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I am spent

2023-03-15

About over-extending, Spain and the wonders of stack machines.

This place has been quiet. I am completely and utterly spent. Haven't been this tired in years. I took a break from working on my self hosting setup now that it is mostly functional — not complete! — and mostly stable. I also haven't really worked on getting myself off the cloud in two weeks. I believe I have cleared and deleted two google accounts since I last spoke about it here and certainly I have requested deletion of a bunch more online accounts. But there is more to do. I'll pick this up again once we're back from our vacation.

Thank god for the vacation. Starting this Saturday we're leaving for Spain. Three weeks of decompression, deeeeeep breaths, lots of sleep, good food and drink, reading, talking, connecting with people and hopefully starting aquarell painting again. We plan to also do some scouting for properties, Spain is kinda-sorta on our radar as a retirement plan. Were we live now retirement is too expensive.

I'll take two books with me to Spain:

"The Ecotechnic Future" by John Michael Greer. I'm still not done with it.
Probably "The Retro Future" by the same author, or alternatively "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden

"The Retro Future" would connect nicely to "The Ecotechnic Future". "Permanent Record" is long overdue. I'll probably toss a coin.

Oh, by the way. Recommended movies, none of them new but I finally got around to see them:

"The Social Dilemma" - Everyone needs to watch this. I thought I knew quite a bit how social media works and what drives it but it was eye-opening nonetheless. If you have children, *definitely* watch this.
"The Great Hack" - contextually related to "The Social Dilemma" it follows the case of Cambridge Analytica and sheds a light on how social media can and is used to systematically undermine democracy itself. This is not hyperbole.

On a brighter note: What I have picked up recently is FORTH. Okay it is not an acronym… Forth, then. It's a simple-yet-powerful and quite old programming language based on computing stacks. I had come across Forth via `uxn` by hundred rabbits (links below), an ultra-quirky and minimal virtual computer developed by a digital nomad living on a sail boat. Seriously, if you don't know hundred rabbits yet you're in for a ride :). …what was I talking about? Oh yeah, Forth.

I'm still wrapping my head around it all and I have much to learn. But Forth reminds me of times when I was building my own Z80 computer (no, I'm not _that_ old) and dreamt of bootstrapping my own little operating system from scratch. With Forth, this seems to be back in the realm of possibilities. Oh god, why do adults have to work for a living? All the _time_ I would have… *sigh*

Any attempt of me trying to explain Forth cohesively will be fataly flawed. If you're in for some nerd trip, visit your search engine of choice.

Alright, this is me for now. Surprisingly incoherent, this post. Time to go to Spain, see you after Easter.

Links

Some information on Forth

Hundred Rabbits

Varavara (fair warning, I believe it helps to understand the Hundred Rabbits first)

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