse in general... It looks quite noisy, but I really haven't been a part of it enough to have an opinion. I know I don't like most things about twitter or facebook. Elixir is interesting to me, but again I know nothing about it...
I just found mozz's Spartan protocol! And his reference client. And it turns out there is a bunch of stuff there. I really love the simplicity. tilde.team has a spartan server! And it supports cgi (although I cannot figure out how to get data off the url past the ?... But it's a start.
Anyone using it? How do you browse?
I've been thinking about tinylogs, feeds and federation...
Some ideas on how something like it could be used to simultaneously fill all social networking needs, from chat to email to bulletin boards to gemlogs and magazines -- in the (fictional?) land of intelligent horses:
New tinylog:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/tinylog.gmi
Ah, done with the chores: checking tomorrow's SpellBinding and Wordo games. Always best to do it early before my brain gets fuzzy. I really should automate it more for wordo. I would like to be able to set up a whole month's worth of games in an hour or two, and let it rip. SpellBinding is almost there, but I still have to mess with the dictionary a lot, and then update all the pre-made games...
I should've done this ages ago. What a great way to say something quickly! It was also a pleasure to find bacardi55 aggregator. I really like the gtl TUI tool, but sady it's in go, and I dare not install anything on my current machine...
Wait, it works at a tilde! And it is cool.
Houston¹ and Tinylogs agregator² are back online :) That's one thing less to do!
I also added a few tinylog generated by Station³ to the aggregator. Not sure who to add and who not to, so for now only @skyjake, @martin and @kelbot have been added.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/
Hanging out in mozz's chat room for a bit. 👍👍
Station has reached 500 users! Thanks @powerh00th00t for bringing this awesome little community on the fringes of the Internet to this new milestone. Thanks everyone who participates here for keeping this place alive, friendly, and full of interesting stuff every day! 🍻
Устал, но добавил в коллекцию вторую статью от Parimal Satyal.
2020-05-25 Rediscovering the Small Web!
Not sure why, but I can't make my gemini server hosting houston/tinylog aggregator to work again with gemserv since the last update…
I did the same thing for my "local" server (serving my gemlog and feed) and it worked without any issue…
Even tried recreating the tls certificate but no success… I'm thinking about installing another gemini server for this 🤔
Добавил статью в коллекцию Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web за авторством Parimal Satyal.
2017-11-02 Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
Убрал ограничение в 80 символов и теперь использую "длинные строки" в соответствии с документацией gemini.
Spellbinding is driving Gemini adoption in my social circle. My wife and I have been playing it, and now her sister and one of her friends have installed Lagrange in order to join us in playing it. 😁
gemini://spellbinding.tilde.cafe/
Issue 19 of smolZINE is out now. Check out Sunny's capsule in Hidden Gems for a cool wordle clone playable within gemini. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-19.gmi
Also to think about this week: Should I (auto) clean my tinylog file to remove old entries?
I think I should put a cleaning process to remove post older than X days…
That's also why I want to add a "bookmark" option in GTL.
Thought for this week: Should we try to simplify tinylog format a bit?
I feel like some resistance about it is because it can be too flexible (and thus potentially hard to parse).
A simple solution would be to have a more limiting format and then allow client to add feature they want on top of it.
I have no idea if that's really an option, as some user already feel "constrained" with the current format 🤷
RE: @lykso@lyk.so Fri 28 Jan 2022 20:35 UTC
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Funny enough, I wrote a gemlog about this recently¹.
I don't think tinylogs are dead, but as @deerbard said, I'm just posting this into the gemini void without too much thoughts :).
RE: @szczezuja Sun 30 Jan 2022 21:51 CET
@bacardi55: I've add to my GTL one feed of my colleague, and I realized that there are no any Station's tinylogs in your aggregated feeds timeline. Is it on purpose? I remember that Station had add tinylog support on the early stage of RFC creation, and It seems to be quiet about it from that time?
Indeed, I didn't add any station users to the global feed. The reason was: "who am I to decide who should or shouldn't be on that list?"… Then I could add "everyone" but that's a lot…
I could start with adding the "most known" users? I don't know tbh, so would appreciate feedback :)
Finally joined Astrobotany: gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/a76b6a12acf0444e8a8155c9a5984c5f
Hello from the Atlantic ocean! I'm on a ship headed to Lazarote and I'm somehow picking up a 4G signal, so I've tethered so I can use Lagrange. First Atlantic ocean post on Gemini? 😆
Написал небольшую заметку о том как установить новую версию go на старый debian.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/glog/2022-01-29-MY004.gmi
Пробую разобраться в tinylog и gtl.
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Using the electricity mix in my region, the servers I run put out around 5 tonnes of CO² a year. My laptop puts out just shy of 100lbs, or 45kg (assuming 12 hours of use per day). Seeing what tricks I can employ to begin keeping my servers powered off more. Already I've started keeping my media box turned off at night and much of the day by downloading music and video I want to consume in the near future to the devices I'll be consuming them on, but my VM server runs some things that should be kept on 24 hours a day. Next step is, I suppose, seeing if I can put some of those VMs onto SBCs instead. (I have a few from previous projects just gathering dust at the moment.)
Just improvised a lunch for me and my housemates. Writing it here to share and remember:
- 1/2 a head of garlic
- 1 onion
- A generous amount of sesame oil
- 340g (12oz) tempeh
- 60mL (1/4 cup) soy sauce
- 60mL (1/4 cup) pure maple syrup
- 3 packets of red pepper flakes
- 15mL (3 tsp.) garam masala
- Some shiitake mushroom
Fry onion, garlic, tempeh together in oil, add mushroom and fry until browned, add rest of ingredients, cook until sauce is absorbed/reduced. Serve w/ rice or eat as-is.
I've written a post about why I've chosen to be pseudonymous.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/009-why-a-pseudonym.gmi
Perfect score on Spellbinding. 🙌
Listening to KONPEITO #8. Anyone know of any other Gemini-native music/mixtapes?
@ewok reading challenge day 6: only read 10 pages today. I really need to start reading earlier, that would help sleep more too ^^
@skyjake site is down… I'm guessing his new server still have a few glitches :D
Joking aside, I think the gemini community really benefits from his hard work in clearly all gemini areas like @szczezuja said!
If you read this @skyjake, many thanks <3
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_dynamic-cosmos.gmi
Combing through my data, trying to create a reasonable accounting of and structure for it all. Seems almost like a never-ending project.
Didn't read at all yesterday (well, I did read a manga but that doesn't count). I'm going to do a wrap up of my experience in this challenge later today (or tomorrow), but I'm thinking about another challenge to start for the next 3 weeks. Not based on page / day but mainly just on "did I read X days per week". The number of page is not important for me, as it also depends so much on life constraint. But making the habit to open a book at least 5 days per week is what I'm looking for…
Mondays, right…? 😫
"Forced" myself a bit tonight to read before going to bed, but I may regret it tomorrow morning 🤷.
Anyway, I only read 20 pages tonight. But the main goal is to retrieve the habit of reading daily or close to it, so I'm happy to continue this challenge :).
Just upgraded Lagrange from 1.9.5 to 1.10.1. Really enjoying that it now shows me the identity that will be used to request a URL in the "URL" bar that pops up at the bottom of the window when hovering over a link.
Day 3 of the reading challenge! I missed day 2, but today I finished one of my book, reading 50+ page so I'm covered for the day :].
Yesterday was last day of the working week and my brain was entirely fried ^^
One of the benefits of the Reform having a clear bottom: I don't think I've ever cbeen this fastidious about keeping the inside of a computer clean before.
Finally the week end :]
RE: @szczezuja Thu 20 Jan 2022 16:38 CET
It's funny that it seems that made more noise than . Twtxt was added to some time ago, and at this time there were about 10 active users aggregated by @bacardi55, and only several testing posts on twtxt provided by Antenna. Of course twtxt is reaching more far than Geminispace, but in Geminispace tinylog is more homely. For me the key benefit is that tinylog is readable for any Gemini client, ant it isn't only formatted text-file, at the same time it is offering the same functionalities, with the same simplicity.
Maybe I'm wrong When I say that txtwt is more popular, I don't know, but feels like it but maybe only because twtxt users are more vocal? In any case, the more I think about it the more I do prefer tinylogs. But maybe the RFC format is a bit too complex for micro bloging? I'll have a think later, in the meantime, I'm enjoying writing here (:
If you have missing glyphs (Emoji in particular) in #Lagrange, this may help:
https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/font-library/src/branch/main/build/get_symbola.sh
It's a shell/Python script that downloads Symbola from UFAS and converts it to TrueType (using "fonttools"). You can then drag-and-drop the .ttf on the Lagrange window to install it.
(Requires python3 and pip3.)
Symbola is quite a nice Unicode 13 compatible font, but available only for personal use so I can't put it in the Font Library.
I've decided to participate to ew0k reading challenge for the coming weeks.
Tonight, I read indeed 50 pages (from 77 to 127^^) of one my current book.
I'm hopping that this challenge will help me add more reading habits to my brain so that I can achieve the 24 goal this year!
So I've been thinking. Wanderlust, while used too often, is still a cool German word that captures the essence of wanting to be somewhere else – the desire (lust) to be wandering (wander). But eventually, such an unfulfilled desire doesn't feel so positive, so I've always been on a first-name basis with Fernweh – far pain, or the pain of not being somewhere far away (in contrast to homesickness). Reflecting on the last month hanging out in the Canary islands, I'm grateful that I've had no cause to use either of these words. In fact I now wish to coin a new pair: Hierlust (the desire to be right here) and Anderswoweh (the pain of thinking about being anywhere else).
Today is not a great day so far
The TLGS (Totally Legit Gemini Search) search engine seems to work really well for the few searches I've done on it yesterday and today :)
Thanks a lot to the author @Martin!
I see more posts about twtxt in the gemini community. Feels like it might attract more than tinylog for some reason… I'm now thinking: should I switch to twtxt? Have both? Should GTL handle Twtxt format? At this point I don't know 🤷.
I'll try to write a post about my thoughts tonight if I find the motivation
Wrote my first gemlog entry of the year. I'm happy because it has been some time since I manage to motivate myself to write! One step after the other we can then think about a possible second one :]
Stopping work now… I started ±12h ago… This has been a long day…
Stumble across @Ploum article about going offline in 2022. I must say it made me think a lot. Not that I want to do the same thing, but I've been trying to remove some of the "burden" of being online last year too. Using an e-ink tablet to read web content via wallabag is quite helpful as it limits me in what I can do, but I haven't been the best at following my rules.
Also, I find it very interesting that people that experienced the early web are more and more trying to either disconnect or find alternative closer to back then (myself included). I believe it does speak a lot about what the web has became…
It's OK. Some times, when you're dealing with a crazy-maker, it's OK to just burn that bridge and never look back.
Small Cosmos tweak: publications like smolZINE are always sorted to the top of their day and can only be the root of a thread. @kelbot
As zines are not regular log posts they may link to many things and if one or more of the links happen to be feed posts, it’s not appropriate for the zine to become a thread reply to one of them.
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-18.gmi
The #Smashwords website is nothing like a modern website, and I love it! I mean, you can download this #ebook I am currently really enjoying (Casual Computing) for free, DRM free, without creating an account, without popups in your face, right now, just by following the link. No user hostility, you can read the ebooks on any device you want, and you get to support independent authors.
Casual Computing: Light Reading for Users of Open Source, About Open Source
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/686135
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos.gmi
Occasionally people reply or refer to others' posts in Geminispace, but these threads of discussion are not really visible anywhere. I wanted to make something to help with this, so I wrote a new aggregator that tracks links between posts.
Started thinking seriously about hosting my own cloud today. I'm too entrenched in the MS world and I dislike having all my data and in my calendar just sit with MS. I like their apps (MS ToDo is really good), but it's not a sustainable relationship.
I've already got a domain name in mind and an HDD. I just need to wait for RPi 4s to come back in stock. Or could I get away with it on an RPi 3B?
This week. The goal is to simplify my writing.
I keep wanting to use fzf as a general interface, but there are all these seemingly-slight issues that keep that from being viable. Was building a Spartan browser in shell script using fzf as an interface just now, but the lack of line wrapping and the lack of support for entering arbitrary text makes it a non-starter. :/
"Digital Vegan" is a deep dive into the problems with our current technology (Big Tech and social media). It's "a call to disengagement and more careful, slower, deliberate and thoughtful relations with technology". #book #recommendation
Andy Farnell
Did you know you can download all of Wikipedia onto your hard drive and use it offline? It's only 87Gb and will fit on a microSD card. Useful for distraction-free productivity for home-schooling, work-from-home, etc. Also useful for those with little or no connectivity or during internet take-downs. With the Kiwix software, it's searchable and you can also host it onto a local network with one click. Other useful downloads: Gutenberg books, Khan Academy, TED videos, StackExchange, Arch Linux wiki, WikiHow, and tons more. Might as well put your uncapped (or night-time) internet to good use. #offline #kiwix
Kiwix content
https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Enjoying this interactive gemsite:
Re: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space 2022-01-06 10:25 CET
Yeah, it's really, *really* vague. I'm guessing it's similar to or synonymous with the "indie web" at best, and nothing more than an inflated way to say "we don't like cryptocurrencies" at worst.
I really like Gemini, but inline links have been very hard to let go of for me.
Today, I'm thinking about Earth Vessels and resiliency labs. I'm thinking about where to my family and I can live sustainable, creative, productive, and healthy lives.
I've been pretty quiet on here since before Xmas. I've been traveling again. I really should sort out a mobile client. Hope everyone's 2022 has started well! 💪
¡Feliz día de Reyes! I didn't get anything. Probably a Brexit thing.
I don't know if the Fediverse is the future, but it is certainly *a future,* and I see myself wanting to make more of a contribution to the Fediverse than anywhere else. Take a look here: https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2021
So many ongoing projects and all of them going in different directions, pulling and stretching the fediverse in so many new ways of interacting, sharing, and creating.
A free e-book on advice from a philosopher billionaire: "Almanack of Naval Ravikant". I don't agree with all of it, but there's a lot here to contemplate and dig into. #book #recommendation #philosophy #happiness #wealth
Eric Jorgenson
Dropped a butter knife on my laptop screen. Managed to make a small cut in the polarization film, so now I've got a white line in the middle of my screen. I wonder if it's possible to order the film only, or if I'm going to have to order a whole new screen? 🤔
Had a rough morning but a better afternoon and evening. I wonder if rather than do the same variety of tasks everyday, I might try reducing the number of tasks I do but increasing the amount of time I spend on them. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Doing the whole r/linuxupskillchallenge thing. Figuring out the whole SSH keys thing. Can you have more than one? How do you back them up and more importantly how do you restore them?
I'm also thinking about adding a guestbook to my capsule. Do you remember guestbooks on websites?
Nostr is: "The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all." and "a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working" #nostr #twitter #decentralized
Nostr
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
I took quite a long (forced, unavoidable) break to focus on my studies. Thankfully I've updated by tinylog-gen script so it can merge my 2021 and 2022 files now. Speaking of which, happy new year :)
I generally don't care about it though -- I mean it's just another revolution around the sun plus about 3/4th of a day, right? Also more or less beginning from a rather arbitrary point in the orbit anyway.
It's amazing coming back to my inbox reading mailing list archives to read what I'd missed. By the way, I'm surprised I still remember all my shortcuts and keybinds I've set up in nvim, tmux etc.
Most likely for another day to start working on my projects again, sadly. Bye!
1- Grateful for the opportunity to read this evening
2- The difference between a store-bought and a market-bought potato is like night and day. I'm grateful for the farmer's work and for his affordable and delicious potatoes.
3- Thankful for the meaningful conversations I've witnessed and took part in today on the Fediverse. Lots of lovely souls looking to make the world a better place
smolZINE Issue 17 is out now. Happy new year! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-17.gmi
Here's the fontpack I'm using in Lagrange, in case anyone else fancies a modernist, Futura-like font for their Gemini browsing: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/Jost.fontpack
Just upgraded to Lagrange 1.9.2 from 1.7.0. Enjoying the new fontpack feature!
Что ж, теперь это мой любимый автономный сценарий для еженедельного чтения контента Gemini в одном документе
как это выглядит на моем Kindle PW 4
Now using fzf to interactively search my inventory files. Updated my "bins" system page and wrote a quick gemlog entry about it. Pretty simple stuff, but maybe you'll find it interesting.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/008-searching-the-bins.gmi
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-12_android-alpha.gmi
A new frontier for Lagrange! The first ALPHA build of Lagrange for Android is available for trying out, if you have a 32-bit ARM device.
It is pretty certain to crash on you somewhere along the way. Hopefully the next build with a newer SDL is more stable.
I updated the Gemini server certificates on skyjake.fi and git.skyjake.fi.
skyjake.fi kept its public key, so your client may automatically trust it. The expiration date is much further in the future.
git.skyjake.fi now uses the same certificate, via SAN. I'm also redirecting from git.skyjake.fi:1965 (served by Agate) to git.skyjake.fi:1968 (served by GmGitView).
Station just reached 1500 (1501 now) posts! I'm loving the active, niche, friendly community we have here. Every time I visit there's something that catches my attention, and that's great to see considering the tiny corner of the internet we occupy. Here's to the next 1500!
The latest incarnation of my #raspberrypi DIY audio player. Still a bit clunky, but it's now pocketable, and can run 15+ hours on a full charge. The software is now perfect 👌 #diy
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A critique of Web3. It's a long read, but gives a good explanation of what the Web3 (NFT, DAO) fuss is all about, and then promptly rips it apart with some considered arguments. #longread #web3 #nft #dao
The Third Web
https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
smolZINE Issue 16 has been released. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-16.gmi
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon! Today it's Esperanto day! If anyone's curious why I rate the language, and how I got into it: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/
As is the trend these days, @ForGoodZA have updated their site to be far more user-hostile: cookie popup, 7+Mb of javascript, and tons of 3rd party requests without which the site won't work. All just so I can pick a cause and donate some money. *Sigh*
@deerbard thank you for the heads-up about the date format! I was confused about why my posts weren't showing up. I still need to track down where the issue is. I've gone full "digital minimalism" (see posts on my capsule) so I've completely dropped all social media (including Mastodon), and only browse Station, tinylogs, and Antenna mostly, since the volume of posts is low enough. If there's a website I want to read frequently, I write a scraper to bring it to gemini or add a feed to my comitium.
Whew, my first 100% score in SpellBinding. 😅
77 of 77 points
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? (2007)
learning vi/vim is an activity that will take a long time (weeks to months), and that the first experience is not pleasant
viemu.com
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Testing the new Lagrange for iOS native text input!
My custom input widgets weren’t really cutting it on mobile. There’s a vast number of little things that iOS does to make text entry smooth and effortless, so anything I could implement myself would be but a pale imitation.
It remains to be seen what can be done on other mobile platforms. The custom widget has to stick around as a fallback, but I’ll likely keep it as bare-bones as possible.
It's a grey, rainy day here in Manchester, UK. I'm staying in drinking Club-Mate and writing code all day, and I couldn't be happier.
JavaScript is 26 years old today. Crazy. Feels more like NaN years to me.
I discovered the #Gemini protocol about a year ago, and it's still a thing! I spend way more time reading posts here than on Web. Check out this quickstart page if you're curious.
Gemini quickstart!
This is neat! Random 4k wallpaper generator... no two images are exactly the same: https://tanck.nl/wallpaper
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-11_lagrange-1.9.gmi
The Lagrange November release is out! It'll be interesting to see if the automatic updates actually work. 😅
I built a little turn-based game for some training I'm delivering. Goal: write a bot that finds and destroys its opponent. Here, bot 2 guesses the movement pattern of bot 1 and lays a mine in its path. This one should be fun to run! 🙌
Quick demo: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463473663576088579/pu/pl/638JNY7n9HKh23_H.m3u8?tag=12&container=fmp4&descending=true
Drinking Club-Mate and coding at 01:45. Today-me is screwing tomorrow-me so hard right now.
I liked this post by rlamacraft:
gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk/replies/reframingThePhilosophyOfGemini.gmi
Have to disagree with Drew here. Gemini is decidedly not a read-only distribution protocol. (As evidenced by what we're doing right here.) There is a little more nuance to it: I would call it a balance of 80/20 in favor of reading. Writing is possible, and even secure thanks to client certificates, but not as convenient as reading.
So this means, if in doubt, focus on the read direction, but completely ignoring the write direction unnecessarily excludes a lot of cool potential.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide
"I don't want to become some huge bodybuilder freak, I just want to get in better shape and look better. Should I read this?
That's what this guide is for. It's a basic guide to diet and fitness for beginners who want to get in better shape. "
Liam Rosen
https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
I have way more interesting conversations with people who have the ability to say "I don't know".
Made a cheddar cheese sauce and added a bunch of lemon juice to it just now. Tasty AF.
This week I'm delivering training to a bunch of folks getting into JavaScript from different languages/environments. Teaching is really rewarding... I really like doing it.
I've been away from gemini and mastodon lately, it does feel good sometimes to avoid too much online interaction :)
On other notes, I have played with the pinephone lately with sxmo UI, and it is neat AF :]
Another cool text adventure from ew0k in Issue 14 of smolZINE. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-14.gmi
My capsule's finally back in action. Moved from Vultur to openbsd.amsterdam and am running vger.
The old SSL cert did not come along for the ride. The new cert's fingerprint is:
b599fdfccd8605785ad6f8ae5147dc9d32b78a4bf9f1a42e6dc9f78bd0e7c62b
This is a thought-provoking and insightful podcast filled with deep thinking about #crypto #NFT #DAO and the future of #Web3
The Tim Ferriss Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlNDYMNJ5zQ
Not getting your StackOverflow questions answered? Got questions sitting around collecting nothing but internet dust? Simply make a second account and post a blatantly incorrect answer. Watch as hundreds of thousands of programmers from around the world descend on your question with their knowledge.
TIL: the oldest lightbulb (Centennial Light Bulb) has been almost continuously on since 1901. It's now 120 years old. It has been in Fire Station 6, Livermore, California since 1976 where it still burns.
Long-tailed widowbird and red-collared widowbird #birding #photo
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Передумал здесь, чтобы сделать список FOSS и privacy software на гите хватает информации поэтому удалил страницы.
В октябрьском номере журнала «Мир фантастики» спецматериал про «Дюна»: историю романа. Интересное чтиво!
Всегда читаю книги под фоновую музыку, отлично помогает заглушить посторонний шум и чуть сильнее погрузиться.
Капсула вначале была нагроможденa лишним текстом сейчас же приобретает минимализмом.
Новая книжка вышла Дюна Битва при Коррине мне нужно по быстрее прочитать текущию Алмазные псы.
Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
Достала навязчивая мысль, что нужно почитать по JavaScript. Взять например серверную часть на node.js, фреймворк - nextjs.org, фронтенд - react.js, базу данных - postgresql, parceljs.org, mobx.js.org и бесплатный хостинг на выбор Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare Pages для статики и идти вперёд, творить!
Just released, smolZINE Issue 13. Spelunking section is a must read! :)
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_lagrange-1.8.gmi
Lagrange v1.8 is released just in time for Halloween. Spooky! 👻
@mntn The Noto fonts have both Egyptian and Anatolian hieroglyphs...
I've been doing a lot of my gemini reading offline lately on my PDA and ereader. By chaining some cli tools together I get a document of the posts from my feed to read at my leisure throughout the day. It's pretty nice. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2021-10-21-offlinegeminiscript.gmi
This is an amazingly well produced, must-watch video about the influence of technology in our lives. #socialmedia #echochambers #isolation #chaos #surveillance
Mrwhosetheboss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvee3-PEzo
TGIF! The weekend can not come fast enough!
Happy Friday everyone :)
smolZINE Issue 12 is out! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-12.gmi
"You're Not Addicted to Your Phone. You're Just Distracted."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwFZC8sepU
Been working on smolZINE today and have some fun community contributions. I'm excited about this one.
Welcome @velartrill. You're Station's 300 member!
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_mark-it-down.gmi
I'm curious if folks here have thoughts regarding Markdown in Geminispace?
Obviously we don't want sites doing browser-specific content, but on the other hand, the Gemini protocol is media-type-agnostic. It's the community that has to decide which content types are appropriate, and while Gemtext has many great qualities, it's also a bit of straightjacket.
Kirk is about to go back into space. T-10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do
I love VimWiki + Goyo vim plugins. Makes the writing experience so sweet.
Maybe I should take the time to write about my vimwiki + taskwarrior usage 🤔
OVH is down right now… So DNS servers too and so my services are not available anymore.
This raise the question of DNS management for me. This is the only (I think) service I'm not selfhosting at this point^^.
Question: What's your favourite TED talk and why?
Mine is "The art of misdirection" by Apollo Robbins: https://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection
Why? Because it's awesome (you can only watch it once).
I've been playing a lot lately with taskwarrior, vimwiki and gtd.
I need to keep that habit for at least a month and then revisit!
RE: @szczezuja Wed 06 Oct 2021 20:33 CEST
RE: @deerbard Wed 06 Oct 2021 12:10 CEST
Yes, gemini might be quiet at some time, but I think it's part of its goodness. This is a slow web, which means indeed quiet time, but for me it is a good thing. I believe it's part of making it not addictive like all the creepy sites on the web that just want you to stay on their platform longer :)
@szczezuja: Weren't you looking for a tools like this one?
https://git.sr.ht/~kornellapacz/gmnigit
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
Ok, finally joining in the station fun. Hi everybody.
С новым релизом org 9.5 начал вести структурированные заметки с ссылками и блоками кода + TODO листы и это всё синхронизируется через nextcloud пока что всё нравится.
To get my digital vaccine certificate for covid-19, I have to use a government website protected by Google Recaptcha 🤦 This hits me particularly hard since I evade Google tracking, so I get forced into doing free labour to help Google train their self-driving cars. It's infuriating. Why don't they just implement a simple rate-limit if they are worried about bots?
RE: @deerbard Sun 03 Oct 2021 18:39 CEST
Lace stopped working for me just today. Any other lace users still there?
edit: It actually works but take an awful load of time. Just checked and it loaded after 9 minutes :D
Time was one of the thing that made me move away from lace…
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Oct 2021 10:23 CEST
💬 @bacardi55 Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:24 CEST
If it doesn't work, what I found is I have to use pen and paper, no computer tool worked in a long run. I use bullet journal for a year now, no other tool worked for so long.
Thanks for the advice! I tried a lot using just pen and paper… But I don't always have my notebook with me. And I don't like the very small one that fit in a pocket…
I do use a lot pen and paper, specially to take notes during call/meeting because it simulate more my brain and memory than typing, but for follow up and task lists, it is scatter in too many pages…
Maybe there is a format to use with paper to be better, but I don't know any^^.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 29 Sep 2021 10:03 CEST
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
Well, I decided to give taskwarrior and gtd a new try… Let's see 🤔
I just automate the sh*t out of the most boring task I have at work ("activity tracking") with a small golang code. I'm very happy about myself right now :D
"The Single Most Productive Thing You Can Do" #sleep #productivity
Grace B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP90uBF_cU
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
bombadillo is the best terminal gemini (and gopher, finger, maybe telnet?) client IMO. It has many things amfora/astronaut/av98 doesn't have, just that I wish it could have custom colors.
Lagrange v1.7.0 about to go live...
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/images/v1.7_folders-and-popup.jpg
Just need to run some dependency upgrades on my little build farm.
This season of Formula 1 is the best I've ever watched. If you're not watching, you're missing out. The next Netflix "Drive to survive" is going to be epic!
So true: There's still no beating "git push heroku" for deployment. #devops
Changelog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTV437JsiXg
RE: @tolstoevsky 2021-09-23 15:43 MSK
Посмотрел сериал "Кликбейт" и в восторге. По качеству сюжета это близко к первому сезону "Настоящего Детектива" — развязку не осилил предсказать до самого конца.
Досмотрел сериал, понравился. Интригу держит до последней серии.
vim-magit is amazing, but when commit triggers gpg's passphrase prompt it seems very very unresponsive. really weird and annoying. lucky I could go to another repo, enter the commit + enter passphrase without magit successfully so that in magit I can just commit and it won't prompt the passphrase.
I *just* discovered that gitea is actually written in go (wow).
And I thought codeberg was gitea's official/public instance? Apparently there's also gitea.com which has around as many (maybe less) users/repos on there.
I also found a command line tool for gitea
Doesn't feel as polished and pretty as github cli 😛
But still, how did I not know these before? damn I always thought it was written in ruby
Re: @bacardi55 Fri 24 Sep 2021 17:57 CEST
Thanks, you're right, sometime a break is needed. Have a nice evening
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Thu 23 Sep 2021 09:08 CEST
Hi, everybody. I'm so sorry to not be present on gemini universe this moment. I don't manage to conciliate professionnal and personnal activities. I hope it will change next days. Take care of you :hug:
I don't think any apology is required here. Everybody has their priorities and an offline life (well, we don't really have "offline" life anymore, but that's another question^^).
I've been very quiet online lately too, and sometimes it is helpful to take breaks :)
Даа.. осенью природа особенно красива, многолика. Прогулка в осеннем лесу всегда доставляет мне удовольствие. Лес сменил зеленые наряды на золотые, красные, багровые. Воздух в лесу особенный, чистый и свежий так что все в лес на прогулку!
pipe the output of a (supported) command into it and it will give you a json output which can be easily used in scripts like with jq.
I haven't seen any alternatives for this before, as in apart from using shell utils like cut, sed, head/tail, awk, etc.
On a brief look it seems that it supports around 70 commands
Examples:
$ ls -l /usr/bin | jc --ls -p -r
[
{
"filename": "apropos",
"link_to": "whatis",
"flags": "lrwxrwxrwx.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "6",
"date": "Aug 15 10:53"
},
{
"filename": "arch",
"flags": "-rwxr-xr-x.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "33080",
"date": "Aug 19 23:25"
},
...
]
```
```w | jc --w -p
$ w | jc --w -p
[
{
"user": "root",
"tty": "tty1",
"from": null,
"login_at": "07:49",
"idle": "1:15m",
"jcpu": "0.00s",
"pcpu": "0.00s",
"what": "-bash"
},
...
]
holy smokes! gotta change my `online` script now 😱
Hi, everybody. I'm so sorry to not be present on gemini universe this moment. I don't manage to conciliate professionnal and personnal activities. I hope it will change next days. Take care of you :hug:
Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all have a productive week. Going to be a busy one over here, but I'd prefer it no other way :)
"The Discovery That Transformed Pi" on YouTube
sooo cool!
I can't wait to program this out with code and build cool stuff with pascal triangle, pi graphed out and things like that
I think the world would be a slightly better place if more people were quicker to think "this software has gotten too bloated" and slower to think "this computer has gotten too old."
Caught up on the Dresden Files series writte by Jim Butcher. Highly recommended if you've got some time and you're looking for a book. Started Steven King's On Writing. Also excellent.
The Mandelbrot set is so interesting. If you've not heard of it before, check out this awesome, beautiful visualisation of it.
Bonus: watch it for a minute or so and then look at an object in your room. The effects are so fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk
started reading a lot of novels this week, completely forgot how i enjoyed them... haven't read novels properly for like a year a more
Book recommendation: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. #novel #fiction #scifi #space
Project Hail Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary
Re: @deerbard@tinytext.club 2021-09-16 15:28 CEST
Yeah, it's a bit negative, but I think it makes sense in the context of it being focused on gamers. Gaming often involves fierce competition and trash-talk, which one might term "discord." That's my head-canon, anyway.
Умер создатель ZX Spectrum, Клайв Синклер. Покойся с миром.
Finally sat down and threw together a script for easily looking up and inserting emoji anywhere I like in a way that conforms to my preferences.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/emoji-input/
🙌
Writing a gemlog post entirely on my phone. It's still a bit crude, but at least nothing has crashed so far.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-09_hello-from-ios.gmi
Just figured out why msmtp wasn't working under Debian. Its AppArmor profile is too restrictive for how I'm using it. Leaving a note here for my future self and anyone else with the same problem. Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62838673/awk-permission-denied-when-run-through-msmtp
The solution:
sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp
Station just received its 1000th post!
Nice work everyone. It's awesome to see this micro community on Station growing and continuing to be full of interesting people and discussions 🙌
Created a page describing my e-mail system. I use mblaze, msmtp, and mbsync.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/e-mail/
RE: @tolstoevsky 2021-09-12 09:30 MSK
Привет, художественную литературу читаю из нового TRANSHUMANISM INC. Виктора Пелевина, но пока добавил техническую литературу надо подумать как оформить список.
Re: @deerbard@rawtext.club 2021-09-07 12:12 CEST
I like it. Thanks for sharing your art here!
Добавил раздел список книг которые читаю на данный момент это далеко не все что конечно читаю/прочитал.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
Fish seems like a terrible shell
how so? I agree that it isn't posix compliant and can't directly type in shell scripts, but I really can't survive without fish. The auto suggestions and auto complete is really smart and colorful. It even tells me if a command is not found before I hit enter. Those things can probably be achieved with plugins from oh my zsh/bash but requires less (or no) set up. I also think that the completion, configuration and environment variables are easier.
The default bash AFAIK only lists out the possible completions when you hit tab twice, but in fish you hit tab once and it lists out the possible completions AND allows you to tab through to select one. Fish's built-in commands (and 3rd party ones if they support it) also allows you to see the description of each completions which is an amazing way of learning a tool without having to dig through the docs.
For example, when I type `git a` and hit tab, it lists 3 entries of command completion and shows you what the command does next to each of them:
```
~ $ git a<tab>
add (Add file contents to the index) archive (Create an archive of files from a named tree)
apply (Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree)
```
Just to add to Solene's post, you don't need to type ctrl e to confirm a suggestion, the right arrow key would work and is easier to type IMO.
Today is not a good mood day :[
What's everyone up to this week?
I'm finishing off a little client work before putting some time into my own project work, which I've neglected far too much lately. Making time to work on my own things is really important – it's an essential part of keeping programming fun for me.
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Mon 06 Sep 2021 18:00 CEST
I am officially accepted into the school I wanted to go to!
Congratz!!
Never tried creating a tinylog entry as a multiple response, but I like how it works with gtl (without doing anything special about it):
screenshot of an entry with double response.
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 03 Sep 2021 22:17 CEST
Waiting for the results to know if I'm accepted in the school I'm aiming for is unbearable (especially since the staff rickroll us lmao)
When are the results expected? 🤞
I saw this on the "other web" and had to share here:
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says "You're in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?" The horse replies "I don't think I am," and then disappears from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of "I think, therefore I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke would be putting Descartes before the horse.
I find Windows font rendering as gross as anybody else does, but if your article about cool typography on the Web is completely unreadable on a default Windows install and a 1080p display, maybe you should rethink your message
I bookmarked this post some time ago and found myself reading it again today. 'To survive a collapse, never mind build the utopia, systems need to be running now. That means scaled sourcing of materials, creation, and deployment.' This resonates with me. I also think there is value in documenting what can be reclaimed from where, along with what those components may be used for. Making useful what would otherwise be waste is, in my opinion, one of the most solarpunk endeavors possible.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/shufei/phlog/20200712-Comp-Solarpunk.gmi
discovered the marginalia search engine today via this post
was pleasantly surprised by searching for "game boy battery" that my personal website is already in there somehow sitting at the top of the list! this is a really neat project and I hope to use it more over time
big font sizes are trendy, but sometimes it feels like the trendy minimum font size is one that can be read by people walking past your outside-facing window
2021 is such a nice number, 2022 looks kinda ugly for some reason ;-;
paralympics was pretty cool!
thinking about how many static web site generators are out there and yet the only one I actually want to use is a 25-line shell script I wrote ten years ago
Капсула находится под постоянным развитием. Ожидайте обновления в любое время.
Hello from a Raspi 400.
Running GUI apps in a console takes me back to the 90s, to the good (bad) old days of MS-DOS. It's cool that it's still a thing that's possible to do, 30 years later!
Lagrange could use a few tweaks for this environment, though:
- no way to change the screen resolution except via editing prefs.cfg
- mouse cursor is not always redrawn when it's moved (SDL bug?); keyboard navigation for the whole UI would be nice
- can't switch VTs as SDL catches all the keys (maybe unfixable?)
- needs some sort of file picker UI since drag-and-drop is unavailable
Does anyone else ever have mixed feelings about 3D printing? Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing isn't just a ploy to sell more plastic.
It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
I'm tending to my garden today. I don't have an actual garden where I can grow flowers and vegetables and herbs and stuff. One day.
For now, I'm tending to my creative garden by learning how to repair things around the apartment, like the broken convection fan in my oven, or getting the old bike back into working condition.
It's been a couple of month's since my last update. Gotta get back into the rhythm here.
Curb has a special place in my heart (and the next one is coming in October!), but no sitcom will ever beat Seinfeld for me.
quebec's vaccine passport app is out today on iOS. it literally just bumps your brightness to max and shows a QR code, and yet it doesn't have the decency to revert you to your previous backlight level when you're done with it. unacceptable
Слава пингвинам! 30 лет Линукса.
25 августа 1991 года Линус Бенедикт Торвальдс объявил о рождении идеи свободного ядра.
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misread an old 6th edition card as being 2-mana "discard 2, draw 4" and was completely shocked. then I read the card again
Two years today since I made a Polish robot speak Esperanto, and it still does: https://parol.martinrue.com
If you want to hear it, here's an example taken right out of the English-Hungarian phrasebook:
My hovercraft is full of eels: https://parol.martinrue.com/?teksto=Mia kusenveturilo estas plena je angiloj
skyjake.fi is up and running again.
Turns out the problem was not as dire as I feared. There was a loose power cable blocking the CPU fan from turning, which was causing the CPU to overheat. The cable must've been near the fan already since it's been rattling, but the hard knock pushed it in fully.
Hopefully nothing got damaged while it was running at max temp for a few hours without a fan...
Очередное обновление у Kindle в худшую сторону теперь внешний вид списка библиотеки показывает только 4-5 книг вместо 8 и с экстремальными пробелами... Худшее обновление пока... Это ужасно. Буду держать свой Kindle в режиме самолета навсегда!
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⚠️My server skyjake.fi suffered a hardware malfunction (fan) and I had to shut it down for now. This means my capsule and the Mastodon instance will be offline for a while, until
I relocate the services or fix the broken fan.
Lagrange continues to be available via Codeberg and GitHub in the meantime.
Unpopular? opinion: get rid of the feature to minimize windows. I mostly only ever do it by mistake and haven't needed it in forever. If they ever give me the launch codes to macOS, it's *gone*, I tell you!
«В интернете ваша скорость обучения ограничена не доступом к информации, а по вашей способности игнорировать отвлекающие факторы»
Парадокс изобилия - Дэвид Перел
https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
A cool thing I managed to do this week was to install OpenBSD on an external drive and run it on real hardware. Quite a bit nicer experience than running inside a choppy VM.
This was my first time running a real BSD on my PC. I found and fixed a few bugs for Lagrange v1.6.4 with this setup.
The only problem was that—of course—my RTX 2080 and 5K monitor were not detected correctly, so I was stuck on a squished 1280x1024. It was striking how quickly your eye's adapt to the aspect ratio... When looking at normal 1:1 text afterwards, everything looked extremely narrow and stretched in the opposite direction.
Station users now have a tinylog feeds!!!
gemini://station.martinrue.com/martin/751648cb014140bdbca260d9ef9e8ecb
Thanks @martin for the great work and expending tinylogs idea!
On other notes, I hope everyone is enjoying there week end :]
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 14:04 CEST
💬 @bacardi55 Sat Aug 21 13:39:00 CEST 2021
Having said that - golang libraries it uses are a bit too big to have the repo cloned in my RTC $HOME. Then - I am a bit of a troglodyte, I am actually quite happy with dumping the content of your Gemini page to stdout and scrolling it with help of my terminals scrollback function.
I'll probably install it locally on my machines at home though. It's pretty neat and the keybindings are reasonable ;)
Thanks for testing :) You can also download a binary to avoid building the app :).
Or when not on the right devices, you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io to avoid installing anything other than a gemini browser.
I finally got some time to do some Station work!
Check "Recent Updates" to see all changes, but the main one is that all Stationeers now have a Tinylog feed. Thanks for the idea @skyjake and @bacardi55.
This means users on Station can be "followed" outside of Station, via tools like GTL, like so: https://i.imgur.com/5TktXsz.png
Hope everyone's having a great weekend 🙌
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:10 CEST
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
→ lace My modified lace (WIP)
I don't know if you follow my tinylogs but you could try gtl :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
Refactored much of my dotfiles this week, especially my nvim configuration. There were so much untouched configuration that didn't actually work and I didn't even know xD
github.com/hedyhli/dotfiles (also on sr.ht)
I've started to focus a bit on maintainability and ease of settings up new machines, I wrote some setup scripts and I plan to organize them all and have a `dot` script that can run them on request (instead of having to type out the full path every time). I also plan to make the setup scripts be able to be run more than once, that is even after setting up the first time I can still run them again and again to keep stuff in sync. I've recently used my dotfiles to set up two linux desktops and it was relatively easy to get everything working.
Back to nvim, I've switched to a lua autopairs plugin so that I can get more customization and control in its behaviour (real reason was to fix some really annoying behaviour, see commit log for more info). I'll probably replace lightline (vim) with galaxyline (lua based) next week.
Still trying to get <CR> automatically hide the popup menu :/ and I need to optimize the startup speed a bit more. Once I've done that I'll be able to resume working on my projects :D
@frrobert@frrobert.net Does lace works with entries containing empty lines?
Trying to understand if lace is compatible with this:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
Any lace user that knows can respond :)
Top-down design is far less enjoyable that bottoms up design. This is not a current status, yet.
RE: @szczezuja Wed 18 Aug 2021 20:53 CEST
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 8:
Thanks for testing and your feedbacks!
* `R` with above option is worked fine, but I don't know if it's full format of response? I don't have date of original tinypost in stub;
Could you show the given stub?
It should something like:
## <Now date>
RE: <user> <log entry date>
<quoted entry>
Do you see something different?
* `Alt+Enter` isn't working for me, strange.
Weird, you mean nothing happen? Do you have a left or right "alt" key? (I noticed it works only with left one).
I'm thinking to move it to a simple letter like the other, that might fix your issue 🤔
thinking of System 7 Bubble Help. you could just turn it on via the Help menu on old Macs and run your cursor over things to get a text bubble explanation of it
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 19 Aug 2021 12:03 CEST
Wow it's been a while since I haven't been on Gemini. School is taking all of my time and I'm happy about it but I can't wait to be able to be here more often. Hope everyone's doing good!
It is the small/slow web so nothing disappeared too fast or changed to much :D
Good luck with school though :)
What do you geminauts think of saltpack? I've been meaning to try it for some time, but it doesn't seem to have any traction anywhere.
Just finished the 2021-04-05 episode of Trendy Talk and then immediately found this post, which I thought dovetailed nicely with some of Chris Were's arguments: gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210716-re-why-distributed-systems-dont-work.gmi
Structural change does need to happen to address a lot of the problems facing us, but in the meantime there's still value in doing whatever little bit one can immediately do as well.
I've just release gtl v0.6.0. I think it is by far the biggest release so far (except the original first v0.1.0).
I'm quite happy about gtl state and I think I'm close to what I want for a semi final version (v1.0.0).
Read the changelog / docs as it has different changes than the alpha version!
RE: @deerbard Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:48 CEST
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Thanks, I've added it!
what a wild day: a dunkey video is on the front page of hacker news
RE: @szczezuja Sat 14 Aug 2021 11:36 CEST
@bacardi55: You are also absent for two weeks. Vacations time! ;-)
I took a week off but also took some time away from the laptop outside of work too :)
Was quite refreshing :)
Now I need to push gtl v0.6.0 tonight and many other things I planed during my time off that I didn't do.
I'm not at all "worried" or annoyed at myself for not doing any of the thing I planned (coding wise), It was quite a nice brain break.
Even my reading were "easy book" only and nothing that made me think too much :)
TBH, being back since this morning is freaking tough
missing the glory days of populated flickr group
This whole "intuitive, impulsive" cooking thing is working really well so far. Procrastinated on a task today by making a fresh pasta dinner for the house with three different pestos and some oven roasted brussel sprouts while listening to an episode of Trendy Talk. Not bad as far as procrastination goes. Certainly beats endlessly scrolling social media!
I've officially reached the comically funny stage of how often TypeScript saves my ass. It feels like having a super smart colleague that *really* likes verbose ways of explaining how I'm acting like a psychopath in any given moment.
When I was younger, I thought that being an early adopter for every shiny new tech toy would empower me and give me an edge. I tried to make up for a lack of experience with being among the first to every new trend. Now those shiny new toys just look like shackles to me, and the "progress" of consumer-oriented tech just looks like a hamster wheel. It's a strange feeling, being in tech while also hating so much about it.
I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute...
Air fryer chicken katsu with pickled plum onigiri tonight. Very simple and easy to make. First time using the air fryer. Really happy with how crunchy the breading turned out. Housemates also liked the tonkatsu sauce I made.
Решил опробовать формат tinylog. Здесь будут короткие заметки в стиле Mastodon/Twitter.
Epoxy just failed. Should've tested longer before celebrating. Next attempt: solder, paperclips, and wire cutters.
Just successfully repaired a broken scissor switch on my Thinkpad using a male pin header, a hobby knife, and some epoxy. One of the pegs on the scissor switch had broken off, and the metal from a male pin header was exactly the right size and shape to replace the whole section. In the past I would have replaced the whole keyboard. Feels like I've just leveled up! :D
Finally took the time to work on my website:
https://hedy.tilde.cafe (also on gemini)
still using hugo as the SSG, kiln didn't have as much features that I need from hugo, and bashblog just isn't good enough, feels simple but really not organised and stuff.
Re-wrote CSS based on a few inspirations:
I intend it to be not too barebones, and definetly not brutalist design, should look somewhat modern, but should have some accessibility features and simplicity to it. I've set the margin-left for blockquotes to 0 to make it look better in small screens, and kept the nav bar and footer simple. I've checked that it looks ok in reader mode and terminal browsers.
Many people who have minimalist-styled css websites have font-family be brwser default, but (not sure if it's just me) but if browser default is used all the apostrophes take such a huge space and makes it look very awkward. So I've set the font-family to a sans-serif stack (with sans-serif as the last fallback).
I've also gotten syntax highlighting to work in code blocks with different theme for light mode and dark mode. I'm not sure if screen readers will have a good time parsing code blocks and making sure they're formatted right, but I keep on improve it as I write more posts.
Special thanks to seirdy's post on website best practices
gemini://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.gmi
The post is a bit opinionated but I've tried to keep with those best-practices where I can tolerate. The css source is minified and dumped into <style> tags, so no extra requests via <link>. No favicon at the moment, since I'm still figuring out what favicon I should use. No fancy animations or over-the-top colors. My link-hover styles might be a bit extra, but it looks really good when the underline is gone and highlight is up on mouse over.
There is absolutely no javascript or scripting, it's fully static, except maybe a few CGI scripts that I rarely use?
I've also mirrored all of my gemlog posts on hedy.smol.pub to hedy.tilde.cafe.
I'll write new gemlog posts from ~cafe now :D If you've subscribed to my smol.pub gemlog, I'd love it if you could change the feed url to:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/feed.xml
Thanks!!
I'll probably move my tinylog/journal to there as well, in the future.
Still figuring out what I should do with my flounder site when I'm mostly done with my site (apart from content, content, content). The fact that I can just make a simple edit online is the one thing that keeps me using flounder, but it has plenty of limitations: css, gopher, more file types, CGI, ssh/rsync deploy, etc.
I also plan to have it on tor but doing that would be after I've done everything I've said above.
In regards to comments, I'll probably go with the "email to public mailing list route" plus webmentions. webmentions is one of the things that I'll definetly want to have. For gemini comments, I may setup the CGI gemini likes/comments systems in the future, but I don't really feel like that's the best solution...
If you have any feedback or suggestions, I'm happy to hear about it! Just trying to find the best middleground between absolute brutalist/minimalist and simplistic-but-modern aesthetics here.
A quick gemlog post about why there are some rough edges with text input in v1.6. @gnuserland
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-08_complexity-of-input.gmi
(I think my Gemlog Booster is working as intended; it's super convenient to make posts via Lagrange.)
I have a bad habit of killing my own momentum when what I perceive to be the "correct" path conflicts with what I *want* to do. I perceive learning the "mother sauces" to be "correct," as I've already begun that task and knowing those seems to be considered "foundational," but what I *want* to do now is play with lentils and curries. So now I find myself doing neither. :p
"A practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness"
Happiness
Sometimes, I have the crazy idea that tinylogs with a bit more work and a nice cgi script could be a decentralized station… 🤔
Just threw together a cheddar cheese sauce to put on some dried pasta I'd made. Would not have known how to do this a month ago. success-baby.jpeg
Surely, the mother of all unboxing videos: unboxing a quantum computer!
IBM Quantum System One assembled in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPMY4oP3Qgk
RE: @szczezuja Mon 26 Jul 2021 18:28 CEST
I'm thinking about preparing text for copying by "system" mechanism rather than copying text inside `gtl` by its internal mechanism. Internal mechanism need some dependencies, for example to `xclip` and complicate whole design of `gtl`. For me the best solution is `toot tui` approach. […]
So I suggest dialog likei below:[…]
When after pressing gtl could try to run `xclip`, but everybody who don't have `xclip` would also easy copy text from textarea and press .
I added an option called `tui_show_stub` that will display the response stub in a modal before opening the $EDITOR, so that should fix your flow :)
I also added a shortcut "Alt+Enter" to open the selected entry in a modal, with buttons to do the action available via shortcuts. That should help your flow too.
I'm using some light color scheme for terminal I `gtl` looks like bellow.
Seems of a mix of a terminal issue and a cview (tui library) issue. I've raised other bugs in cview git repository lately so unsure if I can fix these in the short term 🤔
I'm thinking about releasing an alpha2 version…
Lagrange v1.6 release party! 🎉
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-07_lagrange-1.6.gmi
Already found a bug... Copy-pasting in the text editor seems to paste too much text. 😄
RE: @szczezuja Thu 22 Jul 2021 22:00 CEST
Thanks for trying the gtl v0.6.0-alpha!
* suggestion - on the subscription pane you are using <Down arrow>/<Up arrow> for navigation, and for the timeline pane you are using <J key>/<K key> - it could be <Left arrow>/<Right arrow>, and it could work without changing pane by tab key. Two navigation keys schemas are confusing. <Right arrow> is using now for scrolling - I don't know if it's required.
* highlighted entry is hard to read in some gemtext colors combination - look for this post for example;
Could you show me a screenshot of the rendering? I'm not sure what you mean.
* suggestion - <T key> could be working always, also on posts without response pattern. It could be handy, because it will help with tmux native copy&paste functionality (C-A-[ and C-A-] keys in tmux);
T is supposed to open the original message the response is about, but I could add another shortcut to open the selected post in a modal (with button below to show the other shortcuts like "O" or "R"). I'll add something like this for the beta.
* <R key> isn't working for me because I don't have X installed on my terminal (I have xclip installed). Fot tmux users it will be better to show response pattern in dialog like described above;
Hm, indeed, I don't think that feature can work without X. See response above for opening current entry in modal.
* <O key> isn't working for me - I have installed xdb-utils, but there isn't any response after pressing it;
Again, without X I'm not sure how much this can work. It uses xdg-open behind the scene on linux, so if using in a terminal "xdg-open http://…" works, it should work from gtl. Also, can you try "O" on an entry containing multiple links? Do you see the modal with the links choice?
I recently discovered the Coc plugin for vim, which brings VSCode-like smarts to vim. I can finally use #vim full-time instead of #VSCode, which has become bloated and slow over time. Coc has a marketplace with a large breadth of language support. In a like-for-like comparison, vim uses 500Mb less RAM (including language server) than VSCode for Python or Java editing (with intellisense), and is much faster. I also managed to set up vim for editing and uploading #Arduino and #esp32 code by integrating with PlatformIO.
Conqueror of Completion
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
The adage that travel broadens the mind and can make you a more open-minded, tolerant person, IME is very true. For that reason, I especially like the etomology behind the Icelandic word "heimskur", which means "stupid", or ~"one who hasn't left home".
RE: @deerbard Thu 22 Jul 2021 08:14 UTC
@bacardi55 Thx for reply. In comitum was that enough that you subscribed to my capsule or did you have to subscribe to every log type separately (what I have to do in gemreader). I should probably just switch to Amfora and get used to it but I like Kristall so much I want to stay with it for now :)
I subscribed only to this page:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/index.gmi
I've released an alpha version of gtl 0.6.0.
Yes, it is an alpha because so many changes that I'd love some tests… And because I think a potential feature can still be squeezed in (hence not the beta).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.6.0-alpha
I'm always using the latest commit so the added feature have been tested so it shouldn't all that buggy… Probably :)
I'm quite happy about it as this is a big release with many new things :).
RE: @deerbard Wed 21 Jul 2021 20:13 UTC
Just for testing: Anyone subscribed to my logs? Did you see that new general log showed up? Again, not asking to read it, just a technical question. edit: asking cause I tried to subscribe to my own capsule in gemreader and it didn't give me any new entry so I guess I'd have to subscribe to every log type separately?
Yes, I use comitium as a feed reader and I can see your latest post, see here:
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io/
New UI experiment:
Long-form text entry via movable chunks.
I don't suppose there's a way to render a line starting with ``` in preformatted mode, is there?
New feature request created for cview^^
That's now 2 bug (1 fixed) and 2 feature requests (one fixed) that I raised just for v0.6.0…
I may start contributing at some point instead of just asking for stuff… 🤔?
That being said, it prevents a very small feature so it is definitely not blocking the next release.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 21 Jul 2021 11:06 CEST
New scripts down and deployed :). Unfortunately URLs to gemlog/blog posts have changed, but at least I managed to keep the same URLs for atom feeds and gemini feed… :)
I think today I want to spend a bit of time changing how I manage my capsule. It is messy right now because everything is done in hugo for my web blog.
I still want a clear distinction between the 2 while still being linked (ie not displaying gemlog entries on the blog, just a gemini link) so I'm not entirely sure how this will work.
But I will rebase my capsule with a gemini site generator (most probably kiln) and then try to see how I can fit that in hugo to just display gemlog entries… 🤔
RE: @szczezuja Mon 19 Jul 2021 20:46 CEST
The most tempting thing in emacs is swarm of advanced packages, which seems to be superior than that of vim plugins. Vim plugins are great, bu there are in most cases rather like a powerful extension of text editor. Emacs packages are more advanced, and often they are like standalone utilities embedded into mechanic of editor environment.
That is why Emacs is an OS missing a good text editor :]
A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread
lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
iI've begun with the UI experiments. First point of inquiry: how best to present forms with simple, single-line inputs? Two approaches immediately came to mind:
gemini://alpha.lyk.so/
gemini://beta.lyk.so/
I'm interested in hearing opinions about the two approaches.
Next up will be experiments in long-form composition from within Gemini.
Today I advance well on the next version of gtl :]
Both the feature request and the bug fix works now thanks to @tslocum (cview developer)!
But I found another bug :D
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/72
This one is not a blocker though, but will make one of the new feature a bit more ugly than expected… But that's fine :).
I'm done for the day, having my brother home, but I'll continue tomorrow :]
Station just reached 200 docked! 👏
made a bash script to bump versions with git tag yesterday. It's working well and suits my needs:
shltag - source code in my dotfiles repo on git.sr.ht (also on tildegit and gh)
shltag = shortlog + tag
puts git shortlog output into signed annotated tag.
I know this exists but I think it does a bit too much, lol.
semver by drew devault - git.sr.ht
I've also finally finished adding config file support as well as per user directory serving to spsrv. (not going to put a link here, because I feel like I'm self plugging to much. Go to sr.ht/~hedy or tildegit.org/hedy to find the source code). It's not very stable yet I think, so I haven't documented the stuff in the readme yet.
Our induction plate "died" this week so today we opened it and investigate with a multimeter… Couldn't find the issue though, but looking inside was quite fun^^.
For those who wants to see what's inside, it looks like this:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/57d965310786
Just saw that both my bug and my feature request opened on cview repo have been fixed :]
Cview developer is really reactive!
I have lots of time plan to work on gtl first half of next week so we'll see if I can finish the first version based on those fixes!
Happy weekend everyone. Anybody doing anything interesting? I'm in a local 10-day quarantine – plenty of time to get back into a personal project!
After my first bug report, I opened my first feature request for cview :]
Next release is getting bigger but also "more blocked" too.
The cview bug has been fixed but not released in a stable tag yet. I may decide next week to move to a specific commit instead if no tag is released soon enough for next week beta release of the v0.6.0
So I decided to took a stab at creating a gemini version of tinylogs, so I added a "gemini" mode to gtl to generate a valid gemini output as an alternative to the TUI and CLI mode…
Was easier and faster than expected, so just to test I put it in a capsule with a cronjob every 15min:
gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/index.gmi
And it respect the tinylog format, so you could just follow it as a starting point (will become the default url in gtl when subscription file is empty).
@hedy shared with me an almost compatible tinylog on spartan which makes me wonder how much I want to add support for tinylogs on gopher/spartan 🤔…
That or creating a small proxy… Or not I don't know :D
We'll see that after the next release that still needs lot of work^^.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/39
I'm thinking that the next version of gtl might contains so many changes that maybe I'll release an beta version first… 🤔
I think I may be done with the new parser (that doesn't change much expect I'm using more regexp <3).
I've implemented a more flexible one that works with tinylog entries containing double new lines like Hedy's as discussed on the RFC issue.
I finally got a negative PCR reading yesterday, which means I can fly home. Enjoying one more day in the wonderful city of Barcelona and heading back tomorrow. Good job, body!
A few weeks ago I bought a Kobo ebook reader, thinking that I would use it to write some custom apps for an e-ink display. Instead, I've been rediscovering the joy of reading books on a non-LCD/OLED screen. The combination of a purpose-built, distraction-free device and a paper-like display is really working for me. (Amazon-free is also a major bonus.)
Currently reading scifi. I really liked Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary", and now I'm continuing with the Expanse series. I read Expanse book 1 a few years ago but for reason didn't continue to book 2 although I quite liked the first one.
Decided to start over :D
It's nice that I can still "harvest" my plant even though it's dead, lol. Not sure if that's a bug.
I just realized my plant on astrobotany had died :O
It's pity that I might not ever be able to have another levitating plant again. Wondering whether I should keep it like that for posterity or I should start over.
RE: @frrobert 2021-07-13 15:59 UTC
lace with the strict option does that
Interesting :). I was thinking about doing something like this but with a more text/gemini friendly output so that gemini browser can actually parse it (almost as a big tinylog)!
I think I'll poc that quickly after I release the next gtl version to see how it can look like :).
Crazy lunch thoughts: Using gtl CLI to create a capsule listing all referenced tinylog entries…
I guess a simple cgi script using gtl and then parsing it into text/gemini format… Or maybe even just a "--mode gmi" option to just generate gmi file instead of a cli/tui ui…
That would allow people:
Default is obviously that it can become a centralized service… But with tools like lace/gtl/cockpit that shouldn't be an issue as data are still un-centralized.
Was that really a crazy thoughts or an actual idea to make tinylogs more known/used… I actually don't know 🤔
Next version of gtl will have TUI improvements but also a new version of the parser that will be a bit more flexible compare to the RFC.
For example, I like this RFC issue regarding number of new lines that is very strict right now (comes from lace):
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
This release will still take a while though… That means for now some tinylog like Hedy's are not yet readable in gtc.
But that will change most probably by end of next week :]
I'm also wondering if that version might be a good fit for v1.0.0 🤔
I blogged about how I create audiobooks from epubs and the like, using text-to-speech.
Creating audiobooks
https://tobykurien.com/creating-audiobooks/
gtl is not compatible with hedy's tinylog because she uses many line break.
I'm wondering if next version should also contains a new version of the parser that will fit the recommended from hedy on the RFC about allowing paragraph breaks within a tinylog entry.
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
My cview issue has been fixed! Now I need to wait for 1.5.7 to be released… :)
But I'm continuing developing new feature that will need this so they are almost ready when the new cview version comes out!
finished simple script in python that converts my journal format to tinylog format. the script isn't commented well so oof, bad luck to the future me :/
it has a single loop that goes over each line of this file and scraps the dates and content, I also have a header.gmi, so I have this:
python3 genfeed.py | cat header.gmi - > tinylog.gmi
I then I simply upload the tinylog.gmi to flounder, that's it! really simple
just to be a little bit lazy, I made a bash script wrapper that downloads my journal, my current tinylog.gmi, and checks if changes before uploading to flounder.
I think about doing something simple but for antenna in the future:
Always fun to read post around a tool I'm making, thanks @szczezuja
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-07-11-Bash-script-for-updating-gtl.gmi
Just opened my first issue on cview tracker:
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
When this get resolve, the v0.6.0 could start again with multiple new things coming… :)
Seems I found an issue in cview (the library i used for gtl TUI) that prevents me from implementing a nice feature …
So I need to take the time to create a very small piece of code to show how to reproduce (and make sure the error exist outside my code) to open a ticket.
I'm a bit lazy right now so this might happen later this week. But in the meantime a big part of the improve timeline is blocked :/
it keeps raining ugh
working on a spartan client and server, written in go
discovered spartan in february or march this year, can't remember (wrote in entry in this journal, you can flip back :D) and I've wanted to make a CLI/TUI client since then but I was busy with other things. I even registered #spartan on irc.tilde.chat but no one came (of course, since no one talked about it) then I just left the channel and forgot all about it. It wasn't until this wee or last week when I noticed #spartan channel was registered again (by g1n) so I decided to join, and oh! 6 people, huh that's interesting. I guess that's might be because it was mentioned a few times in #gemini (when discussing mercury).
anyway, now that I have a tiny little bit more free time than before (and have started learning go since), I've decided to make some spartan software. It really really easy to get the to work after forking some gemini software, lots of things to change, but still. note that they both probably has bugs, but they work fine when I was testing it, so feel free to use them but don't be surprised when coming across incomplete features and bugs :)
here are the source code, both in golang. (all my repos are hosted on https://sr.ht/~hedy too)
sparte - CLI client (like curl/wget/gemget but much, much simpler as of now)
I'm also planning to make a server framework, a TUI client, and I'm also adding spartan support to gelim (my interactive gemini client).
Apparently an bad formatted entry in @deerbard tinylog makes gtl crash.
Because it is critical issue, I'm doing a quick release. That wasn't planned because I actually started working on some timeline improvement but that's life :).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.2
Thanks git branch and git stash :)
Re: @deerbard 2021-07-10 08:19 UTC
"I'm worst at what I do best, and for this gift I feel blessed," right?
Shoved my larger plastic bins into a space I made for them in my closet. Updated my "bins" system page accordingly. Not everything is catalogued and binned yet, but I'm feeling the sort of strong resistance to the task that indicates burnout. Soon I will become entirely incapable of making myself catalogue and bin anything (you can't even pay me to do something I've burned out on; I quite literally *cannot* make myself do it), so I'm going to try to tie up the loose ends so I can call it "done" before I totally lock up.
gmid keeps locking up for some reason. Once a day it seems to stop responding until I restart it. vger was quite reliable. Anyone know any tricks for getting client certificates via CGI in vger?
GF will not be there for the weekend so I might spend some time on the timeline rework…
I have many ideas and I am both excited and scared of the amount of rework needed ^^.
Really cool online browser multi-player games to play with colleagues during lunch break:
https://shellshock.io
https://blocktanks.io
https://smashkarts.io
https://sidearms.io
https://krunker.io
Does anyone know how to view 'rlog://' links like the one on this page? I've never seen this protocol before. gemini://xj-ix.luxe/wiki/nomad/
I'm following 8 station users now via gtl, the proxy seems to work fine :]
I'm even wondering if a similar proxy for mastodon user would be hard?
But that would be more for pure testing because I don't want to mix mastodon posts within gemini tinylogs
learning lua and planning to use lua for some configs for neovim.
also looking to replace CoC.nvim with nvim's LSP support.
seirdy's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - reading his config for reference
nytpu's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - also reading this - for fun, learning, and reference
I'm also wondering how I should go about having vim and neovim share a same config. Maybe I'll have a my neovim's general.vim smaller, and have vim `source` that or something. Not sure about what I should do about my plugins though.
tildegit.org/hedy/dotfiles (also hosted on sr.ht)
If I'm being honest, I started this POC by procrastinating on starting the new timeline UI…
I find it ironic that I procrastinated writing code by… writing code… :D
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 19:54 CEST
A couple of hours and <200 SLOC and I have users station feed pages in gtl :]
I've put a screenshot and the link to source code for curious people here:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106536091944798603
Started as a quick POC, but I basically built a "station to tinylog" parser… Meaning that I can transform a user feed page on station into a tinylog page. If I put this as a cgi script on a capsule, I could then use gtl to follow station user too…
That's nice!
I quite like Gemini, but it's very difficult to communicate to anyone in my life why I like it. It's like here's a certain level of fed-up you've got to reach, and you've also got to be fairly technical, for this sort of thing to appeal. But wow, I really like Gemini. I'd be quite happy if I never had to use the web again, frankly.
Switched from vger to gmid today in order to start playing with client authentication. Here's a little toy I just wrote: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/bin/whoami
Source code is here: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/src/whoami.c
I've released gtl v0.5.1 that mainly add a few TUI UX improvements.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.1
Next step is the big timeline rework^^.
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 00:19 CEST
I love regexp <3 :)
I think I finally found a way to display responses ("Re:") "nicely" in gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/8f8b98d1cde1
I have a few small ideas for gtl v0.5.1 (some already in main), but I have a big rework in mind for the TUI timeline panel for v0.6.0 that, once started, should take a big amount of time but should greatly improve the user experience…
It finally happened. I got it! Symptoms have been pretty bad until now, but today I feel a little better. Hoping that 2 weeks from now I'll be able to test negative so I can fly home.
The "Physiological Sigh" provides instant reduction of anxiety and stress and is easy to do, although you shouldn't undo it by resurfacing the anxiety to test if it worked! #neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdhqBGqiMc
feel so bad rn...
theres this super hard math test with all multiple choice questions and the last two questions worth the most marks, but I thought marks are deduct for wrong answers (makes sense, since it's multiple choice), so I left the last two questions blank (can't do them anyway, though I finished all the other questions), and YET... after submitting I realised marks aren't actually deducted for wrong answers and me be like, tf-
well anyway that's fine, the test is finally behind me and like yeah who cares, I mean at least I got all the other questions done soo
RE: ﾘ @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 02 Jul 2021 17:03 CEST
Today, for the first time, I tried meditation. Seems cool.
That's interesting, because I've been thinking of trying for a long time. I have not done any research yet on how to start though.
Maybe @reaton will tell us more about his start :]
ubuntu desktop on raspberry pi runs pretty smooth
not much lag and all
was able to get x11 forward working with git for windows (and vcxsrv)
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-28 15:45 CEST
Nothing special to display replies. Making threads could be an idea but I haven't code it.
Today was my first day in the office since last July and my 2nd since March 2020 and covid. While I really enjoyed seeing and chatting with colleagues, it reminded me how much better I am at home to work. Better setup, better seat and a loooooot more silence and peace… But it was nice to enjoy the day and diner with the colleagues ^^.
I've been working 50% remotely for years before too, and I don't think I'll ever be able to work 100% in an office again.
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Thu 01 Jul 2021 22:18 CEST
I've written it earlier, that "highlights" don't work for me. You have responded to @deerbard about it, so I again request for some help in understanding that. :-)
All you need is in your configuration file is a "highlights" line with the different texts you want to highlight separated by a coma. Let's say for example you want to highlight all entries that contains "@szczezuja" or "szczezuja.space". To do so, you need in your configuration:
highlights = "@szczezuja, szczezuja.space"
If you want to highlight only entries with @szczezuja (start with this one to test):
highlights = "@szczezuja"
Then in gtl, you can press "h" to filter entries that only contains highlights (in this case, only filter entries that contains "@szczezuja").
If you are on a specific author tinylog (let's say you click on mine), then pressing "h" will filter entries for my feed that contains the highlights text ("@szczezuja" in this case, so this message will stay).
If you are in highlights mode, selecting other feeds or clicking on "all subscriptions" will keep that filter until you press "h" again (the title of the main panel say either "timeline" or "highlights" to show the difference).
I hope it is clearer, otherwise we might need to find a way to "real time" chat about it, might be easier :).
Sampler is an amazing text visualization tool for the terminal. I was able to make a smart-mirror type of dashboard really easily with it. #text #console #dashboard #diy
Sampler
https://github.com/sqshq/sampler
/images/microblog/post-1625207794-0.png
RE @deerbard Thu 01 Jul 2021 07:36 UTC
I fully agree, tinylog shouldn't be used for chat.
As well, I don't know if you use lace or gtl (or other) for reading tinylogs, but you have the ability to filter only highlights in gtl to help you look at direct notification only :).
But I'm going to move away from direct chat as well as I agree it shouldn't be the main purpose.
Today is my first day in the office since summer 2020 (I went 1 day last July)…
I'm definitely not back full time there, and I think I'll never be.
For now I'm thinking 1 day per week or once every 2 weeks.
I have such a better setup at home (and silence too)
1st of July, very nice.
one month closer to 2022
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedback :). I've created issues on github for some of the items, I think feature requests / bugs are better there than in a tinylog^^.
I've set $EDITOR variable (in Debian-like OS the default editor is set by "update-alternatives --config editor" rather than $EDITOR?);
On debian based, having 'EDITOR="vim"' in your .{bash,zsh,…}rc works too.
new feature suggestion - ability to populate/update "subs" file from "Known-tinylogs.md";
Not sure about this one yet, so I created an issue for me to think about:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/26
I've got some panic error because of bad value in "post_edit_script", despite "allow_edit = false" after C-N in gtl - strange;
Weird, I don't manage to reproduce…
I have no idea of best usage of "post_edit_script" in my workflow;
Are you editing your tinylog directly on your server (via ssh(fs) for example)? If that's the case, you don't need it. But for myself for example, I work on a local file that is scp to my server as a post edit script.
Dialog about "post_edit_script" should be rethought.
I've removed the dialog if no post script is added. If there is, I want gtl to ask me if I want to run or not (maybe I'm not done writing yet and wanted to read something again).
when one sub is choose, and we press "r" all subs are refreshed (we must wait);
Why I don't like refreshing a single feed.
Dialog after "r" should be also rethought. It's bad idea to hide timeline during reading feeds - why user can't look at the last post, and must look at the empty page;
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/2
UX for current gtl mode - "all subscription" or "single subscription" should be rethought (it's unclear what is our current mode, especially after "r");
Now the title of the selected feed is displayed in the title to make it clearer.
@szczezuja: (not using the RE format because I'm answering to 2 of your entries :P)
I really enjoy todo.txt, I've heard a lot about org mode but for todo.txt is enough. When I wanted something more complex, I used taskwarrior that is also awesome (but way more complete/complex).
Regarding the proposed alternative for the "RE:" format, I have doubts that I'll try to formulate on the issue tracker later today or this week.
I really like the antenna idea, I need to think about how to integrate that in my deployment workflow.
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/about.gmi
But also I do have in mind to completely change the way I manage my capsule so it might take longer to integrate with it. We'll see 🤔.
I may work on gtl tonight so that will be for another time though :).
I've been avoiding the fediverse (I'm not on other Social Media) for a few days now and that's awesome :]
The only one I look from time to time is station on gemini^^.
this is quite interesting:
a quiz with a bunch of questions asking what would be the output of some "wtf" things in javascript. (such as how `NaN === NaN` is false)
despite it being a bit... controversial? as in like people say these are just a small part of the language and it's define this way, I think it's fun to have a look at the answers and try not to run into these situations when writing JS. I mean, almost (?) all programming languages have weird bits, such as the weirdness in python listed in this repo:
https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
RE @lykso@lyk.so Mon 28 Jun 2021 20:39 UTC
I've responded on station too, but feel free to add things here:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/23
RE @szczezuja Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedbacks, I'm not sure I understood all of your points but I have some ideas for improvements later this week, thanks!
@bacardi55 I can't seem to select text in gtl. Makes it a bit difficult to follow links in tinylogs.
I bought a couple old, second-hand, e-ink Kindles years ago. Specifically ones with firmware predating the agreement with Audible that resulted in Amazon removing the text-to-speech function. I got a lot of use out of that function back when I had to drive a lot for work. Now I'm finding them useful again for low-distraction reading. I've begun closing tabs by turning them into ebooks. Somehow reading on this sort of purpose-specific device *feels* faster. There are fewer background processes in my brain considering what else I should be doing than there are when I'm at a computer. And I can make the device read to me from where I left off when I need to do more physical work.
People usually listen others to respond (something about themselves) instead of just listening to understand and be useful…
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Sun 27 Jun 2021 06:31 CEST
I'm curious if you did something special for displaying responses in pollux.casa / cockpit?
This is a tough Monday after a nice week end away from home and screens^^.
I hate Mondays anyway…
Just modified my tinylog-post script to mirror my posts to station.martinerue.com. Does not mirror tinylog replies, to avoid cluttering up Station. This will save me from having to decide which things to post to my tinylog and which things to post to Station. Let me know if this becomes obnoxious, please!
gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/scripts/tinylog-post.sh
Bins system working well so far. Was just reminded that I'd left something out when I returned to my computer and saw the relevant grep output still visible in my terminal. Maybe I'd derive some benefit from keeping a list somewhere of possibly-left-out items, populated by a special "inventory-grep" command. 🤔
Two new humans and their two cats will be joining us in less than a week now. Still quite a bit to do to prepare for their arrival. 😬
found some cool software by simon ser:
IRC bouncer (pounce exists, I know)
simple CLI side-by-side diff viewer (diff-so-fancy exists, I know)
wsl 2 is quite unstable... it broke my network driver and stuff (may not be due to wsl only but it could be).
since I refuse join windows insider program I have to use an X server to run linux GUI programs with wsl. used vcxsrv, installation and launch super smooth, worked on first try, everything good but my network and stuff broken so I had to completely uninstall wsl 2. (I actually ended up completely resetting my laptop. in conclusion, windows meh, mac os ok, linux good :P
I think I'd rather run a linux VM in windows than wsl. idk really, I mean I could even just work on my raspberry pi or something
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-21 00:26 CEST
I've made some change in Pollux.casa cockpit to comply with the tinylog RFC.
About Re format that I test in this entry.
this is quite interesting:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/language-picker
asks you some questions then tells you which languages (out of C, Go, Python, Lisp) would best suit you. Bit opinionated but cool still
Fun little game: how many languages can you idenitfy. Be honest. I got 27. https://baltoslav.eu/adhadaj/index.php?mova=en
removed as much data (posts, videos, interactions) as possible from my old facebook account and youtube channel, feeling good.
I'm still keeping my youtube account though, because there's some good content in there but I don't watch them much
Some photos from a recent trip to a mountain resort. #photo #trip
/images/microblog/post-1624693415-0.jpg
/images/microblog/post-1624693415-1.jpg
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@reaton@geminids.ga Glad you like it :)
Just made some improvements on ergol http proxy style
So many things to do with gemini... but so tired at this moment. Work takes me to much time :-(
Apparently I released gtl v0.5.0 in which you can edit and publish your tinylog:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.0
Wrote a script to post to my tinylog and added it to my gemsite: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/
A new tinylog in the gemini world by @lykso@lyk.so, welcome :)
Hello world! I chose the same avatar Lagrange uses for my domain for the sake of continuity.
I've made a change in houston to show a warning when a capsule use TLS with ed25519 algorithm as many gemini clients don't support them. This was based on some discussion on IRC.
gemini://houston.gmi.bacardi55.io/
Also, I really enjoy editing my tinylog entries, in vim, with just one shortcut in gtl, made the whole tinylog experience even more easy.
I need to rework my capsule though, it was based on the blog engine (hugo), some config and an ugly shell script… I want to clean this but I have no motivation for this yet^^.
this seems interesting
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Spec/AptSign
A Python TUI framework with rich is actually a thing! (wip, but STILL).
people liked rich and they talked about how they want it to be like a full TUI framework... and yep, now it's a thing. looks beautiful, and I'm sure when it becomes stable it will have much better docs then things like urwid
github.com/willmcgugan/textual - TUI for rich
I'm actually quite excited for this, though I haven't looked into the details and APIs yet. I'd love to make a TUI gemini client with textual that looks (almost) as nice as amfora :D
not sure if it's because Will's terminal is better, but stuff made with rich/textual looks nicer than amfora screenshots
It's all in main branch now.
A few thing still missing for v0.5.0 (which should be one of the last very active branch as I'm finally getting to where I want for gtl) but should be available before end of week.
Seems that editing tinylog and post edit synchronization works fine and was less difficult than expected :)
This tinylog entry has been created via gtl… But gtl will "only" open your $EDITOR and not recreate an editor within gtl. I think it's even better as I can use my beloved vim and the autocomplete, spellcheck and all the other awesome feature of vim!
vim > *
Also, gtl published this post (via a configurable script (in my case a simple 1 line with scp)) after the edition :).
Still a lot of todo so it won't be ready soon but I like where this is going ^^.
gtl v0.4.8 released. Read the release note and readme.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.8
https://pics.bacardi55.io/01cc7e27364e
Will today ever end? I'm not sure anymore 🤔
I just realized that gtl was not compatible with the (better) possibility to use UTC offset (eg: +0200 for CEST) instead of the less precise (see wikipedia page) timezone abbreviation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations
It is now fixed in the main branch. That mean that when I'll publish v0.4.8, I'll be soon after changing the way I set date in my tinylog, and people using gtl will need to move to v0.4.8 to follow the new posts in the new date format.
Using abbreviation is still part of the RFC, but as abbreviation are not precise, I'll move the date format of my tinylog to this one.
Lace is already compatible with this format (just tested) thanks to the very flexible nature of the bash date command :).
I've updated the RFC with latest comments and ideas.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
gtl v0.4.7 released! I'm off for the night :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.7
I also noticed some gemtext formatting issue, I've fixed them.
Going to publish a v0.4.7 soon and stop for the night.
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I've made it a configuration. By default, it will use ASCII characters. But if in gtl.toml there is `tui_status_emoji = true` then emoji will be used. That's because I admit I like these status emojis :).
In main branch!
@szczezuja: Thanks again for tests, my comments on them:
feature "h" - I realized that I don't know how it works. I have empty output after pressing "h";
So h only display message with highlights. To define what should be highlighted for you, you need to configure it in the gtl.toml. See README for this: `highlights = "@szczezuja, anytext"`.
Also, it doesn't remove filter. So if you were filtering a particular tinylog (via left menu), then "h" will only display with highlights from that author. You can still use menu on the left to display all (and it will keep the highlight filter).
there are some issue with "r": program is not responding for a while
r refresh the timeline, so nothing can be done in the meantime. That's normal for me, but I agree it should maybe display a "loading" type of message. But it is so fast here (±1s) that I didn't bother. I'm creating a issue to think about that soon.
feature with "s" - working, but: there no description about it in help dialog,
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
there are some weird states when for example we do "s" for hiding, and after it "TAB"
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I was thinking about it yesterday… Might be better, but I found emoji was more graphical but maybe it's too much of a pain. Do you have issues with users avatar on these systems?
after pressing "?" the title, time of last refresh isn't updated
I don't understand this one…? "?" only display/hide the help, so no refresh is done (so title shouldn't change). Even filtering a specific tinylog or using "h" will not refresh the timeline. Tinylogs are not like social media feeds where refresh is needed a lot, so I let the user specifically hit "r" for getting lastest tinylogs versions. All other shortcuts won't refresh the feeds.
you can look at "toot tui" interface for inspiration, there is some interesting "links dialog", which navigate through all active parts of highlighted message;
For me, a highlights toggle and the timeline like now is enough. I don't need to "select" specific entries, I'm just reading/browsing the timeline and can go up/down with arrows or j/k. Maybe that will change someday if I see more value (or if a PR is done^^).
I want to make gtl compatible with MacOS but don't have one right now to test :°).
(I would be ok to people sending patch for it too :)).
I do not have plan for windows, I haven't used a windows machine for anything other than gaming in the last 15 years and back then TUI app wasn't making sens on it. Don't know if that changed though.
gtl v0.4.6 released :]
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.6
@szczezuja: Have you seen this:
https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/git.gmi/
Seems to be a git frontend for gemini. I haven't tested it though so can't tell how well it works (or not)
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks for the tests too!
I removed the footer because it was wasted space and don't want to add it back to put the help message, but I have another idea to simplify first usage, I'll work on it later :).
I've also added some gemtext formatting for links and quotes (in main branch):
https://pics.bacardi55.io/db43275b4157
@szczezuja: To be honest, I don't know if any other formatting makes sens, but I'm happy to hear ideas (not just what should be formatted, but how too :))
I've added 8 other date format to gtl… I now have 18 custom date formats… That makes me sad…
@szczezuja: You're in luck, as I was coding on gtl when I read your report n°4 :).
maybe you should do some experiment in hiding subscription tab
I added the shortcut "s" to toggle the subscription sidebar (in main branch for now).
pressing "q" in help dialog is quitting a whole app
Yes, I didn't thought that was an issue, but I've changed that in main branch so if you are on the help, q just quit the help.
icon of skull on nonexistent feed is on my terminal
Weird… I've changed it to something simpler, should work now… I'm not a big expert on emoji to be honest, that was more a test than anything^^.
new feature suggestion: do some gemtext syntax enhancements
That's planed for some things like links, quote and maybe list, but I don't want to do to much on this either.
Thanks again for the tests/feedback, I'll release a new version later today with the other fixes I've just done.
I've decided to unsubscribe from the gemini mailing list. Way too much noise and drama not worth what is shared on it.
I'd rather follow geminauts on the fediverse, station, irc or directly on user capsule (if possible via gemini feed and/or tinylogs :)).
Just refreshed my manga collection, I now have more than 1300… That's quite the collection :).
That + all my non manga books starts taking a lot of space ^^.
I do have an annual reading "goal" of ±24 books/year and since 2019 I'm referencing all I read and when. I read 21 in 2019, 23 in 2020. Since Jan 2021, I read 11 and am in the middle of the 12th one… Sometimes, I really want to share those reading online on my gemlog but I feel it is more info about myself than I want to give online (even on the smolnet)… But maybe that'll change someday :).
I released gtl v0.4.4 :)
Well… I'm also releasing v0.4.5 because v0.4.4 had a regretion… (v0.4.4 has been deleted)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.5
Working on some fixes and small improvements for gtl to tag a v0.4.4…
If I'm quick enough, I might start poking around the idea around wallabag-ing gemini articles 🤔
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io About proxy html to gemini, have a look to
It does'nt work this all pages (sometime crashes) but it could be improved.
Source code (I should push it on codeberg)
Gemiprox works also as real proxy for http in Lagrange
I have 2 other gemini related tool to create in mind at the moment:
1. A very simple (bash?) script that push gemini pages to my wallabag (via an http proxy because wallabag does not support gemini links). Could be linked to Lagrange/Amfora bookmarks to fully automate it. That should be easy enough relying on wallabag-cli client already installed 🤔
2. Linked to gtl, I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a proxy to transform some pages into a tinylog format. For example an RSS feed, a microblog page not in tinylog format or even the idea from @skyjake if @martin (station developer) doesn't want to do it… I've never coded a proxy like this, could be fun :).
@guillaume@pollux.casa I see you are publishing in your tinylog, that's cool. Some tinylogs to follow if you are interested:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
quite nice indeed
found it from alex's journal
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
Why shouldn't I just use jq?
jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.
gron's primary purpose is to make it easy to find the path to a value in a deeply nested JSON blob when you don't already know the structure; much of jq's power is unlocked only once you know that structure.
whenever I want to use jq I always just happen to forget how to query with it, so everytime I have to dig into the man page... I have like a list of tools/concepts to learn "in the future if I have time" and jq is one of them
@skyjake posted an idea to add to station:
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/skyjake/170760396835460590d3a182f7e36978
I'm very obviously a huge fan of this idea :]
An idea for Station @martin
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been way too busy. Hope everyone's well. Awesome to see Station now has 170 capsuleers!
Fun fact on gtl. The sidebar on the left (that shows the subscription) is refreshed when the timeline is refreshed (for the status emoji).
The refresh sends requests to capsule always in the same order. It uses goroutine to be non blocking for sending these requests in parallel.
But the order displayed on the sidebar depends on the response time from the capsule. It's not a "fastest to slowest" list because the sending order has a huge impact on it.
But seeing the order change on the left makes the nerd in my tickles :P.
I don't know if other users are annoyed by this but I prefer it like this. I could change it if that's really an unpopular opinion^^
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/ I'm looking forward to the day where I can have only a few date format in gtl :D
I've removed the seconds in date format of tinylog
ugh I keep thinking whether I should switch to kiln instead. but atm as far as I know it doesn't support fetching a file from assets/ (say, style.css) minify it, then get the content so it can be dumped in the <style></style>. I guess I still just use hugo then. It looks heavy (heavier than kiln for sure) but it feels fast and light for some reason.
@szczezuja: Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
Improvement: active tab border
Done in master for now.
Improvement: last line, about time of refresh could be moved to header of subscription tab
Agreed, I moved it to the timeline title: "Timeline - Refreshed at 01:54 CEST". In master for now.
Improvement: shortcuts could be moved to help dialog
That's something I had in mind since there are too many at the top now. So it's underway but it needs a bit of rework so I'll park that for tomorrow. I have multiple ideas for how to display the help box though:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/14
Improvement: last line should be status line
I've hidden the last line for now that the refresh time is not there anymore. I'll re-add it for a kind of "last log line" later.
Improvement: timeline tab should have some navigation
This one would need a lot of rework because that's what I wanted at first, but because the way I used cview at first I choose otherwise. I might rethink this when I add ability to respond to an entry, but I don't think there is a point before, you can already scroll down with the arrow keys or j/k like in vim.
I'll release the improvements of tonight and the remaining one (help) in v0.4.4 probably tomorrow.
tinylogs are fun
@deerbard Either change email provider to one that allow imap/smtp connection (selfhosted or not). Or if you are a big fan of protonmail, the paid service allow you to use protonbridge to use (neo)mutt or anything else.
@guillaume@pollux.casa: I've been wondering the same thing… But because my avatar is important to me and has been the same for the last 11 years (with personal reasons behind it). But nothing look a bit like it in the emoji world. My avatar is styled dragon head (you have to see it), but dragoon related emoji are really bad :D
Any thoughts on what kind of favicon I should use?
Well… v0.4.2 introduced a regression, so v0.4.3 is on its way… This is why I should write tests…
@szczezuja: Why not testing full tiling WM? It's just so great to control everything from your keyboard :]
@frrobert@frrobert.net: Thanks a lot for the comments :) I'd say that the simplicity and complexity of lace is quite impressive too :)
@szczezuja: Thanks too for the very kind (but a bit exaggerated :)) words 🙏
You can try v0.4.2 that should be even "nicer" :)
Incoming release of gtl v0.4.2, with various fixes thanks to @reaton@geminids.ga :)
New feature:
It's getting somewhere :)
New Lagrange iOS TestFlight build!
I'm quite happy with how the new swipe navigation is turning out. Trying to browse a larger set of feed entries was quite cumbersome, but now you can just swipe back to return to the Feeds list (i.e., it re-opens the sidebar). Some more details in the gemlog post.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-06_testflight.gmi
The Identities sidebar is destined to be moved to Settings, with some kind of new UI for selecting the active identity.
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks a lot for testing gtl and reporting issues, it helps a lot (:
It also mean that I have a few fixes to implement tonight or tomorrow :).
Glad to see you back and running :]
o/ everyone, this is gonna be a long day!^^
@szczezuja: About 1/ I think if the time before deletion is long enough, it should an issue. Are you really going back to your favorite from months ago? For me mastodon and social media in general is not a place where I store things. If I like a link, I either put it in wallabag or bookmark it so I never look back for favorite older than a few days.
2/ The "long archive" thing for me is my blog (and my gemlog as they are different). That's where I write long term stuff. Even if I link a toot in an article, I should put enough context around that if the toot isn't there anymore, the article still makes sens.
Anyway, I've not done it yet, it has to go through my laziness first :p.
Just released gtl v0.4.1 with the first attempt at the TUI, I'm quite happy about it even though there are still known bugs that I need to work on ^^.
TUI of gtl almost finished, but it's wayyyy to late already… I'll finish it tomorrow because I'm very close. It will look a lot like the GIF from yesterday with an extra cool feature.
v0.4.0 will have TUI and is due early this week #teasing ^^
Saw a post[^1] about deleting old tweets and toots. This is making me think, both for mastodon and tinylog, both format are supposed to be ephemeral, so I may decide to follow this too, both on mastodon and here… 🤔
[^1]:
https://kevq.uk/why-i-delete-old-content/
@frrobert oh ok sorry. For me though, the author metatag is the way the author wants to be mentioned. So with the "@" to indicate mention but I see your point…
I'll add an issue on the git repo to think about it more, feel free to join :]
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/7
@szczezuja
Yesterday it was third month anniversary of my tinylog.
↑ This post made me curious about my own gemlog, and apparently today is the 4st months anniversary of my 1st post on my gemlog. :]
It is a luxury that not everybody can have so I know I'm lucky. It is also harder now than before when I used to be a dev or tech lead. My job is still technical but not focus on development anymore but I still manage to do everything I need on my linux laptop :).
@frrobert: I believe @author is better because the @capsule.tld is optional in the proposed RFC. So it means if an author don't put it, it will be "just" frrobert or adele. That could be fine for specific nickname like mine, but for more common name that could used in sentences it might highlight things when not wanted. But I can open open an issue on the rfc issue tracker to discuss more about this (more people are joining the convo there).
That being said, in gtl, I have a configuration file in which you can setup highlights strings (eg: `highlights = "frrobert, robert, anystring"`). So user can select what he wants to see highlighted.
@reaton@geminids.ga / @szczezuja: I've been using Linux since 2005 on my personal desktop/laptop and tiling WM since 2007… And I impose that I work on linux at work, that's part of my must have… I'm the only one in my team but I couldn't work without it (both ethical and habits/productivity). Only at my first job between 2008/2010 I had a windows machine, but I was using VirtualBox to have a linux installed and ran it in full screen with i3wm :p.
gtl TUI seems to work nicely (gif):
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106400420956773485
I'm not sure if I should implement such a menu on subscription list:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/9b6ccd4a9eee
Thanks @frrobert! I've added the missing one. I've not put one on purpose because it has been dead for many many days for me so I'm thinking the author stops his capsule… I may be wrong though^^
gemini://capsule.sakrajda.eu/tinytinylog.gmi
@frrobert: Good idea, I also started a list on the RFC git repo:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
I was thinking to transform it in a gemini format (the 3 .md file in the repo) too :).
Happy to merge both lists!
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thank you :)
This is where I'm stopping tonight:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106394956318786808
Almost the same as cli (colors a bit different) but most importantly highlights in content to make it more visible than just the message in bold :).
Needs the menu to work and an auto refresh feature and should be a MVP (even though I do have many other ideas for next steps)
@szczezuja: I've tagged v0.3.1 that includes a "cli_limit" option to avoid manually set "--limit" (if you do, it will override your config).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.3.1
https://pics.bacardi55.io/c5764f9a7b74
↑ This may or may not be what gtl first version of the TUI will look like… I'm not sure anymore :]
@frrobert: Thanks :) Sometimes it is just painful but in the long run I'd say it's worth it.
@szczezuja: That's why I just use "while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --mode cli --limit 11 && sleep 1800; done;" and leave it in a tmux :P. But I'll add a way to add the limit option directly int the config file to avoid typing it.
There are days like today that reaaaally makes me want to through all my selfhosting away and move my services to a cloud instance…
Of course, other will see that message only after the storm (and technical issues) has ended (are resolved) so it's ironic to write it here like this…
Thanks @frrobert :)
I've just noticed that the RFC has made it to geddit and I did not put it there myself ^^
@frrobert@frrobert.net Cool, your new version of lace works fine !
I like wind. according to my brain (very reliable source indeed), wind is caused by the same process that form mountains and cause earthquakes/tsunamis/etc. (lol that was random and unsurprising but i'm pretty sure true)
Seems there is no issue with @deerbard tinylog and gtl in the end, just on the 1st entry of @frrobert ^^
@frrobert: Seems that there isn't 2 line break (= 1 empty line) between your metatags (licence) and your first entry (##) which isn't "normally" compatible with lace format I believe (even though it still works). Could you add a line break so I don't have to handle this weird use case in gtl? (Otherwise I'll do some ugly code to manage it)
I've reverted back the avatar/licence changes in the RFP :).
Now let's investigate why some entries from @frrobert or @deerbard are not displayed in gtl :].
I still use lace from time to time to check if I'm not ignoring valid lace entries by being too strict in gtl.
I must admit that I'm quite happy about the speed of gtl as lace is becoming a bit too slow because of the 11 tinylogs I follow… :]
But I'm still seeing some entries in lace that I do not in gtl (mainly on @deerbard tinylog). I'll investigate that during the week end.
Seems @deerbard tinylog date format don't always work with gtl for some reason, I'll check that.
@deerbard / @szczezuja: I use "\%F \%H:\%M \%Z" and it display CEST. But this is as well how my laptop is configured.
For example, the commande "date" returns "jeu. 10 juin 2021 10:50:18 CEST" for me. What is the return of "date" @deerbard ?
@reaton@geminids.ga Welcome \o/
I've added add and rm command to gtl to manage tinylog subscription without editing the subscription file :)
A few other todos and I'll tag the v0.3.0 (most probably later this week).
Found this: gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/microblog.gmi - everybody has its own format so far^^
I've changed my mind for gtl, there will be a v0.3.0 version before the TUI to add the add/remove commands around subscriptions and a few fixes in the TODO.
TUI should come after (but who knows at this point :D)
Installed the iPadOS 15 developer beta 1 on my iPad. Apart from a few glitches it seems to work pretty nicely.
I'm typing this message from Lagrange on the iPad with an external keyboard. Was surprised to see that all the keyboard shortcuts just work! Thanks to SDL for that. 👏
Oops, after switching to (iPadOS) split view mode with Safari on the side the input widget lost the ability to insert new characters. Gotta debug a bit to see what's up with that. The TestFlight build is getting a bit old so I'll need to update it anyway.
some hugo themes are actually really nice and simple, and some of which has no tracking, no js, or no heavy css involved. here's some of my favs:
I've release gtl v0.2.0 with the color improvements (and other small fixes)
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/pulls/2/files
I'm wondering if we should only explicit an "author" metatag (author can decide to start with an emoji or not - or end with it for that matter) and then say any other "optional metatag"…
That would simplify the format even more I believe.
I've started working on improving the CLI rendering for gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/89056f727801
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/
BTW, thanks for the comment on the tinylog format. I'm still unhappy with my own answser regarding the date format to be honest but don't have a better idea right now^^.
I should also clean it a bit and maybe share it via the fediverse to get more feedback.
Now, my tinylog use my time zone instead of UTC !
I'm going to improve gtl cli (colors and display reorganisation) before starting on the TUI. I won't do something big for the cli but something cleaner like lace output for v0.2.0. v0.3.0 will be focusing on TUI :). At least that's the plan now until it changes yet again :D
You're right @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io but adele.work is an alias of adele.pollux.casa and the tool I use automatically put the domain of the hosting platform. Maybe I should redirect adele.work to have a coherant environment and diffuse this address for my tinylog:
gemini://adele.pollux.casa/tinylog.gmi
@adele@pollux.casa: Shouldn't your "author:" be "@adele@adele.work" as this is where your tinylog is?
@adele@pollux.casa / @szczezuja: I'm not happy about it so far, but I've pushed what I have at this point here:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
It needs improvements, so feel free to comment / PR on the repo :).
I've started working on a draft RFC that I'll push on a git repo soon. Not sure if I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow though (but I'll push what I have so far).
The main thing I'm unsure at this stage is: should we impose one (or a few) date format or let it as free as defined now (just works with "date -d" which is a very open format…)
Testing new format for "author" header in tinylog
Have you watched Final Space yet? It's a fantastic little show.
@adele: I'll start a draft tonight and upload it on a share git repo. I don't have a codeberg account, but I can create one if it's easier than git{lab,hub}. (I don't open my own gitea instance so it wouldn't be useful there :p).
I'm wondering if we shouldn't try to write a "v2" of the "RFC" for tinylogs with the optional tags like author/avatar/… and other small improvements… 🤔
I think I'm going to add some level of colors to gtl cli before doing the TUI piece this week :]
Also, regarding tinylogs follow, I was thinking capsule owner should simply either have an "author: @author@capsuledomain.com" or an additional "permalink: gemini://link" entry between title and first entry. I like the @author@capsuledomain.com because it makes it easy to see who is the author and how to reach out to his capsule…
Thanks for the Gemini capsule, Adële!
My capsule!
wsl 2 is pretty interesting. I like that it is now able to be installed without having to join windows insiders. tried out both ubuntu 20 and alpine on there, will be finishing some configs and setup tomorrow
Thanks for testing and the report :)
Launching guillaume.pollux.casa capsule !
It's the weekend! Who's up to anything interesting?
@szczezuja: I've pushed gtl here: https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
Look at the releases for linux binaries. Easiest is to create the ~/.config/gtl/gtl.toml file in advance with the path to your sub file. Default configuration is displayed on readme.
It is my first time publishing a go app with binaries, and in a draft version… Hopefully it will work though :p
Let me know if that's not the case, but I may be mostly afk tomorrow.
I've cleaned a bit gtl code and option and documented the readme better. Now I need to look at how to automate building multi-architecture binaries so I don't have to do it manually :].
@szczezuja: I've been quite lazy this week and didn't work much on gtl. I'll clean it a bit and release the cli version this weekend with binaries before starting to work on the TUI part. It's always good to have early feedbacks and I'm a believer of the « Release early, release often » :).
@adele: It is some work to setup indeed, but there are cool things to automate it nowadays and good docs, but yes it is not the simplest.
Working at home with 3 screens is helpful if you want to see a bit of Roland-Garros (and soon European cup and Olympics game) :D
@szczezuja: The code is on my own gitea instance, not yet on github/gitlab. I could share it for the adventurous people but it is neither finished nor bug free :).
Do you have golang (≥1.15) installed to compile or would you prefer pre-built binaries?
Enjoying (?) a trip to the summer cabin!
Pros: Lakeside grilling in the pleasant warm evening.
Cons: 2-yo son projectile vomiting on the sofa.
At least the dog is still mostly behaving.
while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --cli --limit 10 && sleep 3600; done;
That's how I follow tinylogs for now (yeah 1h is quite enough :))
@adele: Oh, I didn't know that, sorry :/. I've been selfhosting my emails for ±15 years so I'm not too much aware of these offers (even though I do talk about protonmail to non tech people still interested in privacy).
BTW, nice intro to fight against the centralized web (aka minitel 2.0 for us French^^), curious to read the rest later ^^
Responses:
@adele: You could potentially use the protonmail bridge. I've never used it as I don't use proton, but heard that it works…
https://protonmail.com/bridge/install#1
@szczezuja: You could use cargo to install it if you're not against having rust installed. Otherwise, it seems there is a binary available. The tool itself seems quite nice indeed :]
An "away from keyboard/screens night" (well mostly) reading, quite enjoyable :). I wasn't motivated to code or write tonight, and I don't think we should force ourselves, specially with side project!
TIL: there's Android ransomware that works not by encrypting your files, but rather by showing a system modal window that cannot be dismissed by the user until the ransom is paid. Latest variants use machine learning: "TinyML model is useful for making sure [the ransom note] would appear less contrived and more believable" #android #malware #ransomware
Mobile randsomware
"Over a month ago, I came to the realization that my smartphone was having several negative impacts on my mental health... In a desperate attempt to regain some control, I ditched the smartphone."
gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2021-05-23-digital-declutter.gmi
Digital de-clutter
https://tobykurien.com/digital-declutter/
Yesterday I cleaned a bit the CLI part of my tinylog app. I haven't worked on the TUI side of things yet, but the CLI part seems to work very well. So since this morning, I've switch from lace to it to read other people tinylogs. What I really enjoy is that it is so fast: https://pics.bacardi55.io/b8666cf1ec56 :]
Next step is the TUI, finally, and probably with rivo/tview… Main issue is that I'm still unsure of the design I want :D.
@adele: I've gone this road some years back (almost 10) where I didn't have X started by default and thus staying in tty and just using startx when needed. For me the bloated web was an issue. Even with lynx, w3m or elinks (my fav cli browser). Maybe when gemini http proxy will be better, I could change that back (:
For email, I've been using neomutt for some time, but aerc from drewdevault seems nice too. Alpine was a thing too a long time ago^^.
Today, it has been particularly though to keep some motivation for work ^^".
I finally updated my now page: https://martinrue.com/now. Anyone else have one? Drop me links.
I'm spending the next month or so in Barcelona, hanging out with a bunch of friends I've met over the years. Our common language is Esperanto, and so today I've been hanging out at bars and coffee shops speaking only in Esperanto. This isn't the first time (last summer I did the same), but it's still such an awesome and surreal feeling to be able to do this.
last day of may already? nice.
haven't been online as much for this month... so yeah
I saw the news of freenode, it's pretty surprising since for the last few months when I was active on IRC I didn't like to spent much time on freenode, maybe it's because of its popularity (I tend to like to hang out in places that don't have as much users), but idk
libera.chat is pretty cool
Response of the day:
@adele: I think that's why the "author: @author" thing is great. You could have just your nick, your fediverse or blog link too if you'd like and thus that would help people decide for themselves.
@szczezuja: Regarding your tinylog gemlog entry, I think the author thing above and/or a possible "Contact: {https/gemini/email} link" could also work. So you could always either ping the right people or find them.
This doesn't solve the issue of "If I don't follow user X, then I might miss some post for me". But I think that is the same "issue" with gemlog entries that are responses to other, that could be easily solved by reaching out to someone telling her/him (via the "Contact" link in header) that you responded to him with the link to your response…
Spent most of my day away from screens (well… Even though I coded until almost 4am, it was before sleeping so "yesterday" ^^). Was quite nice to enjoy the great weather today :). I also read most of one of my current book that I really enjoy so far called "l'odyssée des gènes" (translation in english "the genes odyssey").
I love reading, but I decided not to talk to much online about my readings as I feel it give way too much about someone. But I'd be fine discussing it directly with people though.
Lagrange v1.5 has been released. 🚀
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-05_lagrange-1.5.gmi
Ok, results of the night: https://pics.bacardi55.io/26b024c66fe8
I know have basically what lace does in CLI, but with:
Big next step is the TUI. That will be fun, I've never done any real TUI app (even though I love to use them). So no experience in TUI + just a few days of golang experience… This will be fun :-)
But this part will probably be next week.
PS: I like using tinylog for more than a few sentences too when it's not worth a full post. I should do it more.
PPS: sorry @szczezuja for yet another "marketing-y" entry :P
I also apologize for all the gemini servers I'm hammering during my tests ^^"
Ok, all date format I found on diverse tinylogs are managed (+ other standards). But I really think that this should be simplified. Gemini is based on simplicity and for people not familiar with the "date" linux command, it is not simple enough. IMO.
The fact that lace is so permissive with date format will make it more difficult in another language because of the flexibility of the date shell command compared to what programming language let you do 🤔
@szczezuja: I'm interested to know if the couple comitium/backlinks works, let me know please :]
@szczezuja said on his tinylog
There is some teaser on author's tinylog. First tinylog marketing on Geminispace, ever. :-)
Ahahah, I didn't thought about being marketing-y but he might be right :D. It also made me think about how much corrupted our brains are…
Well that's a new one: made dinner plans for tomorrow 1400km away from where I am now
Hoping to release Lagrange v1.5 this weekend! Check out the ~final release notes: https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/raw/commit/341e2b56d3fa04ea0a7c9ecf6bd059289a02754c/res/about/version.gmi
My tinylog client is moving on nicely. Far from something to publish but less far from a workable MVP^^.
@adele I agree, the simplest and cleanest is @szczezuja idea of having these data in between title and entries in a formatted way
My tinylog TUI app is moving very slowly but surely :-]. Always great to learn new things even though it means going a lot slower than with tech I'm more familiar with, but it is quite fun too :). I'm planning to support the author/avatar thing from @szczezuja even though I won't use myself an avatar as no emoji are closed to what I'd like :p. But I like the idea as it remove a request to get a favicon.txt
Sometimes, it feels like there are more gemini servers than users…
I may or may not have started to code a tinylog TUI app yesterday night and that might explain my level of fatigue this morning…
Also, I'm wondering, are you @all editing your tinilog file by hand or did you create a simple script to automate it? :)
Awesome to see more activity via lace today :) The "@" notification is the line between a micro log and a social media, but I don't think it is a viable option (at best, we could have notification for people that we sub to only. Otherwise it will imply a lot more complex setup with cgi scripts). So in the end, I think I can live without…
I forgot about tinylogs for too long^^
A great talk arguing that software is in fact getting worse, because of more complexity. (via alex.flounder.online)
Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Photos from a recent trip down to Port Edward, KZN South Coast. A really beautiful and relaxing place for a holiday. #photo #kzn
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Current status: just tried to brush a forward slash off my screen. Been a long week.
Started this week a bit differently. I decided to head to London and do nothing but work on my own stuff, gym, spa, and socialise. It was wonderful. Back to the grind now, though.
If anyone wants to test multiline text input on iOS, there's a new TestFlight build available: 1.4 (7).
The iOS keyboard is so fiddly that I've set the sw keyboard "return" key to insert a line break by default instead of sending the request. This may still change if I figure out how to modify the keyboard.
Other updates include an improved Settings view and of course split view (for iPad).
Instead of installing and configuring a heavy GUI app for my calendar and todos, I've discovered the command-line based pimutils. Once vdirsyncer is configured, I can use khal and todoman. Very simple, powerful, portable, and lightweight. #opensource #commandline
pimutils
And here's a gorgeous screenshot of khal in action, if you're still on the fence about #cli PIM tools. #commandline #pimutils #khal
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Station now preserves newlines in posts and lets you use formatting lines (via ```) and quotes (via >).
."". ."",
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} ` _/ / ;
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Enjoy!
Working beside an open window while it rains outside. Smells amazing.
Oh dear, I've had 3x my normal amount of coffee today. This will definitely not help with reaching my sleep goal tonight, but on the other hand, I'll probably end up redesigning some view transitions in Lagrange for iPhone.
The weekend is almost here! Anyone got anything interesting/unusual planned?
Augh, I was baffled why the Station notifications page wouldn't open (just redirected me to "/"), but turns out I had accidentally selected another cert for the notifications URL. Lagrange's UI wasn't communicating this in any way... Have to invest some time into making it clear which certs are used on the current domain. PS. This multi-line text editor is quite luxurious. 😊
After two full days of battling with some code, I finally made a breakthrough. This is a *good* feeling.
Testing Multi-Line Input I'm working on an improved text editor for Lagrange v1.5. It expands as you write text, and newlines can be inserted, too. Let's see if these newlines are preserved. Testing 1 2 3 Another line and a third one.
On a scale of Monday to Friday, I’ll rate today as “pure concentrated Monday”. Productivity: 0.
Happy Monday everyone!
Rather than asking how my day's going, just ask me how many browser tabs I have open. That'll tell you everything.
Laying in a bath hot enough to potentially disolve me while listening to loud music is my meditation.
It has been a long week, but some Seneca is helping me relax today. I'm currently reading De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind), and looking forward to De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) next. What are your favourite philosophy reads?
Hello weekend! Anyone doing anything interesting? I have a bit of work to do, and then I'm going to carry on with a project to write some fiction in Esperanto for the INK-Konkurso: https://www.akademio-literatura.org/ink
Need to search Station? Well now you can. You'll find the search feature on the homepage. Check Recent Updates for details. Happy searching!
Lagrange v1.4.0 is going out now
I wonder if Station notifications could be listed as a gmisub page (maybe at a separate URL), so clients could subscribe to see them? At least Lagrange supports client certs when checking feeds.
Instead of sleep (which I really need to do very soon) I've spent this evening updating Station so you can now add a link on your profile page. Get sharing all your cool capsule (or fat web) links :) Goodnight Station!
Writing documentation is challenging after sleeping only 5 hours. 🥱
New Station update! Notifications are now shown on the homepage too, and Station now has diagnostics (check bottom of homepage).
Just want to say thanks to everyone who signed up to Station since the launch a few days ago. We have a neat little community here on Gemini now (94 people so far), and that's pretty awesome!
accessing my flounder capsule from Documents (by Readdle) iPad app
pretty cool huh
recently trying out the various different apple pencil note apps again (did it a year ago), writing this with Apple Pencil scribble feature. It's not very good with symbols ←
@martin Great job creating this site! The new split modes in Lagrange v1.4 will be very useful for navigating here. 😉
I spent entirely too much time trying to set up a nice profile image.
Here in the UK it's a holiday today, but that ain't stopping me – today I'm drinking Mate and writing code, and I'd rather be doing nothing else. Surely you're all doing something far more interesting, right?
I just pushed an update to Station so that mentions (using an @ symbol before a user's name) now works. If you're mentioned, you'll see a notification on your profile page letting you know.
It's really awesome seeing people joining Station and posting stuff. Makes the late nights over the last few weeks totally worth it.
Hello! After a few weeks of tinkering, Station is finally live. If you like the idea of a text-based mini social network for gemini, create an account and hang out. ✌️
gosh can't believe it's may already :o
I love how a third of 2021 is finished (4/12=1/3)
replaced old readline package for gelim with this:
http://github.com/lmorg/readline
it's quite good, much better than what I was previously using. also discovered murex shell from there, feels a bit like fish, but i don't like murex's syntax, and it isn't as widely supported or known compared to fish
also added colors!!! easier than I thought. this package i'm using feels much much better than colorama from the python realm:
honestly go packages are all really cool
added pager to my gemini client, it basically just calls `less` with -FSEX and if it fails, it will just print the content normally
Book recommendation: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Talk about discovering the right book at the right time! After ditching my smartphone, I needed answers: why was it bad? what do I do with my time? This book answers that and more.
Digital Minimalism
https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
By a truly unbelievable coincidence [...] I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me.
😂
Turns out the software used to extract data from your phone when seized, has security vulnerabilities 😁 #signal #cellebrite
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite...
https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
I made a music player using the awesome Pimoroni Pirate Audio HAT for #RaspberryPi. It plays any format including OGG and even videos, remembers where it left off, buttons work exactly how I like it because I wrote the code, and it has outstanding audio quality (24-bit DAC + headphone amp). The UI needs work tho! #maker #diy #audio
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Birds on a wire. They congregrate at this exact spot every morning just before sunrise, and disperse as soon as the sun rises. #birding
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yesterday I thought, wouldn't it be the absolute perfect solution to track my dotfiles with hardlinks? (that is, you hardlink the dotfiles into a git repo and track them from there)
so today I did a bit of research and found that there are many people who have tried this method, and there are caveats:
https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/git-dotfiles-and-hardlinks/
^that article suggests you to just track your ~ with git, which I have mentioned with other dotfiles managers on Apr 6th (below), it said that the problem with doing the hardlinks way is that "Git never modifies files in the working tree – instead, it unlinks them and then recreates them from scratch. This inherently breaks any hardlinks that might have been present". which AFAI can tell, you can't use git commands to modify files from your repo and wish that those changes will reflect in your ~ (?)
so then I thought, what if, instead of having files in your dotfiles git repo be hardlinks /of/ your dotfiles at ~, why not have the dotfiles at your ~ be hardlinks /to/ files in your git repo?
in that case, though I haven't tried it yet, will probably be similar to the symlink solution which when you want to `vim .gitconfig` for example, it opens `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` and breaks the syntax highlighting. But now with symlink replaced with hardlinks, you are probably still editing your `~/.gitconfig` and since `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` points to the same contents you can track the changes as needed. sounds too good to be true, kinda?
so why am I trying out these different, almost crazy, methods when I said I was going to stick to yadm? well, so here is what I still need which yadm doesn't provide (AFAIK):
for some machines, only track some files and directories and remove the others.
for example:
anyways, the problem I described above can probably be solved with chezmoi, but like what I've written on 6th, there are downside(s) with it and I don't like it. I'd rather stick with yadm for now, and try out the hardlink strategy. In any case, once I've figured out an almost-perfect solution that (hopefully) solves all my problems I'll write a gemlog post about it. It may be that there is no such solution that can do so but we'll see.
new journal heading layout. # for each month, ## for each day, and ### for each event
also made the stuff reverse-chronological order
I let out some of my frustrations in a ranty response to a Github feature request for my app. I love that a user was invested enough in my app to write a long and frustrated feature request.
Quote:
I sense your frustration in that the app is close to what you want and how you use it, but not quite there. Unfortunately the bad news is that I will probably stop supporting this app this year, despite this app being a labour of love and one I'm proud of. The above-mentioned sandbox leaks, combined with browser fingerprinting, supercookies, FLoC, and other hostile abuses of Web technology, have made me come to the conclusion that the Web is a lost cause for private browsing. Yes, WebApps offers only limited protection, and that protection will probably decrease every year. Something like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) is probably the way forward for privacy minded geeks, and I for one am moving as much of my content creation/consumption there as possible.
Another factor is that Android is also increasingly hostile to the developer (you need at least 16Gb RAM to compile a 3Mb APK, every year devs are forced onto new APIs, Gradle builds break often, Google now wants your developer signing key, the tooling I had used is now deprecated, etc, etc, etc). Couple that with the spyware preloaded onto phones and the increasing difficulty of getting control over your device (e.g. my phone kills VLC after 30 mins and there's nothing I can do about it), and I'm ready to ditch Android and go back to good 'ol desktop computing (https://tobykurien.com/post-1618319359/).
WebApps Feature Request: Tabs
https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps/issues/249#issuecomment-821967876
found several cool more things on gemini:
paste.gemigrep.com - paste and archive text and gemini urls
gmisub - I normally just use Spacewalk or gemreader for feeds in gemini, but this is cool too
Amazing post on SCGI in gemini
discovery.geminiprotocol.com - more cool stuff on gemini
review.treeblue.space - similar to above
Giving up the smartphone (currently in airplane mode in the drawer) for a dumb phone. I want my attention span back. I want control over my computer. I want to eschew mobile computing for good old fashioned desktop computing.
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TIL: trackers/spyware can bypass even third-party blocking and same-origin-policy by using CNAME cloaking. There's almost no hope of having privacy on the web, other than to resort to other protocols like Gemini.
Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloaking-based-tracking/
gelim - my new wip line mode Gemini client in go (sr.ht)
(will write a detailed gemlog post for this)
here's my general dotfile setup/manager timeline:
1. nothing
2. symlink + plain git
3. yadm
4. copy-paste files to repo (with scripts to make it easier)
5. yadm
6. homedir git (with * in .gitignore, and track with `git add -f`)
7. chezmoi
8. yadm
the last 3 from the above are my top 3 preferred options, here are the pros and cons for each:
〈 ~ git 〉
Drew's blog post on this setup
I’ve tried a few solutions over the years, but I settled on a very simple system several years ago which has served me very well in the time since: my $HOME is a git repository
pros:
cons:
〈 yadm 〉
basically, your $HOME is a git repository, but wrapped. nothing is tracked until you `add` it, so I think of it as the above method but with more features.
pros:
cons:
〈 chezmoi 〉
it copies your dotfiles to a separate dir and you can optionally setup git in that dir.
pros:
cons:
read more about this ("complaint"?) and their reasons for it
also see:
full comparison table between various dotfile managers (chezmoi docs)
Not really about 5G, the article mentions ways that SAPS could get hold of your data. FYI My phone was confiscated and searched at OR Tambo without any warrant. #surveillance #privacy
5G opens the gates for surveillance on steroids
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-06-5g-opens-the-gates-for-surveillance-on-steroids/
seen it across the geminispace as well as mentioned in IRC many times, but I didn't give it a go since it was desktop-based... but today I saw some people on #gemini tilde.chat IRC mentioning Lagrange for iOS, immediately I went to skyjake.fi's gemlog and joined the testflight. the only iPad gemini client I've used so far was Elaho, which has similar UI/UX to firefox, it feels smooth and comfortable to use, despite have it lack some features such as subscriptions, importing certs (AFAIK), and sharing identities across different capsules. (I mentioned Elaho when I first tried it out in the 2021-04-01 entry above). here are my first impressions
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gemreader
public instance of gemreader ^ (needs cert)
Great video with a LOT of information for privacy-aware smartphone users. Sadly, even us hackers have lost control of our tech. #privacy #smartphone
Spyware-Free Phones in 2021: We're being Squeezed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrugkYJpO8
started getting into go in january, but at the time I only did some stuff on the Go Tour, and since then I hadn't touched go at all... Today looking at some gemini clients and other software, sometimes urged me to learn go (like, immediately). started looking at simple Gemini server/clients source code and I decided to fork solderpunk's "≈100 lines bare-bones but usable client in Go"[*], refactor it, implement some features like more commands, less(1)-like output, etc, basically a simpler, dumber version of AV-98 in Go. This is also to basically help me learn go with "learning by doing", really excited for this. Will probably start tomorrow
Photos from a recent #hike near Hartebeespoort dam
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I was recently treated to a visit from an African Grey Hornbill. Right on my doorstep!
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wow! did mozz just add support for spartan:// to his HTTP-gemini portal? dang this is amazing, no need to use my terminal with `| less` anymore :P
Gemini Proxy (also spartan now)
read the specs[*] for spartan a bit more carefully today... the way it specifies how inputs are requested is quite interesting. AND guess what... there's inline inputs! (AFAIK) spartan uses text/gemini for its document format, and adds a new input syntax "=:" to replace gemini's 10 INPUT status code. here's an example .gmi served over spartan:// with input:
```example gmi file for spartan://
# normal heading
* normal list item
* second item
here goes an input
=: /input-handler friendly text for the input
more normal text
```
try out here
there's a guestbook and also an "echo service" where anything you input will be echoed back to you
problem is, atm, the server.py file[*] doesn't handle inputs (at least not from looking at the code and trying it out), and I would really love to see how spartan://mozz.us do the echo and the guestbook thing, but I don't think it's open sourced
gemini://spartan.mozz.us/spartan_server.py
anyways I think this feels more like a gemlog post, will link to it here when I'm done writing it
Knowledge and resources are really scattered. I was looking into gemini, gopher, irc bots, etc to be specific. One day, when I have the money, time, and energy, I will buy a domain, get a host and sit down and organized all of these things into a single public wiki/notebook...
I saw mozz's post[*] on his shiny new protocol a few days ago, but only decided to have a look today. looking at the client/server .py files I was like "wow! this seems really lightweight", also, this was the perfect opportunity to install a curl-like program for gemini:// so I decided to use makeworld's gemget[*] and downloaded the two scripts for spartan://.
gemget - CLI downloaded for gemini (like curl/wget) - by makeworld (github)
My first stop on the spartanspace is spartan://mozz.us, I also had a play with its cool input "system", then immediately went on to trying out the server. So far everything feels just like gemini, except that this protocol is newer, lighter, and I guess easier to implement. Can't wait to get more into it and create my own server/clients for it!
registered on Astrobotany[*] a week ago, and been only using it with amfora[*] on tilde.cafe[*], but today I tried out a gemini from the iPad - Elaho! (will link to it once I find its github repo, forgot atm).
Astrobotany - community garden over gemini://
tilde.cafe, a "newly" launched, debian tilde
so far browsing the geminispace from Elaho is a super cool and relaxing experience, it seems to be based off firebox. But from what I can see, Elaho doesn't allow you to import certificates, so I created one, logged into Astrobotany and added my current certificate to my account.
all this "gemini apps" and auth with client certs and so cool! can't wait to make my own game or app over gemini
A week or two ago I started taking a serious look at gopher, reading through every single post on gopher.zone
gopher.zone - Gopher guides - "Highway to the gopher zone"
Today I decided to go back, and put my journal and gemlog there until I find a good host for all my online stuff... The one thing that still impresses me is the ability to set custom domains for my flounder site! AFAIK not a single one of any other Gemini hosting providers allow you to do that :/
Another amazing thing is that I can directly edit from the web! (Although if Editting via Gemini inputs are supported that would be cool) Editting from the web means that I can update my journal/gemlog from any device, which is ideal especially for my journal
When I came back, I noticed that WebDAV was replaced with SFTP access! Gosh that's amazing, which means I can script automated updates (if I need any) and 'deploy' to my flounder site immediately :D
The first time I heard about it was from my mastodon timeline, but didn't give it a serious look until today! I was surprised that so many of the things in there look so familiar to me... Like most of the times I'm like "oh, it's this guy", and "oh I know you!"
A #loadshedding solution I've been playing with: Blue Nova 280Wh LFP battery + 300W inverter. Runs my laptop for over 6 hours, charges with standard car battery charger, over 10 years of cycle life, weighs less than 3kg, costs under R3000. #diy
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WebApps is my #OpenSource #Android app I am most proud of. Many years in the making, it allows you to save websites as apps, with privacy-enhancing features similar to uMatrix.
WebApps sandboxed browser
https://github.com/tobykurien/webapps
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Analysis of how Google's FLoC can hurt users.
"FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves"
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Not super proud of this, but when it's a choice between tossing out an old tablet because of a broken USB charging port, or an ugly fix to save it, I'll do the ugly fix.
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This article explains why a few kilobytes of macOS updates ends up as gigabytes of downloads and 45 minutes of updating.
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
Beautiful weather and my second run in shorts today - apologies to anyone blinded by the winter whiteness of my legs.
'People often ask: “What’s the next Covid?” An attack on our digital infrastructure is a leading candidate.' and other interesting insights in this great read.
Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841
First run of the year in shorts! ☀️
I published my thoughts on the favicon.txt rfc. Not sure if that was a good idea though^^
I should not start factorio… I should not start factorio… ^^
Ahah… Just realized that I published a new blog article by mistake when I deployed the updated version of the gemini homepage… Good thing the article was ready to be published… Anyway… #fail
My first tinylog entrie… Very simple and useless at the same time :). I'm using CET time, it works with the date command so I hope this will work for everyone, otherwise I'll convert to UTC.
I was on the farm again yesterday, picking salad leaves and laying drainage channels. Weather was beautiful. After, I recorded a MiniDisc 'mixtape' from my record collection. Pretty good day, really.
I'm quickly learning that the secret to vintage hi-fi is to clean everything with servisol super 10 before you start.
Hopefully just updated my MicroGem formatting to work with Chris Were's lace script.
Doing my kanji homework.
Mmm, pancakes for lunch.
I'm, like, really into minidiscs right now.
I have added a section to my #gemini capsule
gemini://tobykurien.com
for aggregating what people are saying about Gemini, e.g. tweets, toots, and now also the Gemini mailing list, where most of the announcements and spec discussions take place. You can now browse this on Gemini itself!
Gemini mailing list archive on Gemini
gemini://tobykurien.com/cgi-bin/mailing_list.py
Volunteered on an organic farm today. We planted hedges. It was nice to spend time outside with other humans.
"Culture I/O is a website about utopia as seen through the haze of the dystopian present. You’re laughing, but we’re serious. There’s a manifesto. That’s how serious we are."
Culture I/O — The Road to Utopia
I'm getting definite oil shell vibes from zig - practical improvements without throwing all our existing work out of the window. Last night I started a little outliner program to practice on using ncurses and sqlite and the C integration has been great.
Playing with the zig programming language today. LOVE the lazy compilation while learning. If I don't use it, it doesn't have to compile!
New blog post! In which I attempt to cure my #doomscrolling
My war on doomscrolling
https://tobykurien.com/war-on-doomscrolling/
FreeHacker is an ezine "created to help the spread of DIY culture in cyberspace". A good, if somewhat short read.
FreeHacker: Issue 2
https://anarchistnews.org/content/freehacker-issue-2-available-download
This Sojourner #pwa is a beautiful way to browse and bookmark talks from the #fosdem '21 schedule.
Sojourner
https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/search/
Few years ago I moved my personal projects from #Git to #Fossil, and can recommend it. It is easy to host (single binary file), feature full (bug tracking, wiki, forum, etc), and all the repo data is stored in a single sqlite db (easy to backup). You can also allow anonymous access so that people can collaborate without creating accounts. That's 2 files you copy into a machine and you have your entire source control and repo up!
Fossil: Fossil Versus Git
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
My #Gemini capsule is up! It includes my #gemlog which is generated from my website microblog, which is also syndicated as tweets/toots via #IndieWeb. Very cool that all these technologies can play well with each other and are easy to script to my liking.
Toby's Gemlog
gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi
A well written blog post (from a Google dev advocate) about using machine learning for baking, resulting in inventing a new dessert. Much 'maker' spirit, such wow. #ai #machinelearning
Baking with Machine Learning
https://sararobinson.dev/2020/04/30/baking-machine-learning.html
"This means in two to five years we may be able to surf the internet or talk on our 900 MHz phones while walking down the sidewalk in nearly any city whose occupants own Amazon or other competing devices."
We may Soon have City-Spanning 900 HMz Mesh Networks
http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/900mhz-mesh.html/
Some thoughts on the #Gemini protocol:
1. Gemini is to the web what reading a book is to watching TV. The former is focussed, simple, requires some effort, and may be more rewarding. The latter may be more compelling but also full of distractions and advertisements.
2. Gemini is just text and links, which HTML can easily do, but by removing features (like CSS, JavaScript, and inline media), Gemini guarantees that your experience will be simple, fast, and user-respecting. No complicated issues like browser fingerprinting, popups, tracking, XSS, etc.
3. Gemini might be a good fit for disseminating information in low-bandwidth long-range mesh networks like Meshtastic, which might become part of our apolcalyptic/dystopian future.
4. Gemini is a good format for scraping web content or generating content for displaying on devices like DIY smart mirrors, Raspberry Pi tablet screens, Smart watches, etc.
Curious? Try this link below which uses a web proxy to display some random feeds from Gemini sites.
Capcom Gemini Aggregator
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/
"These all use some form of local radio signal. Some, such as Briar, may use short-range Bluetooth and Wifi, while others use radios such as LoRa that can reach several miles with low power. ... Every item on this list uses full end-to-end encryption" #offline #messenger #lora #meshnetwork
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities
Awesome talk about the ideas and possibilities behind the Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. #beakerbrowser #decentralizedweb #dweb
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers (2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
first ever gemlog! it's just a hello world (published on flounder)
happy new year
I decided to hate discord
"On the Internet, your rate of learning is limited not by access to information, but by your ability to ignore distractions"
The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
Bumper harvest of cherry tomatoes from my #aquaponics #diy
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You may be in a quandry about deleting WhatsApp, because EVERYONE is on it. How quickly we forget that this was true of Mixit and BBM. We've moved before, we can move again, the businesses will follow. #deletewhatsapp #deletefacebook
Facebook really wants your data! The long term solution is decentalized/federated, like Matrix.
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
Contact tracing is so dangerous, it gives governments an irresistible tool for tracking, surveillance and control. The abuse of the tech has already begun.
Govt confirms that police can use TraceTogether data for criminal investigations
My fav gadget of 2020: the LCD writing tablet. Costs under R200. 2 year battery life. Doesn't sync with anything. Can only erase whole screen. Helps me focus distraction-free on today's tasks and jot down notes.
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Using some simple scripts, I have automated the process of publishing microblogs to my static-generated website (which uses #Pelican). It makes use of the #IndieWeb standard #micropub format, so I can even share links and upload photos to my blog via the Indigenous app. Now you can too!
IndieWeb scripts for publishing using micropub to a static-site generator like Pelican.
https://github.com/tobykurien/micropub-to-markdown
Now watching 0xcon talks from last month. #infosec #southafrica
0xcon 2020 - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UsXYRp-4uWk
Interesting new protocol: "Gemini is a new internet protocol which: Is heavier than gopher; Is lighter than the web; Will not replace either; Strives for maximum power to weight ratio; Takes user privacy very seriously"
Project Gemini FAQ
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Tiny World is an amazing documentary with incredibly beautiful photography. Well worth watching. #tv #documentary
Tiny World — Official Trailer l Apple TV+ - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oGNb4d6UdeU
Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram blogged this:
Consume Less. Create More. It’s More Fun.
https://telegra.ph/Consume-Less-Create-More-Its-More-Fun-12-04
Another epic Joburg sunset, taken yesterday afternoon. 😍
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To be or not to be :-)
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Flowers in the yard
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Beautiful Joburg sunset
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Raspberry Pi portable PC #diy
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The #gpcoronavirus #covid19 dashboard has been updated with a powerful hotspot analysis provided by @WitsUniversity which will hopefully assist @GautengProvince with the second surge.
Re: tweet
https://twitter.com/Wits_News/status/1340979463824273410
Details:
Dashboard:
Holiday reading for the geeky: NODE zine contains articles about interesting open source, decentralized, censorship-resistant and cutting-edge technologies.
NODE zine
My #aquaponics runneth over! That's cherry tomatoes hanging off the side, bearing plenty of fruit. #diy
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First micro-blog post on my own site, which will hopefully be syndicated to social media via #IndieWeb tech!
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Agregated tinylogs:
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