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I know there was no 2023 edition. Nor a 2023 reading list. Shame! Shame! as Panopticon would sample! [1] And that's the only political reference of this post, I won't be getting into the current shitstorm occuring in France.
I started a new job one year ago, as the sole developer for an environmental association and it's been terrific: my skills finally have some use for useful projects and the colleagues are great! The major downside is that it takes most of my time, moreover being on the other side of ĂŽle-de-France, the larger Paris' area. I also have been accepted as the bass player of a musical theatre company, where the other musicians have vastly superior abilities than me so I have to practice a lot and learn to read sheet music, an ordeal I always postponed. We are going to play a musical called Urinetown in July and it's going to be AWESOME!!
That's why there has been silence around here then, right? Well, partly, but I also probably lost some interest in Gemini at some point. Not due to the content, I'm still checking up on some people regularly, you know who you are [2], but because my mind was caught by other subjects and my minor writing efforts were partly redirected to the WriteFreely instance I've been maintaining, a Web publishing platform using Markdown and a minimal UI, initially for friends, but at this point for me as well. I write in French there; some stuff could find its place here once translated but time is limited. Anyway, Gemini still counts for me or I wouldn't be here typing this note :P
Gemini is the first {place,tech,community} that pushed me to write things and publish them and right now I'm happy to find back the pleasure that is filling up a Gemtext file. But writing in English is not so comfy and I experiment with different of writing processes.
What's left for this capsule? I don't know yet. It could be nice to access my memex publicly from Gemini, a bit like on idiomdrottning, but there is little hope for code requiring more than an hour of work to happen any time soon. All my dev projects are on hold, any music composition as well, I have not being drawing for years now, nor study botany or any other demanding field. This year in my free time, I succeed at reading and I consider it's enough.
So that's it for this time, hope to see you in less than a year, but you know how it is. If you read French, check out my blog and my friends' on the same instance! Not snitching but there are some old timer geminauts there…
https://textes.pistache.land/dece
Cheers!
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[1] : In the song “Black Soot and Red Blood” of his Kentucky album, Austin Lunn samples an old recording of a protest in which the crowd yells Shame continuously. The recording ends with the voice of an old lady saying, probably to a policeman, “I am ready to die, are you?” and I don't think even Lift Your Skinny Fists managed to draw tears from me so efficiently.
[2] : dobody, dozens, Sandra, JBanana, oberdada, lel from commie.space… love you guys, sincerely. And probably you as well dear reader, as long as you post on Antenna things titled very far from tech!
[3] : PARA stands for “Project, Area of responsibility, Resources, Archives” and is a decent method of classifying stuff.
[4] : See both posts below, the first for presenting the memex idea, the second for the assessment.