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What frustrates me the most: having ideas I can't implement for lack of technical skills. What frustrates me the second most: not being able to deal with people who might be able to implement those ideas. The only solution is developing the technical skills. (Forget about people.) The past couple months I've cracked regex, after a number of attempts over the years. It's become part of me. Once I'm done this part of the project, I'll have to try to learn Rust again, a thought that...
💬 View post · Jun 25 · 13 days ago
The Condition of Geminispace Rust Applications Taken from "Awesome Gemini" page [https link] I'm running Whonix in Qubes, so YMMV. Code that works in 2024: agate (server) fluffer (gemini app framework) gempost (blogging) gemtext2md (converter) laika (server) windmark (server framework) Code that might work, but has some installation issues: OpenSSL (I have the latest OpenSSL installed, but...) gremlin ncgopher pollux taurus titan Glib castor eva Geopard P.S.: I still can't get Lagrange TUI...
💬 View post · Jun 25 · 13 days ago
No More Sitcoms *I woke up.* I was visiting my cousins in their skyrise apartment. It was morning. The sun was shining through the translucent white curtains. I got out of bed, but felt something was wrong. Nobody was around, but it wasn't that. I went into the living room to play some video games, to get my mind off the anxiety. Strangely, I felt it had become night. The big screen glowed brightly. Should I play the wood-veneered Super Nintendo, or the standard purple and gray one? I...
💬 View post · Jun 24 · 2 weeks ago
When I Got Home The landlord had made some renovations. In my absence, a fancy new fish bar and grill opened beneath my apartment. And apparently I lived above a vast florescent shopping mall. It was early when I entered the shopping mall, past the blindly lit drug supermarket, and wandered into the restaurant. I admired the deep browns of its richly laquered wood bench seating and the glittering white tiles behind the cash register. Everything was very clean and new. The glass display...
💬 View post · Jun 24 · 2 weeks ago
What Happened The Last Time I Went Outside A mob had formed. Everyone was dialing 9-11 and murmuring in panicked tones. "You're going to jail, son," said the business man blankly. "What did you think you were doing?" I had ran repeatedly into the wall at the end of an office hallway. It was profoundly scuffed. "I was supposed to go right through," I insisted. "With /that/ music on the soundtrack, it was inevitable." "But you didn't go through," he said. "Now the wall's damaged and you're...
💬 View post · Jun 20 · 3 weeks ago
The Mysterious Stranger — My door was open to catch the cool breeze. I was entertaining my neighbors. She appeared suddenly, smiling. "Hi!" Who is that? I asked. A murmur. "Where are you from?" I mistakenly told the truth. Who is that? I asked again. Another murmur. She came right inside my house. With her cell phone. That was it. I pushed everyone out of my house. "What happened?" She seemed surprised. Pointing to her cell phone she had put on my table: "That's not allowed." I...
💬 View post · May 16 · 8 weeks ago
Thinking Small — Even the simplest technical project requires help from others. When you have little social capital, you will find it hard to get anything off the ground. Sadly, social worlds are full of nonsense, and instead of gluing flap A into slot A, you can spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out the calculus of sociopathic human interaction. And one questions whether the project might not be conceived a little smaller, to get rid of some of the social overhead. And so the...
💬 View post · 1 like · May 10 · 2 months ago