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# Oh yeah, gopher... That's a thing. When's the last time I even phlogged? ...over a month ago. Huh. That's fine I guess. Can't say anything interesting has really happened lately. Just kinda... chilling here. Doing work, then playing video games or whatever, punctuated with the occasional personal project. I'm doing significantly better than I was back in March. Still a little afraid to step outside, but ignoring that... there's nothing for me to be afraid of at the moment. I've got a pretty decently paying job. I still have a summer internship, actually. Working with my university on a NASA project. That's cool. Not gonna say more than that. I'm veeeery sloooowly getting back into my hobbies. There's still days (like yesterday, heh heh) where my brain just kinda gives out and I just kinda sleep all day. But I'm doing better. As far as personal projects go, I'm right now juggling between two. One is a fork of Mini vMac. I could/should write a big code review article about that, but long story short it's just trash. So trash. But also, it's easier to get working than Basilisk II. Simpler. But yeah, right now my goal is tearing out the idiotic build system that sets #ifdefs for every. single. configuration option and making it, you know, like an actual emulator. trying to take after byuu here and make the emulator actually good and accurate and such. The other project I'm sorta kinda wanting to ramp up is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, like MS FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. (Yes, Macromedia. When that got passed off to Adobe the usability just *tanked*, my god.) Making websites is way, way harder than it should be. We have static site generators now, with templates and markdown and fancy CSS positioning options and all of that. It should be *easier* now. But it's not. Look at effin /r/webdev. Look at the React, Preact, Angular Vue JQuery Node framework nonsense everyone's so obsessed with. The Node package manager had to add a specific command just to section off all the "please donate" messages from the eleventy trillion packages everything downloads because web dev is that complicated and over- saturated of a field. Gosh dangit, some people just want to have *a* website. I'll post more about this later, I'm sure. I'm still trying to figure out how to make a Qt application. So yeah. That's that. I should get back into the habit of doing this. I'm assuming there's people out there who actually read this, anyways. IDK.