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<updated>2024-08-22
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<author>
<name>axxuy</name>
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<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz</id>
<entry>
<title>It's Okay To Be Common</title>
<published>2024-08-22</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/itsokaytobecommon.gmi</id>
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I was working on a different post today, and I found myself wanting to apologize in it. I was talking about things that I was sure other people have talked abput before, writing a post I am sure other people have written variations of. And my impulse was to add a disclaimer, to apologize for describing my experience, simply because it was one that has been shared before.
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<entry>
<title>Saturday Picnic</title>
<published>2024-08-16</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/saturdaypicnic.gmi</id>
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I'm looking forward to lunch tomorrow. I have a little routine I like to do on the weekends in the summer or whenever the weather is nice. It's simple. I make some lunch, pack it up with a water bottle and take it down to a local park that has some nice views[1]. And I eat my lunch sitting outside in the shade of a tree. It's nice. Often I will bring a book.
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<entry>
<title>The Iron Law of the Internet</title>
<published>2024-08-12</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/theironlawoftheinternet.gmi</id>
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My family has never had cats. I've visited people who did have a cat plenty of times, of course, but I never really interacted with them much. We were just always dog folks.
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<entry>
<title>A Thorny Thing</title>
<published>2024-08-12</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/athornything.gmi</id>
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I have a dream. A foolish dream that will never come true, but that's all right. Some dreams are like that.
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<entry>
<title>Lament of Smoke</title>
<published>2024-08-09</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/lamentforsmoke.gmi</id>
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Woe! For the sun rises red in the morning.
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<entry>
<title>Libraries: The Catch</title>
<published>2024-08-05</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/librariesthecatch.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>A Programmer In Search Of A Myth</title>
<published>2024-08-01</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/aprogrammerinsearchofamyth.gmi</id>
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<summary>
Today's work was a lot of rearranging and adjusting code. If I've done it right things should now be mildly more convenient for me, and there should be no sign of the changes to anyone else. This is often a goal in programming. There is a lot of work that goes into designing things such that big or small changes can be made inside a program, while whoever or whatever is using it keeps going on their merry way. There are good reasons to do this, and work that has no direct effects can still be useful in paving the way for other work, but it still feels rather strange.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Donut Stop</title>
<published>2024-07-26</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/donutstop.gmi</id>
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There's a donut shop in my area that I've been to, as far as I can recall, twice. Once was several years ago, and again today. It's one of those places that I'm aware of, but it's just far enough outside my usual routine that I don't get there very much. Sometimes there is not all that much difference between being very distant or merely on the periphery.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Solitaire</title>
<published>2024-07-22</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/solitaire.gmi</id>
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I've been playing solitaire again lately, after leaving it for many years. I have been playing with a physical deck of cards, but of course I cannot help but remember the many (too many) hours I spent on Microsoft Solitaire. there's no reason to miss at, I can play exactly the same game with my cards. But what I do miss is the animation at the end where all th cards would come cascading down across the screen. I think that was actually the most rewarding win screens of any video game I've ever played. It was absolutely iconic.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Step Short</title>
<published>2024-07-19</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/onestepshort.gmi</id>
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<summary>
I've complained before about not having enough to say[1], but recently I've run into an extremely specific version of this, which although not as much of an impediment in my life, is still quite annoying.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hack and Slash</title>
<published>2024-07-16</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/hackandslash.gmi</id>
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It's fascinating how even small, simple, static sites like this one are still liable to tinkering. Or perhaps it is because they are small that they are so tinkerable. It's easier when you can see the whole thing, poke at all of its parts. I can better envision rebuilding, modifying, hacking a bicycle than a train engine, for example.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Morning Plans and Music</title>
<published>2024-07-15</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/morningplans.gmi</id>
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I had plans for today and they started going wrong pretty much first thing out of bed. Nothing bad happened, just a reminder that no matter how simple your expectations, there's always room for them to be—the usual word here is "subverted" but that's not quite right, let's say "diverted".
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>For Here To There</title>
<published>2024-06-17</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/forheretothere.gmi</id>
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Do you ever have one of those days where you just can't figure out how to start a post? This is one for me. Blogs are cool. I like blogs. I mean both web blogs and gemlogs of course. Most likely anyone reading these words will agree with me in wanting to curate an experience of the internet made more of small, weird sites.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Writing Around Writing Around Writing</title>
<published>2024-05-21</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/writingaroundwritingaroundwriting.gmi</id>
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=> gemini://corscada.uk/dump/2024-05-21-writing-on-writing.gmi Writing Around Writing
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Some Thoughts On Stoning</title>
<published>2024-05-17</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/onstoning.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Spring Idleness</title>
<published>2024-04-30</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/springidleness.gmi</id>
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<summary>
It is a quiet and idle spring day, with not much going on. But these days with not much going on is precisely when I have the most space to think and time to set those thoughts down.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Poem From a Small Cafe</title>
<published>2024-04-22</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/poem2.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Etcetera</title>
<published>2024-04-12</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/etcetera.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Blur</title>
<published>2024-04-11</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/blur.gmi</id>
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<summary>
I need to quit my current job. There are a number of reasons for this, but I'm only going to talk about one today.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Short Rant About Shoes</title>
<published>2024-03-07</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/shoes.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Notifications</title>
<published>2024-02-27</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/notifications.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Quiet</title>
<published>2024-02-26</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/quiet.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Words Have No Toolmarks</title>
<published>2023-07-07</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2023/toolmarks.gmi</id>
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<summary>
Words live and travel independently of the medium they are created in in a unique way. If you look at other forms of art: a sculpture is made of a particular material and is inseparable from that. Drawing makes use of all kinds pigments and dyes and pixels that set apart an oil painting from a watercolor from a digital drawing. The properties of those substances are apparent in the image. Music—has hundreds of different instruments.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Poem of Sorts</title>
<published>2023-06-28</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2023/poem1.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Re: The Library Rocks!</title>
<published>2023-06-24</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2023/libraries.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Other People Have Loved This Too</title>
<published>2023-06-15</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2023/bench.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>Do Humans Dream of Electric Sheep?</title>
<published>2023-05-29</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/dream.gmi</id>
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<entry>
<title>On November 17th, I Made Bread</title>
<published>2022-11-17</published>
<id>gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/imadebread.gmi</id>
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It's a quiet Thursday morning, and I'm making a loaf of bread to have to lunch. It's whole wheat with olive oil and rosemary. Baking bread is something I'm no longer able to do without being reminded of a piece of ancient Roman graffiti preserved at Pompeii: "On April 19th I made bread." Me too, Roman dude, me too.
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