Summer Dead Zone

2023-07-13

It's the annual time during the summer where I jost don't post anything. I'm "busy", I guess.

I mean, I play video games in the evening, so my extracirricular programming is slow, but I'm also gone biking, running, climbing, or otherwise exercising in my other spare time, so I guess that's something.

A couple of other notes:

• I'm dabbling with the idea of trying to present a custom nostr relay as an alternative to twitter announcements for the local government. Possibly as a way to make a bit of cheddar on the side. It always bothered me that they were going with a VC-backed, corporate option for official communication. Nostr may seem an odd choice, but I think the simplicity lends itself to an easier consumer experience, and the relay struct allows simple federation with other governmental entities (the county, state, and neighboring cities, etc)

• Jaleh Afshar, whom I worked with at Solera for a bit and Jena played Magic the Gathering with, has written a book about developing augmented reality in Meta. I hate Facebook, but Jaleh is awesome, so I may have to set aside my prejudices and try to do something along those lines.

• The bees are hopefully still growing out on the porch. And regarding the porch, Jena and I built a pretty nice Catio out there for our grandkitties. It covers the entire window and lets them explore the "outside" safely.

• The 4th of July was obnoxious, as usual. Our redneck neighbor cost me $700 in vet bills by triggering stress-related pancreatitis in our dog with his random explosions and drunken yelling until 2 or 3 in the morning.

Yeah, that's pretty much it for now.