Life this last month

In life, I've begun using XMPP more extensively for communication. This really began as my PinePhone's microphone went caput. With XMPP, I can use multiple clients, so my communication ability is not dependant on the working hardware of the device with my SIM card in it.

Chat with me on XMPP!

For my PinePhone's audio, I can use an external microphone (plugged in by USB), though that doesn't work through the Modem. (Neither does a bluetooth mic). For modem-based phone calls, I need to plug in wired earbuds with a microphone in order to be heard, so I haven't been taking too many calls lately...

Liberty to work on Libre Software

I created a new project: PHP XMPP Invitation landing page.

It's a serverside port of another project to make it easier for people to join the XMPP network: You get an invitation URI, and append it to the page, so they can be prompted to install your personally-recommended client. So far, I've used it once, but expect to use it more in the future.

I created a gemini frontend for musicdir. It uses the sqlite database from apkbrowser, and could probably use some improvements, but is generally fine and does what I need it to (even better than the HTTP site).

One of the packages I added to musicdir includes MusicXML files. In thinking about what it would take to make a basic, mobile-friendly, MusicXML app, I experimented with Vipsdisp (a GTK4 image viewer), and packaged Verovio (which renders music notation to SVG) for Alpine Linux.

Suggpicker got a new release: v0.1.0. Suggpicker is my soft-keyboard complement used for picking suggested words. While the version number is small, it's gotten leaner and had one new feature added: changing your mind by sliding off of the word. This can help if you often misclick. Since the newline wasn't sent until you let go, in most use-cases, this won't affect performance at all.

wvkbd (which was the base for Suggpicker) has had some recent activity: lots of patches being merged in (some of my own), and becoming an official SXMO project. Big ups to proycon for maintaining this!

Happy is the man who finds Wisdom

I started looking into a bible app, net.lugsole.bible_gui. I might contribute some changes to this (in line with some of my bible reading scripts on this capsule), though generally I find physical copies to be more convenient.

Personally, I'm in possession of a good fortune, one that will provide for me, though not temporally. Still pursuing that front.

The culture's flavor makes me wary of the corporatocracy promoting ungodliness; it's not easy to find a company that I would enjoy working for.

Anyway, thanks for reading! I pray that you may seek after God in all that you do.

Psalm 37:4